Identifier: streetrailwayrev05amer (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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icity. The PennsylvaniaRailroad may change the motive power on one of itsbranches, and other roads are contemplating a change,while all are watching the Nantasket experiment. Brooklyns great strike has ended in complete victoryfor the companies. Waco, Tex., citizens saw a phantom street car rush-ing down the steep grades -the other night. It seemedrather substantial to the motorman whose car stopped it, fares as they see fit. The judge holds that a court ofequity can interfere to prevent destruction of property ofa chartered public servant by ruinously low fares underthe guise of competition. At Jamestown, N. Y.. an electric car got tired of mo\-ing over the same rails day after day, so started out onan e.vploring e.xpedition. Attempting to follow Emer-sons advice, Hitch 3-our wagon to a star, it climbeda tree and came to grief. PERSONAL. S. M. Brewster, of Chicago, has taken charge of theelectrical and mechanical departments of the MerrillRailway & Lighting Company, Merrill, Wis.
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proving to be an abandoned truck that had been placedon the rails at the top of a hill and permitted to rundown. Little damage was done. Spring has come again. Construction work is pro-gressing rapidly in some sections of the country, andopen cars are being made ready for their work. At last the end of cheap fares at Savannah seems tohave arrived. Judge Speer, of the United States courthas passed an order allowing the receivers of the Elec-tric Railway Company to operate its lines at 5 or 3 cent P. F. Leach, the genial hustler of the Bass FoundryCompany, Ft. Wayne, was a Review caller last week. W. J. Hield, general manager of the Twin City RapidTransit Company, Minneapolis, called on the Reviewwhile in Chicago a few days ago. A. Langstaff Johnson, consulting engineer of the Hes-tonville, Mantua & Fuirmount Pa.senger Railroad, ofPhiladelphia, called at the Review office this month.

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