. Electric railway gazette . mentary returns of theUnited Kingdom. And, alto-gether, there are close upon athousand miles of street rail-ways in operation, using some25,000 horses, nearly fourthousand cars, and over fourhundred and fifty locomotiveengines; and they carry aboutfour hundred million passen-gers in a year. All this hascome into existence since thepassage of the General Tram-ways Act in 1870. Nothing encourages thesuccess of new enterprises in one country so much as theirprosperous adoption by a friendly nation. And no doubtwe express the sentiment of all cis-Atlantic street railwa
. Electric railway gazette . mentary returns of theUnited Kingdom. And, alto-gether, there are close upon athousand miles of street rail-ways in operation, using some25,000 horses, nearly fourthousand cars, and over fourhundred and fifty locomotiveengines; and they carry aboutfour hundred million passen-gers in a year. All this hascome into existence since thepassage of the General Tram-ways Act in 1870. Nothing encourages thesuccess of new enterprises in one country so much as theirprosperous adoption by a friendly nation. And no doubtwe express the sentiment of all cis-Atlantic street railwayleaders when we congratulate the successful promoters ofBritish tramways. And the American Street-Railway Asso-ciation will naturally feel strengthened in their own efforts,when they see the success of the more recently organizedTramway Institute in England. We have much pleasure in presenting our readers with aportrait and brief biographical sketch of the first Presidentof the Tramway Institute — Mr. Robert Hutchison, of. Caerlowrie, Scotland. Mr. Hutchison was born in Leith,in 1834 ; of which seaport of Edinburgh his father was pro-vost for six years. He was educated at Edinburgh HighSchool, under Dr. Leonard Schmitz, and at the Universityof Edinburgh. He is a Justice of the Peace, and a Commis-sioner of Supply, for the county of Linlithgow, where thefamily property is situated. He was a director of theNational Bank of Scotland for seventeen years, and of theScottish Union and National Insurance Company. But what fits Mr. Hutchison specially for the Presidencyof the Tramway Institute ishis experience as chairman ofthe Bathgate Railway Co.;and he was the first chairmanof the first tramway companyin Scotland, having beenchosen chairman of the Edin-burgh Street Tramways Com-pany, on the passing of theirfirst Act of Incorporation in1871. He retired from theBoard in 1873; but in 1881he was solicited by a numberof large and influential share-holders to rejoin the Board,and he wa
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