. The street railway review . ice factory, besides owning several build-mgs and holding positions of financial trust. Professor Lowe is, without doubt, one of the foremostfactors in the progress of southern California, and, if amans age is to be counted by activity, we must set downhis years at thirty instead of sixty-odd. A life of intense energy, breadth of intellect, generosityof sentiment and an un-wavering trust in hisscience has brought Pro-fessor Lowe wealth, fameand position, socially andintellectually. Must the steam en-gine go? asked a re-porter of Edison. Why,certainly, Edison repli
. The street railway review . ice factory, besides owning several build-mgs and holding positions of financial trust. Professor Lowe is, without doubt, one of the foremostfactors in the progress of southern California, and, if amans age is to be counted by activity, we must set downhis years at thirty instead of sixty-odd. A life of intense energy, breadth of intellect, generosityof sentiment and an un-wavering trust in hisscience has brought Pro-fessor Lowe wealth, fameand position, socially andintellectually. Must the steam en-gine go? asked a re-porter of Edison. Why,certainly, Edison replied,that is what it is boughtfor. It ought to go theregulation number ofhours per day and theregulation number of daysper week, for a long if you mean, Will thesteam engine be supersed-ed by electricity ? Iwould answer that it ismy opinion that it will notbe in my day, nor yet inyours. We presume the trolleyis to blame for the non-arrival of Bielas comet, ifas some papers wouldhave us believe, it knockseverything THE TROLLEYS INVENTOR. TWO suits in equity have been filed in the UnitedStates Supreme Court at Toledo, C, brought Bidwell and others against the ToledoConsolidated for infringement of a patent on the trolle}device. Mr. Bidwell claims priority of invention underletters patent number 373,046, dated November 15, is said by Bidwell to be a test case, and that theaction is the result of two years preparation. Electricalauthority in Chicago says that there is no shadow ofrifht in Bidwells claim, and, consequently, manufactur-ers or consumers need nothesitate either to make orto bu}-. The original device ofthe trolley with a rollingcontact on the lower sur-face of a wire is of Euro-pean origin with claimantsin the Seimens-Halskefirm. The first Europeanroad used a trolley con-act years previous to thepatents granted to The outcome issaid, by competent author-ity, to be a certain defeatfor the Bidwell fact that so little
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