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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781391482552

Excerpt from The Street Railways of America: A Review of a Pamphlet Recently Issued Entitled Facts Respecting Street Railways; Also, the Correspondence Which Appeared in the "Daily News" Respecting the Effect of Street Railways in Increasing Trade and Improving Property in the Streets Bstreet car stops easily within the double of its length. Pedes triens distin uish at a distance the of a car by si ht and ear, an fear danger from it but at one particular pomt, which is the crossin of the track. Stages, however, are sway ing from one side 0 the street to the other, to accommodate passengers; and pedestrians are taken unawares by the sudden change of their course. The utter recklessness of passengers etting on or off the steps while the car is in motion appears, to Judge from the records, to be the most fruitful cause of acci dents, and railway companies should be censured for not arding the front platforms with gates or otherwise. The Phi adelphia report says In case of an obstacle requiring a sudden sto page of an omnibus, the strength of a driver was the mam dependence, as they were here arranged; but with the street car, the arrangement of brakes is such that it enables the car to be stopped wit iin its own len th when moving at the rate of six miles an hour, 'ving the driver complete command over the movements of his car. The first line of passenger railroad laid in our city commenced Operations on January 20, 1858, and I am aware of but very few accidents that, during these ei ht ears, have happened to edestrians and none to assengers t at has not been the resa t of carelessness on t e part of the injured. In Baltimore, the cars during the last year have travelled miles, carrying 7 passengers, killing but one edestrian, and inflicting no serious injury on any other. He Boston report says, Persons driving their own vehicles are less liable to meet with accidents from collisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.