WESTERN ELECTRICIAN, VOL. 19

July 4-December 26, 1896Coming now to a consideration of the subject of this paper, it is not unreasonable to augur from the success of the electric railway in the past an outlook for the tu ture equally brilliant and promising. We may leave out of consideration the work which still remains to be done in affording rapid transit for the cities and towns, which are as yet either working without street railways altogether, or in which the existing systems are still operated as horse or cable roads. The horse as a pro pulsive agent for the street car is steadily pursuing his course to his destined place in the museum, while the cable, in spite of the tremendous inertia of invested capital, is except in the most congested portions of the larger cities, rapidly giving away before the greater economy of electrical operation. The recent electrical equipment of the extensive Pittsburg cable systems, ih volving the abandonment of an investment of many mil lions oi dollars, may be instanced in this connection.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.