. Electric railway gazette . e act of 1S87, and can take nothing whateverunder that act. Seventh. The contract between the appellantand the city of Pnliadeiphia cannot change thecorporate character or powers of the appellantcompany, nor can the permission of the city giveto it the right to build and operate an elevatedstreet passenger railroad overhanging the streetsand the surface street railroad lines, in the ab-sence of any legislation whatever authorizing orproviding for such elevated structure and the as-certainment of the damages to be done to lot-owners thereby. Eighth. The erection by
. Electric railway gazette . e act of 1S87, and can take nothing whateverunder that act. Seventh. The contract between the appellantand the city of Pnliadeiphia cannot change thecorporate character or powers of the appellantcompany, nor can the permission of the city giveto it the right to build and operate an elevatedstreet passenger railroad overhanging the streetsand the surface street railroad lines, in the ab-sence of any legislation whatever authorizing orproviding for such elevated structure and the as-certainment of the damages to be done to lot-owners thereby. Eighth. The erection by the appellant of thestructure complained of is thereby was for this reason rightly enjoined by theCourt below, and the decree appealed from is nowaffirmed, at the costs of the appellant. The Supreme Court of Philadelphia has justhanded down a decision which must bring to an English Lack of Progkess in Traction.—While, then, we regric the want of progress inelectric traction in this country, we cannot b&. DETAILS OF CAR EQUIPMENT OF THE JOHNSON-LUNDELL ELECTRIC RAILWAY SYSTEM. tracks, etc. If the car has not sufficient headwayto run over a crossing, the battery will furnishit, just as it will keep the car going should it bedeprived of central station current. PRIZES FOB POWER STATION DESIGN. The Chicago General Street Railway Company,whose ofBce is at 1033 Lawndale avenue, Chicago,having the construction of a permanant plant incontemplation, invites outline drawings and gen-eral specifications of a model plant for the im-mediate use of twenty motor cars and twentytrail cars, with suitable construction to increasecapacity to forty motor cars as occasion may re-quire. The lot will have a street frontage on thesauth of 450 feet, on the east an alley frontageof 550 feet, on the west a street frontageof 300 feet, and on the north the diag-onal frontage abuts a steam railway fromwhich a switch may be extended to any portionof the lot where convenience or economical o
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