. The Street railway journal . nand extreme congestion to sidewalks in this busy, throb-bing heart of Chicago. This congested business district dominates the entiretransportation system of Chicago, determines the time in- disconnected, horses attached and the passengers carriedto any point on the feeder lines without change of cars. Within the past five years these horse feeder lines havebeen converted to electric traction, and it has been the con-stant effort of the Chicago street railway companies to se-cure from the City Council the right to run the electric carsdown over the radiating line
. The Street railway journal . nand extreme congestion to sidewalks in this busy, throb-bing heart of Chicago. This congested business district dominates the entiretransportation system of Chicago, determines the time in- disconnected, horses attached and the passengers carriedto any point on the feeder lines without change of cars. Within the past five years these horse feeder lines havebeen converted to electric traction, and it has been the con-stant effort of the Chicago street railway companies to se-cure from the City Council the right to run the electric carsdown over the radiating lines between cable cars, for itimposes far too great a strain upon the cable to at-tach several heavy electric cars to the grips, and it isequally undesirable to give the passengers the trouble oftransferring at intersecting points. This effort to secureelectric rights into the center of the city has been success-ful in several instances, and undoubtedly will be so univer-sally in the near future, for it has been proven again and. ENGINE ROOM, SOUTH SIDE ELEVATED RAILWAY terval between cars on all lines and has led to the universalrunning of surface cars in trains as against the unit systemprevailing in most other American cities. The reason forthis may be explained in a word. On each side of the city,north, west and south, there are several through or mainlines radiating from the business district and intersected atmany different points by cross, or feeder lines. Until thepast three or four years nearly all the radiating lines havebeen run by the cable system, and the feeder lines byhorses. The latter could not, of course, be allowed uponthe radiating lines since they would greatly interfere withthe speed of the cable cars, consequently, the horse carshave been brought to the intersecting points and havethere been coupled to the cable cars, which in the courseof their runs thus collect several horse cars at different in-tersecting points. On the return trip, the horse cars were a
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