1902 Artistic Tram Poles 2 Of 6 - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (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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The Artistic Treatment of Electric Railway Line Construction. IIY II. P. ...II. K. hi ihe United S the earliest Iwaya n-inv; 11n ail trolley »irr~ were not situated where an attempt at design in the matter of supports for these wires was thought n desirable, ii account of the extra expense. I he double w len pole span wire construction was used in most ~ulinrli.ni and cross country work, and even in the small towns and have been n in the older countries, and there the long established artistic standards for public works have broughtabout tin development of ornamental street railway poles, to a highS.. much so that municipalities which spUrned the Ameri-ca ..i two pole span wire construction have allowed the intro-duction of electric railways, long delayed, using the center and side
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these poles were considered no worse than the existing telegraph poles. Municipal authorities in tlie thickly settled places soondemanded a in..re durable type, however, and the telescopic iron orsteel pole was brought out and continues today most universallyused. It was n discovered that old world streel railways were using a more elaborati poll design, ornamenting it in various ways, andvarious influences wen- brought to beat upon railway companies inthis country t.. follow in the old worlds footsteps. Certain citydevelopments coincident with the electrification of streel railwaysfavored tliis and so on boulevards and street reservations today poles with 1.racket arms of an artistic pattern, and frequentlylight fixtures attached. This difference in the treatment of such things is with us. I take-it, nol due to lack of -kill or talent, but to lack of apprecialthe finer influences of such designs, and to