. The street railway review . City, la., two prisoners in the county jail for havingstolen copper wire from the Leeds line of the Sioux City Trac-tion Co., were recently acquitted of the charge of grand larcenyon the technical ground that the bond wire of an electric railwayis not subject to larceny because it is real estate and not personalproperty. The court sustained the proposition of the county attorneyto hold the prisoners for investigation by the grand jury on thecharge of malicious trespass, which would cover the offense. Discussing the possibility of a competing line between Cleve-lan
. The street railway review . City, la., two prisoners in the county jail for havingstolen copper wire from the Leeds line of the Sioux City Trac-tion Co., were recently acquitted of the charge of grand larcenyon the technical ground that the bond wire of an electric railwayis not subject to larceny because it is real estate and not personalproperty. The court sustained the proposition of the county attorneyto hold the prisoners for investigation by the grand jury on thecharge of malicious trespass, which would cover the offense. Discussing the possibility of a competing line between Cleve-land and Toledo, in opposition to the Kverett-Moore line. Mr. F, The Cincinnati Traction Co. has tested its new sprinkling carswith entirely satisfactory results. The sprinklers easily throwwater the whole width of the street, though for ordinary purposestwo feet on either side of the track is all that will lie required. Sept. 15, 1901.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. SoL The Interurban Railway a an Investment/ 1!Y GUY MORRISON V M. WALKKK. The first application of as a motive power upon streetrailway lines was made scarcely fifteen years ago, yet so rapidlyhas it displaced all other .systems for city and suburban tractionthat every city and almost every town is covered with electriclines the modernness of whose equipment has come to be held afair index of the progressiveness of the city itself. It is less thanten years since the first suburban lines were successfully it is only within the last two years, since the development ofthe tri-phase system of transmitting power that we have begun thebuilding of truly interurban electric railways; long distance lines,reaching from city to city, and serving populations other thanurban. The first electric railways being city lines, it was entirely naturalthat their securities should first find a local market, and this stateof affairs continuing so long has made it difficult to oecure forthe stocks and bonds of int
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