. Electric railway gazette . are used. Thesupervision of the construction, so far as the city is con-cerned, is assumed by the city engineer. The power-house of the company, which is convenientlylocated on Front Street, a block east of the City Hall, isa large and massively built structure. The stack rises toa height of 250 feet, and is said to be the highest in Can-ada. In its construction excavation was made to a depthof 18 feet, where solid rock was struck. The concretefoundation, 40 feet square, is built on the rock, and wascapped up until it stood 24 feet square on the surface ofthe groun
. Electric railway gazette . are used. Thesupervision of the construction, so far as the city is con-cerned, is assumed by the city engineer. The power-house of the company, which is convenientlylocated on Front Street, a block east of the City Hall, isa large and massively built structure. The stack rises toa height of 250 feet, and is said to be the highest in Can-ada. In its construction excavation was made to a depthof 18 feet, where solid rock was struck. The concretefoundation, 40 feet square, is built on the rock, and wascapped up until it stood 24 feet square on the surface ofthe ground, where the chimney proper was begun. For conveyers are operated by three electric motors of 15 hpeach. The mechanical management of the system is under thecharge of D. C. McLean, the chief engineer. The officersof the company are: President, Wm. McKenzie; secretaryand treasurer, J. C. Grace; comptroller, J. M. Smith;superintendent, James Gunn, and chief engineer, D. Novel Method of Invalidating a Franchise The franchise that has been applied for by the PeoplesTraction Company of New York was offered for sale atauction on Wednesday last,.by the city comptroller. Thebidders were the Peoples Traction Company, the NorthernNew York Traction Company and the Southern BoulevardCompany. President Wilcox, of the first named company,filed a protest against the other bidders, claiming that thecompanies which they represented were not organized ingood faith, but simply as a means to aid in perpetratinga monopoly. His protest was overruled andthe bidding proceeded, the offers increasingtill one of 4 per cent, of the annual grossreceipts was made. The Southern BoulevardCompany then withdrew. The remainingcompanies continued their bids till one of 39per cent, of the gross receipts had beenreached. Then the Peoples Traction Com-pany bid 97 per cent, for the first five yearsand 95 per cent, thereafter. The NorthernNew York representative promptly trebledthe bid, which was prot
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