. The street railway review . OING fishing is the easiest thing in theworld for the sportsman of he has to do is to rise early, catchhis breakfast, grab his rod, run down tothe corner, board the first car and intwenty minutes is landed at Chamberscreek. Ten minutes later he is thrashing the water,alive with trout that rise to a No. 2 Royal Coachman asthough they had never snapped at a fly before in theircareer. This method of inducing traffic we particularlyrecommend to managers just outside the larger cities. Afine trout stream and some primeval forests may easilybe had. ANOTHER LO
. The street railway review . OING fishing is the easiest thing in theworld for the sportsman of he has to do is to rise early, catchhis breakfast, grab his rod, run down tothe corner, board the first car and intwenty minutes is landed at Chamberscreek. Ten minutes later he is thrashing the water,alive with trout that rise to a No. 2 Royal Coachman asthough they had never snapped at a fly before in theircareer. This method of inducing traffic we particularlyrecommend to managers just outside the larger cities. Afine trout stream and some primeval forests may easilybe had. ANOTHER LONDON BUS. The country is saved again. Clubbe & Company ofLondon, have an electric bus which will operate (onpaper) at a cost of S cents per mile. Yea, even morethan this. The company is prepared to undertake con-tracts to build and run full sized tram cars carrying 46. THE ELECTRIL liUS. passengers, speed—up to 8 miles per hour—the cost ofelectrical force being cents per mile when generatedby steam power at 2 cents per unit. We fear that thecompany will not do much more than a storage battery has been found that can do goodservice on a street car running on smooth iron rails andmoderate grades it will be time to seriously consider theelectric bus for paved streets. The Lake Street Elevated, acting under a courtdecision, began extending its line from West Forty-eighthstreet, Chicago, to West Fifty-second street. The trolleywire of the Cicero & Proviso Electric Railway was dis-connected, to make way for the construction, whichoccupied but thirty minutes and hardly disturbed the 10-minute schedule of the electric cars. THE LAWRENCE CONDUIT. One of the few systems which entered for the Metro-politan Traction prize with a section of track in actualoperation, is the invention of William Lawrence, of Wil-mington, Del. The section
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