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Show Meudstrill UluvrlU lit lll.elllo Tr.s.l, Only twelio years hare elapseil since the first crude suggestions of the prao-Ileal prao-Ileal working of auelectrlo railway were made, and four years ago a list of a doxen would comprise every rucli r,i.ul In the world In cvtn passably successful oa.Tatlou, wluttever ti,o inethcsl of Ap pllcallon Tha first large commercial electrlo railway wia.afterwanydlOlcul. ties and discouragements, oiieueil lu the early part uf ltS at Illchmond, Va., aud slnro that demonstration was tuadij tho Industry baa grown unlit there uro now In operation or under contract, on j tho general lines laid down at Hlehuiond, nut less than 330 lueli In tho United btates, Harope, Auslrall. and Jtiutii, re-1 imring tuoru than a.ovo cars and 7,000 motors, with more than 3,000 milt of track, a dally mileage of nearly oOO.OOO i-illes, (lid carrhig nearly a lllllou ws-sengers ws-sengers nuuually. 1'ully 10,000 ople aro employed ou theeo roads, and there haineter boon an authentlcateil rijairt of denth ou ocennut of the electrical prntnro used. Over fw.ouo.ooo aro Invested In-vested In thla Indoilry In tlila country alouj. frank J, Upragua In I'oniui. |