The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-10
cnnearn,nr Iforse cara.

The New York Evening Post give:
the following interesting faces relative
to the progress of horse cars throughout
the civilized world:
There are ROW about 500 street rail
roads in the country, and from this
country the demand extended 10 Can.
ada, Mexico, South America and other
countries in all parts of the world. The
first shipment of horse cars TO foreign
country was in 1869, when George
Francis Train made q characteristic eu-
deavor TO introduce street cars IN Eng
land. He got one started at Blrkenhead
but II fell through by reason OF misman-
agement, and when one was started In
London il bred riot, and people
tore up the rails That popular OPP
position gave the project such a
setback in England that it did
not recover for ten years, but now
American cars are operated in Ameri-
can style in London, Liverpool, Noting
ham, Leeds, Wolverhampton, Hull and
Birkenhead, England; Swansea. Wales !;
GLASGOW, Edinburg and Aberdeen, Scot
land. In London about 200 cars are
running. 1t was also found a difficult
matter to introduce them in France, but
recently line has been established in
Calais. In Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg,
Brussels, Vienna, Amsterdam, Stock
holm, Christiania and st. Petersburg,
American street cars are running and
are popular. The Cape of GOOD Hope
is the only place In Africa where they
have been introduced, but since they are
already established institutions in New
Zealand, at Wellington, Chris:'s church
and Dunedin, 1t is hardly to be expected
that even Zambesi can long do with
out them. In Bombay a number of
American cars, adorned with Sanscrit
letters, are in use. They may also be
seen in Batavia, Java, Adelaide, Port
Adelaide and Gawlertown, Australia;
Hobatstown, Tasmania; Sidney, New
South Wales; Brisbane, Queensland;
Melbourne, Victoria; and JeddO, Japan.
III South America, street cars built in
New York arc in use in Maracalbo and
Laeuayra. in Venezuela; Para, Maran-
hao, Pcrnambuco, Bahia, Rio Janeiro
and Porto Allegro, in Brazil; Santa
Theresa and MOntevideo, in Uruguay;
Concordia, Bosaria, San Nicolas and
Buenos Ayres, in the Argentine Repub-
lie; Santiago dc Chilli and Valparaiso,
In Chill; Arequipa. Pisco. Callao, Choir
lilo and Lima, in Perm; San Jose, in
Costa Rica; Guayaquil, in Ecuador; and
in Bogata, the capital of Columbia. In
Mexico, the City of Mexico, Vera Cruz,
Jalapa and Matamoras have
street railways. In the West Indies
they are established in Havana, Cuba,
and Kingston, Jamaica. All these are
supplied entirely. as to their rolling
stock, from New York, except in few
cases where extraordinary obstacles eX-
list in the way of transportation, as in
the city of Lima, for instance,
In such cases the iron works and fittings
are made here, and the wood work of
the cars is supplied rs far as practicable
where the cars are to be used, from the
plans furnished by the New York build
ers.
Several attempts have been made by
in foreign countries TO
with this country in the
of cars, but those
thus made are twice as heavy,
very clumsy, and do not usually
last more than five or six years, while a
we'll built American car will run for
twenty-five or thirty years. The cars
for England and other parts of Europe
are usually built with seats on the top,
which are reached by semi-circle stairs.
The cars for Mexico and South American
tropical countries are usually open cars.
These also in some instances have seats
on the roof. Some of these are about
half the size of open cars used in this
country, and IN most cases they are made
in this country, and in most cases they
are made with reversible back, so that
the passengers all sit facing the horses.
''The cost of an ordinary street car is
from 5000 to $1,000; of a "bobtail"
car from $500 to 81 900, and for an open
car from 800 to 5000 1t cost $125 to
send horse car from New York to
London, aud double that sum TO send it
from there to New Zealand"