. The Street railway journal . Testing; Public Opinion in Chicago. The agitation over changing the motive power on thelines of the Union Traction Company, of Chicago, led to. VIEW OF CAR AND OPERATING FORCE a novel test of public sentiment June 19. Baskets were puton the cars and each basket had beside it an invitation foreach passenger to place in it a ballot expressing his opinionupon the present system of transit. The inquiry was madeby the North Side Business Mens Association. The re-sult was that 3802 voted in favor of the overhead trolley,and only a few cast ballots for other methods of
. The Street railway journal . Testing; Public Opinion in Chicago. The agitation over changing the motive power on thelines of the Union Traction Company, of Chicago, led to. VIEW OF CAR AND OPERATING FORCE a novel test of public sentiment June 19. Baskets were puton the cars and each basket had beside it an invitation foreach passenger to place in it a ballot expressing his opinionupon the present system of transit. The inquiry was madeby the North Side Business Mens Association. The re-sult was that 3802 voted in favor of the overhead trolley,and only a few cast ballots for other methods of transpor-tation. This is a pretty good indication of the satisfactiongiven by the trolley system, as compared with the othermethods employed in that city CAR HOUSE prising the principal street railway companies of Germany,an extensive trip of inspection will be made by a number ofmembers of that association to the United States next object of the trip is to study the latest developments ofelectric traction, both surface andelevated, in the different twenty to twenty-five gentle-men have already signified their in-tention of joining the party, and
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