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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ons, and thenumber of cars will be increased from 25 to 50 per cent.,and an attempt will be immediately made to get a greaterdegree of uniformity in the size and appearance of therolling stock. Besides these improvements the track onmany streets will be relaid and the entire road-bed mademore substantial. i3fe««t^^^Ml^^«>^^^ 285 NEW PRESIDENT FOR CHICAGOSELEVATED. DR. WILLIAM T. BARNARD, who has enteredinto the management of the Chicago & SouthSide Rapid Transit Raihoad Company, comesimmediately from New York, where he has been en-gaged in electrical enterprises in connection with Henry\illard and the North American Company, for the pastfew years. Prior to that, for the past nine years, he wasin the executive management of the Baltimore & OhioRailroad, as assistant to the vice-president, for fouryears, and assistant to the president for about five years.While in that service he developed and organized the NORTHERN CAR COMPANY BURNSHAS ALREADY COMMENCEDRECONSTRUCTION. BUT
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BOILER ROOM MINNEAIOMS RAILWAY. Baltimore & Oiiio Hospital and Relief Department; abeneficial organization which was afterwards substantiallyintroduced into the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Chicago,Burlington & Quincy, Grand Trunk, of Canada, andother railroads, in all of which roads they are in sucess-ful operation. Before engaging in his Baltimore service. Dr. Bar-nard was for a number of years connected with the WarDepartment, and prosecuted his profession in W^ash-ington. He is a man of large executive abilit)-, and has alreadyduring his few days official connection with the roadhere made a large number of friends. N the morning of May 7 the Northern Car Com-pany, of Minneapolis, passed through the fire testto the extent of $60,000, but there was a fullcovering on insurance. The main plant was two storieshigh, frame, and built in L shape. The mill room was160x160 feet in size; the construction room, 160x160;the blacksmith shop and engine room, 160x40. Inaddition to the main

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