Steam Trams Proposed in Palestine

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 11.

Steam Trams Proposed in Palestine

Another western improvement is proposed in Palestine, the construction of steam trams to run between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. It is certain, however, that the trams will be a great convenience, and they will hardly be more ugly or more unoriental than the wretched ramshackle wooden vehicles, drawn by miserable horses, often ill-used, in which people who are not well-to-do tourists make the journey if they do not care to ride on donkey-back or trudge on their own feet. And the Jerusalem station of the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway has been a conspicuous object on the Zion side of the city for eleven years now.