. The Street railway journal . r round. In front of the hotel areextensive bathing houses, while the beach, which extendsthe whole length of the island on the gulf side, is said toprovide the most perfect natural roadway to be found inworld, the sand being so hard that the shoes of the horsesor buggy tires scarcely leave a mark in passing. Thetracks are constructed with forty pound T rails, which arelaid on stringers which in turn rest on ties which are firmlyembedded in the hard sand, the natural formation makinga very excellent roadbed. The streets of the city arepaved principally with oblon
. The Street railway journal . r round. In front of the hotel areextensive bathing houses, while the beach, which extendsthe whole length of the island on the gulf side, is said toprovide the most perfect natural roadway to be found inworld, the sand being so hard that the shoes of the horsesor buggy tires scarcely leave a mark in passing. Thetracks are constructed with forty pound T rails, which arelaid on stringers which in turn rest on ties which are firmlyembedded in the hard sand, the natural formation makinga very excellent roadbed. The streets of the city arepaved principally with oblong cypress blocks, which haveproved very durable in this locality, some sections of thepavement being still in fair condition after seventeenyears of service. The blocks are laid on a natural founda-tion. Several streets have recently been paved with vitri-fied brick as an experiment, but it is doubtful if any mate-rial proves as durable as the cypress blocks. On some ofthe business streets the tracks are so close together that. WM. H. SINCLAIR, PRESIDENT GALVESTON CITY RAILWAY CO. there is not more than ten inches of space between thehand rails of the open cars in passing. The rolling stock consists of both open and closedcars, the open cars having been run as early as the first ofApril. The cars were manufactured by Stephenson, theSt. Louis Car Company, and by the Laclede Company,and are mounted on Bemis trucks which are equippedwith both Thomson-Houston twenty-five horse power andWestinghouse thirty horse power motors, single equip-ments only being employed, as there are no grades in theline. The original equipment of the lines consisted ofRae motors and trucks which were afterwards discarded,and twenty-one of these old equipments are still stored inthe companys barns. With the present equipment thirty-six inch wheels were formerly employed; now, however,the thirty-three inch wheel has been adopted, and theseare purchased, for the most part, from A. Whitney &Sons, Philadelphi
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