. Electric railway journal . he Tri-Cities.(5) A $2 monthly ticket which entitles the holder toas many trips from any point in the three cities to thearsenal and return as there are weekdays in the is made for thirty-one days, Sundays beingpunched out when the ticket is sold. (6) Cash fares. Additional Power Equipment Costs $650,000 Under former operating conditions, the arsenal tookfrom 400 kw. to 500 kw. from the Tri-City Power &Light Company, while now 2500 kw. is being used. Inaddition to this there has been an increase of about 1000kw. as a result of the heavy peak load ca
. Electric railway journal . he Tri-Cities.(5) A $2 monthly ticket which entitles the holder toas many trips from any point in the three cities to thearsenal and return as there are weekdays in the is made for thirty-one days, Sundays beingpunched out when the ticket is sold. (6) Cash fares. Additional Power Equipment Costs $650,000 Under former operating conditions, the arsenal tookfrom 400 kw. to 500 kw. from the Tri-City Power &Light Company, while now 2500 kw. is being used. Inaddition to this there has been an increase of about 1000kw. as a result of the heavy peak load caused by the September 14, 1918 Carry the War Workers and Help Beat the Kaiser 465 arsenal rush-hour service and an increase in commercialconsumption, due mainly to the added number of em-ployees at the arsenal, of 25 per cent for the last sixmonths of 1917, and of 25 per cent over that for thefirst four months of 1918. To accommodate this large demand for energy, it hasbeen necessary to increase the capacity of the plant. CABLE CARRIER ATTACHED TO CAR COUPLER 20,000 kw. A 20,000-kw. Westinghouse turbine wasadded, a new boiler room was built and three boilers were installed, arranged for a 300per cent rating. The total expense for this increase inplant capacity has been approximately $650,000. Wages and Labor The high wages paid for both skilled and unskilledlabor at the arsenal have had a disastrous effect uponthe labor problem of the Tri-City Railways, and in spiteof the four voluntary raises given by the company dur-ing the past year there is a considerable shortage oflabor. Letter to the Editors Depreciation Is an Impostor Term New York, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1918. To the Editors: In an article in your issue of Aug. 24, entitled SomePitfalls in Regulating Depreciation, John Bauer, ofPrinceton University, asks: Are the reasonable present claims of the investors againstthe public any different, whatever further depreciation policymay be adopted? Why should inv
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