. The street railway review . FOR DASH RAILS, VESTIBULES AND BAGGAGE CARS. street. New York. It is made of the best steel and consistsof hooks encased in rubber, and designed to be fastened tothe front or rear dashboards of street cars or to the interiorsides of baggage cars. The hangers for the interior are setin slots so that they may be easily removed as shown in tiieillustration. When suspended from these hooks by the han-dle bar, the bicycle rides perfectly rigid. When hung fromthe dash board the bicycle does not interfere with the move-ment of the brake handle, nor does it mar the car in
. The street railway review . FOR DASH RAILS, VESTIBULES AND BAGGAGE CARS. street. New York. It is made of the best steel and consistsof hooks encased in rubber, and designed to be fastened tothe front or rear dashboards of street cars or to the interiorsides of baggage cars. The hangers for the interior are setin slots so that they may be easily removed as shown in tiieillustration. When suspended from these hooks by the han-dle bar, the bicycle rides perfectly rigid. When hung fromthe dash board the bicycle does not interfere with the move-ment of the brake handle, nor does it mar the car in anyway. The Market Street Railway Company, of San Francisco,states the two lines on which these hangers are used carryon an average of 1,800 bicycles a month, returning a revenueof $180, that is 5 cents for the wheel and 5 cents for itsowner. This gain in earnings is made without a correspond-ing increase in operating expenses, and as the wheels arecarried at the owners risk only (the trainmen do not han-. THREE BICYCLES AT EACH END—BROOKLYN. die the wheels at all), there is no liability for their damageincurred. Several large roads have adopted these hangers and re-cently the New York Central Railroad adopted them forcarrying wheels in its baggage cars. SORROWS OF STEAM ROADS. President Clark, of the New York, New Haven & Hart-ford road, at the recent meeting of the New England Rail-road Club, among other things, said: It has been decided by the railroad commissioners thatan old law of this commonwealth, providing that after thelease of one railroad by another the accommodation shallnot be diminished must be complied with, and standardroads are called upon to run trains which do not pay one-quarter of the cost of running them, because the construc-tion of parallel electric railways has taken away most oftheir traffic. Some relief to your owners and to mine shouldbe found, if possible, by which interests may be protected. Now, electricity, which is ordinarily steam power dev
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