Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (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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arriis on the aliattoirs. Xo slaugh-tering is permitted outside of tile establishid sl.-nighter houses.This at once puts the ciiar.-icter of liie animals used for foodwithin the control of the authorities. Immature or diseased ani-mals cannot therefore lie used for fooil. ■;lie aliattoirs arc in-cated 14 miles from the city and they not only prepare all lii-meat used at home but that wliich is e.\iiorted in cold storage. The plans for the distrilintion of the dressi-d meat to marketsand butcher shops are exceedingly interesting and savor largelyof the Yankee iiv directness and simplicity and in the adtiptationof means to einls. It is at this point lliey call upon the Ameri-can for assistance. An electric railway of the city has a con-tract for the transportation of meat and has special cars con-structed so that it can distribute it to all the markets, butchershops and cold storage houses where it is delivered for ship-ment to steamers. The system is imt allngrtln i- iicav and was in
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BRILL MEAT CARS AND BOXES, BUENOS AIRES. the lake. In this two radical advantages of tlie utmost impor-tance to the lake resort have been gained. Tossilily the minor ofthe two—important as it is—is the reduction of time which is gain-ed, the electric cars being very much faster tliaii the old-timedummy trains. But the more important consideration is the factthat the factor of annoying cinders which lias in the past so mili-tated against the pleasure of tliis splendid riilc lias been elimi-nated from the problem. Railway facilities to the great down-town park. City Park,have been very much increased by the direct extension of theOrleans line over Bayou St. .Tohn to the entrance gate of the park.Now the park is reached directly by two routes instead of the oneliy Esplanade avenue, and as the two lines Intersect entirely dif-ferent portions of tlie city tlie addilinii to the service is all lliemore important. The New Orleans street railway companies are tliu Canal &Claiborne. Jos

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