. The street railway review . are made by Stephenson which fact is suffi-cient compliment to the parties concerned. The Eicke-meyer motor is to be used. UUi Ml. Auburn Cable Power House was totallydestroyed by fire during the past month. The origin of the tire is unknown, but the sup-position is it started in the pit on the Highland avenuefront, from the friction of the wheels. The tire spread with lightning rapidity and several ofthe workmen had barely time to escape with their lives. The destruction was swift and complete for the wood-work and machinery were saturated with oil and theyburned
. The street railway review . are made by Stephenson which fact is suffi-cient compliment to the parties concerned. The Eicke-meyer motor is to be used. UUi Ml. Auburn Cable Power House was totallydestroyed by fire during the past month. The origin of the tire is unknown, but the sup-position is it started in the pit on the Highland avenuefront, from the friction of the wheels. The tire spread with lightning rapidity and several ofthe workmen had barely time to escape with their lives. The destruction was swift and complete for the wood-work and machinery were saturated with oil and theyburned like tinder. An hour after the fire started thewest wall fell inwards with a crash upon the engines andboilers. The power house fronted 100 feet on Highland avenue,by 125 feet on Sanders street. The walls were of stoneand brick and two feet in thickness. It was built four3ears ago and was two stories in height with basementand sub-cellars. It was equipped with two Lane &Bodley Corliss engines of 250-horse power each and. RUINS MT. AUBURN CABLE POWER HOUSE. carried four batteries of boilers. About 150 men wereemployed by the company. The building was worth $ioo,ch30 and the insurance$50,000. Our engraving shows the results of the fire and theremaining wall with the lonel}^ looking stack. An enthusiastic meeting of stockholders of the Cablevoted to rebuild, and President Martin states the linewill reopen June 27. JERRY SIMPSONS DREAM. IN his earlier days, Jerry Simpson used to be an expertin sawing logs, and a story told in Washington of thesockless statesman, relates that while he was dozingin a chair at the Riggs House, the passing of an electriccar, with its din and buzzing, recalled to his somnolentsenses his old-time trade, whereupon he jumped upshouting : Back her, shes struck a knot. The storyis a little apocryphal, perhaps, but it goes as everythingdoes about Jerry. 184 GRAND RAPIDS. THIS brilliant city of Western Michigan, rejoicing asit does in the beauty of its locati
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