. The street railway review . ending itscareer at the bottom of the steepcanal. A defective brake is al-leged as the immediate cause ofthe misdemeanor. Only twopassengers were at that timeupon the car, and they, togetherwith the crew, not having am-phibious liabits, jumped in timeto avoid a cold bath. New York papers are making as much as possible out of theirnew cable road. When the paragrapher gets done saying bitter things,and the old man editorializes a little, the modest reporter writes ahalf column on * Rolling a 39-ton spool. The spool in question, wasfor the Third avenue cable, andwhic
. The street railway review . ending itscareer at the bottom of the steepcanal. A defective brake is al-leged as the immediate cause ofthe misdemeanor. Only twopassengers were at that timeupon the car, and they, togetherwith the crew, not having am-phibious liabits, jumped in timeto avoid a cold bath. New York papers are making as much as possible out of theirnew cable road. When the paragrapher gets done saying bitter things,and the old man editorializes a little, the modest reporter writes ahalf column on * Rolling a 39-ton spool. The spool in question, wasfor the Third avenue cable, andwhich is 18,430 feet of 1^ inchsteel. It was moved on rollersfrom Sixty- fourth street andthe East River, to the powerhouse. It began to move at10:30 a. m. of one day and waslanded the next night. A sharpgrade was overcome, and con-sidering the block and tacklemethod used, the trip wasmade in good time. The fore-man of the moving gang, ex-pressed, publicly, his thanks to his fellow-citizens who volunteered sug-gestions en JoosT, of San Francisco, has joost had more trouble with his SanFrancisco & San Mateo electric railway than most men have with afamily of children. First with his franchise, then with the stockholders, then with his creditors, and nowthe Mayor of San Francisco con-spires to make life aghastly seems that the mayor discov-ered that Mr. Joost was takingliberties with grades and streets,which he, the mayor, did not ap-prove, so, without delay, the super-intendent of streets was sent forthwith a gang of laborers, and in ashort time the track was rendereduseless for rapid transit. says the mayor shall suffer, as the track was on Joosts privateproperty.
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