[To TEN EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—.As the opposition
to the admission of trams to the Thames Embankment no doubt arises from a sincere desire to avoid spoiling that great public way, it is perhaps worth while to call attention to the wonderful success of the new electric trams at the Hague and in Amsterdam. The difference between them and the old horse cars is remarkable. It seems quite another kind of locomotion altogether. These band. some and admirably equipped cars as they flit quietly along between the trees detract in no degree whatever from the attractiveness of the streets, and appear to interfere hardly at all with ordinary traffic. One cannot but feel as one watches them, either in the daytime or the evening, how little they would be out of harmony with their surroundings on the Embankment, and what a convenience they would be. The standards are scarcely noticeable among the trees. My testimony is quite impartial, as I have never held tram shares.
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