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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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K. Beard and F. B. Vandegrift, Philadelphia, The Car. BICYCLES AT BUTTE. There are exceptions to all rules. What we saidabout bicycles beiny a nuisance, scratching paint andother fearful things does not apply to Butte, Mont. scorching around Chicago in bloomers and other inllatedgarments compare in looks with those fair daughters ofthe Rockies. HAS CONDEMNED USE OF TRACKS. Basing its action upon Judge Tuleys decision, whichwas reported in full in the August Review, the Westand South Towns Street Railway Company has beguncondemnation proceedings, under the Horse and Dummyact, for the right to use the tracks of the Chicago CityRailway Company in Twenty-second street from theChicago river to Wabash avenue. The Chicago GeneralCompany has begun suit for $i,ooo damages against theJohn Spry Lumber Company for driving its wagons uponthe rails of the company. C. L. Bonney, vice presidentof the street railway compan)-, says it is proposed tohave every right and supposed right of street railway
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The consolidated lines at Butte are probably the onlyones in the country which are actually helped by bicycleriding. But they are, and the ready appreciation of thesituation by J. R. Wheaton, the general manager, (whokindly took the photograph for the illustration expresslyfor the Review ) has been turned to good account. Butte is a city set on a hill or rather on a big moun-tain, and the cyclists who want good roads have tocome down into the valley, and Mr. Wheaton carriesthem down and up by the hundred. He placed hooksall around his cars on one line and the novel scene pre-sented in our illustration is an almost hourly sight.Twenty and even more wheels are frequently carried atone time. No extra charge is made for the wheels;—only the regular fare for the wheelers. Its rank heresywe know, but not many of the damsels who go companies in Chicago determined by courts of last resortbefore the legal fight is ended. The West and South Towns Compan)- would like toget down to the center o

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