. The street railway review . gers carried hasincreased as follows: 18S6, 156,975,420; 1889, 184,835,-994; 1888, 190,506,017; 1889-90, 219,506,616, and in1890-91, 237,781,172. No statement of the increase of mileage can be found,but the above ratio of accidents will be seen to be notunduly large for the increase in traffic. A NEW PLEASURE SCHEME. T^HE street railway company at Winona, Minn., willI give to the Winona Bicycle Club a cash bonus toassist in constructing a bicycle track to cost $1,000,provided it is built on the companys line. The offercomes through Howard C. Lewis, of the Thomson-
. The street railway review . gers carried hasincreased as follows: 18S6, 156,975,420; 1889, 184,835,-994; 1888, 190,506,017; 1889-90, 219,506,616, and in1890-91, 237,781,172. No statement of the increase of mileage can be found,but the above ratio of accidents will be seen to be notunduly large for the increase in traffic. A NEW PLEASURE SCHEME. T^HE street railway company at Winona, Minn., willI give to the Winona Bicycle Club a cash bonus toassist in constructing a bicycle track to cost $1,000,provided it is built on the companys line. The offercomes through Howard C. Lewis, of the Thomson-Houston company. FOR the convenience of roads that have differentrates of fare for different distances of travel and forinterurban lines or for elevated roads and suburbansteam lines, A. W. Coffin, of 228 California street, SanFrancisco, has invented a conductors punch and fareregister that meets such requirements. The illustrations show method of use and the instrument is small, simple and absolutely reliable, as. as it registers a receipt for the passenger and a stub tobe turned into the auditor of the road. The points ofvantage claimed beside these are that 12 tickets can beissued per minute, no ticket or stub can be altered tolower value, no bell attachment is necessar} and its smallsize makes it easy to handle. The punch is made ofaluminium, weighs 5 ounces, is 3^ inches long, 2 incheswide and three-fourths of an inch thick. MILLBURY CONTRACTS. THE Worcester and Millbury Electric Railway Com-pany has awarded contracts as follows:The contract for building the road was awardedto E. P. Shaw, of Newburyport; for building the powerstation, to Geo. F. Chase of Millbury; for furnishing theboilers, to the Stewart Boiler Works of Worcester; set-ting up the boilers and the piping, tothe Jarvis Engineer-ing Company of Boston; for two 200 horse power con-densing engines, to Armington & Sims of Providence;paving, to C. O. Richardson, of Worcester; generators,Thomson-Houston
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