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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are con-cerned. At Amsterdam, the net work of the omnibuscompany (horse trams) is sutliciently complete and wellplanned to satisfy all the requirements of an active mer-cantile community. The cars, as a rule, are full, and awell-devised system of transfers between the different 6 hours work every fourth day and a holiday once in 17days, unless extra duty be done, which is common. The men are not allowed to use the cars in goinw toor coming from work. The weekly wages of the driversare from $3.68 to $5.74, and of conductors from $2.76to $5.30, with the necessities of life in the proportion of22 to 38 cents higher than in England. To add to this,on some lines, a days work is 19 or 20 hours. With this state of affairs, it takes all Dutch frugalityto make both ends meet, especial for rren with familiesto support. The government will try to regulate matters. All are invited to call at The Strfj-.t RailwayRicviEW Headquarters at the Hollenden Hotel, at Cleve-land, both old friends and new.
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CLEVELAND CITY CABLE POWER HOUSE. lines followed by the cars, enables passengers to reachany point of the town speedily and at a relatively triflingcost. The laborers are, as in this country, conductors anddrivers, the latter being the superior class, and the con-ductors, are the broken down and unfortunate members ofalmost every trade, vocation and profession. They arein high favor with the passengers, however, and a direc-tor recenth- complained that the employes were demora-lized by the attention, tips and treats afforded them bythe patrons of the line. This is strengthened by thehopelessh- miserable pay and long hours. The working day of the men is 17 hours (from 7 a. m.until midnight I, with an hour-and-a-half for meals, with A NEW HORSE SHOE. AN inventive Parssian interested in oiu friend, thehorse, has invented a new shoe, that promises tobe a success. This new hoof gear is made oBessemer steel, in appearance like an ordinary shoe butthat a bent lever attaches itself half way u

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