. The Street railway journal . o suburban as to the high rate of speed maintained. We have the alert,([uick, nervous New York pul>lic to deal with, and are thusliel])ed to keep up an excellent running schedule in citylimits proper, and where we strike some of the open coun-try that still abounds in our territory, our motormeu lettlieir cars out for all they are worth. Hence, again, thedistances are shortened up wonderfully, much to the satis-faction of those who go all the way. Two or three yearsago we established at t!;e crest of the West Farms hill, iKjtfar from the power plant, a central
. The Street railway journal . o suburban as to the high rate of speed maintained. We have the alert,([uick, nervous New York pul>lic to deal with, and are thusliel])ed to keep up an excellent running schedule in citylimits proper, and where we strike some of the open coun-try that still abounds in our territory, our motormeu lettlieir cars out for all they are worth. Hence, again, thedistances are shortened up wonderfully, much to the satis-faction of those who go all the way. Two or three yearsago we established at t!;e crest of the West Farms hill, iKjtfar from the power plant, a central car house, wliich is ad-mitted to be one of the finest in the country, and thither tlieable su])erintendent. Mr. James Carrigan, moved his is the operating heart of the system, and a ljusv scene atall times, for the Lnion Com])any has a force of over 700motormeu and conductors, sixty men at work on trackrepairs, etc., and eighty men similarly engaged on themaintenance of the rolling stock, besides the stafl: for the. HOiWE I^ROM THE DAYS FISH, —ARTOW [)ower-generating plant. Man and Ixjy, Mr. Carrigan haslived some forty years within a st(_)nes throw of his office,and thus has that intuitive knowledge of his spreadingterritor} without which a stranger could make many acostl)- mistake. Down here, at the southern end of the Third AvenueBridge, are the executive offices of the compan\. built spe-cially for the purpose and used as the head(|uarter,s of thepresident, of Mr. T. W. Olcott. secretary and treasurer,etc. Vrnm the windows loolcing out on the plaza can bewitnessed morning and evening, or on an\- great occasionsetting the population in movement, one of the sights ofNew York City—a sight of peculiar interest to every streetrailway man. The cars cnmv olT tlie bridge with a sharpcurve, very much like that at Iourteenlli .Street and New York, and then run around a loop, of whichthat at Broadway and the New York Postoffice is a coun-terpart. Overhead i
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