An illustration of this tendency was afforded by the Chicago street railway settlement of 1906.

1906 年的芝加哥街头铁路定居点就是这种趋势的例证。

Similar problems arose in connection with the street railways, electric light plants, and other utilities in the great cities.

——类似的问题也出现在大城市的街道铁路、电厂和其他公用设施方面。

It was alleged that mayors and councils had bargained away for private benefit street railway and other franchises.

据称，市长和议会为了私人利益街头铁路和其他特许经营权而讨价还价。

The idea of combining the several street railways into one comprehensive corporation had apparently occurred to no one.

显然没有人想到将几条街道铁路合并为一个综合性公司的想法。

The serious manager of a street railway company is not content with the simple duty of transporting passengers cheaply and comfortably.

严肃的街道铁路公司经理并不满足于以廉价且舒适的方式运送乘客这一简单职责。

Its peculiar attribute was that it did not construct and operate street railways itself, but merely owned other corporations that did so.

它的独特之处在于它自己并不建造和经营街道铁路， 而只是拥有其他这样做的公司。

Thus Mr. Widener, as is practically the case with all these street railway magnates, was a municipal politician before he became a financier.

因此，与所有这些街头铁路巨头的实际情况一样， 威德纳先生在成为金融家之前是一名市政政治家。

This idea was extensively applied to electric light and water works plants, but to street railways in only a few cities, including San Francisco and Seattle.

这个想法被广泛应用于电灯和水厂，但只应用于少数城市的街道铁路， 包括旧金山和西雅图。

Through their political influences they obtained franchises of priceless value, organized subsidiary street railway companies, and exchanged the stock of these subsidiary companies for that of the Metropolitan.

通过他们的政治影响， 他们获得了无价的特许经营权， 组织了附属的街道铁路公司， 并将这些附属公司的股票换成了大都会的股票。

The story of the Metropolitan's manipulation of the New York street railways starts with one of the most sordid episodes in the municipal annals of America's largest city.

大都会操纵纽约街道铁路的故事始于美国最大城市市政史上最肮脏的事件之一。

The investing public, egged on by daring and skillful stock manipulators, simply went mad and purchased not only Metropolitan but street railway shares that were then even more speculative.

投资大众在大胆而熟练的股票操纵者的怂恿下， 简直发疯了， 不仅购买了大都会铁路公司的股票， 还购买了当时更具投机性的街道铁路股票。

Charles T. Yerkes, one of his partners in politics and street railway enterprises, had been less fortunate, for he had served seven months for assisting in the embezzlement of Philadelphia funds in 1873.

查尔斯·T·耶基斯 (Charles T. Yerkes) 是他在政界和街头铁路企业的合伙人之一，就没那么幸运了，因为他在 1873 年因协助挪用费城基金而被判入狱七个月。

I have therefore selected, as typical, the operations of the group that developed the street railways and, to a certain extent, the public lighting companies, in our three greatest American cities — New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

因此，作为典型，我选择了在美国三个最伟大的城市——纽约、芝加哥和费城——开发街道铁路和在一定程度上开发公共照明公司的集团的业务。

These syndicates made a business of entering city after city, purchasing the scattered street railway lines and lighting companies, equipping them with electricity, combining them into unified systems, organizing large corporations, and floating huge issues of securities.

这些财团的生意是进城又进城，收购分散的街道铁路线和照明公司，为它们配备电力，将它们整合成一个系统，组织大公司，发行巨额证券。

An attempt to trace the convolutions of America's street railway and public lighting finance would involve a puzzling array of statistics and an inextricable complexity of stocks, bonds, leases, holding companies, operating companies, construction companies, reorganizations, and the like.

试图追踪美国街道铁路和公共照明金融的盘旋将涉及一系列令人费解的统计数据以及股票、债券、租赁、控股公司、运营公司、建筑公司、重组等不可分割的复杂性。