Identifier: streetrailway03amer (find matches)
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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e men at the back of the enterprise are solvent andas the road is a valuable property, it is worth more thanit failed for. The receivership simply extends thetime for the sale of the bonds and the receiver has powerto operate the road. Siemens, of Berlin, show in their scenic theatre inMidway Plaisance, some beautiful electric illusions andeffects, illustrating the experiences of a day in the Alpsfrom early dawn to sunset. The curtain rises on a starlit scene upon which the sun begins to glow, lighting firstthe mountain peak causing, it to glow in the red sunlight.Soon the mountain gorges, the chalets and the forestsare in full light. Gradually the morning gives way toa midsummer day, glittering on the water falls and onthe snowy summtis of the distant mountains. Darkclouds then begin to gather and a mountain storm rushesthrough the valley. Thunder rolls and lightning flashesand the full effect is reached of an Alpine storm. Thensunset comes stealing over the mountain and the scene is
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)N 1 III. I.lNl —I.I..MIKA .\ IluH^Llll.AI An agile darkey not long ago jumped fioin the top ofthe Eighty-ninth street station of the Third avenueElevated in New York. He fell and rolled over in themud two or three times but when an oiliciT approached,he jumped to his feet and disappeared. lighted by the opposite glow until gradually the starsappear. Moonrise next floods the scene in silvery light,then darkness spreads over the valley and the Tyrolesewarblers sing their plaintive songs as the curtain falls.The scene is beautifully arranged, by Arthur Schvvurt/.. <i2- (^med/J\aiWxi^ J^VkW* PARIS PUBLIC CARRIAGES OF THE PAST. MGUIZOT, in his interesting and highly trust-worthy history of civilization, declares that• no world-moving idea has ever been pro-duced that has not received its beginning or its shapingin France. The beginning and shaping of intramuraltransit is no exception. H. Meyer, of Paris, in part from that cit^- of refuge,the Dictionnaire Larbusse, and in main from

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