. The street railway review . he same us in Washington; but the persons who laid oul the city, the territorial or and Judges, had little knowledge of what Detroit was to be. Perhaps, I ought not to say that, as they gave as :i ■_• i city, yet, they laid out the city with the streets radiating for a distance much less than ■■> mile fi i the .enter, ami from that point the plan is discontinued. Now, i saj that you come closei,, the well mr people, and in the city of iietroit the conditions tire most favorable for the prosecution of your par-ticular business Oltr avenues are wide: our people r
. The street railway review . he same us in Washington; but the persons who laid oul the city, the territorial or and Judges, had little knowledge of what Detroit was to be. Perhaps, I ought not to say that, as they gave as :i ■_• i city, yet, they laid out the city with the streets radiating for a distance much less than ■■> mile fi i the .enter, ami from that point the plan is discontinued. Now, i saj that you come closei,, the well mr people, and in the city of iietroit the conditions tire most favorable for the prosecution of your par-ticular business Oltr avenues are wide: our people ride in the cars, and they want to gel conveniences in the matter ..f transportation that are possible, and we have them. \\e are after the best and do not want anything less than tinlust \,,t alone but we have no hills to contend with.\ hi, ir 111 ihe sii^in rise from the river, which is scarcely tobe considered, Detroil Is practically almost Bat, just rising enoughtowards the north to _ but in every other way. lien, w c. MAYBURY,Kajor f Da I thins tie conditions in Detroit ore peculiarly favorable to thesuccessful operation of a Street railway I desire to say, in spiteof the modest] of our railroad management in Detroit for yonknow anything mvagrd by Mr Hutching would b- managedmodestly that we point with pride to the splendid our Street railway, to the cleanliness of our cars, to the gentle-manly conduct of those in ad everything that goes I •make the operation of :i street railroad substantially successfuland complete My dear friends, the notable thought that comes to us in aconvention like this is tic- fact that the world is -rowing socatholic and s . broad. You may say the men upstairs who have inventions ami apparatus to display are here for commercialI grant you that the inventor is worthy of a proper Oct. 9, 1902.] DAILY STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. r>39 return tor his genius, as the laborer is worthy of his hire; but in tlio broadest sense those ex
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