The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . Railway. The adoption of electricity as power by the street railway systems ofWorcester has done much not only for the convenience of the public,but in the general development of the city and increasing the citysvaluation. The oldest and largest of the electric railway systems in whichWorcester is interested, is that of the Worcester Consolidated StreetRailway Company. This company resulted from the consolidation oftwo horse railway systems — those of the Citizens Street Railway Com-pany and Worcester Street Railway Company
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . Railway. The adoption of electricity as power by the street railway systems ofWorcester has done much not only for the convenience of the public,but in the general development of the city and increasing the citysvaluation. The oldest and largest of the electric railway systems in whichWorcester is interested, is that of the Worcester Consolidated StreetRailway Company. This company resulted from the consolidation oftwo horse railway systems — those of the Citizens Street Railway Com-pany and Worcester Street Railway Company, in 1887. The presentcorporate name was then assumed, as were the rights and franchises ofthe two old companies. The latter were comparatively insignificant as regards either mileage,traffic or speed. Less than seven miles of track was in operation whenconsolidation was effected, and less than one and three-quarters millionpassengers were carried the previous year. In contrast with this aboutforty-five miles are now operated, and, in round figures, upward of ten. The Worcester of 1898. 397 million passengers will have been carried the present fiscal year. Themarked difference can be credited largely to one cause—the adoptionof electricity for Previous to and including 1892, the old-fashioned slow-going horse-carhad been depended upon, but that year the companv was granted theright to change its system to electric propulsion. In 1893 the work ofreconstruction was begun, a power-station was established, and beforethe close of that year all of the cars were run by electric power. The power-station is located on the line of the Boston & AlbanyRailroad, a short distance from Webster square. It is in a substantialbrick building, in one side of which are nine horizontal tubular boilers,and in the other are the engines and electric machinery. This year theengine capacity of the plant has been nearly doubled, as in the spring a1,500 horse-power engine, the largest vertical
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