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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ed as follows: Forright of way and property condemned. $1,556.75: for use of polesand span wires. $50; for conseqential damage caused by interfer-ence at switches and elsewhere. $1,344.90. It was decided that theonly safe way was to suspend the trolley wires of both companiesfrom the same span wire. The Atlanta Railway Company is re-quired to pay one-half the future expense of ta.xes. assessments forstreet improvements, repairs and renewals of the property con-demned. SOUTHWESTERN CONVENTION. The Southwestern Gas, Electric & Street Railway Associationwill hold its annual convention in the city of Austin, Texas, on Apriltg, 20 and 21. This association was formed last year at Laredo, outof the three conventions indicated in the present name, and includesa considerable number of members from Mexico. The Austin meet-ing promises to be a strong one, and to the local attractions of anelectrical nature will be added the well known Austin welcome andhospitality. 206 ^Wd j\al^\\ dnS\cvlcW*
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KAST CAPITOL STREET, WASHLN(;TON, D. C. SEVERE SNOW STORM AT WASHINGTON,D. C. Through the courtesy of George B. Coleman, general manager ofthe Metropolitan Railroad Company, of Washington, D. C, wehave received a number of photographs taken along the lines ofthat company shortly after the very heavy snow storms that oc-curred in the first half of February. On Sunday, Fcoruary 5, 1899. there was four inches of snow onthe ground. It continued to snow up to and including Saturday.There were twenty-four inches of snow on the ground on the morn-ing of the nth. Metropolitan cars had been operated on the reg-ular schedule during all this time, the management having success-fully met and coped with all difficulties. On Saturday, the nth, itbegan to snow, and in addition the wind rose until it was blowing atthe rate of forty miles an hour. This storm turned into a regularblizzaid, blocking all the roads in this section of the country—both steam and street railroad lines. From Monday morning

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