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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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s exhibited on the Cicero & Provisoelectric in the western part of Chicago. A passenger left the car at thebluS overlooking the Desplaines river and after divesting himself of hisouter clothing got into a big sack he carried and drawing a cord fromthe inside completely overlapped his head and body. He then cast him-self down into the river where he was rescued by the p..ssengers, whopulled the sack out of the river and cut it open. As they did so a pair ofwild eyes snapped while a husky voice inquired, Am I Dead. A FUN-NY and rather significant feature of the inclosed platform bill isthat the men for whom the act is ostensibly introduced were neitherinstrumental in seeking it, and^lo not now urge its passage. To a manup a trolley the whole scheme smells strongly of sand bag legislation. At Fonda, N. Y., while a gang of Italian laborers were thawing 20sticks of dynamite, for blasting on the Fonda & Gloversville ElectricRoad, an explosion occurred, killing one and wounding many.
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The Union Depot Street Railway, St. Louis, suffered a rather unus-ual accident recently in the bursting of a small fly wheel at their Jeffer-son avenue power house. In its tangential flight a segment of the wheellanded a block away, destroying the wall of the building, a picket fenceand the equanimity of several pedestrians. The loss was about $i,ooo-Half an hour before the accident the street was crowded with people. At Provo, Utah, the entire rolling stock of the Provo City Railwaywas sold for $127 50 to S. B. Thurman, for payment of taxes amountingto $248. As the company promise to pass the hat and raise the balancethe sale of the track has been postponed a few days At Birmingham, Eng, the traffic manager, T. Goodyear, presided

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