. The street railway review . over all. This is being equippedwith four G. E. 57 motors and a long shear plow is swung underthe center of the body, which will remove the snow for soine distance on either side of the track. The location of the companys tracks through llighwood a-shown is to be changed .\t present these tracks run on the eastside of the power house and car barns, but these tracks arc tobe moved to the west side of the building on a private right of way through a very beautiful section of country, which contains manyinstitutions of note and places of attraction, outside of those
. The street railway review . over all. This is being equippedwith four G. E. 57 motors and a long shear plow is swung underthe center of the body, which will remove the snow for soine distance on either side of the track. The location of the companys tracks through llighwood a-shown is to be changed .\t present these tracks run on the eastside of the power house and car barns, but these tracks arc tobe moved to the west side of the building on a private right of way through a very beautiful section of country, which contains manyinstitutions of note and places of attraction, outside of those con-ducted by the railway company. In most of the towns alongthe road are located country clubs and golf clubs, those in Evans-Ion. Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff andWaukegan being celebrated for their magnificent grounds. .Amongother points of interest may be mentioned the NorthwesternUniversity at Evanston, the Northwestern Military .Academy ntHighland Park and Fort Sheridan, which is considered one of the. (ASINII. P.\RK. which has been secured close to the line of the Chicago & North-western Ry. Between this private right of way and the com-panys buildings a street is to be laid out and the present street,through which the cars now run, will be closed up. and, togetlicrwith some of the land adjacent to it, will be added to the govern-ments Ft. Sheridan reservation. Just south of the power housand facing the new street which is to be opened the coniMuiyhas planned to erect a new two-story office building for the useof the operating departments located at Higbwood. This has been finest military in .America. It comprises about boo acres ofland which is handsomely laid out and contains many buildingsof imposing architecture. Lake Bluff has an elevation of no Lake Michigan and has been selected as the site of theLniteil States Naval Training Academy, which will add largelyto the population of the town and make it a point of unusual in-te
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