Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (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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treet railway operation, the history of street railway organizationand development in the city t Detroit is of more than passing in-terest. In no city on the globe have the conditions given rise to somany important discussions, experiments and litigations involvingeconomic theories and questions 50 vital to the industry at large.Among the topics brought prominently to the front by the situationin Detroit may be mentioned, in passing, the following: An at- M.ii. -tic Building. According to good authority Detroit was the fourth city in theUnited Slate- to have a regularly established street railway line;that is, a line on which cars were drawn at more or less regularintervals over track- permanently laid in the city streets. The rec-ords show that the tir-t horse railway for urban street traffic inAmerica, was laid on Madison Avenue, New York City, in 1852.ilu- was quickly followed by other lines in New York, and by sim-ilar railways in other American cities, viz.: in Boston in 1853; in
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Opera HoiinLOOKING NORTH N WOODWARD wi.M 1:. DETROIT. I 1 in p 1. tempt to determine the rclar panic* and the public, I Indies and cor- ■f fares and tariff-, taxation and percentage pay- ial and limited term franitip of puUii ■ holding corporationof munii ipalitiei with r. 1 engeri through city itrcett. Baltimore in i860; in Detroil in 1863; in Albany in 186,3, and inpolii in 1X04, after which date tin- movement became general. and horse railwaya wen established in all thi largiPrior 10 the op, mug oi ii first hora n Detroit, in 1862, ■ ml atti mpl had bi 1 n madi to e tabli li line to be city, but foi nil. 1 1 anothei, 1 ■ of thi 1 lint ,. ■ 0 finani iall) ml. ami all wen 1 lived !■ ■■ ■ Mi. ilium ■ iii : -nil ilu towns ami 1 itii around I 508 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. \ll, No. g. ntercsting ti llowing the route* now ■ hating nt.All the street railway companies now included in the DetroitUnited Railway system win- chartered under one or the other ofMichigan, known

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