Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1911 — First Electric Railway. [ARTICLE]

First Electric Railway.

A Cologne paper calls attention to the fact that the 12th of May last was the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the first electric railway This was an experimental line about a mile and a half long from the Lich tenfeld military school to the Anhalt station in Berlin, equipped with a single car wlthspeats ■ for twelve passengers. * The speech made by Dr. Siemens on that occasion is remarkable for a modesty not often shown In introduo ing new inventions. "The child born today,” said he, “Is a sturdy little fellow, with abundant vitality. I think he will make out to live. But he has the diseases of childhood yet to meet and as yet has not even cut his teeth. We may be glad, however, that the babe has at last come Into the world. As to what will become of him, whether he ever amounts to anything, we mnst waif to see.” We have waited, and we have seen. —Railway Age Qasette. ' :V::