. Electric railway journal . Connecticut Company—Port Chester Carhouse and Typical Trolley Line Construction that in many localities, judging by the remains of industriesthat were formerly prosperous but are now abandoned, thesituation may have been more highly developed industriallya hundred years ago than at the present time. It was the intention of our company in acquiring theBerkshire Street Railway, had we not been interfered withby the opposition of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,to extend branch lines into the various outlying country dis-tricts, where the natural advantages would at
. Electric railway journal . Connecticut Company—Port Chester Carhouse and Typical Trolley Line Construction that in many localities, judging by the remains of industriesthat were formerly prosperous but are now abandoned, thesituation may have been more highly developed industriallya hundred years ago than at the present time. It was the intention of our company in acquiring theBerkshire Street Railway, had we not been interfered withby the opposition of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,to extend branch lines into the various outlying country dis-tricts, where the natural advantages would attract peoplein the selection of summer homes, and thus have greatlyassisted in the development of that territory, which prob-ably is as accessible as any other district for this purposeand has greater natural advantages than any other terri-torv accessible to the great metropolitan district of NewYork. In the policy to which I have alluded we were not work-ing without thought of gain, although we were well awarethat the el
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