These steamtramways appear most dangerous to strangers, as the level crossings are unguarded, and there is no warning whistle.
For instance, they always jump off at the approach of a steam train (for there are steam tramways in Batavia), and the native coachmen invariably look afraid of their horses.
The river was enclosed between stone embankments; sewerage and pure water were supplied, gas and electric light installed; and horse or electric tramways laid down in the principal thoroughfares, which were paved with granite or wood.
Electric tramways and omnibuses serve all parts of the city, and numerous ferries ply across the river.
Then you can go down to the Mineral Development's new shaft, where they have one of those tramways working, and see how they swing their ore across the valley.
Its main streets are well lighted with gas, and it boasts a good line oftramways round and through various parts of the city.
Steam tramways connect it with the seaside villages of Scheveningen, Kykduin and 's Gravenzande, as well as with Delft, Wassenaar and Leiden, and it is situated on a branch of the main canal from Rotterdam to Amsterdam.
It is connected by electric and steam tramways with Zandvoort, Leiden, Amsterdam and Alkmaar.
Then carts were used, to facilitate the progress of which tramways of flag-stone were laid down.
The plates of these early tramways had a ledge cast on their edge to guide the wheel along the road, after the manner shown in the annexed cut.
As it so happened a Dublin United Tramways Company's sandstrewer happened to be returning and the elder man recounted to his companion à propos of the incident his own truly miraculous escape of some little while back.
Where tramways exist, those responsible for laying them at the rate of several thousand pounds per mile are naturally reluctant to abandon them.
At Sunderland the coal trade furnishes employment for hundreds of vessels, independently of the "keels" or lighters which convey the coal from the termini of the railways and tramways to the ships.
Steam-tramways also serve many parts of the province.
A steam tramway had been laid to Malabon, and horse tramways through the suburbs of Manila.
Tramways between populous towns not far apart in Luzon and Panay would probably pay very well, as the people are fond of visiting their friends.
All the tramways meet here, and some of the busiest streets, and here too are situated the Nieuwe Kerk and the palace.
Tramways connect Alkmaar with Egmond and with the pretty summer resort of Bergen, which lies sheltered by woods and dunes.
He became interested in tramways in 1806, and from that date on devoted most of his energies and fortune to projecting railways in the United Kingdom.
Vehicles of this kind were built by others, and in 1695 Sir Humphrey Mackworth applied sails to wagons on the tramways at his colliery at Neath, South Wales.
Rails of tramways were being taken up, and in some cities they were entirely destroyed.
An anti-German outbreak was reported from Valparaiso in December owing to the German controllers of the tramways raising the passenger rates.
The strike itself practically collapsed on January 19, with the return to work of many dockers and the reopening of the works of the Dublin Tramways Company, which had remained closed for nearly five months.
Steamers and tramways are what we want for these poor countries.
But until tramways and railroads and new bazaars have been made, I suppose there is little chance for mere wells under the present regime.
On the mention of these two towns he at once began a panegyric of his own administration there, of the steamers he had established on the rivers, the walls he had pulled down and tramways built.
But these houses and tramways and things, all made from ore and stuff torn from her veins----!
A Chinaman in San Francisco was once heard to describe the said tramways as "No horsey, no steamy, go helly.
I am not at all surprised people do not care to drive much, as tramways pass through every street almost, and all are so badly paved that paint and springs would suffer.
While gas and water and trains were supplied by speculative owners for profit, electric light and power, new tramways and light railways are created in an increasing number of cases by public bodies who retain them for the public good.
In Constantinople the port, the lighthouses, the gasworks, the waterworks, and the tramways were planned and built by French capital and labour.
In this country it is chiefly known as a poisonous food for horses; the last instance of horse-poisoning by lathyrus was that of horses belonging to the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company.
The enterprise is in the hands of Canadians--The Mexico Tramways Company, in connection with the Mexico Electric Tramways, Limited, a British corporation.
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