Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer ( find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 ( 1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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a modern, model plant, the intentionhaving been to make it the best that could be built. The plansand specifications tor the entire construction were prepared by thewell-known architect, J. Milton Dyer, who has been very success-ful in designing manufacturing plants of every description. Cleveland is undoubtedly one of the main centers of suburbanstreet railway construction and management and it is fitting andproper that it should be the center of the car building business.The new company is at present busy with the construction of someof the finest suburban cars that were ever ordered. STRIKE ON THE LEXINGTON (KY.) RAILWAY. The force of the strike on the Lexington Railway System hasrecently weakened very materially and numbers of the strikershave abandoned the union and attempted to regain their oldpositions. A delegation of twenty of the strikers recently calledupon the general manager, Mr. E. C. Hathaway, of the company,and requested to be reinstated. They stated that they had been
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NEW PLANT OF THE C. C, KUHLMAN LAK Howell, vice-president; Chas. A. Ricks, secretary and treasurer; (•.C. Kuhlman, general manager. Directors: Fayette Brown, FrankRoccfellcr, R. A. Harmon, J. H. Morley, C. C. Bolton, T. P. H.nv-cll, G. C. Kuhlman. The new plant has a capacity of 500 cars a year and is so con-structed that the capacity can easily he doubled or trebled by simplyextending the buildings, room for which has been provided in caseit is found necessary. The situation is an ideal one, consisting of31 acres in Collinwood, six miles from the public square and hav- ill-advised and mislead by the leaders of the strike. They wereoffered places on the extra list, but the management refused todisplace any of the new men who had taken the place of thestrikers. The companies operating electric railways in Seattle, Wash., arcmaturing a project for a union loop in that city, which would givemany advantages for the handling of traffic in the more congesteddistrict, and would make possib

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