Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (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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dispatched from here. The other slations are knowna( Madison St., with 20 cable cars; Uroadway. with 7 cable and 15electric cars; Yesler Way, with 12 cable cars, and Jackson St., with7 electric cars. Hie minimum service is 20 minntes hculway. after 8 p. m , onsome iif llie outlying lines. The maxiinnm service Is a 2-minnleheadway on the cable lines during busy portions of the ilay. Freight is hauli-d lo .ill parts of the cily, the longest haul beingabout 6 miles. Iik-1, both cordwood and coal, is regularly deliv-ered tr> five fuel yards into which the company has laid spurtracks. I-or all sorts of general merchandise and supplies themotor cars, such as illustrated here, arc used, two or three coalcars being liaulerl as trailers. On all electric lines two round trips STRF.F.T k.MI.W.W KF.VIFAV. (Vol. XIV. No. i. with freight trains arc iiiailc per day, on the rahic- lines there .spectivc termini, and Ixoiight l)ack the following morning by the arc three ronml trips per day. day men.
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•aC tH,AW.VVi ;;* ELEV.VTION OF S.\XD DRYING n.ANT—SIi.\TTI.K ELECTRIC CO. SAND DRIER.The large niimlicr of long and steep grades on the Seattle sys-tem, as also the fact that in the winter and spring there is much There are now freight stations at 5th and Pine Sts. and atGreen Lake, and another is being built at Ballard. At all otherpoints gooils arc piu off at the direction of and at the risk of theconsignor. For handling this business there is used a shipping receipt whichwe reproduce herewith. This receipt is made out in quadruplicate.carlKin sheets being used. In the lower left hand corner will benoted the consignors instructions as to delivery and the releaseof liability. The idea is that the consignor has immediately underhis eye at the time of signing a brief and plain statement releasingthe company, and that it is more effective in the mind of the con-

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