. Electric railway gazette . ain McCulIoch ofthe Washington avenue line rescindedan order issued by his predecessor,Mr. Maxon, that all cars should stoponly at the far crossings. He re-newed the order, however, finding that the stoppages betweencrossings demoralized his schedule. G. G. B. The Horse must go, echoes our contemporary, theAmerican Machinist. The opinion that some other meansthan horses must be employed for moving street cars israpidly gaining ground. Cars moved by horses present aspectacle too unmechanical to be tolerated in these times,when the power of steam is taking the place
. Electric railway gazette . ain McCulIoch ofthe Washington avenue line rescindedan order issued by his predecessor,Mr. Maxon, that all cars should stoponly at the far crossings. He re-newed the order, however, finding that the stoppages betweencrossings demoralized his schedule. G. G. B. The Horse must go, echoes our contemporary, theAmerican Machinist. The opinion that some other meansthan horses must be employed for moving street cars israpidly gaining ground. Cars moved by horses present aspectacle too unmechanical to be tolerated in these times,when the power of steam is taking the place of muscularexertion in almost everything. Better speed is demandedon street roads, and it has become a case of absolute crueltyto animals to compel horses to perform the service life of a horse in such service is but a few years at themost. Fortunately, the demands for better service are such asleave horses out of the question, and, undoubtedly, in a fewyears they will be out of the question in point of Fig. THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. October, 1887 The Ries Underground Conduit. Of all the recent applications of electricity now under-going the process of practical development, there is perhapsnone that is at present watched with greater interest,says the Western Electrician, or absorbs a larger share of thepublic attention, than the employment of this force as amotive power for street railways; nor is there any field inwhich this most flexible power can be more profitably em-ployed, or in which it promises to produce a more rapidand noteworthy change for the better. We illustrate an electric railway conduit that forms thesubject of a patent granted September 20th to Elias , of Baltimore, Md., which is said to be admirablyadapted to the requirements of electric street railways inlarge cities. This conduit embodies a number of novel fea-tures of practical value and bears evidence of having re-ceived sound mechanical treatment in its design and con-str
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