. The Street railway journal . NarrowGage Street Railway Company (Voie Etroite) of Geneva,with nearly 45 miles of track in the city and suburbs, andof the General Company of Swiss Tramways (CompagnieGenerale des Tramways Suisses), operating about 22 milesof track in the best parts of the city. The parties thus be-coming interested, namely, the General Tramways Con-struction Syndicate, Ltd., of 43 Threadneedle Street, Lon-don, also secured a federal charter for the Genevese Com-pany of Electric Tramways (Compagnie Genevoise deTramways Electriques), and with it concessions for newlines of nearly
. The Street railway journal . NarrowGage Street Railway Company (Voie Etroite) of Geneva,with nearly 45 miles of track in the city and suburbs, andof the General Company of Swiss Tramways (CompagnieGenerale des Tramways Suisses), operating about 22 milesof track in the best parts of the city. The parties thus be-coming interested, namely, the General Tramways Con-struction Syndicate, Ltd., of 43 Threadneedle Street, Lon-don, also secured a federal charter for the Genevese Com-pany of Electric Tramways (Compagnie Genevoise deTramways Electriques), and with it concessions for newlines of nearly 18 miles in and around the city and some 14miles in extensions each side eastward of the Lake ofGeneva to the charming suburbs of Versoix on the Swissshore, and Hermance, at the French border. The Com-pagnie Genevoise has already done a large part of its workin welding together the system thus created, which servesa city of about 100,000 souls; a canton with a population of120,000 and an area of 109 square miles, and which is. BRIDGE OF MT. BLANC, AN ARTERY OF STREET RAILWAY TRAVEL, GENEVA ing systems, create a most extensive network of new lines,and to develop plans which comprise not only the wholecanton, but all the adjacent country in Switzerland andFrance that is physically part of Genevese territory. Thepast month has witnessed the completion of a large partof the enterprise, giving, therefore, an opportunity for pre-senting the work and its history in more or less appro-priate detail.* It would appear that about three years ago H. E. But-ters, of San Francisco, prominently identified with Califor-nian and South African mining interests, was very muchimpressed while passing through Geneva on a tour, withthe fact that the street railway service was not adequate tothe population, and that with abundant cheap water powerin the city itself, the methods employed depending largelyon steam dummies, were intolerably behind the idea immediately suggested itself to Mr. B
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