. Electric railway gazette . Pattens Perfected Siemens System. fervice. The residents can now reach the city different %vays—the trolley lines of the PeoplesTraction Company and the Philadelphia TractionCompany and the Pennsylvania and Reading steamroads. The trolley lines are likely to draw a verylarge amount of traffic from the steam roads, forthe competition is rendered serious, not alone bythe frequency of the service and by the cheapnessof the fare, but by the liberality of the transfersystem introduced by the electric railway com-panies. Not only can the suburban i-esidents ridea
. Electric railway gazette . Pattens Perfected Siemens System. fervice. The residents can now reach the city different %vays—the trolley lines of the PeoplesTraction Company and the Philadelphia TractionCompany and the Pennsylvania and Reading steamroads. The trolley lines are likely to draw a verylarge amount of traffic from the steam roads, forthe competition is rendered serious, not alone bythe frequency of the service and by the cheapnessof the fare, but by the liberality of the transfersystem introduced by the electric railway com-panies. Not only can the suburban i-esidents ridealmost ten miles into the city for five cents—thatis, at the rate of about two miles for one cent—but. McElroy, Nicholson & McTighesSystem. when they reach the city they can obtain freetransfers, so that without payment of additionalfare can reach almost any part of the city. Howthe two railroad companies propose to meet thiscompetition does not yet appear, but that they mustmake some concessions seems to be generally be-lieved. A Philadelphia financial paper speaks ofthe subject in this way : In the first place there is very little, if any,doubt as to the probable action to be taken by the
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