HERE'S AN EYE OPENER.

New York, 1895

About the Long Island Electric Railway Company.

The following communication from the secretary of the State Railroad Commission is pertinent and interesting to the people of Jamaica and Hempstead, the two towns in which the company has obtained franchises for electric railroads, and particularly to the people of Jamaica, in which town the company has built a piece of railroad on South street.

The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N. Y.:

DEAR SIR — Your letter of June 7 received. Before building an electric railroad, the company proposing to build must apply to this board for approval of the use of electricity as a motive power under section 100 of the railroad law. This board has not granted approval of the use of electricity to the Long island electric railroad company, neither has application been made to it by such company. Very truly yours,

C. R. DeFREESE, Secretary.

The above authentic statement puts the company in a peculiar, if not a suspicious, position.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 1.