. The street railway review . Sir J. WiiiTTAKicR Ellis, ex-Lord Mayor of London,accompanied by Lady Ellis and Erastus Wiman, aremaking an extensive tour of the United States and Can-ada for the purpose of investigating the systems ofelectric traction in the various cities. It is reported thatthe visit is semi-official. (; the noted street car conductors, F. A. Parker,of Oakland, California, deserves mention as the possessorof two medals. One presented by Queen Victoria forbravery in the Egyptian invasion, and the other by theKhedive of Egypt. He is a survivor of Wolseleys expe-dition for
. The street railway review . Sir J. WiiiTTAKicR Ellis, ex-Lord Mayor of London,accompanied by Lady Ellis and Erastus Wiman, aremaking an extensive tour of the United States and Can-ada for the purpose of investigating the systems ofelectric traction in the various cities. It is reported thatthe visit is semi-official. (; the noted street car conductors, F. A. Parker,of Oakland, California, deserves mention as the possessorof two medals. One presented by Queen Victoria forbravery in the Egyptian invasion, and the other by theKhedive of Egypt. He is a survivor of Wolseleys expe-dition for the relief of Gordon and fought at Abu-Klea. Tin-: m:w cable in commission at Kansas City was madeby T. Wilson Sons & Company, of Hull, England, and is114 inches steel, with tarred hemp core, and is 14,200feet long, and weighed 40,000 pounds. 568 DULUTHS BEACON HILL PAVILION. N the \ car 1880 the village of Duluth claimed 838souls, who were trying their best to escape a deathof ennui, but the census of 1890 makes the same. DLLUTH STREET RAILWAY /OO. village a city of 33,115 inhab-itants, with a beautifully con-structed electric r a i 1 w a yunder the management ofmen of ideas. The Duluth Street Rail-way Company, of w h i c hFred. S. Wardvvell is generalmanager, has quite recentlyopened up a handsome resorton Beacon Hill, at the top ofthe incline, for the purposeof inducing traffic, and itdraws like unto a 25-centdentist. The building is atthe summit of Beacon Hill,at Ninth street and Seventhavenue, about 560 feet aboveSuperior street and 600 feetabove the mean level of the lake. The building is of noparticular style of architecture unless it be the Wardwell-ian, which means useful, comfortable and capacious. Itis also graceful in outline and a credit to its floor space is 80 by 100 feet, founded on posts reach-ing bedrock. The columns are of white pine 12 by 12inches, with oak keys and bracings. There are twofloors under cover, the upper being reached by a broads
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