. The street railway review . l-Corliss engines, two of 600-horse-power each, and one of 500-horse-power. The 387 great switch board is 46 feet in length and Syi. feet high,and is constructed in the most thorough manner, withevery possible precaution against fires from lightning. The car house is a substantial and highly ornamentalstructure of brick, 140x400 feet, with numerous sky-lights, incandescent electric lights, and every moderndevice for the rapid handling and care of the rolling president of the Duquesne company is Mr. C. , whose prominence in Penns3lvania politics ha
. The street railway review . l-Corliss engines, two of 600-horse-power each, and one of 500-horse-power. The 387 great switch board is 46 feet in length and Syi. feet high,and is constructed in the most thorough manner, withevery possible precaution against fires from lightning. The car house is a substantial and highly ornamentalstructure of brick, 140x400 feet, with numerous sky-lights, incandescent electric lights, and every moderndevice for the rapid handling and care of the rolling president of the Duquesne company is Mr. C. , whose prominence in Penns3lvania politics haswon for him a national reputation. The builder of theroad, and the general manager is Vice-President GeorgeRice, one of the best known street railway engineers inAmerica, who likewise built the cable roads of the Pitts-burg, Citizens, and Central Traction companies. THE riTTSBURG & TRACTION COMPANY. If one were to ask Murry Verner to disclose his pres-ent crowning ambition, he would doubtless say that he is. MURRY A. VERNER. President Pittsburg & Birmingham Traction Company,dragging out an existence, reconciled to life by the hopeof some day operating 50-foot electric cars on 30-foot citystreets, at 20 miles per hour, and pay big dividends. Andthe visitors to the convention in October will not be dis-posed to doubt Mr. Verners ability to carry out anjthinghe undertakes when they see how successfulh- he is mak-ing 10 miles per hour, on narrow and crowded Smithfieldstreet, with Gilbert cars 33 feet in length. The Pittsburgand Birmingham Electric Road which Mr. Verner domi-nates is one of the finest short lines in the country. Itbegins at the Central depot, where all the trains of thePennsylvania system pour their daily throngs of passen-gers into the city, and thence runs down Liberty avenueto Smithfield street, past the post office, past the old gov-ernment building, the city hall, the grand new federalbuilding, the post office, newspaper offices, Duquesne hotel,M
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