. The Street railway journal . festival occurs, the traffic toward thiscathedral is enormous, both day and night. The upper city is situated at a height of from 200 ft. to300 ft. above the lower city, and contains the residentialquarter, being cooler, dryer and luxuriant with orange andbanana orchards. Here also are the principal govern-ment buildings. The upper and lower cities are connected by hydrauliccable inclined railways, steps for foot passengers and afew roads with an average grade of 5 per cent for vehicles. The favorable impression made by the view of the cityas seen from the sea is
. The Street railway journal . festival occurs, the traffic toward thiscathedral is enormous, both day and night. The upper city is situated at a height of from 200 ft. to300 ft. above the lower city, and contains the residentialquarter, being cooler, dryer and luxuriant with orange andbanana orchards. Here also are the principal govern-ment buildings. The upper and lower cities are connected by hydrauliccable inclined railways, steps for foot passengers and afew roads with an average grade of 5 per cent for vehicles. The favorable impression made by the view of the cityas seen from the sea is dispelled as soon as the travelerlands in the lower city. He finds here no regularly laidout quays, no wharf cranes, such as one is accustomed toassociate with the handling of merchandise, and no regulararrangement of the streets. The buildings look as if theyhad been erected by Indians, and the hoists for loadingvessels are operated by treadmills, with negroes as motivepower. A striking contrast to this conglomerate appear-. ECTRIC RAILWAY ance is afforded by the upper city, which is laid out withbeautiful streets lined by handsome villas. The tramway system of Bahia consists of a single linetraversing the lower city, running parallel to the sea, andextending to the outer terminus of the Itapagipe penin-sula. It has a total length of miles of track, occupy-ing 7-7 miles of street, and is owned by the CompanhiaCarris Electricos, formerly the Companhia VehiculosEconomicos. When using animal power this companyhad considerable difficulty in taking care of its traffic,especially on Sundays and holidays, when the demand fortransportation is always great. Moreover, about threeyears ago the stock of mules which was formerly usedsuffered from a severe epidemic, so that the question ofelectrical equipment immediately became an imperativeone, and the company gave a contract for its electricalequipment to the Siemens & Halske Aktien Gesellschaft,of Berlin, 208 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL
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