We reprinted a few days ago an nouncement mate by the Ostasiatische Lloyd" on the subject of the proposed installation of a trataway system in the French Settlement. From more recent information we learn that ths system proposed by M. Thévenet is not electric, the installation of electric traction, a large scale, offering many streets like those of Shanghai, M. Thévenet Proposes to use anew and much improved system which is being employed in Paris with great It is known as "Parrey's "a new special steam boiler being used. The steam is superheated, and the eats are entirely free from noise, smoke, or smell.. Heavy machinery, wires, poles, and generating stations are entirely dispensed with. Rails, of course, have to be laid in the stre-ts, but a special rail is used which does not interfere with the ordinary trafic, and there is nothing to change the ordinary aspect of the street. "The cars are very small and very comfortable, and a speed of fifteen miles an hour is practicable where the road is clear.
We have consistently advocated the introduction of tramways in Shanghai, and are convinced that they will be of the greatest convenience to residents here, while enabling a Inge partof the extension of the Settlements to he profitably utilised. We welcome M. Thévenet's scheme as a contribution to the subject, and trust shortly to be abl" to give our readers forthes particul rs of the system which he proposes to empl
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