. The street railway review . Louis Car Cos. newstyle walk-over type. Each end of the car body has large this country. In the railway department it has furnished within60 days overhead equipment, and in most cases bracket arms andbonds also, for some 18 new railroads with a total mileage of 3iQmiles, and has now orders on the books for over 150 miles more. CUBAN AND MEXICAN STREET RAILWAYS. The Brooklyn Eagle recently printed a letter from Mr. C. , ex-president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., whomade a pleasure trip through Cuba, Mexico and California. Inspeaking of Cuba he says:
. The street railway review . Louis Car Cos. newstyle walk-over type. Each end of the car body has large this country. In the railway department it has furnished within60 days overhead equipment, and in most cases bracket arms andbonds also, for some 18 new railroads with a total mileage of 3iQmiles, and has now orders on the books for over 150 miles more. CUBAN AND MEXICAN STREET RAILWAYS. The Brooklyn Eagle recently printed a letter from Mr. C. , ex-president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., whomade a pleasure trip through Cuba, Mexico and California. Inspeaking of Cuba he says: With the still unsettled political con-dition of the island American capital has been very timid with itsinvestments, while the English and Spaniards, accustomed to in-vesting in foreign countries, are and have been taking up some ofthe most profitable concessions on the island. * * * Havanaopened its first electric road within the city but a few weeks beforeour arrival and the tracks, equipment and line all are substantially. NEW CAR FOR LEHICH VALLEY TRACTION I. double doors, arranged to work separately. The steps have malle-able iron hangers with oak treads and covered with Masons safetytread. There are four folding gates which are used in summermonths when the folding doors of the vestibule are removed. Alarge wooden bumper is placed at each end of car and a draw barjaw of the St. Louis Car Cos. pattern fastened to the top of thebumper. The ceiling is of three-ply quarter sawed white oakveneer, neatly ornamented and decorated. The car is providedwith pusih buttons, hand rail and register rods, register, arc elec-tric headlight, two conductors signal bells with necessary at-tachments, two 14-in. steel foot alarm gongs, one stove and fourSt. Louis Car Cos. pattern sand The curtains are made ofPantasotc fastened to spring rollers and provided with CurtainSupply Co. fixtures. All trimmings are of solid bronze. The trucks are the St. Louis Car No. 23, such a
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