Lee High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Jacksonville, FL)

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lllllllllllSlllllllllll llllll FHCULTU Frederick T. Davis in his l-listory of Jacksonville gives record to the city's first wheeled vehicle, a dray driven by a venerable colored man named Sam Reed and drawn by an appropriately venerable mule named John. This dray served the city and was also the town hearse in the early eighties Carriages supplied the first urban transportation along with the sulky, the buggy, and the saddle horse, for parties on the St. Johns River the rowboat served supremely, Attesting to more vigorous activities of adventuresome young men is the ordinance of l857, which prohibited horse racing on the streets of the town. The earliest record of city transportation is found in the chartering of the Jacksonville Horse Railroad Company for the purpose of inaugurating a street car system, Although the construction was started in l875, the proiect was not completed because of financial difficulties The next company to be incorporated was the Jacksonville Street Railway Company. To them the city council granted a franchise to lay tracks on the streets of Bay, Catherine, Duval, l-logan, Forsyth, and Julia This line was opened in the fall of l88O with a schedule-promise of once every 30 minutes . On this one might ponder sceptically because the loco- motive was a mule, colloquially called a hay burner, On February 24, l893, an exciting phase of transportation introduced a new pace from Bay Street to the Water Works, By May, l895, the clang-clang of the electric street car had succeeded the horse-drawn carriage, but another gen- eration was to remember it only in a popular song.

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