. The street railway review . death at the age of 38, and the mechanical andliusiness world loses a man that might have been its firstluminary. When very young, Mr. Cowles found his sightfailing, and turned from his books to tools and succe5sive achievements were: director and secre-tary of the Leader Printing Company, electrical expertand manager of the Cowles Electric Smelting and Alu-minium Company. Besides being the inventor of thesmelting system he made several important improve-ments in the trolley system. The Q. & C. Company, Phoenix Building, Chicago,have issued in tasty b
. The street railway review . death at the age of 38, and the mechanical andliusiness world loses a man that might have been its firstluminary. When very young, Mr. Cowles found his sightfailing, and turned from his books to tools and succe5sive achievements were: director and secre-tary of the Leader Printing Company, electrical expertand manager of the Cowles Electric Smelting and Alu-minium Company. Besides being the inventor of thesmelting system he made several important improve-ments in the trolley system. The Q. & C. Company, Phoenix Building, Chicago,have issued in tasty booklet form, the paper by BenjaminReece, on Economies in maintenance of Way, readMarch 17th before the New York Railroad addressed to steam railroaders it contains muchgospel of profit to builders and operators of surfacetracks. It will be mailed free to any address on request. 263. The last quarterly report of the Ninth Avenue Rail-road .•hows: 1891.$64,29953,31610,983 1S92.$69,29366,441 2,851 Gross earnings, Operating expenses, Net earnings. The Eighth Avenue road makes the following showing: 1S91. 1S92. Gross earnings, - - $160,873 $166,771 Operating expenses, - 123,681 Net earnings, - - 37-i9i 4-)567 The new cable cars on Broadway are to have smok-ing compartments. The West Side Railroad Company, of New YorkCit\, has been incorporated, with a capital of $100,000. tobuild a street surface railway about five miles long, begin-ning at Tvvent\-third street and Eleventh avenue, run-ning up Eleventh avenue to Sixtj-sixth street, alongSixtv-sixth street to Columbus avenue, up that avenue toOne-hundred-and-tenth street, and along the latter streetwest to Riverside Drive. The directors are W. WNewcomb, August L. Martin, John Byrne, John C. Fur-man, John G. Hyatt, John A. Bowers, Frank S. Smith,and George D. Patton, of New York, and Richard , of Phil
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