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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adelphia, Omaha, Mil-waukee and Brooklyn, as improved means of transit havemade them useless. A St. Paul newspaperman is positive he saw an inter-urban car rising and falling with a regular undulatingmovement in the air about 20 feet above the housetops.If such a thing were possible, it would save much of theexpense of operating street railway systems. be placed above the flag of Italy. Refusal being made,in spite of the fact that there were 300 Italians in camp,they were told that the flag must come down, or it wouldbe shot down, and it came down, while Old Glory washauled to the top of the pole. On a Cincinnati interurban a car apparently got tiredof riding on steel, so it thought it would find easier goingif it took to the water. Fortunately it changed its mindand stopped before it reached the brink. H. M. Littell has taken hold of the Atlantic avenuesystem with his customary vigor. On July I all the cars in Philadelphia were supposedto be fitted with fenders. ^Oi&\riopi Je^Jon
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^^ ^0««o 4yTw;^^;;\ -^ ^^>/^?^^.i^/3 ^ Philwelumih iTT^SoEir In many cities collisions between cars and riders ofbicycles are common. In every case the rider has beenat fault, as he has either failed to notice the approach ofthe car, or has misjudged its speed. New York had a daylight collision on the Secondavenue L, which seems to be inexcusable. A trainstopped between stations, because it received a signalthat a blast was about to take place in the street. Theengineer of the train following did not see the one aheadand the collision occurred. Passengers on a surface carwere frightened at the noise, and water which escapedfrom the tank. Nobody was injured. Italian laborers on a line near Niagara Falls hoisted anItalian flag over their camp, while below it they nailed asmall United States flag. Members of the G. A. R.went to the camp and demanded that the American flag The Fourth of July is the day when the small boy runsthings to suit himself. A favorite amusement is to throwlig

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