Jamestown Street Railway
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Settlement Not In Sight
A May 1913 article about the strike against the Chautauqua Traction company and Jamestown Street Railway company. This is too long of an article for me to retype and the scan is poor enough that the OCR software doesn’t do a good job so I won’t include the text of the article. Sorry! Source: Buffalo…
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Fire Destroys Power House at Jamestown, N. Y.
FORCES PLANTS TO CLOSE Fire Destroys Power House at Jamestown, N. Y. Jamestown, N. Y., Aug. 12.—Exploding coal gas in the power plant of the Jamestown Street Railway company and the Jamestown Lighting and Power company set the building afire and caused damage estimated at $25,000. Traffic on the local street railway and the Chautauqua…
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Trolley and Traction Car Collission
Car No. 32, an open trolley car bound for Celoron ran into Chautauqua Traction car No. 104 nearly in front of the Standard Hotel at Celoron Sunday afternoon, and E. D. Walker of Jamestown quite badly injured by being thrown from the open car to the ground. Both cars were going toward Celoron and left…
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1893 NYS Report on the Jamestown Street Railway
The following report from the Jamestown Street Railway comes from the 1893-1894 Report of the Railroad Commissioners of New York State. Source: Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of New York State 1893-1894, Volume 2, Found on Google Books.