. Electric railway journal . or the development of a passenger and freightbusiness explains in a large measure the success whichit has attained. On the other hand, the possibilitiesfor each class of traffic on each of the seven linesradiating from Detroit as a center were no more than been discontinued. Later the Detroit, Monroe & ToledoShort Line and the Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor &Jackson Railway were acquired, the merged lines nowbeing known as the Detroit United Lines. At first all freight and express matter was loadeddirect from the cars to the consignees door or transferwagon, and if
. Electric railway journal . or the development of a passenger and freightbusiness explains in a large measure the success whichit has attained. On the other hand, the possibilitiesfor each class of traffic on each of the seven linesradiating from Detroit as a center were no more than been discontinued. Later the Detroit, Monroe & ToledoShort Line and the Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor &Jackson Railway were acquired, the merged lines nowbeing known as the Detroit United Lines. At first all freight and express matter was loadeddirect from the cars to the consignees door or transferwagon, and if he was not on hand to receive it, it wasleft with the ticket agent. As the business developed,however, the property owners began to file complaintsthat the streets and sidewalks were being blocked at thepoints where receipts and deliveries of freight weremade. In fact, at about this time, the city authoritiesof Detroit took up the question of relief and requestedthe railway company to arrange for the receipt and for-. •_ - Detroit Freight and Express—General View of Tracks and Warehouses those afforded by any other electric interurban linethrough a prosperous rural community and with a ter-minal in a city of more than 100,000 population. In 1900, about the date of the beginning of the com-panys freight and express traffic, the Detroit UnitedRailway system consisted of a number of disconnected,separately owned interurban lines with separate termi-nals in the city of Detroit. Each had an agent in chargeof freight and passenger traffic. As has been the ex-perience on other electric interurban roads, freightbusiness, in the beginning, was forced on these rail-ways, and it consisted only of small packages whichcould be transported on the passenger cars. During 1900 the Detroit United Railway acquired thevarious interurban lines that are now a part of theproperties of that company and also the Rapid Rail-way System, which still retains that name. At aboutthe same time the general
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