Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-10
AMERICAN CARS ABROAD.
How the Horse-Car Has Made it's Way
Throughout the Civilized World.
From the New York Post.

From the New York Post.
There are now about 500 street railroads
in the country, and from this country the de-
mand extended to Canada, Mexico, South
America and other countries in all parts of
the world. The first shipment OF horse-cars
to foreign country was in 1860, when George
Francis Train made characteristic endeavOr
to introduce street cars in England. He got
one started at Birkenhead but it fell through
by reason Of mismanagement, and when one
was started in London it bred riot, and
people tore up the rails. That popular op-
position gave the project such setback In
England that it did not recover for ten years;
but now American cars are operated in Amer
lean style in London, Liverpool, Nottingham,
Leeds Wolverhampton, Hull and Birken-
head, England Swansea, Wales; Glasgow,
Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Scotland. In Lon
don about 200 cars are running 1t was also
found difficult matter to introduce them
in France, but recently a line has been es-
tablished in Calais In Berlin, Bremen, Ham
burg, Brussels, Mamma, Amsterdam, Stock
holm, Christiania, and st. Petersburg, Amer
ican cars are running and are popular. The
Cape of Good Hope is the only place in Atri-
ca where they have been introduced, but
since they are already established institu-
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Church and Dunedin, it is hardly to be ex-
pected that even Zambesi can long do with
out them. In Bombay number OF American
cars, adorned with Sanscrit letters are in use.
They may also be seen in Batavia, Java, Ade-
laide, Port Adelaide and Gawlertown, Aus
tralia; Hobartstown, Tasmania: Sidney,
New South Wales Brisbrane, Queensland ;
Melbourne, Victoria; and Jeddo, Japan. In
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are used in Faracaibo and Larguary, in Vene-
zuela, Par Maranhao, Pernambuco, Bahia,
Rio Janeiro, and Porto Allegro, in Brazil !;
Santa Theresa, and Montevideo in Uruguay !;
Boncordia, Rosario, San Nicolas and Buenos
Ayres, in the Argentine Republic; Santiago
de Chill and Valparaiso, in Chill Arequipa,
Pisco, Callao, Chorillo and Lima, in Peru
San Jose, in Costa Rica; Guayaquil, in Ecua-
dor; and in Bogota, the capital of Columbia.
In Mexico, the City of Mexico, Vera Cruz,
Tacubaya, Jalapa, and Montamoras have
street railways. In the West Indies they are
established in Havana, Cuba and Kingstown,
Jamaica. All these are supplied entirely,
as to their rolling-stock, from this city, ex-
cept in few cases where extraordinary OBJ
stacles exist in the way of transportation, as
in reaching the city of Lima, for instance.
In such cases the iron-work and fittings are
made here, and the woodwork of the cars
are to be used, from the drawings and plans
furnished by the New York builders.
Several attempts have been made by man
ufacturers in foreign countries to compete
with this country in the manufacture of cars,
but those thus made are twice as heavy, very
clumsy, and do not usually last more than
five or six years, while well-built Ameri-
can car will run for twenty-five to thirty
years. The cars for England and other parts
of Europe are usually built with seats ON
the top, which are reached by semi-circular
stairway. The cars for Mexico and South
tropical countries are usually open
cars. These also in some instances have seats
On the roof Some Of these are only about
half the size of open cars used in this coun-
try, and in most cases they are made with
the reversible back, so that the passengers
all sit facing the horses.
The cost Of an ordinary street car is from
5000 to 81 200; of "bobtail" car from $500
to $1,000, and for an open car from S7OO to
5000. 1t costs S125 to send horse-car from
this city to London, and double that sum to
send it from here to New Zealand.