. The Street railway journal . through some of the main streets of the city. The bulkof Manila street traffic is with the little native vehicles, butthere are not nearly enough to accommodate the has to wait and watch on street corners for half anhour to get a vehicle. Hundreds pass, but they are usuallyoccupied or engaged. The native cabmen do a fine businessand they are powerful. They are said to have prevented theintroduction of the Japanese jinrickshaws, and, it is stated,they object to the advent of an electric line in Manila and itssuburbs. But their objections seem to be carr
. The Street railway journal . through some of the main streets of the city. The bulkof Manila street traffic is with the little native vehicles, butthere are not nearly enough to accommodate the has to wait and watch on street corners for half anhour to get a vehicle. Hundreds pass, but they are usuallyoccupied or engaged. The native cabmen do a fine businessand they are powerful. They are said to have prevented theintroduction of the Japanese jinrickshaws, and, it is stated,they object to the advent of an electric line in Manila and itssuburbs. But their objections seem to be carrying little to understand the conditions of street car traffic in. TYPICAL STREET SCENE IN MANILA OPEN CAR USED IN MANILA people, the law limit, and mostof these people are peculiar attraction of thecar is its draft animals. Thenative horses are all small,but those of the street railwayline seem particularly minia-ture in stature. The cars necessarily travelslowly. Still, the line is con-siderable accommodation forthe natives, and, in fact, largenumbers of soldiers travelfrom Malate,. a suburb ofManila, into the city properfor 5 cents. The line extends
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