2i6 HIGHWAYS AND HORSES. 



except it be they are cheaper to buy and cheaper 

 to keep. 



About ten years ago I saw a steam tramway at 

 Rouen, in France; since then a great number of steam 

 tramways have been estabHshed, as may be remarked 

 by observing the long Hst of tramway companies in 

 Kelly's " London Post Office Directory." There 

 was a steam tramway on Ryde Pier in the Isle of 

 Wight ; but this has been done away with, and an 

 electric tramway established in its place. The elec- 

 tricity is generated by an Otto gas-engine stationed 

 at one end of the pier. An electric tramway was 

 established by the Siemens firm, and ran between the 

 Palais de 1' Industrie and the Place de la Concorde, in 

 Paris. An electric tramway was supplied by Siemens 

 and Halske at the Berlin Exhibition, during the 

 summer of 1879, and was such a success that it was 

 repeated at Brussels, Dlisseldorf, and Frankfort ; in 

 the last-mentioned town it ran from the exhibition 

 to the railway station. On the 12th of May, 1881, an 

 electric tramway was inaugurated near Berlin, under 

 the superintendence of the same firm. 



I must apologise for this digression. I merely 

 mention steam and electric tramways, to show what 

 advance has been made in stage-carriages, proving 

 that we must be prepared, at no distant date, to see 

 horses superseded by other motive-power so far as 

 regards conveyance by stage-carriage. 



