. Electric railway review . eived the third prize. Mrs. Margaret Landers Sanford of Clinton received thefirst prize for a design for the Syracuse Rapid Transit Com-pany: Frederick W. Geisler of Madison, Wis., the second;and J. B. Chase of Syracuse the third. Mrs. Sanfords de-sign is in the form of a medallion with an Indian head appear-ing on the shield. In each case the first prize was $25, the second $15 andthe third $ The designs of Mr. Schwarz, Mr. White, Mr. Gargan and Mrs. Sanford are illustrated herewith. The con-tests were considered successful by the companies. The inter-est attr
. Electric railway review . eived the third prize. Mrs. Margaret Landers Sanford of Clinton received thefirst prize for a design for the Syracuse Rapid Transit Com-pany: Frederick W. Geisler of Madison, Wis., the second;and J. B. Chase of Syracuse the third. Mrs. Sanfords de-sign is in the form of a medallion with an Indian head appear-ing on the shield. In each case the first prize was $25, the second $15 andthe third $ The designs of Mr. Schwarz, Mr. White, Mr. Gargan and Mrs. Sanford are illustrated herewith. The con-tests were considered successful by the companies. The inter-est attracted by the competition and the number of designssubmitted and the excellence of many of them justified thecontests. The awards of prizes were made by a committee of news-paper men, who did not know the names of the no design has definitely been settled upon for any ofthe roads, it is probable that the inverted Indian arrow headwill be adopted for all of the lines, the name being changed in each MOTOR OMNIBUSTESTS. Emblems for the Utica & MohawkOneida United StatesConsul Frank W. Ma-hin of Nottingham,England, states thata year or two ago anintense disc ussionwas carried on be-tween the advocatesof motor omnibusesand street cars as totheir respective mer-its, the practical re-sults of which hepoints out as follows:Reports fromdifferent parts of thecountry, notably Lon-don, where motoromnibuses have beenused are adversein several particu-lars. Their noise andodor and the allegedinjurj to the value ofproperty on streetsthrough which theyran were objectionsfrom the outset. Nowwe are told of declin-ing values of motoromnibus shares, ofcompanies totteringon the verge of bank-ruptcy, of vehiclesbeing retired afterpatient trial for fail-ing to maintain re-quired standards, orbeing scrapped forlack of a market. The city of Not-tingham has experi-mented with threemotor omnibuses forthe past two years,traversing parts of the town not served by street cars, wi
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