. The Street railway journal . tin so many places to-day. And if, on the contrary, thesteam railroad systems shall prove to be the absorbers,and the street railway the absorbed, so that complete cityrailway systems will become the feeders and distributersof traffic to the trunk lines—a municipal cab system,as itwere, purchased and run in railroad interests—yet is it truethat the engineers and operators of the older school wdllhave to learn from, or give way to those of the later erawho have been trained to manage the modern giant elec-tricitv, and who have had their training largely in HURTT-1
. The Street railway journal . tin so many places to-day. And if, on the contrary, thesteam railroad systems shall prove to be the absorbers,and the street railway the absorbed, so that complete cityrailway systems will become the feeders and distributersof traffic to the trunk lines—a municipal cab system,as itwere, purchased and run in railroad interests—yet is it truethat the engineers and operators of the older school wdllhave to learn from, or give way to those of the later erawho have been trained to manage the modern giant elec-tricitv, and who have had their training largely in HURTT-1894-5 ^ THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL SOUVENIR. October, 1895. the councils of the American Street Railway Association holds its members to-day with tooweak a grasp. It is not doing for them all which theyhave a right to expect under the new conditions whichhave arisen. It is doing for outsiders almost if notquite as much as for its own members who contributeto its support. This is fundamentally wronr, both in. 1 - *n«£tW(l^« W. WORTH BEAN, FIRST \lCE-rRKSUmNr—1894-5. principle and as a matter of practical wisdom. Its mem-bership is among the larger and more prosperous com-panies rather than among the smaller and weaker, whoare the ones really ne.;ding the help which it should givethem. It is not the living vital force in the industry
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