From the Cathedral Square many roads radiate, and electric trams run in all directions--out into the country, or down to the sea shore, five miles away.
Free tramsmay well imply free trains in the metropolitan and suburban area.
The County Council will, however, free its trams on the empirical grounds of economy and the development of its suburban estates of artisans' dwellings, built on land bought to retain the unearned increment for the public benefit.
The day may come when municipal trams and municipal light will be just as free as municipal streets and municipal libraries.
The car passed everything on the road; it seemed to be overtaking electric trams all the time.
Room-mates got out of bed at intervals, and early trams ran outside, and some got up early, but on the whole we had a good night compared with other experiences.
Then sleep was difficult in such strange surroundings: outside, trams went past till after midnight; inside, many of our companions were audible by snores.
There were plenty astir, trams running, and people going holiday-making.
A change of trams and swift walking brought me to Pera.
There are notrams or much vehicular traffic, donkeys being the chief transit.
What had attracted Minnifie was a semi-detached house at a corner, which the trams passed.
They were good houses enough, but the people who had furniture to fill them were not the sort of people who welcomed shops opposite their windows and trams past their gate, so that both had been long empty.
From time to time there would arise the occasion for the topical article on trams--Trams as Army Transports and How our Trams fared during the Recent Snow, to give two obvious examples.
My instructions from Miss White with regard to the habitat of trams (thrown in by her at the last moment in case the train failed me) were vague.
Trams also he deserted with the publication of his great work on the subject--Tramiana.
And always there was a market for such staple articles as Trams in Fiction.
I decided to give up looking for trams and to search instead for London--the London that I knew.
II Annesley Bupp had devoted himself to literature for two years before his first article on trams was written.
The mules which draw the primitive ramshackle trams have the worst time of it, and are obliged to pull their load every now and again off one line on to another, being urged thereto with some brutality.
But these trams do not run up the very hilly parts of the city; the main lines run along the Tagus east and west of the great Square of the Black Horse.
Nearly opposite the stable-yard the electric trams started for Hanbridge, Bursley and Turnhill, and for Longshaw.
Trams rumbled continually in and out of the square.
The road grew narrower, the wheeled traffic more congested; the yellow and red trams seemed to fill the street.
Roads looked like ribbons, trees like haycocks, trams like toys, men and women were little dots mysteriously and absurdly moving.
Only the red trams clanging and clanking down the cobbled streets made any stir and gaiety.
The trams now passed down Hog Lane West, with the result that most of the houses had apartment cards in their fanlights.
She had not made use of the trams, because if you start taking trams in Berlin you can spend a fortune, and she had no fortune to spend.
But everywhere Leghorn seemed a pleasant place to live, and convenient, with lively shops and cafes and trams and open spaces, and statues and monuments in them.
The next decade will probably decide whether automobiles or trams are to serve the needs of the community in districts where at present no efficient service of any kind exists.
Electric trams passed through it with harsh ringing of bells, and people surged along the pavements.
It always exhilarated her to come back to Paris; and she looked with happy, affectionate eyes at the plane trees, the yellow trams that rumbled along incessantly, and the lounging people.
It is true that there are no trams in Peking, and that the electric light is poor.
Large slabs of it were also needed for the flooring, in order that the small coal-trams might be the more readily pushed forward over it, a space being left beneath for air to circulate, and for the water to run out.
There's Mr. Wicks, now: he has his back to the road with the trams on it.
I suppose the trams are running just the same along the Boulevard Montparnasse,--and all the lights and people, and the noise.
The tramsrattled down the Boulevard, carriages rolled by.
It is joined to the city by a bridge (completed 1910) containing a roadway and the railway, Khartum itself being served by steamtrams and rickshaws.
It has a good water supply, a telephone service and a supply of both gas and electric light, while electric trams ply between the town and its suburbs.
Now, although steam has not been ousted from the field, there are many electric trains, and in almost every city of Europe electric trams run through the streets and often far out into the country beyond.
Nowadays, however, these picturesque conveyances are beginning to be considered old-fashioned, and the natives crowd into the electric trams which run in all directions through the town and into the suburbs beyond.
For two or three days Alex sat in her sitting-room at Malden Road and heard the trams and the omnibuses clash past, and the children screaming to one another in the street.
It was difficult to sleep very well in Malden Road, where the trams and the omnibuses passed in incessant, jerking succession, and the children screamed in the road late at nights and incredibly early in the mornings.
Everything looked as if she saw it for the first time: the long rows of houses bathed in crude light, the trolleys of the electric trams in between, and the gliding figures of night-revellers.
For a moment all was still save for the clanging bells of the electric trams from the near distance.
The sun-drenched mist of the rosy August morning melted into a violet sky; from the yellowing poplars dropped sooty dew, and the electric trams hummed their secret storm-signals.
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