. The Street railway journal . wwords criticise a weak point in our conventions. While we alllike a good time and enjoy very much the hospitality of ourfriends who invite us to their respective cities, dont you , we should give a little more time to business? or inother words, business first, pleasure afterwards. Let us beprompt to attend the business sessions and stay until adjourn-ment, help the business along by giving our mite to the dis-cussions. We owe to the company which sends us as delegatesattendance at all sessions, and also to the gentlemen who spenddays and weeks getti
. The Street railway journal . wwords criticise a weak point in our conventions. While we alllike a good time and enjoy very much the hospitality of ourfriends who invite us to their respective cities, dont you , we should give a little more time to business? or inother words, business first, pleasure afterwards. Let us beprompt to attend the business sessions and stay until adjourn-ment, help the business along by giving our mite to the dis-cussions. We owe to the company which sends us as delegatesattendance at all sessions, and also to the gentlemen who spenddays and weeks getting up papers for our enlightenment, andhereafter let us work first and play afterward. The writer en-joys a good time as well as any one, and perhaps is entitledto as much of this criticism as any one, but let us all try andattend to business first in the future and then visit with ourfriends, very many of whom we only see once a year. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. THE EVOLUTION OF THE INDUSTRY IN HORSE CAR DAYS BY C. DENSMORE WYMAN. ONE may plead guilty to havingwitnessed and actively partici-pated to a greater or less ex-tent in the discussions, plansand actual work incident to theevolution of the modern elec-tric railway without such aplea being accepted as a con-fession of great age, or with-out characterizing its makeras a person properly to bestyled after the fashion ofnewspaper reference as theOldest Inhabitant. As a single life time spanned the gap be-tween the Declaration of Independence and the laying of thefirst rail of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, the dean of thesteam railroad fraternity, so the period of experiment and en-deavor covering the development of the modern street andinterurban car has been a marvelously brief one, when weconsider the importance of such a step in the economic historyand development of urban, and suburban communities. It seems but yesterday that the ponderous and aldermanicomnibus, as if weighted with the memories of its distinguishedancestry,
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