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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ent the immensity of the undertaking, thedifficulties of which arose each day like a morning fog,and the splendid triumph of energy and brains over all.To onlv those who bore the burden and heat of the day, man to an end in the following year by the death ofheart-broken Jacob Sharp, on April 5. But the difficulties which confronted the builders of theBroadway cable were no whit less discouraging, althoughof a different character, than those which impededprogress in former years. We refer to the condition ofBroadway itself—the sub-Broadway as it were. Formore than 50 years there had been an ever increasingnetwork of gas. water, electric, steam and other pipesandconductors burrowing their endless lengths beneath thebusy street, and when at last as a sort of judgment day,all these works were uncovered and laid bare, the picturewas one to astonish even the best posted in such matters,and enough to discourage and turn back any man or com-pany possessed of even more than ordinary courage.
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CONSTRUCTING A CURVK. and we might add, the chill and exposures of many astormy night, can ever have a true appreciation of all thatis conveyed in the three words, Broadway is cabled.The history of rapid transit on Broadway is intermi-nably mingled and coincident with the life and labors ofJacob Sharp, who from 1850 until 1884 kept up a gallantfight for a surface line along this thoroughfare. JacobSharp when a young man began the public agitation fora horse car line from the battery to Manhattanville in thesummer of 1851, and kept up a ceaseless combat with theopposition until August in 1884, when the ordinance waspassed over the Mayors veto and the injunction of thecourt. A. T. Stewart, one of the most astute figures inNew York municipal history, was Sharps heaviest oppon-ent. Without ceasing, the endless Irish tenacity and thebull dog firmness of Jacob Sharp hung to the idea for 30years. His .successive troubles culminating in an unprovedindictment for bribery in 1887, brought the c

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