. The street railway review . ctly it arrived. The work of putting down the new electric line in Georgestreet, Sydney, N. S. W., is being done at a snail-pace, andit is as clear as daylight that the contractors (who shouldhave had all completed by end of 1898) will not have finishedlaying down the new system till within about a year aftertheir contract time. Bendigo, Victoria, is the only city or town outside Mel-bourne that has a mechanically worked street railway in thatcolony. The city in question is the first one of importancein Victoria with respect to gold output ever since that fieldwas
. The street railway review . ctly it arrived. The work of putting down the new electric line in Georgestreet, Sydney, N. S. W., is being done at a snail-pace, andit is as clear as daylight that the contractors (who shouldhave had all completed by end of 1898) will not have finishedlaying down the new system till within about a year aftertheir contract time. Bendigo, Victoria, is the only city or town outside Mel-bourne that has a mechanically worked street railway in thatcolony. The city in question is the first one of importancein Victoria with respect to gold output ever since that fieldwas opened. The Bendigo Tramways Company, Ltd., is purely a localconcern of local capital and enterprise. Much of the car ma-terial used by the company is from the United States. There ^t]ied5(culwa^S\gvlc^ 445 are five steam motors built by tbe Baldwin LocomotiveWorks, of Philadelphia; three other steam motorsengagedon the line are from the Phoenix Foundry, Ballarat, Vic-toria. There are 14 passenger cars, most of them being on. SCENE ON THE HOBART ELECTRIC TRAMWAY. double trucks; they were constructed originally for an elec-tric accumulator system, which was tried first in Bendigo,but was found to work unsatisfactorily, owing chiefly to thevery heavy grades (over i in 16) on some parts of the roadtraversed. The cars can carry 60 passengers each, but areseldom taxed to that capacity, as Bendigo, like the wholecolony of Victoria, sufifers for want of an industrial work-while-you-can population. The fuel used by this companyis coke, which is found to be clean and not more expensivethan coal. F. W. N. King. APPLICATION BLANKS. Application for the position of motorman on the cars ofthe Chester (Pa.) Traction Company is made by filling outthe blank, the items of which are given below. A similarblank is used for conductors. The questions cover every im-portant point of information about an employe which it isdesirable for the officials of the company to keep on applicant must
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