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Title: Electrical news and engineering
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electrical engineering
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. (etc.) Southam-Maclean Publications
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e been built up. The•debt the city of Winnipeg of to-day owes the men who havestood behind these enterprises can scarcely be over-esti-mated. For the pul)lic utilities of Winnipeg have been developedto keep pace, or a little in advance, of the citys progress. Ten years ago the liabilities of the Street Railway Com-pany scarcely exceeded two million dollars; to-day they areprobably eight times that amount. Ten years ago therewere eighteen miles of track; to-day it is approximatelyone hundred and twenty. Ten years ago fifty small motorcars comprised the rolling stock; to-day the number ofmodern, well-equipped, commodious coaches numbers nearlytwo hundred and fifty. In addition there is the big hydro-electric plant supplying light and power, the brand newsteam turbine auxiliary plant to ensure continuity of ser-vice, and the thoroughly modern gas plant. Of course, one man didnt do all this, but there hasbeen one man on the job all the time for the last decade, one of those fellows with
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Mb. WiLFOKD Phillips rangey ideas, the subjectof our sketch this month,the general manager of theWinnipeg Street RailwayCo., Mr. Wilford Phillips.He does not advertisemuch so we scarcelyknow how much credit togive him, but it is worthyof note that during his tenyears management of thesystem it has increased, inevery department, ten fold.Down in Prince EdwardCounty, Ontario, they areproud to tell you WilfordPhillips was born there.That was in 1858; October8, to be exact. In 1890 hecommenced his street rail-way career on the Metro-politan Street Railway ofNorth Toronto, thus show-ing his adaptability forand his faith in electrictraction by attaching him-self to what was practic-ally the first trolley systemin Canada. He was engi-neer and superintendent, ofNorth Toronto Water-works and electric light in1892 and was later appoint-ed mechanical and elec-trical engineer of the Ni-agara Falls Park & River Railway. In 1896 he becameinanager of this road, resigning in 1890 to accept the of

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