. The Street railway journal . ommercial scale. In the discussion of thisreport a letter was read from a street railway company in Bal-timore which had been operating two cars on the Daft systemsince Sept. 1, 1885. This letter answered a number of questionsregarding the practical working of the system, and seemed toindicate that electric traction was at last approaching commer-cial success. The progress of the cable system was also re-ported on, and a paper and discussion on track work. Thecommittee on rules regarding conductors and drivers made areport at this meeting, which was discussed at
. The Street railway journal . ommercial scale. In the discussion of thisreport a letter was read from a street railway company in Bal-timore which had been operating two cars on the Daft systemsince Sept. 1, 1885. This letter answered a number of questionsregarding the practical working of the system, and seemed toindicate that electric traction was at last approaching commer-cial success. The progress of the cable system was also re-ported on, and a paper and discussion on track work. Thecommittee on rules regarding conductors and drivers made areport at this meeting, which was discussed at length. Hereagain we see the beginning of a movement which resulted atthe last convention in the recommendation of a set of standardrules. At Cincinnati, in 1886, the convention, for the first time, dis-cussed a paper on The Care, Prevention and Settlement ofAccidents. A short and rather informal discussion on theCare and Cleaning of Cars at the previous conventionbrought out an extended report at tliis convention on the Sani-. T HO MAS W. ACKLEV, CHARLES H. HOLMES, President,1886-1887 Presidcnt,1887-1888 ceedings of the convention were given over to this of electricity as a motive power was for the firsttime taken up in an engineering way. Previous reports on thissubject at earlier conventions had mainly taken the form of anoutline of what had been already done, without going into theengineering problems involved in the construction of an electricrailway. Besides the thorough committee report on this sub-ject, a long discussion took place. In those days it was a ques-tion as to whether the storage battery, overhead trolley or un-derground conduit electric railway system would eventuallywin out. Some of the best engineers expressed the opinion thateach of the three systems would eventually have its place instreet railway work. William Wharton, who was on the com-mittee making the report on electricity as a motive power, thisyear, invited the members of the co
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