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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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Especially Adapted FOR Warming Horse OK Street Rail RoadGARS. Brick Lined, Rotatingand Dumping Grate,Safety Door Catch. For Neatness of Ap-pearance, Compact-ness in .Space, amiSafety it has noequal. These Car Heaters arein use on Railroad LinesIn different Cities andTowns of the UnioD, andare giving entire satis-faction. Sole Manufacturer?, NATIONAL Stove Co., 243 Water St., MEW •YORK CITY Ornamental toany car. Re- TOM L. JOHNSONS Roads equippedwith boxes on duction in IMPRAVPn PA DP RfiV brlal> and price where llwIrllVVCU r#%f\C DVS/V. not satisfact- 2 boxes are placed in one car. ory, returned without any Now in general use expense to the companyin cities through- trying them. Ill
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BOX NO. 1. CHARIOT PATTERN. BOX NO 2. One of the principal merits of these Fare Boxes over all others, consists in thefact that the fares are not turned out of sight at once by the drivers, leavingnothing but the bare word and memory of the parties as evidence of the payment,thereby making it easy for deception to be practiced, even though an officer is onthe car, and is endeavoring to see tl at the driver is faithfully performing his du-ties. They are so constructed that the fares are kept in sight from one end of theroad to the other, and at any point on the line an officer of the company, or in-deed any other person, can tally passengers with the fares. The drops can easilycarry from 75 to 80 fares, and can be counted without mistake, and counterfeitmoney can be easily detected. These boxes are very simple In construction, beingcleared, when required, in tive minutes, whereas any other box takes a muchlonger time. The glass fronts and drops render t hem so transparent that a per-so

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