Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (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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COMPANY BAND. Ilios. II. MeI.ean, general manager o( the Toledo Traction Com-pany, is one who believes not only in the desirability of improvingbis men in every way, but favors also fretiuenl gatherings for socialand literary purposes, and at these (unctions he is always one of themoving spirits. Not long ago he discovered that a large numberof the men, like himself, are very fond ot good music and thatamong the several himdred employes were quite a number of excel-lent musicians. When lie proposed to organize a brass band to be(••imposed exclusively of Traction men. the plan met with instant (a-\nr, and with a generfjiis subscription of Ins own and the companyilie boys had no trouble in raising the balance of the thousand dol-lars necessary to buy the instruments. Though in existence I)Ut afew months the Traction Company Centennial Band has already be-come famed for its excellence, and is the pride of everyone frompresident down, and its services are in demand for parades as well
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TOl.KlHi IK.M rmX COMP.\XY CENTENNIAL BAND. labor and material, and in this way any leak or mistnanagement issoon detected and attention called to it. GENERAL MANAGERS ORDER NO. 313. In construction work at power house, charge to above generalmanagers order. Distribute labor and material as follows: A. Excavations for stack. B. Foundations for stack. C. Stack proper. D. Excavation for boiler foundation. E. Foundation for boilers. F. Boilers proper. G. Furnaces. H. Preparatory work. as the special monthly concerts given exclusively for Traction em-ployes and their families. The band includes 25 members and haschosen for its motto the adinirable sentiment: Life, Liberty andthe Pursuit of Happiness. J. Collins, superintendent of the com-pany, is president of the band and his portrait is shown in the lowerright hand corner of the engraving. The band manager, whoseportrait appears in the lower left, is A. A. .\tkinson, contractingagent for the lighting department of the Traction Company. A

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