Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (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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rovement of the highways and then, afterproper advertisement, grant franchises over the roads toelectric railways for terms not longer than 75 years. Thecompany applying for a location must submit a propositionspecifying what the construction will be, the rate of fare, themotive power, the contribution which it will make towardsimproving the road, etc. W. A. KAKDINIi, M. -\I. CAI-UMET EI,ECTRC RAILWAY. The Calumet Electric Street Railway, of Chicago, havingto snjjply a very large demand for special cars and trainsfor trolley parties and picnics, the management has foundit necessary to devise methods by which the lamps andbunting, used in decorating the cars, may be quickly putin place and as cjuickly removed. In the Street Railway Review, of August, 1897, therewas published an article descriptive of the methods in useat that time; some minor changes shown by experience tobe desirable have since been made, and the system of wir-ing reduced as nearly as possible to a standard, so that a
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CALUMET MOTOR CAR DECORATED. The most strenuous opposition is in Union county, wherethe board of freeholders is now trying to widen Westfieldavenue, contrary to the wishes of the abutting owners. Oneof the local papers states that as passed by the legislature theact had a provision making it necessary to secure the con-sent of abutting owners before any action could be taken,and that when approved it was found that this section hadbeen omitted by reason of the blunder of a clerk. For thisreason the validity of the law may be contested in the courts. •—^ The annual meeting of the stockholders of the CitizensStreet Railroad Company, of Indianapolis, was held on May10, and the following gentlemen, all of Philadelphia, chosendirectors: William Jay Turner, W. W. Kurtz, R. H. Rush-ton, J. Levering Jones, Joseph S. Nefif, B. M. Gaskell andW. C. Houston. more extended description of the present methods of wir-ing and connections, and of the arrangements for quicklyfitting up and dismantli

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