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OMNIBUS AND TRAMWAY TRAFFIC. introduction. It was to avoid such transgressions against taste that the Edinburgh Corporation refused to have anything to do with the “ trolley ” system. The march of knowledge is so swift—there is always some danger that a new discovery may render old- fashioned to-morrow what yesterday bore the hall-mark of Progress. Not long ago, however, the London County Council agreed that this very reasonable fear should not any longer deter them from deciding how the Metropolitan street-car system could be improved. After a painstaking investigation by the Council’s representatives of what had been done, and was being done, 153 ELECTRIC TRAM AT HULL. in Europe and America, it was resolved to follow the example of New York, and have the London tramway system reconstructed on the “ conduit ” electric principle. The revolution will be effected very gradually. But within the next few years the old style shall have completely given way to the new ; and the horseless carriage will be the popular mode of street locomotion throughout the Metropolis. P. F. William Ryan. A EAMILIAR SCENE IN LONDON : POLICEMAN REGULATING THE TRAFFIC. 20