. Electric railway journal . ents per Hourplus 10 per Cent i Total Wage andPower 3 5 17 .84 2353 $ $ $ 5 2777 7 5 3174 9 6 3571 30,000 Car-Miles Operation 17 84 1764 378 00 698 54 ! S 14 4 1 02 2083 459 00 794 86 12 6 1 18 2381 531 00 942 87 . 11 2 1 32 2878 594 00 1060 48 CarSizes Contrasted a large two-man car in a service of nine stops per milewith ten seconds per stop. ■ From the traffic checks previ- ously described, we can find thetotal number
. Electric railway journal . ents per Hourplus 10 per Cent i Total Wage andPower 3 5 17 .84 2353 $ $ $ 5 2777 7 5 3174 9 6 3571 30,000 Car-Miles Operation 17 84 1764 378 00 698 54 ! S 14 4 1 02 2083 459 00 794 86 12 6 1 18 2381 531 00 942 87 . 11 2 1 32 2878 594 00 1060 48 CarSizes Contrasted a large two-man car in a service of nine stops per milewith ten seconds per stop. ■ From the traffic checks previ- ously described, we can find thetotal number of passengers for carsfor each hour of the day; also thetotal number of cars passing thechecking point. With these datawe can readily calculate what the seating capacity andsize of car should be. We can also see just what willbe the effect of putting on a lesser number of large carsor a greater number of small cars. Now the only limitation of the small car is the num-ber of units that can be run through the congested por-. This is the originator of the safety car tion of the city. The studies of B. J. Arnold in Chicagoindicate that the least permissible time between follow-ing cars is approximately twenty seconds. But lookingat the subject in a broader way, we can well afford toconsider what other possible parallel avenues of travelcould be utilized if necessary to give adequate servicewith economy. Another fact to be considered is that in accordancewith old-time viewpoints railways frequently have op-erated cars over certain streets and to special points be-cause they feared to offend public opinion. To put thisin another way: a few prominent citizens, to serve theirown selfish mercantile interests, wisely or unwisely havedictated to the railway where cars should be will prevailed, not because the greatest number ofcitizens were properly accommodated thereby but be-cause these few citizens who thought they had some-thing big at stake, possessed the largest, l
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