Electric railway gazette (1895) (14574652690)

Identifier: electricrailwayg02newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway gazette
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: New York : (W.J. Johnston Co.)
Contributing Library: MIT Libraries
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perintendent for corrections. He must carryon his work at all times with the greatest reason able rapidityunder the direction and to the satisfaction of the superin-tendent. TIMBER. All the material used in and throughout the building tobe of the best common pine lumber, except as hereinafterspecified. To be free from sap, shakes and other imperfec-tions impairing its durability or strength. Well seasoned ;sawed, square edges. The studding in plastered partitions will be 2%^—16centers. First floor joists the same buried in asphalt cement.All joists to have full and true bearing, with an inclinationin the stalls of 2 towards the rear. The carpenter shall make all boxes for the plumber foreach hydrant or stop-cock, make all necessary watering andmixing troughs, sizes as shown on plans, of 3 dry pine andput together with white lead and rope centers in joints. Heshall make all boxes necessary to be built in brick walls forthe proper sliding bars. May, 1887 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. 95
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L_U d 111 ? 11 c End Elevation on Street (To be continued.) 96 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. May, 1887 Street Railways of California. The Golden State boasts of ten or eleven cities so faradvanced in social progress as to be well supplied withstreet railways. In the City of San Francisco, there are thirteen streetrailway companies, operating altogether 127^ miles ofsingle track. Four of them use the cable system only, aggre-gating 34J- miles of track. One company has five miles ofcable road, and 4^ miles operated by steam, i. e., locomo-tives. One company has i\ miles cable, and four mileshorse railway. And one has five miles cable, one mile horse,and four miles steam railway. Four companies use horsesonly, and the aggregate length of their tracks is 62 miles;while two companies, one with 4.62 miles and one with \\mile of track, use locomotives only. The Market Street Cable Railway Co., who operate fiveroads, have a bonded debt of $3,000,000. The cost of theirroads amounts to $4,000,000