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Show TIIK HATH) TRANSIT COMPANY. j Work on tbe Streots to be begun Within Three Weeks, ,i It will Ih seen by reference to the council pro. 1 codings last evening thnt the street committee I recommended thnt a franchise covering certain streets be granted the Halt Lako liapid Transit J company, and that tl e council ordered the ro- j port lie priutiil. It is assumed that tho franchise ', asked for will lie granted, and Charles 11. Jack, :j the company's attorney, is authority for the statement that the company has ordered 200 tons J of steel rails, and that work will begin within ;l twenty days on tho Wost Tomplostroot liuo. The i company will use electricity as a motor, but it . lias not yet been divided whether the power will ;i be transmittiHl from an overhead wile or carried in each car in the form of a storage battery. T - e |