. The street railway review . (Wash.) Railway Com-pany vvhilc running from .Steilacoon to Tacoma was held uphy a highwayman. He covered the motorman and Super-intendent F. A. Dame with a revolver and ordered them tothe rear of the car and proceeded to relieve the passengersof their valuables. .Superintendent Dame watched for afavorable opportunity and shot the robber, only woundinghim. A fusillade followed, Dame, the motorman and onepassenger l)cing slightly wounded hut Dames markmanshipwas good, for his second sliot lodged in the highwaymansabdomen killing him instantly. There were several la
. The street railway review . (Wash.) Railway Com-pany vvhilc running from .Steilacoon to Tacoma was held uphy a highwayman. He covered the motorman and Super-intendent F. A. Dame with a revolver and ordered them tothe rear of the car and proceeded to relieve the passengersof their valuables. .Superintendent Dame watched for afavorable opportunity and shot the robber, only woundinghim. A fusillade followed, Dame, the motorman and onepassenger l)cing slightly wounded hut Dames markmanshipwas good, for his second sliot lodged in the highwaymansabdomen killing him instantly. There were several ladiesin the car hut they escaped injury. Everyone loudly praisedthe courage of the superintendent. As a well filled trolley car on Almoiiessoii road wasapproaching Woodbury, N. J., it left the track to the greatconsternation of the passengers, except one kodak fiend,who begged the others to be still till he could get a shot atthem. They were so amazed that they obeyed. 366 ^ti^9^cuU&)^5^eyie\^ THE HARTFORD STREET The Hartford Street Railway Company was organizedin 1S62 and began operating a few cars over about 6 miles of track two years later;at the present time thecompany owns and ope-rates 70 miles of track,running between 60 and65 cars daily which makefrom 8,000 to 9,000 the year endingSeptember 30, 1896, thecar mileage was 2,814,072and the number of pas-sengers carried 10,854,971. The entire systemwas converted to electric-ity in 1895. The power house isbuilt on the site of a largefoundry built by theWoodruff & Beach IronWorks during the war,and as the plans had beencompleted before it wasdiscovered that it wouldbe necessary to rebuildthe walls, the presentbuilding conforms to thelines of the old foundryThe building is of brick and iron, 63 x 230 ft., divided intothree sections by fire walls; the middle one is 63 x 100 occupied by the en-gine room; the othertwo are of equal size,one devoted to the boilerroom and the other tooffices, workshop, et
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