Meanwhile the Prince of Wales has been doing his share of Stately duty. Ho has just been to Hull to lay the foundation of its new City Hall; and to-day he has formally "opened the London County Council's electric tramway from Westminster Bridge to Tooting All the tratiic of this great main thoroughfare of South London has been dislocated for months by the construction of the line, which 1s the fir-t electric conduit railway of any length to have been constructed in this country. It is the beginning of a similar electrification of the whole inner tram-system of London; and as we already have good commencement of an outer system of tramways on the trolley system, going as far West as Hampton Court Palace, we may look forward to the not distant day when travelling from end to end of Greater Londoa willie a matter of ease and comfort. The tube railways will no doubt beat'the trams in the matter of speed, but travelling over ground is fur pleasanter thai bisrrowing in the earth.
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