Identifier: streetrailway03amer (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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t begin to have the opportunities to accumulate currency that hat. the owner of a team and vehicle in Gettvshuro. But he killed the goose that laid the golden egg. The public wouldn't stand the extortion. The hackman had to go and the trolley came in. The cry that the railroad encroaches on monuments is all the suggestion and inspiration of the hack drivers. It is humiliating to think that their brazen clamor in defense of their extortion has found sympathetic ears among any veteran organizations. Demetrius, the silversmith, set menshouting, Great is Diana of the Ephesians, to keep up his sale of silver statues of the Godesses; but he could not make any stand against the new faith, and Demetrius, Diana and the silver statues all had to go. The Gettysburg hackman have levied their last forced contributions of the Gettysburg visitors. The Gettysburg Electric Railway, as a mechanical effort, is not remarkable further than it is a first class, business-like and handsome piece of electric railway
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ELECTRIC RAILWAY IN THE BATTLEFIELD. building. The company was organized by local capitalists in 1892, with a management composed of the following gentlemen: E. M. Hoffer, president and superintendent; George P. Hoffer, secretary and treasurer, and to them is due the honor of providing a cheap, expeditious and modern method of viewing the salient points of interest on Americas greatest battlefield, and protecting the public against the extortion of other methods of transit. The battle for the electric franchise was longer, if not so bloody, as the original conflict, and the Hoffers deserve the greatest credit for their zeal and patience in the face of difficulties. The track is standard gauge of 58 poimd tee. The 636 (^;yied^j\ailM^U^Vl£\V maximum grade is 7 per cent. There are six cars inoperation, three motor and three trailers, each 34 feetlong. Two 30-horse-povver Westinghouse motors areunder each car and Lobdell Car Company wheels are inuse. The Westinghouse generators of 150-hors

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