. The Street railway journal . as then a resident of Kansas City, con-structed there an electricrailway, using overheadwires. In the fall of1885 he made some ex-periments in heavy elec-tric railroading on abranch of the Fort ScottSteam Railroad, whereheavy freight cars wereoperated. Mr. Henrylater, in 1886, equippedthe Kansas City FifthStreet Railroad with hisstreet railway he employed, it isclaimed, for the first timethe following features,which are still in commonuse: The trolley wires were of No. 1 hard-drawn copper, andwere supported centrally over the street from the insulator

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. The Street railway journal . as then a resident of Kansas City, con-structed there an electricrailway, using overheadwires. In the fall of1885 he made some ex-periments in heavy elec-tric railroading on abranch of the Fort ScottSteam Railroad, whereheavy freight cars wereoperated. Mr. Henrylater, in 1886, equippedthe Kansas City FifthStreet Railroad with hisstreet railway he employed, it isclaimed, for the first timethe following features,which are still in commonuse: The trolley wires were of No. 1 hard-drawn copper, andwere supported centrally over the street from the insulators andspan wires to poles placed along the curb lines; the trolley en-gaged the sides and bottom of the wires, and was so held by The pioneer work of Sidney H. Short should also be men-tioned in this connection. Prof. Short, while vice-presidentof the Denver University and professor of physics in that in-stitution, became interested in electrical work, and in the springof 1885 constructed a short electric railway in Denver. The.

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