. The Street railway journal . e that it would be calledupon to extend the tracks to a number of the suburban districts that are now poorlysupplied with means of transportation, forthe reason that the companies have seen noway toward an immediate profit by the con-struction of new routes. But the great obstacle in the way of suchan acquisition on the part of the city gov-ernment is the uncertain character of mun-icipal control. If the city authorities couldl>e implicitly trusted, it is probable that inthese railroad affairs municipal manage-ment would be better than corporate man-agement; b
. The Street railway journal . e that it would be calledupon to extend the tracks to a number of the suburban districts that are now poorlysupplied with means of transportation, forthe reason that the companies have seen noway toward an immediate profit by the con-struction of new routes. But the great obstacle in the way of suchan acquisition on the part of the city gov-ernment is the uncertain character of mun-icipal control. If the city authorities couldl>e implicitly trusted, it is probable that inthese railroad affairs municipal manage-ment would be better than corporate man-agement; but not only is there no assur-ance of this kind to be given, but, on theother hand, there are many reasons forthinking that the horse railroad systemwould become a fruitful source of muni-cipal corrupt-ion. The thousands of con-ductors, drivers undatable employees wouldbecome, collectively, a powerful politicalfactor, and we should have men, and pos-sibly Mr. Cherrington might be amongtheir number, seeking to gain -^support at. Kaestuer Portable Wrist Mill. The mill* illustrated in this connectionwas one that was on exhibition at the Cin-cinnati convention, and which has beenextensively adopted by street railwaycompanies for grinding feed for their is convenient in form, easily handled,and portable. It is a stone mill, in whichthe French buhr stone is is made in four sizes, 1G,20, 24 and 30 inch stones, and is adaptedin this way to powers ranging from threeto fifteen horse power. The mill is illus-trated in this connection on account of theinterest which street railway men are tak-ing in the matter of grinding their ownfeed, and thus knowing what is fed to theirhorses; and from the fact that it seems tobe a conceded point that it requires less tokeep a horse in good condition when thefeed is thoroughly ground and well mixedthan when it is fed to them in a rough con-dition. The general appearanceof the mill is clearly shown by ourengravings and its arrangement c
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