. The Street railway journal . shown in It has a load of straw for the postas or stables. Thecompany has 25 stables and 2800 mules. Another source of considerable income is in the leaseof funeral cars. All funerals, except those of the verypoorest classes, are conducted on the tramways, and thecompany receives from $140 down for the rent of a car forcarrying the casket and cars for the mourners. One usedfor the funeral of children and young women is shown inFig. 3. The annual income to the company from thissource is about $8000. In this connection it might be stated that the average Jan
. The Street railway journal . shown in It has a load of straw for the postas or stables. Thecompany has 25 stables and 2800 mules. Another source of considerable income is in the leaseof funeral cars. All funerals, except those of the verypoorest classes, are conducted on the tramways, and thecompany receives from $140 down for the rent of a car forcarrying the casket and cars for the mourners. One usedfor the funeral of children and young women is shown inFig. 3. The annual income to the company from thissource is about $8000. In this connection it might be stated that the average January, 1898.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. wages paid to employes is as follows, all prices being givenin silver: Conductors $ per day Drivers 75 Carpenters, painters and blacksmiths. . .83 Foreman of carpenter and paint shop. . Foreman of machine shop The improvements introduced by the present manage-ment have been mainly in the direction of placing the con-ductors in uniforms and requiring themfto take out a bond. FIG. 3.—MEXICAN FUNERAL CAR of $100 each with a surety company, introducing regis-ters and attracting to the service abetter and more reliableclass of men. Much has also been accomplished in theeconomical purchase of supplies. The gross receipts havebeen increased principally by shortening the headway ofthe cars and by systematizing the routes run by them. Electric Railway Motors By Geo. T. Hanchktt V. Motor Suspensions It is not possible to justly estimate the value of thevarious systems of suspension now in use, without consid-ering the action of a loaded truck as it travels over a roughtrack. Inasmuch as many users of railway motors havenot looked into this matter, other than superficially, thissection is prefaced by a brief review of the action of aloaded truck. Let us suppose that we have a single pair of wheels,around the axle of which is bolted a heavy cylindricalcasting, such that the center of gravity of the system ispractically the center of rota
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