. The street railway review . , whilethe Anacostia road is a suburban route. Both are old horsecar lines and present no features of interest at present, asboth lines are to be torn up and rebuilt with the undergroundtrolley system inside the city limits and with the overheadsystem in the suburbs. Their power will be supplied fromthe Potomac Co. rill- article in llie Ajjril Review suggesting a plan bymeans of which the street railway company may eflfcctuallyand cheai)Iy rearh its patrons, has alrea<ly l)een adopted inRochester, .\. Y. Gen. ,\Igr. Nichols has been the first toput the scheme i
. The street railway review . , whilethe Anacostia road is a suburban route. Both are old horsecar lines and present no features of interest at present, asboth lines are to be torn up and rebuilt with the undergroundtrolley system inside the city limits and with the overheadsystem in the suburbs. Their power will be supplied fromthe Potomac Co. rill- article in llie Ajjril Review suggesting a plan bymeans of which the street railway company may eflfcctuallyand cheai)Iy rearh its patrons, has alrea<ly l)een adopted inRochester, .\. Y. Gen. ,\Igr. Nichols has been the first toput the scheme into effect, and the result is an extremelyneat and inviting little sheet of four i)agcs, which, by itsminiature size, if nothing else, will instantly attract the at-tention of readers. The i)agcs are each 7x9 in. with twocolumns to the page. The front page of the first issue isdevoted to a sketch of one of the crack companies of tnefire department, with a fine half tone of the men and horses. THE FOUR CORNERS. kOrMESItJI. N V. OF THE ROCHESTER X. Y. RAILWAY CO. The remaining pages are devoted to announcements, timetables, and advertisements. An interesting feature is thekickers column. The publication is called The FourCorners, and is published weekly and distributed on thecars. Mr. Nichols writes us that the paper is a great successand that it must be increased in size or issued oftener. ANOTHER FRAUD. Last month a 16-year-old boy was arrested while sellingtickets for the street car lines of the Birmingham (Ala.)Railway & Electric Co., at the rate of three for 10 tickets sold proved to be old tickets which had beenpasted together. It had been the custom to destroy usedtickets by tearing them in two and then throwing theminto the trash box. There the pieces of tickets were rescued,pasted together and put on the market at bargain counterprices. The employes of the Toledo (O.) Traction Co. were noti-fied on May 20th of an increase in wages of 5 per cent. 374 STRE
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