. The Street railway journal . ST. LOUIS & SUBURBAN NEW STORAGE SHEDS AT DE HODIAMONT torical study, as in it can be found some of the earliest ap-paratus used in electric traction, and also some of the boilers and piping underwent a thorough reconstructionjust previous to the Worlds Fair. The company has two sub-stations to which 6600-volt alternating current is transmitted—one to supply the downtown end of the line and the other atBrentwood for the lines extending southwest. The system isunder the management of John Mahoney, general superintend-ent, the president being J. S. Walsh
. The Street railway journal . ST. LOUIS & SUBURBAN NEW STORAGE SHEDS AT DE HODIAMONT torical study, as in it can be found some of the earliest ap-paratus used in electric traction, and also some of the boilers and piping underwent a thorough reconstructionjust previous to the Worlds Fair. The company has two sub-stations to which 6600-volt alternating current is transmitted—one to supply the downtown end of the line and the other atBrentwood for the lines extending southwest. The system isunder the management of John Mahoney, general superintend-ent, the president being J. S. Walsh, of St. Louis. These gen-tlemen are sharing with the St. Louis Transit Company man-. INTERIOR OF THE DE HODIAMONT STATION OF THE ST. LOUIS & SUBURBAN agement the many congratulations that have been offered tothe street railway officials of St. Louis on the way the WorldsFair crowds were transported during 1904. A record of the traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for the lasttwelve months, kept by Bridge Commissioner Best, shows thatabout 36,000 passengers now cross the bridge in the bridgetrains in a single rush hour at night; this means that the cars,which seat about forty people, actually carry about three timesthat number during this one rush hour, from 5 130 to 6:30 p. 1890 careful estimates were made of the probable futuretravel on the bridge, and the number of passengers now car-ried in the busiest hour of the day is 40 per cent greater thanthe maximum capacity then believed to be practicable with thelength of train and number of trains now run, and it was esti-mated that the number of passengers now carried would not beleached until 1920. since before the o
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