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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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atobugs crushed upon them. The evidence seems to indicatethat the motorman did everything in his power to stopthe car. The car had been thoroughly inspected the daybefore, and it also appears that it was in good conditiongenerally, having been overhauled but a short time before.When the motorman lost control the car plungeddown the hill with constantly increasing speed, and onstriking the curve was overturned and rolled down a 30-foot embankment, where it landed with wheels in theair. After leaving the rails everything was in intensedarkness. The injured people were mostly from Colum-bia, and many of them have been cared for in hospitalsat that place and at Lancaster. As a result of the introduction of electricity the num-ber of street railway corporations in Pennsylvania, asreported by the Department of Internal Affairs, hasincreased from 60 to over 500, though 161 of them haveno lines in operation. The rights and franchises inthese cases were mostly secured for speculative purposes.
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THE WRr.CKKD CAR AT COI.UMlilA, PA. (^Ia^cI J\uilwiiylf^yic\^ 5:v.i MANCHESTER COMPANY OPPOSED PITTS-BURG SYNDICATE PLANS. The plans of the syndicate which intends to supplyAllegheny with extensive street car facilities have meta possible check in the attitude of the Pittsburg,Allegheny & Manchester Traction Company, whichalready operates a considerable mileage in a part of theterritory proposed to be covered by the new lines. Byact of the assembly of May 21, 1895, it is provided thata street railway company may use the tracks of anyother company to an extent not exceeding 2,500 feet BABIES AS A MEANS OF CREATINGTRAVEL. It is a common remark that babies often cause theirparents to take exercise by way of travel at unholyhours, but it is seldom that they are utilized as a meansfor increasing the revenues of a street railway company.The Birmingham, Ala., Street Railway Company, how-ever, evidently believes in turning to profit -the giftsthe gods provide, and hence advertised for Aug

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