. The street railway review . GENERAL VIEW FROM HOTEL OK ll-JON BRIDGE No. 2. RUINS OF IRON BRIDGE No. OF POWER HOUSE, OTTAWA ELECTRIC RY. finally under control, it had reached a point three miles from whereit originated. Through the courtesy of Mr. Jas. D. Eraser, secretary and treas-urer of the Ottawa Electric Railway Co., we are able to present built to accommodate our tracks. The burned power house wasvalued at about $100,000, covered by insurance. About three hun-dred poles, a large quantity of overhead and feed wire, and a num-ber of ties and rails were destroyed. Ou
. The street railway review . GENERAL VIEW FROM HOTEL OK ll-JON BRIDGE No. 2. RUINS OF IRON BRIDGE No. OF POWER HOUSE, OTTAWA ELECTRIC RY. finally under control, it had reached a point three miles from whereit originated. Through the courtesy of Mr. Jas. D. Eraser, secretary and treas-urer of the Ottawa Electric Railway Co., we are able to present built to accommodate our tracks. The burned power house wasvalued at about $100,000, covered by insurance. About three hun-dred poles, a large quantity of overhead and feed wire, and a num-ber of ties and rails were destroyed. Our loss outside of power. TRACKS OF OTTAWA ELECTRIC HULL. herewith a group of views taken immediately after the catas-trophe. Mr. Fraser also sends us the following information, underdate of May loth. Power House No. i, of the Ottawa Electric which wasequipped with three 400-h. p. and three loo-h. p. Westinghouse gen-erators, was totally destroyed. Fortunately a oo-h. p. generator house will probably reach $10,000, on which there is no will set to work at once to rebuild the burned station, and thenew one will be modem and up to date in every respect, as is No. 2. Mr. W. R. Taylor, secretary and treasurer of the Hull ElectricCo., sends us the following statement of the situation in Hull: This company has two-thirds of its electric light lines destroyed 292 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. X, No. 5. in the city of Hull—poles, wires, transformers, meters, etc.—be-sides nearly- two miles of trolley lines, of which only the rails wereleft intact. We were fortunate enough not to lose any cars
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