. The street railway review . BUFFALO ClTy LIrtlTS 1893 delayed actual work until this spring. The chiefpromoter was Hon. W. Caryl Ely, ex-state senator, andnow president of the road. The other officers are H. , vice-president, Burt Van Horn, Jr., general man-ager, and George H. Dunbar, secretary and corporation is on friendly terms with the local linesboth at Buffalo and Niagara Falls as is shown by the factthat among its directors are H. , H. H. Littelland Robert Fryer of the Buffalo Railway, and CaptainC. B. Gaskill and Charles B. Hill of the Niagara Falls& Sus
. The street railway review . BUFFALO ClTy LIrtlTS 1893 delayed actual work until this spring. The chiefpromoter was Hon. W. Caryl Ely, ex-state senator, andnow president of the road. The other officers are H. , vice-president, Burt Van Horn, Jr., general man-ager, and George H. Dunbar, secretary and corporation is on friendly terms with the local linesboth at Buffalo and Niagara Falls as is shown by the factthat among its directors are H. , H. H. Littelland Robert Fryer of the Buffalo Railway, and CaptainC. B. Gaskill and Charles B. Hill of the Niagara Falls& Suspension Bridge Electric Railway. It goes with-out saying that this is of great value to the road, as itmade pussible the friendly trafhc agreement with theroads at both ends, whereby the Buffalo & Niagara Fallscars run over the tracks of the Buffalo Railway to theheart of Buffalo and over the Niagara Falls & Suspen-. MOTOR CAR—MOTOR ON EACH AXLK. sion Bridge tracks to the center of Niagara Falls. Morethan this, transfers are given over the local lines at eachend. The right of way was obtained by franchise fromtwo incorporated towns and four townships or six author-ities in all. As said before, these were obtained in Ely nursed them and kept them alive duringthe three years that construction was delayed by thepanic. The capital stock is $i ,200,000 and the authorizedbonds $750,000. Early in the spring of 1895 the White-Crosbj-Companytook the contract for building the entire road and turning itover complete to its owners. By the original contract theWhite-Crosbj Company took $625,000 worth of bondsand a large amount of stock. These bonds have nearlyall been disposed of at par, except a few that will beretained by the company. The line consists of miles of double track, extend-ing from the city limits of Buffalo to the city limits ofNiagara Falls. The route over which cars will
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