. The Street railway journal . leus is the city railway system of Milwaukee,which is a consolidation, effected in 1891-2, of severalsmaller lines until then in independent operation. Addi-tions have keen made by the purchase of existing lines andthe building of new ones, until now the system reachesout 7 miles to Whitefish Bay on the north ; 25 miles toWaukesha Beach on the west, and nearly 35 miles to panies, the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Com-pany, which owns the city lines and does the city and com-mercial electric lighting, and the Milwaukee Light, Heat& Traction Company, which own
. The Street railway journal . leus is the city railway system of Milwaukee,which is a consolidation, effected in 1891-2, of severalsmaller lines until then in independent operation. Addi-tions have keen made by the purchase of existing lines andthe building of new ones, until now the system reachesout 7 miles to Whitefish Bay on the north ; 25 miles toWaukesha Beach on the west, and nearly 35 miles to panies, the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Com-pany, which owns the city lines and does the city and com-mercial electric lighting, and the Milwaukee Light, Heat& Traction Company, which owns all the interurban lines,and also has electric lighting departments in several of thecities reached by its railway lines. The entire capitalstock of the Milwaukee Light. Heat & Traction Companyis in the treasury of the Milwaukee Electric Railway &Light Company, and a controlling interest in the stock ofthe latter is owned by the North American Company, ofNew York, which also owns a controlling interest in the. VIADUCT AT WAUWATOSA—MILWAUKEE STREET RAILWAY SYSTEM Kenosha on the south. A dozen cities and villages, withan aggregate population exceeding 350,000, are servedby the 225 miles of track which at present comprise thissystem—a trackage which places this among the half-dozen great properties of the country. This is not all. The plans of the present managementare broad and comprehensive, and include the immediateconstruction of a line extending from the southern ter-minus of the present system through to Chicago, connect-ing there with the Chicago city system; while on the westand north it is intended to push the lines rapidly onwardthrough the beautiful lake district, in which are thousandsof summer homes of Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukeebusiness men. For financial and business reasons this entire systemcentering in Milwaukee is operated by two separate corn- Cincinnati Edison Electric Company. In practice the twoMilwaukee companies are operated as one, although the
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