. The street railway review . fic of tram lines, operated from an over-head trolley, in-tersect the principal thoroughfares of the capital of the building devoted to the mixed tribunals run thetrim, well-kept electric cars, conveying passengers to Ab-basiyeh, the site of the English cavalry barracks ; to Boulak ;to Masr-el-Atiqua or Old Cairo ; to Bab-el-Luk, and to theCitadel where the famous—or rather infamous—massacre ofthe Mamelukes took place. Their success is partly evidencedby the rise in the price of the shares of the Society Anonymedes Tramways du Cairo, from
. The street railway review . fic of tram lines, operated from an over-head trolley, in-tersect the principal thoroughfares of the capital of the building devoted to the mixed tribunals run thetrim, well-kept electric cars, conveying passengers to Ab-basiyeh, the site of the English cavalry barracks ; to Boulak ;to Masr-el-Atiqua or Old Cairo ; to Bab-el-Luk, and to theCitadel where the famous—or rather infamous—massacre ofthe Mamelukes took place. Their success is partly evidencedby the rise in the price of the shares of the Society Anonymedes Tramways du Cairo, from the nominal value of $iooto $150. Curiously enough, none of the shares are held by thenative population of Egypt, and on the organization of thecompany some little dissatisfaction was thereby caused,since many of the wealthier Egyptians desired to investcapital in so promising a local enterprise. Nevertheless,the general jjublic has taken kindly to the new means oftransit, and the cars are daily crowded with the turbaned. KASER-EL-NIL BRIDGE. Arabs, and the black, shapeless bundles whose kernal is anEgyptian woman. Of course, at first a few Arabs werekilled by the trams, because an Arab takes some time tograsp the fact that the ting-ting of the bell is an imperativeinjunction for him to get out of the way. Only 20 have,however, been killed, which is a notable fact to the credit ofthe native motormen. The success of the trams is furtherattested by the fact that last year the number of licensesapplied for by ostahs or the drivers of hack carriages hasbeen decreased by one-third, and that the donkey boys havedecreased in like proportion—in some respects a regrctablefact. There is a further evidence of the popularity of theelectric trams in the projected tramway to the Pyramids, forwhich a concession has been granted by the Egyptian gov-ernment to the above named company. The tramway will be commenced in May, and it is an-ticipated that the cars will be running during the ea
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