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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
de by the Weston and American Electric Company were changed to the Thompson-Houston system, which is now practically in use. A syndicate was formed in the latter part of 1889 to take the stock held by the Thompson-Houston Electric Company, and they parted with their interest. Many citizens of Cambridge not before stockholders became interested in the company. In 1889 the subject of running the street-cars by electricity began to attract the attention of the horse railroad company. H. M. Whitney, president of the West End Street Railway Co., was one of the first to take definite action, and this company first supplied the current to storage batteries upon the Cambridge division of the West End Street Railway Co. The experiment was not at all satisfactory, and as the trolley-system had now been invented by Van de Poele, the West End Street Railway Co. adopted it, and Cambridge cars were first equipped with motors under that system, and from July, 1889, until April, 1892, all the