. The Street railway journal . in Victoria, B. C.; Spokane and Tacoma, allunder the same system, which was the Thomson-Houston. F. H. Osgood, President and Manager. The Toledo interests who make the statement that they arewilling to make a better proposition to the City Council ofToledo for franchises than that of the present company oper-ating in the city, the Toledo Railways & Light Company, haveincorporated the Toledo Transit & Light Company, capitalstock $10,000; incorporators: C. E. B. Lamson, J. M. Ormond,E. P. Hull, Charles Fox, C. A. Thatcher. The hopes of thecompany for recognition fr
. The Street railway journal . in Victoria, B. C.; Spokane and Tacoma, allunder the same system, which was the Thomson-Houston. F. H. Osgood, President and Manager. The Toledo interests who make the statement that they arewilling to make a better proposition to the City Council ofToledo for franchises than that of the present company oper-ating in the city, the Toledo Railways & Light Company, haveincorporated the Toledo Transit & Light Company, capitalstock $10,000; incorporators: C. E. B. Lamson, J. M. Ormond,E. P. Hull, Charles Fox, C. A. Thatcher. The hopes of thecompany for recognition from the Council are blasted tem-porarily by the announcement of the city solicitor that beforethe company can make an offer for the franchises of the oldcompany it must present a petition signed by the majority ofthe foot frontage along the streets on which it proposes tooperate. , THIRD-RAIL WORK CAR The two accompanying illustrations show a third-rail workcar recently built and in regular use by R. J. McClellan, elec-. REAR VIEW OF THE THIRD-RAIL WORK CAR USED ON THEPUGET St)UND ELECTRIC RAILWAY trician of the Puget Sound Electric Railway, of Kent, car is an ordinary railway velocipede with the handles anddriving gear removed. A 250-volt J/^-kw motor is suspendedand belted to the front wheel, as shown. The motor is con-trolled by three suitable taps on a Climax wire resistance frame
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