. The street railway review . been demonstrated byexperience to be impracticable and unworkable, not meeting therequirements of the traveling public and not consistent with thedemand for reasonable and safe rapid transit. On JiUy 30, 200 members of the Third Avenue Railway Em-ployes Mutual Relief .Association had a bicycle parade; the pro-cession was led by a squad of bicycle police and a band. lintil a few weeks ago 35th street between Michigan avenueand Grand boulevard, .a distance a trifle more than one-quarterof a mile, was a part of the South Park system of Chicago, andthe Chicago R
. The street railway review . been demonstrated byexperience to be impracticable and unworkable, not meeting therequirements of the traveling public and not consistent with thedemand for reasonable and safe rapid transit. On JiUy 30, 200 members of the Third Avenue Railway Em-ployes Mutual Relief .Association had a bicycle parade; the pro-cession was led by a squad of bicycle police and a band. lintil a few weeks ago 35th street between Michigan avenueand Grand boulevard, .a distance a trifle more than one-quarterof a mile, was a part of the South Park system of Chicago, andthe Chicago Railway was therefore prevented from liavingii through cross line on this street. Satisfactory arrangementswere made, however, and the South Park Board vacated 35thstreet and accepted 33rd street for the connecting link betweentlie two boulevards. Tlie railway company at once proceeded to lay its tracks, quickwork lieing desiraliie because some opposition was developedamong the owners of the abutting property. The contract was. PAVEMENT PLOW. let to Clift Wise, who pushed the work rapidly, em[iloyiiig a forceof 200 men. The old roadlicd consisted of 14 in. of blast-furnace slag, onwhicli ^\as Joliet gravel with a top dressing of broken stone,making the whole 20 in. deep; having been in service for severalyears it was very hard. This had to be taken out to a depth of14 in. for the width of double tracks, and for this work four pave-ment plows, or, as are called by the men, go-devils. weieused, thereby reducing the force needed by several hundred go-devil is a pointed plow, as shown in the illustration; onthe beam is .a shoe which, sliding on the ground, sets a limit totlie depth of the cut. Ou this work eight horses were used toeach plow, four abreast at the plow and two teams tandem infront of these four. A crew of 10 men is required, three at thehandles, three to hold down the beam, and four drivers. The tracks were laid with 90-lb. grooved girder rail. HIS REPORT
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