. The Street railway journal . tric traction. The steady horse car had formany years carried the staid burgers of the old HanseCity by the Weser, along its narrow, picturesque streets,crowded with historical memories, when to be a city of theprincipal Hanseatic League meant almost to be a repub-lic. But the expansion of the town by the growing tradeof the world, a goodly part of which has chosen Bremen The length of the line is miles, of which 4 milesis laid with single track, and miles with double entire system consists of two lines, one running fromthe Burgerpark to Freih
. The Street railway journal . tric traction. The steady horse car had formany years carried the staid burgers of the old HanseCity by the Weser, along its narrow, picturesque streets,crowded with historical memories, when to be a city of theprincipal Hanseatic League meant almost to be a repub-lic. But the expansion of the town by the growing tradeof the world, a goodly part of which has chosen Bremen The length of the line is miles, of which 4 milesis laid with single track, and miles with double entire system consists of two lines, one running fromthe Burgerpark to Freihafen, and the other from Horn tothe Hohen Thor, the lines from the railroad station to thecorner of the Langen and Kaisers Strassen being commonto both systems. The power station for the generation and supply ofcurrent is located on the Schlachthof, near to the line tothe Burgerpark. It is a brick building constructed inthree parts, one containing the engine and generatorroom, the second the boilers, and the third and smallest. FIG. 1.—ELECTRIC CARS PASSING THE as its inlet to the vast markets of the North German ter-ritories, determined a beneficial change in transportationmethods, and electricity has been chosen to replace thehorse on its street railway system. The noble Rathhaus of Bremen, with its statuesof seven electors and one emperor of the HolyRoman Empire, and the Rolandsaule, erected in 1412,probably look down with surprise from their position onthe Marktplatz, upon the swift moving trolley cars, themost modern method of transportation. It was in 1891that the Bremen Strassenbahn Gesellschaft began seri-ously to consider the question of changing its system oftraction. After considerable discussion, the Bremen Com-pany finally decided to adopt the Thomson-Houston sys-tem as the most practical, and the contract was accord-ingly awarded to the Union Electricitats Gesellschaft, ofBerlin. In May, 1892, the road was completed, and theelectric cars were doing business. MAR
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