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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lNL NC In judging a state, we usually look to the cities asthermometers of its enterprise, intelligence, commercialimportance and probable wealth. Here are gathered ofnecessity, the combined efforts of educational facilities,thrift, charity, and thegreat question of trans-port?.on and exchangeare herein solved. As a gauge of thegrowing independenceof the great southwest,as a sample of what is,and as a promise ofwhat will come ere manyyears, we beg the privi-lege of introducing toour rapid transit worlda city that is makingrapid transit towardsbeing a great center,Houston, Texas. Hous-ton, besides bearing thename of a great-heartedand loyal Texan, is calledby her proud inhabit-ants, the Magnolia City, the Hub City, or the Bayou City, as is most appropriateand descriptive of its beautiful shade trees, its centralimportance, or its location on the Buffalo River and Buf-falo Bayou. Here in easj^ reach of the gulf and its port of entry,and in touch with the great plains north and west, are
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<D U.MTl-KV, IJABLUCK AND Within the past year the capstone has been laid thatmakes Houston a modern city, and on her forty milesof paved streets she has laid the iron for an electricrailway. General transportation facilities have existed for many yearS with theHouston and TexasCentral Railway, theSouthern Pacific, theTexas TransportationRailway, the Houston,East and West TexasRailway, the TexasWestern and the Hous-ton Direct NavigationCompany, each withtheir general offices, be-sides the division officesof the International andGreat Northern, theGalveston, Houston andHenderson, the San An-tonio and Aransas PassRailw&y and the Hous-ton and Columbia Rail-way. To this is nowsupplemented the finesystem of intramural transit known as the Houston CityStreet Railway. The history of this system dates back a little more thana year ago, when a Northern syndicate, of which O. M.Carter, of the American Loan and Trust Company, ofOmaha, Neb., was prime mover, brought out and con- teet^^l*t&

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