Electric railway journal (1921) (14573101359)

Identifier: electricrailway571921newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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DAN FISHER AND THE .AIAYOR AS ENTERTAIXERS this connection. How he accomplished it is indicated bythe following editorial, which appeared the day afterChildrens Day: Pin a medal on Dan Fisher. Hand a bouquet to MayorFrank W. Wozencraft! The boys and girls agree that Childrens Day at theTexas State Fair was an unqualified success and that forthe pleasure it afforded them they owe a debt of gratitudeto these two. The conception of a childrens day on which every childin Texas should be invited as the Mayors guest, free streetcar tickets furnished, free everything, almost, is one of thebiggest ideas that the Mayor has ever sponsored. And no more able lieutenant to carry out the detailscould have been found than Dan Fisher. Fisher went fromtown to town in North Texas passing out the free ticketsand telling the glad news through the public schools, andwhere he couldnt go, he sent.
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We doubt that ever before in one gathering have somany children come together. From information since obtained, it appears that therewere 150,000 children attending the fair that day, alarge part of them being carried upon the lines of theDallas Railway. Private automobiles, buses and truckswere also pressed into service. The handling of sucha great crowd, particularly children, was somethingwhich probably never before had been done by a staterailway in the United States in a city the size of Dallas,at least. The spirit with which Mr. Fisher entered into theproposition is indicated by the accompanying photo-graph, where he and Mayor Wozencraft are surroundedby some of the children they made happy. A Tickler for the Public WHEN an efficiency engineer wants to speed thingsup a bit and make the organization get a humpon, he sends out a tickler. W. B. Strandborg, pub-licity man of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com-pany, Portland, Ore., has adopted that same idea andput it on whe