Meeting the Public Requirements.

“The demand to-day,” said Mr. Mackley, “is undoubtedly for fast, light, and comfortable services at frequent intervals, rather than for trains of large capacity running infrequently, and probably, to a large number of people, at inconvenient times. The Board feels that light rail-units will do a great deal to meet this demand, and very careful calculation shows that this can be done, on the route chosen, at a cost substantially less than the cost of steam services worked by costly and heavy engines.

“The rail-car services have been planned to give comfort, cleanliness, frequency and speed. The accommodation will be equal to the best of the present first-class railway carriages, yet only second-class fares are to be charged for travel by these rail-cars which will be all of one class.”