Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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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ot on their own property nearthe public square and connecting with the power house,where the transferring will be done by a well devisedsystem and the issue of tickets by conductors will be dis-pensed with. The lines are so arranged that every car inthe sjstem will pass through this central station. the operators in Nashville had demonstrated the practica-bility of introducing electricity into the street car systemsof smaller cities, and their being run with success, thatother cities in all directions seized upon the idea and beganto put it into operation, at first only here and there and thenrapidly, as the idea took, from city to citj-. The first daythe local papers published the fact that the company hadhandled 10,000 people in one day the public was incredu-lous, but when a week or two later they published that20,000 persons had boarded the cars between 5 <i- ni-and midnight they were stupified with amazement. Ithas since become an accepted fact and has ceased to causesurprise.
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The officers of this splendid organization <ire T- W.Wrenne, the president; Isaac T. Rhea, vice-president;E. G. Conettee, general manager and Geo. W. Cunning-ham, secretary and treasurer. The company is operating upon 52 to 55 per cent ofits earnings. The system has attracted universal interest from allquarters and owing to its having been a pioneer far inadvance of almost every other city in the country, has hadthe honor of inspection from projoctors of similar enter-prises in many of the larger cities of the north, includingsuch cities as Philadelphia and Baltimore. The under-taking was begun after a visit of the incorporators to theelectrical systems of Boston, Kansas City and Richmond,and for some timeafter Nashvilles S3stem was in fulloperation, Boston was the only city in the United Stateshaving an electrical car plant at all comparable to Nash-villes either in extent or perfectness. Indeed it was after The typography of the city is rolling, with manylong but not excessively

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