. The street railway review . - until the car was well out. Then one of the party. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAR—PORTLANl:) CABLE RAILWAY. made to put an addition to the building. The carswere built by the Stockton Car Works, and are commo-dious and of handsome design and finish. The Portland Cable Railway Company was organ-ized in February, 1890. The officers are C. H. Wood-ard, president; W. K. Smith, vice president; EugeneI) .White, secretary: L. L. Hawkins, treasurer; and Lynch, general manager and superintendent. Thecapital invested in the enterprise is $850,000. The costof the track was $4
. The street railway review . - until the car was well out. Then one of the party. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAR—PORTLANl:) CABLE RAILWAY. made to put an addition to the building. The carswere built by the Stockton Car Works, and are commo-dious and of handsome design and finish. The Portland Cable Railway Company was organ-ized in February, 1890. The officers are C. H. Wood-ard, president; W. K. Smith, vice president; EugeneI) .White, secretary: L. L. Hawkins, treasurer; and Lynch, general manager and superintendent. Thecapital invested in the enterprise is $850,000. The costof the track was $40,000 per mile of single track. Portland may well be proud of an enterprise of thischaracter, and still prouder of the men who put theirshoulders to the wheel and alone and unaided calledit into life. They are satisfied with the results whichgrow day by day and promise a realization of theirmost sanguine expectations as a financial venture, andthey will in the future as in the past carry out all theirpromises. stepped to the rear platform and seizing the trolley rope,pulled i
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