Identifier: streetrailway03amer (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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ealthy friends. The Hrst vehicles employedwere carriages, because the coaches used in interurbantransportation were too heavy for the then miserable,muddy, and generally disreputable streets of the metropo-lis. The price was five sols (sous), about five cents. Thus it was two hundred and twenty-two years ago,or in 1672, that the first public conveyance was effected NGER CARRIAGE. Not until 1S28 did the originators of the omnibus ideagain their point and silence the Parisian kicker whosevoice was heard in the land. The prefect of police in1819 went on record saying that the stoppage of omni-busses on the highway would so congest tra\el thai theidea must be abandoned. In 1827 Sieur Baudry obtained a charter for an omni-bus line and put into execution in Paris his experiencegained at Nantes and at Bordeaux, and in 1828 the firstline was put in commission and baptized omnibusses.The first two lines traversed the boulevards and ran atfifteen minutes headway, starting from the corner of the
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THE TRICYCLE. at Paris. The carriages left at fixed hours. Theseaccommodations were only semi-public, as the charterread that they were established for the accommodationof a large number of persons little accommodated, suchas pleasure seekers, infirm gentlemen, and others nothaving the means to travel in bath chairs (sedans 1, or inprivate carriages, because the latter costs them a pistoleper diem. The charter was granted with stipulations that arecharacteristic of the epoch, that soldiers, pages, lackeys. ECOSSAISE, THK W H I 1 li I,ADV. Rue de Lancry, one going to the Bastille and the otherto the Madeleine. Instead of gong or whistle, the signalfor departure was given in a highly aesthetic manner, froma species of concertina, operated by a pedal at the driversdiscretion. No conductors were emplojed at first, andentrance was provided at the rear. A strap, operated bythe driver, closed the door, and warning to stop wasmade by a cord witlnn reach of the passenger. A guide book for the

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