. Electric railway gazette . And, having thus demonstrated the value oftheir wheel, they are already in receipt of ordersfrom some of the most prominent roads in NewYork and Brooklyn, as well as from Mexico. Kansas City Cableography. Mr Clift Wise, chief engineer of the KansasCity Cable railway, has favored us with a neatlittle book of over 60 pages. It begins with theever new story, with which our readers are fami-liar, as to the Clay Street Hill road, San Francisco,being the first cable railway in the world. Whatis most worth noting in this book is the statementthat in 1880 there were but si
. Electric railway gazette . And, having thus demonstrated the value oftheir wheel, they are already in receipt of ordersfrom some of the most prominent roads in NewYork and Brooklyn, as well as from Mexico. Kansas City Cableography. Mr Clift Wise, chief engineer of the KansasCity Cable railway, has favored us with a neatlittle book of over 60 pages. It begins with theever new story, with which our readers are fami-liar, as to the Clay Street Hill road, San Francisco,being the first cable railway in the world. Whatis most worth noting in this book is the statementthat in 1880 there were but sixteen miles of cablein operation altogether. In 1884 there were 34miles of cable roads in the United States, andone very short one in London, England. At thepresent time there are nearly 200 miles of cableroads in the United States alone, with a prospectof an additional 100 miles before next heads the list with 50 miles, San Fran-cisco follows close afterwith 37 miles, and KansasCity has 32 Tiir, Gull. It will no doubt be interesting, for all interestedin cable railways, to know some particulars of thecable lines engineered by Mr. Clift Wise. Gillham was the first chief engineer ofthe Kansas City Cable railway; he built the firsttwo miles, and to him is due the credit for therapid development of cable railways through-out the West. Mr. Clift Wise succeeded in Au-gust, 18S5, and engineered the balance of theroad; and the way the extensive lines of the sys-tem are working is a great credit to him. In his■ ibleography Mr. Wise says : On the 24th day of June, 1885, the KansasCity Cable company ran the first cable train inKansas City over the first division of its road thencompleted, and marked the dawn of a new era inthe history of Kansas City. Methinks the weighs 80,000 lbs. Strong as it is, if it we,suspended by one end it would break of its o^}weight. Experience agrees with theory in mai;taining that a longer cable than this can notprofitably
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