. The Street railway journal . traffic horse tractionwould be the only motive power justified. As this was the firstconvention at which horse traffic received no attention, otherthan to compare it with other methods, the year 1891, as faras the work of the American Street Railway Association wasconcerned, marked the end of the era of horses as street carmotive power, except that at later conventions the cost of horsetraction as compared with cable and electric was considered. The Cleveland convention in 1892 was decidedly an electricalaffair. It is notable that this was the first convention at
. The Street railway journal . traffic horse tractionwould be the only motive power justified. As this was the firstconvention at which horse traffic received no attention, otherthan to compare it with other methods, the year 1891, as faras the work of the American Street Railway Association wasconcerned, marked the end of the era of horses as street carmotive power, except that at later conventions the cost of horsetraction as compared with cable and electric was considered. The Cleveland convention in 1892 was decidedly an electricalaffair. It is notable that this was the first convention at whichthe return circuit received formal attention. Street RailwayRoadbed and Underground Wiring brought up the questionof rail bonds, supplementary return wires and other means ofimproving the conductivity of the rail return, and a discussionof these subjects has been live matter ever since. At this con-vention a very interesting historical review of the events lead-ing up to the formation of the American Street Railway Asso-. D. F. LONGSTREET, HENRY C. PAYNE, President,1892-1893 President,1893-1894 ciation was given by D. F. Longstreet, of Denver. Mr. Long-streets account of the cold reception with which his idea offorming an American Street Railway Association had metamong some of the Eastern street railway companies is amus-ing and surprising in these days when the advantages of organ-ization and the exchange of ideas are better appreciated thanin the early days. There were indeed many local jealousieswhich tended to prevent such an organization being report on roadbed, before mentioned, brought out the factthat street railway companies, with the advent of electric trac-tion, were being obliged to entirely discard old ideas in trackwork and adopt the most substantial girder rail was about this time that companies were beginning to findout what terribly weak spots the joints in ordinary track wereunder electric traction. At this meeting the advanta
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