Identifier: streetrailway03amer (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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nchosen. It was four years agosince the affairs of the Mt.Auburn Inclined Plane andStreet Railway Companybegan to look for a Mosesto take them out of the landof deficits, and later therearrived a handsome youngman who was introduced asH. M. Littell, the new man-ager. Under Mr. Littells „. «management the road was electrified, heavy girder rail laid, and improved inclinedplane carriages made, together with e.xtensions andimprovements which have made new territory, won thepublic approbation and paid dividends. Stock that wasbought at five cents on the dollar is now worth ninety-five. This Mr. Littell has been the means of doing.Previously he was manager of the St. Paul roads.Personally Mr. Littell is affable, a great favorite insociety, and a leader in many benevolent and social enter-prises, and for him we predict success in direct proportionto his great opportunities in New Orleans, the citizens ofwhich city will find in him a broad-gauged, liberal manof strong executive ability. A
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N unusual number of fatal and peculiar accidentsoccurred in various parts of the country duringthe last few days of December.In Chicago, John Nelson, driver of a horse car on theWest Chicago road, managed to stop his car, but the run-away team dragged him over the dash and some distancealong the stone pavement, causing injuries from which hedied in a few hours. A lad) passenger on the North Side cable entered acar dragging a piece of telegraph wire, one end of whichwas wound around her leg, the other fastened to a largecoil of the wire at a pole. It was not discovered until thecar started, when the unfortunate woman was suddenly jerked through the door,striking the dash, and beforethe car could be stopped hadmost of the flesh strippedfrom the bone and she wasotherwise injured. Theaccident has no parallel, sofar as we can learn. At Boston, the Everettpower house of the WestEnd road was wholly des-troyed by fire, in which fouremployes lost their lives. At Milwaukee, the Kinnic-kinnic ca

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