. The Street railway journal . r Company, with its principal office in NewYork City. This company will construct and put in oper-ation as soon as possible a half-dozen tugboats operatedby electricity, either on the storage or trolley system,with a view to showing the adaptability of electricity tocanal navigation. These tugboats will also tow for amoderate consideration any horse boats, the captains ofwhich desire to avail themselves of such method of navi-gation. These two companies are subsidiaries of the NiagaraPower Company. The principal stockholders of thelatter company are: J. Pierpont
. The Street railway journal . r Company, with its principal office in NewYork City. This company will construct and put in oper-ation as soon as possible a half-dozen tugboats operatedby electricity, either on the storage or trolley system,with a view to showing the adaptability of electricity tocanal navigation. These tugboats will also tow for amoderate consideration any horse boats, the captains ofwhich desire to avail themselves of such method of navi-gation. These two companies are subsidiaries of the NiagaraPower Company. The principal stockholders of thelatter company are: J. Pierpont Morgan, William , Mills, Morris K. Jesup, Isaac N. Selig-man, H. McK. Twombly, Brown Brothers, August Bel-mont and an English syndicate represented by Vermilye& Company, bankers, of New York City. The Electric Railway System of Wheeling, W. Va. Among the electric railways which have been in-stalled in different sections of the country, that at Wheel-ing, W. Va., deserves mention for its excellent plant and.
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