. The street railway review . ecessor by reason of the expansion of the the multiplying branches of it. The value of acquaint-ances thus formed are worth many times the time spentin going and returning and friendships there formed can-not be measured in dollars and cents. A New York assemblyman has studied out a greatscheme, as he thinks, of having a local transit inspector appointed in all large cities to prod the railway compan-ies. If the inspector really understood his business hemight tind the aforesaid assembhman needed a little senseprodded into him. 42 THE ONLY ELECTRIC LI
. The street railway review . ecessor by reason of the expansion of the the multiplying branches of it. The value of acquaint-ances thus formed are worth many times the time spentin going and returning and friendships there formed can-not be measured in dollars and cents. A New York assemblyman has studied out a greatscheme, as he thinks, of having a local transit inspector appointed in all large cities to prod the railway compan-ies. If the inspector really understood his business hemight tind the aforesaid assembhman needed a little senseprodded into him. 42 THE ONLY ELECTRIC LINE IN IRELAND. THE INITIAL ROAU TO USE AN INSULATED RAIL FOR ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION. AWAY up on the north coast of Ireland, in thecounty of Antrim, is that remarkable freak ofnature known as the Giants Causeway, whichconsists of basaltic formations of hexagonal pil-lars that stretch out in a platform six hundred feet inlength, about three hundred and fifty feet in width andrising to a height of twenty-five feet. No work of man. could be more regularly defined, and the ancient traditionfrom whence its name is derived—that the giants in thedim past started to build a stone causeway to Scotland,across the Irish Sea—is not to be wondered at. But now that modern giant of the nine-teenth centurj- has indeed taken up a workgreater than any of tradition and reached outits iron arms and built not only a causeway,but a tramway as well. When the steam cars reached Portrushthe causeway became much more accessible,as tourists could take carriages from thatpoint. But this was necessarily a slow andtiresome journey, and in 1880 constructionwork was commenced and continued duringthat and the following year and the roadfinally completed and perfected in 1882. To W. A. Traill, C. E., who is the paten-tee, president and general manager of theGiants Causeway and Portrush ElectricTramway, belongs the credit not onh ofdevising a most ingenious plan but of adopt-ing it to the peculiar circumstance
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