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upon a horse. Some remarkable Evidence has
been given upon
this point. The Secretary of the
Edinburgh tramways company, in reply to the. question, "Has the Company
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against for cruelty to their horses?" said: "Over
and over again; there are very few weeks stainly
not months in which there are not serious complaint,
in regard to mallers over which we have no control whatever. We get the best horses we can, and provide
the best fodder, and the best attendance), and got there is no doubt that on some gradients the horses
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same Company says: " It is very hard work for the
horses, and unless we constantly shifted them
from the severer work to the less severe work. they would not last at all." This Evidence is Entirely corroborated by the Experience of the Lou don General Innibrel Company. This Company
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owns nearly 8000 horses and in addition to it's own vehicles, supplies horse power to some of the tramways . The horses are usually bought at about age of five years and the average life of a horse, after that time, if drawing an omnibres, is 4/1⁄2 years, if dragging a tramear 4 years only. It follows then, that in the work of this company alone, 1600 to 1700 horses are broken down.
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therefore loudly demandto some other motive power
their horses.
4. Economy appears to throw it's weight into the
came scale. The Evidence tends to show that the
mechanical power will diminish the Cost traction, thereby benefiting the public as well
as the tramway proprietors.
5. Conflicting Evidence has bear
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Evidence has been given concerning
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effect of
the ordinary street traffic. Some witnesses state that horses, Even in crowded thoroughfares, appear to be almost wholly indifferent ; others hold a contrary opinion, and Express serious alarm at the prospect of the intro. eduction into the streets of a new motive power. This diversity of opinion is most striking in the case of two witnesses, who watched with interest the working of a steam car upon one of the tramways in Paris. The Steam car has been running for sixe - over a length of three to four miles
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from the Bastille to the Mont Parnasse Railway Station . It passes about 6000 horses daily besides cavalry and horses brought to a fair in the Kreinity. During the period of its running "not a single
of the public has been killed or maimed," "" but several accidents have happened and in ont instânce an omnibus was overturned. Much
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depends upon the nature of the traffic, whilst a
real public advantage may be obtained at bitile or no risk where the roads are wide and the