Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — street Wallways. [ARTICLE]

street Wallways.

The first street railway was operated in 1832 from New York to Harlem. It did not appear in Boston until 18561 The first “horse-car” line was opened on the Baltimore A Ohio line prior to the introduction of the steam engine, but was not designated as a street railway. From a comparatively recent beginning a vast enterprise has sprung up; today there are 25,000 cars in use in the streets pi cities in tbe United States, requiring the services of 180,000 horses.