. The street railway review . ns by which theycould improve their own properties and so check in a measure thetide of travel that was turning toward the road on stilts. In 1892the old Huckleberry Road, now the Union Ry., received permis-sion to put up the trolley in the district of the Bronx, but to theoverhead wires Manhattan Island was forbidden ground. All thekings horses and all the kings men couldnt secure a franchisefor a trolley road below the Harlem, and many were the financialkings that tried it. Finally in the cable as a solution for the problem came tothe front and the Broadwa
. The street railway review . ns by which theycould improve their own properties and so check in a measure thetide of travel that was turning toward the road on stilts. In 1892the old Huckleberry Road, now the Union Ry., received permis-sion to put up the trolley in the district of the Bronx, but to theoverhead wires Manhattan Island was forbidden ground. All thekings horses and all the kings men couldnt secure a franchisefor a trolley road below the Harlem, and many were the financialkings that tried it. Finally in the cable as a solution for the problem came tothe front and the Broadway and Third Avenue lines were soonconverted for cable traction. But the cable was not deemed suitablafor all the other lines. Thorough and expensive experiments werecarried out with stored steam motors, with the Hardy and Hoadlycompressed air iiiotors, and with various systems of storage bat-tery cars, ill the effort to find a suitable for the mulesand horses. Rut tliev were all found wanting in some one essential. WEST WASHINGTON MAKKET. elevated railroads in New ^cirk was 138,867,000. In 1882, bywhich year the elevated service had been pretty thoroughly estab-lished, the total passengers carried had risen to 252,800,000, or anincrease of over 80 per cent for the decade. But the labor of the Rapid Transit Commission was but workinground the links of an endless chain as far as results were con-cerned, for no sooner were the increased facilities in running orderthan the suburbs of the city at once became the Mecca for thou-sands of new home-seekers, increasing in .greater proportion thenumber of people to be carried to and from their business andsoon the conditions were worse than they had been previously. By1892 the annual number of passengers carried had increased to ,-200,000. In the meantime most of the main north and south avenues badbeen laid with street railway tracks, all of course operated by ani-mal traction. Sharp had secured his Broadway franchise in
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