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Show WHY THE, PURCHASE. The papers yesterday stated that a foreign company com-pany had purchased the. Salt Lake street railway system. If that is true, we suspect we know why those outsiders were so anxious to make the purchase. pur-chase. They must have taken a' ride from Main street up Firsttreet to Fort Douglas in one of those antediluvian,' prehistoric, prestone age cars that traverse that highway, and they must have imagined when they made the ride that a new principle had been discovered a new principle in mechanics of a power that could propel an individual rapidly on a horizontal plane and at the same time give him a much more rapid transmission on vertical lines. For that is a street whichwhen the. cars get behind time, no passenger aboard those cars knows at what time he will be driven through the front or rear end and at the same time leave his head in a split in the roof. The poetry of motion has been long dilated upon by poets, but the true principle was never taught or made applicable to the practical affairs of life until those cars. were started on First street and a motorman was trying to make up time. |