. The street railway review . ose of the conspiracy. Thecourt then refers to the part of the indictment naming II men asbeing instrumental in stopping the mails, and says, The offensecharged is a conspiracy. This offense docs not consist of boththe conspiracy and the acts donp to effect the objects of the con-spiracy, but to the conspiracy alone. The motion in arrest ofjudgment should have been granted. 102 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. ( XIV. No. 2. Sno« Fences for Electric Kuilways. Electric railway operators who have battled with snow .stormssuch as have prevailed throughout the country this


. The street railway review . ose of the conspiracy. Thecourt then refers to the part of the indictment naming II men asbeing instrumental in stopping the mails, and says, The offensecharged is a conspiracy. This offense docs not consist of boththe conspiracy and the acts donp to effect the objects of the con-spiracy, but to the conspiracy alone. The motion in arrest ofjudgment should have been granted. 102 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. ( XIV. No. 2. Sno« Fences for Electric Kuilways. Electric railway operators who have battled with snow .stormssuch as have prevailed throughout the country this winter will beinterested in the portable snow fences which have been success-fully utilized by the Old Colony Street Railway Co. on certainof its interiirban lines in Massachusetts, where there arc cuts andflats with which the company has trouble every year on account ofthe snow. These fences have saved the company a great manydollars by avoiding the necessity for shoveling snow, and by ob-\i:iling the lyins up of its SXOW IENCE IN POSITION. One of the accompanying illustrations shows part of one linewhich was eflfectually i)rotecte<i by the snow fence last winter, andanother view shows the snow on the track at the end of the fencein a place where there was not fence enongli to cover. The thirdillustration is a diagram of a .section of the fence. The companyobtains the right to erect the fences from the owners of the prop- New Hampshire Electric Railways. I he annual report of the New Hampshire railroad commissionersfor the year ending June 30, 1903, shows that of the 18 electricrailway companies operating in the itate but one, the ManchesterStreet paid a dividend. The street railroads in the state haveJig miles of track. $ i stock. |;).ooo in bonds and$1,109,003 liabilities. The gross income was $834,894; operating ex-penses, $796,795; taxes .and interest, $103.^50. and the returns showa deficit of $65,161. The Manchester road had a divisible


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