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Show Mo.i.l.ilul CuwlU at KUelilc Tr..l. Only twelve )eara hare elapsed since tha first crude suggestlun of tho practical prac-tical working uf au elect rio railway were made, aud four years ag a list ef a doxen would oouiprlse every rush roud tu the world In oven passably succef ul nta-ratlon, whatever tito method of ap -plication The first Urgu commercial electrlo railway wiis,aftermany diiTlciil-He diiTlciil-He aud dlsoouragenienui, opeueil lu 111 I early irt uf lbeo at Illchniond, Va and since that demonstration was toad ' tho ludustry ha grown until there uro now In opi ration or under contract, on i tho central Hue laid down at Itlchuiond, I not leu than SM rnadi In tho United btaLe, llurois, Australia and Ji.iaii, re-1 quiring mora tlinri 1,000 car and 7.0W motors, with more than 2,000 milos cf truck, a dally mileage of noarly 500,000 lailes, and carr)lng nearly a billion '-sengcr '-sengcr annually. Fully 10,000 peupl areiuiployedou these roals, and there liai never lioon an authenticated rt.-ort of death on accoaut of tho electrical prraauro uh-iI. Over (30,000,000 aro Invested In-vested In thl Industry In thl country aJona, Frauk J, Kpragua In Forniu. |