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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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LA PUNTA, SHOWINC; MORRO CASTLE IN THE DISTANCE. Streets are wide enough to permit of the poles being set by thecurb, but on narrow streets where every inch of room is neededpipe trusses have been placed across the streets and against houses.The poles are 26 ft. over all in two sections, 5-in. and 6-in. pipe.The feeders, of which there are 97,764 tt. of i,ooo,ooo-c. m. cable double. The company employs 240 conductors and 240 motormen,who are paid $1.95 in Spanish silver for 10 hours work. Trackmenreceive $1.25 in Spanish silver for 10 hours work. Since the Vedado line, the first line opened for traffic operation,started the 10 other routes have been added, until now the cars are
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Corner Dragones and Zulneta Sts., showing the Marti Theatro,Convention met to draft the Constitution for Cuba. Looking along the sea shore on the Vedado line, with the CityMorro Castle in the far distance. STREET SCENES IN HAVANA,.here the Cuban Chavez Bridge, sho passing,of Havana and Monserrate St., sho Spanish. and 39,364 ft. of soo,ooo-c. m. cable, are all laid underground interra cotta conduits, connection with the trolley wire being madeby wires carried up inside the poles. Much of the material wasfurnished by the Morris Electric Co., as manufacturers agent.Four terminal stations in which to clean and repair cars have of the old Cil Railway Companys alls built in 1763 by the making 3,800 round trips each day, and the aggregate numberof miles traveled daily amounts to 12,000. For every mile run fivepassengers are carried; in other words, over 60,000 passengers aredaily transported over these lines, or about one-fourth the popu-lation of Havana is carried every day. Even the short

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