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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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l being experimented with and commented on. The Amir of Kabul has ordered a survey for a steamtramway to bring stone from the hills five miles away. Dick, Kerh & Ccmpany, London, have the contractfor the construction of the Greenock Corporation Tram-ways. The electric tramway at Remscheid was opened lastmonth. It is on the Thomson-Houston system and wasconstructed by the Union Electricity Company, of Berlin.It is owned by a company, half of the stock being takenby the municipality. The Glasgow Tramways & Omnibus Company car-ried 26,147,666 passengers during the past half year,with gross receipts of $600,000, an increase of $60,000over the corresponding period for last year. The track-age remains the same, 31.26 miles. The Highgate-Hill cable road, London, has beeninspected by the board of trade committee and the linewill probably be opened soon. Some opposition of a localboard has delayed matters. It is understood that W. J.Carruthers-Wain will associate himself with the line.
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WRECK OF THE AUSTIN DAM. An electric railway has recently been put in commis-sion at Santa Fe de Bogata, Columbia, South America. The telephone has again been beaten in England.Electric traction is free to use a ground return, and ametallic circuit is recommended to the telephone com-panies. Cape Town, South Africa, has lately put in service astreet car of the American pattern, seats and springs.The local press is enthusiastic in its praise except forthe side seats. Tramway matters are lively in Buda-Pesth. The com-pany in that city carried in 1892, 14,000,000 passengers,as against 8,500,000 in 1891; receipts increased nearly 50per cent, and stand at 766,000 florins; a dividend of 7per cent was paid, and 28,000 florins placed to reserve.The remaining capital is 150, or 50 per cent premium. BREAK IN THE AUSTIN DAM. O UR engraving, which is taken from the Engi-neering News, shows the condition of therecently broken dam at Austin, Texas. Thebreak was caused by the water leaking into a cr

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