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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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ns, expressing recognition of his greatservices as inventor of the cable system. And now in the full enjoyment of health and the grati-tude of his fellow citizens, and in the prime of life; with abank account in which his all of 20 years ago is but adrop, Mr. Hallidie looks back with just pride and satisfac-tion on his early struggles, and smiles a kindly expressivesmile when he recalls the expressions of well-wishing butincredulous friends who never thought he could do it. The original grip and grip car, together with otherinteresting exhibits pertaining to the cable system, will beexhibited by Mr. Hallidie at the Worlds Fair. Superintendent Hummell, of the Milwaukee StreetRailway Company, has entirely recovered from his recentattack of pneumonia. His many friends will be glad tolearn of his returned health. During the Worlds Fair, it is reported, the inventorsof car starters and car couplers will hold a convention.Eighteen of the largest hotels have been subsidized to holdthe crowd.
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ANDREW S. HALLIDIE, San Francisco.Inventor of the Cable Railway. V 151 RAIL BONDING AND THE GROUND RETURN. CONTINUING our investigation in near andremote parts of the country, the question ofthe bond wire and a satisfactory return isfound to be much discussed and studied on.In our own immediate territory let us first glance at MILWAUKEE, WIS. The old Cream City line was obliged to abandoncopper bond wire and use iron. The copper returnfeeders and supplementary wires which were used hadto be placed in a trough and imbedded in pitch. Mil-waukee is built on sand. CHIC.\GO. The Calumet Electric Railway, although having a comparatively light traffic, has had a little trouble with itsreturn. The road as first constructed had tram railsbonded with copper. No ground plates or supplementarywires were used. There was a continual trouble with thebond wires eating off in the middle. Since the enlarge-ment of the road last summer the present electrician, W.D. McDonald, has been installing a thorou

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