. The Street railway journal . ant is well systemized in allbranches. It is an easy matter to collect data bearingupon the different elements of its operation, and one willusually find records of different degrees of is very rare, however, that the full benefit of these rec-ords is taken advantage of. There is often the mostcomplete data on coal consumption, watt hours output,car miles run and passengers carried, and yet the meaningof the figures lies buried in the records. It is there to besure, if it is wanted, but the time never comes when thereis leisure to work it up into
. The Street railway journal . ant is well systemized in allbranches. It is an easy matter to collect data bearingupon the different elements of its operation, and one willusually find records of different degrees of is very rare, however, that the full benefit of these rec-ords is taken advantage of. There is often the mostcomplete data on coal consumption, watt hours output,car miles run and passengers carried, and yet the meaningof the figures lies buried in the records. It is there to besure, if it is wanted, but the time never comes when thereis leisure to work it up into significant shape The super-intendent may perhaps note that various items bear thisor that relation to the same items in other cases, and thereis, of course, better information about the running of theplant than if there were no records at all, but their fullimport, the evidence they give of a change of conditionsor of the effect of one item upon another, is usually quitelost. There is no doubt such a thing as getting wound up. DIAGRAM SHOWING WEEKLY RECORD OF STREET RAILWAY DATA. The Detroit (Mich.) Street Railway system changedhands again last month, the interest of Thomas Nevins, ofOrange, being purchased by a syndicate represented byR. T. Wilson & Company, of New York. The amountpaid is not stated. The new directors of the companyare: R. T. Wilson, M. W. OBrien, Cameron Currie, M. Edwards, of New York; F. R. Pemberton, of NewYork; D. M. Ferry and John C. Donnelly. The officers are as follows: President, J. M. Edwards;vice-president, M. W. OBrien; treasurer, R. T. Wilson;assistant treasurer, George H. Russell, secretary, J. ; general manager, J. D. Hawks. in statistics, and they do not always have the respect ofpractical men. The interminable calculations of poundsof coal per kilowatt hour, kilowatt hours per car mile, car miles per passengers carried, etc., seem to absorban unwarrantable amount of time, and introduce a uselessamount of red tape. But if this
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