Identifier: streetrailwayjou1188newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Construction In Cincinnati 217 TrackLaying 168 Traction on Tramways, Resistance to 56 TrackSilting 51 Transportation Facilities In New York City, Additional 146 Tramway, The Derivation of 10 Tramways, Resistance to Traction on 27 Tramways, Cost of Working English Steam.... 35 Tramway, Origin of the Word 26 Track Salting 30 Track Cleaning, and Removal of Snow and Ice. 2 Turntable, Hydraulic 89 Uptown Cable Road 217 Value of Street Railways 143 Varnish, Cracks in, D. F. Tieman & Co 35 Varnish, Cracking of y Varnishing 35 Varnish, Failing of 74 Varnish, Demon 124 Ventilation Pays, Stable 95 Ventilation of Stables 120 Voses Graduated ity car Spring 9 Wanted, A Safety Brake 19S Warneck & Toffler, Toftlers Rolling Wood Mat 27 What Are Taxes For 253 Wheels, Car 94 Wheels, Independent 4 Which Side of a Tie Should Go Up ? 33 Wonderful Progress 194 Work of Operating Elevated R. R. Trains 218 Wright, Augustine W., Railroad Joints *36 Zeiss, Win., Colors vs. Oils, Dryers and Var-nishes 34
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Vol. I. NEW YORK : i32 Liberty Street. ; November, 1884. CHICAGO : ; 8 Lakeside Building, j No. 1 William li. Lewis. Street railway interests have sustained asevere loss in the subject of our illustration,whose sudden death occurred Oct. 15.William B. Lewis was a fitting type of thestreet railway manager and useful andrespected public man. Born in Brooklynin 1818, he there resided until, in 1874, hiswifes ill health caused him to remove toPlainfield, N. J. His father was SheppardLewis, an old Brooklyn res-ident, but born in Hemp-stead, L. I. At the age of seven, Wil-liam B. was placed in Kings-leys private school, wherehe remained six years, withsuch good effect as the resultof his studiousness, that theprincipal said that he couldteach him no more. Againstthe lads judgment, his fath-er apprenticed him to themasons trade, to which, asa dutiful son, he applied him-self mind and body, learningpractically every detail ofthe business acquirable bythe apprentice; serving,meantime, after restreetrailwayjou1188newy

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