. The street railway review . An enterprising youth, with the apostolic name ofDaniel Benjamin, has recently come to the notice of theEast Cleveland Railway Company, on account of thealleged embezzlement of 1,800 street car tickets. The. I KEASLREIR THOMPSON S stein, who has been the etlicient assisting secretary, hasbeen elected to fill his place, and will make an energeticand successful officer. GENERAL oniCE. tickets so used were intended for destruction, havingbeen once used. Benjamin sold them to conductors atcut rates. e^co THE STEEPEST RAILWAY IN THE WORLD. A PATERSON SCENE. IN line wit
. The street railway review . An enterprising youth, with the apostolic name ofDaniel Benjamin, has recently come to the notice of theEast Cleveland Railway Company, on account of thealleged embezzlement of 1,800 street car tickets. The. I KEASLREIR THOMPSON S stein, who has been the etlicient assisting secretary, hasbeen elected to fill his place, and will make an energeticand successful officer. GENERAL oniCE. tickets so used were intended for destruction, havingbeen once used. Benjamin sold them to conductors atcut rates. e^co THE STEEPEST RAILWAY IN THE WORLD. A PATERSON SCENE. IN line with our illustrated article on the Catskill cableclimb, we are enabled to present to our readers arather steeper story in the following short descrip-tion of the rack-railroad ascent of Mount Pilatus, one ofthe slimmest and most barren of the Alps. The engrav-incr, for which we thank the Locomotive Engineer, wasmade from a photograph, and shows two combination carsand engines on a grade of 48 per Cent., or 2, feetto the mile. All attempts at ordinary racks were failures, until aSwiss engineer devised a double rack with teeth cut onthe sides and guide wheels to hold them in mesh. Thecenter rack is cut out of plates of mild ste
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