. Electric railway gazette . g can be gained fromcomparing its original factory with its presentone. The Thomson-Houston Company firststarted business in 80 in New Britain, Conn., inthe small building shown in the illustration, em-ploying about fifty men. It has kept on grow-ing and each year increasing the capacity of itsfactory, until it has the largest and best equippedfactory in the world for the manufacture of elec-trical appliances, employing more than 1300hands, and having a floor space of more thanfour acres. an important removal. The Thomson-Houston Electric Company,of Boston, finding
. Electric railway gazette . g can be gained fromcomparing its original factory with its presentone. The Thomson-Houston Company firststarted business in 80 in New Britain, Conn., inthe small building shown in the illustration, em-ploying about fifty men. It has kept on grow-ing and each year increasing the capacity of itsfactory, until it has the largest and best equippedfactory in the world for the manufacture of elec-trical appliances, employing more than 1300hands, and having a floor space of more thanfour acres. an important removal. The Thomson-Houston Electric Company,of Boston, finding that its quarters in the JohnHancock building on Devonshire street were toosmall for its rapidly increasing business, has re-moved to the Hathaway building on Atlanticavenue, where it occupies the entire .south sideof the second floor, and has a suite of officeswhich is much better suited for its immensebusiness than the old one. The corner office and the one directly in therear nre used by Mr. C. A. Coffin, the vice-presi-. The Thomson-Houston ing brief summary of the new business which thecompany is doing: Omaha and Council Bluffs.—The electric rail-way between Omaha and Council Bluffs has beenopened for the general passenger traffic, and isnow operating both to the satisfaction of itsowners and the admiration of the general road is nine miles in length, and at presentis operating sixteen motor cars and sixteen carswithout motors, each motor car towing one ofthe others. The cars are operated in a mannerquite unusual on street railways. They aremade by the Pullman Palace Car Company, andare connected by the vestibule device, in use forthe first time here on street railway cars; theyare very popular, and it is fully believed that thismethod will ere long come into more generaluse. Although the motors work equally well ineither direction, a loop is made at each end ofthe track so as to permit the motor car to alwaysbe ahead. This road opens a new means of rapid tra
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