. The Street railway journal . cadam except in the business portion, where concreteand asphalt construction is used. The street railway system, as is common with the rapidlygrowing cities of the West, has developed from a patch-work of small independent horse lines into the presentwell-equipped electric system. The process of this devel-opment involved the construction of an extensive systemof cable railways, in the building of which money wasnot spared, but which ultimately proved to be a financial eration, the latter, under the peculiar local conditions ex-isting, being excessive. It was at
. The Street railway journal . cadam except in the business portion, where concreteand asphalt construction is used. The street railway system, as is common with the rapidlygrowing cities of the West, has developed from a patch-work of small independent horse lines into the presentwell-equipped electric system. The process of this devel-opment involved the construction of an extensive systemof cable railways, in the building of which money wasnot spared, but which ultimately proved to be a financial eration, the latter, under the peculiar local conditions ex-isting, being excessive. It was at this stage that the present company, the LosAngeles Railway Company, was organized, largely of theholders of the bonds of the existing companies. The prop-erty of the latter, horse, cable, and electric, was sold underthe trust deed, and the whole purchased by the Los An-geles Railway Company. The physical condition of the property was such that thenew managers had a very complicated problem with which mm □nana DDQD ODD 0Dnoa. Street Railway Jo-irnal Scalo of Miles mistake. The causes that led up to this condition of af-fairs need not be discussed here. The facts are that in1895 there were in operation in Los Angeles two parallelsystems, one consisting of cable and horse cars, and theother of electric cars. The ownership of the two systemshad been consolidated, but the business did not producethe revenue necessary to keep up the repairs and better-ments required, and to carry on the expensive cable op- to deal. There were four power houses to operate. Therolling stock was in poor condition. The electric carequipment was an aggregation of Westinghouse gearlessmotors, Edison No. 6, Westinghouse No. 3, G. E. 800,Westinghouse No. 12 and Westinghouse No. 14, and all inbad order. The track conditions were also bad, as therails were light and badly problems presented were: June, 1898.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 305 First—To keep up the operation of the present systems,and in
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