. The Street railway journal . hrieks which thedriver of a horse car makes on a corneta, or cows iiornmade into a trumpet, as he approaches a corner. The vis-itors to Buenos-Aires, particularly those who have knownthe city in former days, will miss these quaint old sounds,for, ear-piercing as they generally are, there are somecocheros who are veritable artists in the handling of thesehorns and capable of producing some very tuneful melodies. June i, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 951 With their exit will go a relic of old Buenos-Aires and alot of the quaintness and romance one is apt to associ
. The Street railway journal . hrieks which thedriver of a horse car makes on a corneta, or cows iiornmade into a trumpet, as he approaches a corner. The vis-itors to Buenos-Aires, particularly those who have knownthe city in former days, will miss these quaint old sounds,for, ear-piercing as they generally are, there are somecocheros who are veritable artists in the handling of thesehorns and capable of producing some very tuneful melodies. June i, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 951 With their exit will go a relic of old Buenos-Aires and alot of the quaintness and romance one is apt to associatewith South American countries. There are no separate power stations in Buenos-Airesto-day, the entire supply of electric current for railway and cations are prepared, and orders already closed for someof the machinery. From this station current at high po-tential will be carried to the suburban plants now operatedby steam power, making sub-stations of them in coai cosrs close to $10 gold per ton at these suliurban. THE SOUTH SIDE OF BUENOS-AIRES .\S SEEN FROM THE TOP OF THE PRENS.\ BUILDING lighting work Ijeing in the hands of one company, theCompania Alemana Transatlantica de Electricidad, which,as the name implies, is a German concern. The distribu- plants. the centralizing of the coal-consuming devices un-der one roof and near the seaboard should effect a greateconomy. In addition, the Rural Tramways are building
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