Identifier: streetrailwayrev01amer (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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scapes are run horizontally and theyha\e no trouble, though if a wire is in the way the) cutit down. 32d. The maximum potential is in use now, and theusual one is 500 volts. I may state, in conclusion, that the use of the system ismuch increasing, there being an order in the works thatI \ isited for some 2,000 motors. It is not often that street car men strike it rich the firstthing, but the San Antonia Express brings news that atMonterey, Tex., the workmen on the track to the Saddlemountain brick jard to-day unearthed a pot of ancientsilver coins of great historic and intrinsic value. Havp: you decided to attend the convention ? If not,make your plans at once. Few matters during the yearare of greater importance and interest to street railway The dri\ers of the Copenhagen & Denmark StreetRailway work on an average of seventeen hours per day,for which they receive the munificent sum of 80 cents. 3H STREET RAILWAY FUNERAL CARS. A New Department in Street Railway Service. CHAPTER I.
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SHALL street railways operate funeral cars? Thisis a question which is more and more presentingitself to the mind of the careful manager, andthroughout the country the daily press discusses thesubject with increasing frequency and interest. Thewriter of this article has always been a strong advocateof street railway companies conducting a funeral car ser-vice. In this, circumstances alter cases, and what wouldbe practicable in one city might not answer in another.Then, too, as long as the cars were operated by animalpower there would be a much less saving of time over theordinary carriage andhearse, than if the linewas mechanically pro-pelled. But now thatalmost every city of anysize has applied electricityor cable as the means ofoperating its cars, thesubject again presentsitself with advantageswhich commend the planwith stronger claims thanever before. The burial of the deadis ever a sad and solemnoccasion, and should veryproperly be conductedwith a fitting degree ofrespect and reve

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