. The Street railway journal . n the United States two inventors, Stephen and Thomas A. Edison, began electric experiments al-most simultaneously. Perhaps more than to any other, thecredit for the first serious proposal in the United States shouldbe awarded to Field. In February, 1879, he made plans foran electric railway, the current to be delivered from a sta-tionary source of power through a wire enclosed in a conduit,with rail return, and in 1880-81 he constructed and put inoperation an electric locomotive in Stockbridge, Mass. (Fieldslater work is described elsewhere in this issue
. The Street railway journal . n the United States two inventors, Stephen and Thomas A. Edison, began electric experiments al-most simultaneously. Perhaps more than to any other, thecredit for the first serious proposal in the United States shouldbe awarded to Field. In February, 1879, he made plans foran electric railway, the current to be delivered from a sta-tionary source of power through a wire enclosed in a conduit,with rail return, and in 1880-81 he constructed and put inoperation an electric locomotive in Stockbridge, Mass. (Fieldslater work is described elsewhere in this issue.) In the summer of 1882, Dr. Joseph R. Finney operated inAllegheny, Pa., a car for which current was supplied throughan overhead wire on which traveled a small trolley connectedto the car with a flexible cable, and about the same time inEngland, Dr. Fleming Jenkin proposed a scheme of telpheragewhich was developed by Messrs. Ayrton & Perry. THF FREIGHT PROPOSITION AS VIEWED FROM A PRACTI-CAL STANDPOINT BY EDWARD C. SPRING. A DIVERSITY of opinion ex-ists to-day among the man-agers of interurban electricjfe tfb- railways whether it is more advantageous to handle mer-chandise at express or freightrates. Each manager has hisown personal opinions andideas along these lines, and insumming them up we cannotbut see that each mans opin-ion is based upon the peculiarcircumstances prevalent on hisown property. The steam roads have the advantages overus in this respect, because their conditions are more of a uni-versal nature. It was the writers fortune, or misfortune, to be on the com-mittee which drew up and put into execution the interchange-able coupon book among various roads in the State of this position he has learned to appreciate fully the diversi-fied conditions that exist at present among the various roadsand the difficulties in harmonizing all these conditions so thatthey would meet the requirements. The situation as respectsthe adoption and operation of a successful f
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