. Electric railway journal . of the motors, contactors, etc., rather than any me- The Committee of Fifty appointed by Mayor Breitmeyer, ofDetroit, a little over a year ago to study and prepare a solutionof the street railway problem on the expiration of DetroitUnited Railway franchises, has completed its work and hassubmitted it to the Common Council in the form of an ordi-nance. The plan of settlement will be presented to the DetroitUnited Railway for its approval, if it may be secured, beforesubmitting to the voters for approval in May, should the Coun-cil accept the plan of settlement propo
. Electric railway journal . of the motors, contactors, etc., rather than any me- The Committee of Fifty appointed by Mayor Breitmeyer, ofDetroit, a little over a year ago to study and prepare a solutionof the street railway problem on the expiration of DetroitUnited Railway franchises, has completed its work and hassubmitted it to the Common Council in the form of an ordi-nance. The plan of settlement will be presented to the DetroitUnited Railway for its approval, if it may be secured, beforesubmitting to the voters for approval in May, should the Coun-cil accept the plan of settlement proposed. The ordinance follows in many respects the Tayler settle-ment adopted in Cleveland. It provides for an initial fare ofeight tickets for a quarter for eight months after the accept-ance of the franchise, but allows an increase or decrease offares within prescribed limits, at stated intervals, to enable thecompany to pay a dividend of 6 per cent upon an appraisedvaluation of its property and upon the cost of future exten-. Views Showing the Disaster to the Three-Phase Equipment of the Cascade Tunnel—Great Northern Railroad chanical damage. If much of the apparatus has to be rewound,it will probably be some six months before electric service canbe resumed, owing to the fact that the locomotives will probablyhave to be taken to Seattle or some other city for repair. Theaccompanying photographic views of the disaster were obtainedby this paper through the courtesy of Dr. Cary T. Hutchinson,consulting engineer for the electrical equipment of the CascadeTunnel. W. C. Brown, president of the New York Central & Hud-son River Railroad, makes the following reference to theelectric railway interests of the company in his annual reportfor the year 1909: In pursuance of the plan outlined in lastyears report for the consolidation and merger of several elec-tric railway companies into a corporation to be known as theNew York State Railways, various exchanges of capital stockhave been ma
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