Show ELECTRICITY A AND STEAM I Mayor Lows Low's stat statement ment on questions of railway communication with New Xe York from the tIme north and the improvement of that city's water power heralds an important change in railway motive power The Mayor quotes the president of the time New ew York Cen Cen- Hudson River railroad as promising that if the city approves the changes at the time Gra Grand Hl Central depot desired desk h by the company r the latter hatter will vill substitute sub electricity for steam not only y in its suburban but through F systems of transportation Time The com com- pithy pledges pledgeR itself to sign a contract for fOt the erection el-ec- el boll tion of power powel houses adequate for both purposes immediately after the tIme city's s approval al of its terminal plans Time The New York Central has always been heen foremost fore most in every process of railway development development- never indeed sacrificing safet safety to mere lucre tation That great eat corporation thinks before fore plants carefully beCote it executes It is therefore safe to infer from its itH present attitude on the substitution substitution sub sub- of electricity for steam that it has after r careful consideration found that in this new ag and under these changed circumstances the time has come Conic to rein the lightning to railway trains ti That it will successfully accomplish this marvelous mal transformation transformation trans trans- formation no one acquainted with New York Centini Central Cen Cen- ti-ni ti motives mothes and achievements achievement can for a t moment doubt This action of the time New Kew York Central will set the pace for other great gleat roads oads throughout hout the coun coun- try The twentieth century is already the time electric ic age ace |