Identifier: streetrailwayrev04amer (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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would, to a great extent,diminish the crowd. There would be no more omni-buses to wear out pavement and obstruct travel, as thetramways would monopolize the traffic. MEDALS FOR INVENTORS. The officers of the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia,desire to call attention to the fact that the Institute maygrant certain medals to the inventors of devices contribut-ing to the promotion of the arts and manufactures.These medals are three in number, and are granted fromtime to time, as the Institute sees fit. Further informa-tion regarding the awarding of these medals can beobtained from William H. Wahl, the secretary, Philadel-phia. ELECTROLYSIS AT MILWAUKEE. The photographs of the pipes referred to in Mr. Rauspaper on electrolysis, in the December Review could not
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ELECTROLYSIS AT MILWAUKEE. DECEMBER. December i, the Pliiladelpliia Traction Company, having coinpletedits lines on Tliirteentli and Fifteenth streets, made a trial trip. Third Avenue Cable line, New York, started, December 4. The Sioux City electric lines and cable railway consolidate as theSioux City Consolidated, December 13. December 16 the first car runs over the Jersey City & Newark, N. J.,interurban line, carrying distinguished party of interested people. Judge J. J. Jacobs, of the Wheeling, W. Va., Street Railway Company,died. The Street Railway Review reviews the year with its advertisers, December 21, the Altoona & Logan Valley power house destroyedbv fire, loss $25,000. George H. Babcock died December 21. Engine fiy-wheel of the Des Moines, la., street railway power plantengine bursts, December 23, wrecking the building. The fifth scheme for North Side rapid transit comes to lighi in Clii-c.ago and one gains a franchise. William Richardson, Brooklyn, dies, December

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