. The Street railway journal . gives a good cipal public buildings. The miles of track owned by thecompany are sixteen and a half, covering twelve miles ofstreet. Among the interesting features of the street rail-way system from an operating standpoint is the fact thatthe lines are laid throughout with T rails, as describedbelow. The construction is giving very excellent satis-faction, and a paper describing the special methods em-ployed and the successful results obtained is to be read byone of the officials of the company at the next meeting ofthe American Street Railway Association at Atlan
. The Street railway journal . gives a good cipal public buildings. The miles of track owned by thecompany are sixteen and a half, covering twelve miles ofstreet. Among the interesting features of the street rail-way system from an operating standpoint is the fact thatthe lines are laid throughout with T rails, as describedbelow. The construction is giving very excellent satis-faction, and a paper describing the special methods em-ployed and the successful results obtained is to be read byone of the officials of the company at the next meeting ofthe American Street Railway Association at Atlanta. Power House.—The power station and car house ofthe company is located on North Wilson, 9th and CherryStreets, and measures 150 x 142^2 ft. Here are also awell equipped machine shop and car and motor repairshops. The building is of brick, wood and iron, and isprovided with a slate roof over the engine room. Thestack is 110 ft. in height, and twelve feet square at theDase. The engine room, which measures 45 X 28 ft., con-. VIEWS ON THE LINE OF THE TERRE HAUTE STREET RAILWAY CO. idea of the advantages from the point of cheap fuel underwhich the street railway lines of the city operate. The business of the city is done chiefly near the center,and the lines of street railway, dividing the whole city asthey do quite evenly, carry passengers to the businesscenter of the city without transfer. The street railwaysystem was operated by horses until January 1, 1891,when the two main lines of the system were equippedelectrically, and since that period other lines have beenrebuilt and extensions made, until the mileage at thepresent time is about double what it was then. Thenorthern terminals of two lines reach Collett Park, anattractive pleasure resort. The southern terminus of themain line extends to the campus of Coates College forWomen, and at the eastern terminus of the main line, ina beautiful valley two miles east of the city, lies the cele-brated race track—the fastest in th
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