. The town of Shrewsbury, its location, advantages and attractions as a place of residence and for business . depreciation. Another important point to which thiscompany lays a claim is that they charge back into the batteriesor line when slowing, stopping or going down hill. The car beingcontrolled entirely by the electric switch, no hand break beingused, the saving on this road exceeding ten per cent, of the wholepower expended. As each car is self-contained and independent,any one car breaking down only affects that car. This system iscertain in all its action, and a car equipped with it has
. The town of Shrewsbury, its location, advantages and attractions as a place of residence and for business . depreciation. Another important point to which thiscompany lays a claim is that they charge back into the batteriesor line when slowing, stopping or going down hill. The car beingcontrolled entirely by the electric switch, no hand break beingused, the saving on this road exceeding ten per cent, of the wholepower expended. As each car is self-contained and independent,any one car breaking down only affects that car. This system iscertain in all its action, and a car equipped with it has run in theheaviest snows. One car alone has taken care of five inches of snow before the plow was pul on. The Union Electric Car that a ride over the Beverly road will convince the mostskeptical that the system works in every way and does all that isclaimed for it, and that while it has always been said that the stor-age battery was the ideal system, but would not work, that it nowdoes work any one can see. They say the cost can also beshown to be what it is claimed, and they invite CHARGING TABLES. THE UNION ELECTRIC CAR CO. The electrical development of this country is something wonder-ful. Every week brings new surprises to benefit and bless human-ity. Enormous fortunes have already been made by investors inelectrical inventions. Among the most recent developments to which our attentionhas been called is the rapid transit street car electric system, asperfected by the above company. A street railway has just been completed from Beverly to Dan-vers Port, three miles. Hon. John I. Baker is the president ofthis local company. The rails follow the natural surface of thehighway, which is very uneven, climbing over many hills, in some
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