. The street railway review . t begin to have the opportunities to accumulatecurrency that hat. the owner of a team and vehicle in Gettvshuro-. But the\- killed the goose that laid the golden egg. The public wouldntstand the extortion. The hackman had to go and the trolley came cry that the railroad encroaches on monuments is all the suggestionand inspiration of the hack drivers. It is humiliating to think that theirbrazen clamor in defense of their extortion has found sympathetic earsamong any veteran organizations. Demetrius, the silversmith, set menshouting, Great is Diana of the Eph
. The street railway review . t begin to have the opportunities to accumulatecurrency that hat. the owner of a team and vehicle in Gettvshuro-. But the\- killed the goose that laid the golden egg. The public wouldntstand the extortion. The hackman had to go and the trolley came cry that the railroad encroaches on monuments is all the suggestionand inspiration of the hack drivers. It is humiliating to think that theirbrazen clamor in defense of their extortion has found sympathetic earsamong any veteran organizations. Demetrius, the silversmith, set menshouting, Great is Diana of the Ephesians, to keep up his sale of sil-ver statues of the Godesses; but he could not make any stand againstthe new faith, and Demetrius, Diana and the silver statues all had to Gettysburg hackman have levied their last forced contributions ofthe Gettysburg visitors. The Gettysburg Electric Railway, as a mechanicaleffort, is not remarkable further than it is a first class,business-like and handsome piece of electric railway. ELECTRIC RAILWAY IN THE BATTLEFIELD. building. The company was organized by local capital-ists in 1892, with a management composed of the follow-ing gentlemen: E. M. Hoffer, president and superinten-dent; George P. Hoffer, secretary and treasurer, and tothem is due the honor of providing a cheap, expeditiousand modern method of viewing the salient points of inter-est on Americas greatest battlefield, and protecting thepublic against the extortion of other methods of transit. The battle for the electric franchise was longer, if notso bloody, as the original conflict, and the Hoffers deservethe greatest credit for their zeal and patience in the faceof difficulties. The track is standard gauge of 58 poimd tee. The 636 (^|yied^j\ailM^U^Vl£\V maximum grade is 7 per cent. There are six cars inoperation, three motor and three trailers, each 34 feetlong. Two 30-horse-povver Westinghouse motors areunder each car and Lobdell Car Company wheels are inuse. The Westi
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