. The street railway review . hour, the sched-ule speed being The officers and operating staff were: President, H. HoltonWood, Boston; vice-president and treasurer, Charles E. Clark,Derby; secretary, F. W. Wallace, Ansonia; general manager, Porter; superintendent, George N. Kennedy; chief engineer,H. Schmitz; attorneys, Woostcr, Williams & Gagcr, Derby. Theauthorized capital stock is $250,000, of which $150,000 has been is-sued, and the authorized funded debt is $250,000, of which $150,000has been issued. Early in June of this year the Derby Street acquired by the Connecticut
. The street railway review . hour, the sched-ule speed being The officers and operating staff were: President, H. HoltonWood, Boston; vice-president and treasurer, Charles E. Clark,Derby; secretary, F. W. Wallace, Ansonia; general manager, Porter; superintendent, George N. Kennedy; chief engineer,H. Schmitz; attorneys, Woostcr, Williams & Gagcr, Derby. Theauthorized capital stock is $250,000, of which $150,000 has been is-sued, and the authorized funded debt is $250,000, of which $150,000has been issued. Early in June of this year the Derby Street acquired by the Connecticut Lighting & Power Co., of NewYork, otherwise known as the Young syndicate, which has re-cently secured control of a large number of other street railwaysin Massachusetts and Connecticut. The consideration is stated tohave been $350,000. A few years ago the company purchased a tract of land a shortdistance north of Derby on Lake Housatonic, and opened a pleas-ure resort. Pavilions and baseball grounds were provided and. FIG. 6—CUKVE AT liKlDGE. launches put on the lake. This park proved a delightful place forthe people of this section to spend the warm summer days andevenings, and has been a profitable investment. There is one point in track building, overlooked in the first con-struction, in 1887, which experience disclosed was a very importantone^a good joint. The hasty and imperfect work at the jointscaused endless trouble. The joints were soon improved, however,and the resultant change brought the road into the popular favor ithas since enjoyed. Figs. I, 2 and 3 of the illustrations show the boiler and enginerooms of the original power plant, and when these views are com-pared with Fig. 5 which shows the direct-connected unit now used,the progress made in building machinery for railway power plantsis very evident. Fig. 4 is a view of the stack of the new stationwhen in course of erection and Fig. 6 shows the big curve at theNaugatuck River bridge. PETITION AGAIN
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