. Factory and industrial management. senger traffic. Dur-ing the first year4,000 passengerswere carried per day, against 200 previously carried per day by thesteam road passing through the same towns. The fare for 40 miles is50 cents, while the fare charged by the steam roads for the same dis-tance is $ A 1,000-mile mileage book is sold for one cent per average fare per passenger is cents. Many houses are beingbuilt in the small towns along the route and market gardening israpidly developing in the country traversed. Freight service is giverrtwice a day and express packages
. Factory and industrial management. senger traffic. Dur-ing the first year4,000 passengerswere carried per day, against 200 previously carried per day by thesteam road passing through the same towns. The fare for 40 miles is50 cents, while the fare charged by the steam roads for the same dis-tance is $ A 1,000-mile mileage book is sold for one cent per average fare per passenger is cents. Many houses are beingbuilt in the small towns along the route and market gardening israpidly developing in the country traversed. Freight service is giverrtwice a day and express packages are carried in the baggage compart-ments of the passenger cars. When the line was first opened, morefreight was offered than could be carried, although the rates were two-thirds more than those asked by the steam-railroad company. Extending north from Detroit 73 miles to Port Huron, Mich., andcomprising in all no miles of single track exclusive of sidings, are thelines of the Rapid Railway Company, another early pioneer in the elec-. DOUBLE CURRENT WESTINGHOUSE GENERATORS^ POWERHOUSE OF DETROIT, YPSILANTI & ANN ARBOR RAILWAY. HIGH SPEED ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAILWAYS. 875 trie interurban railway field. This road is an excellent illustration ofthe great advances in the building of electric roads made possible by,high-tension power transmission. All power is generated at a mainstation at New Baltimore and transmitted in either direction by alter-nating currents at 16,500 volts. The power house is equipped with allthe latest improvements in the way of coal and ash-handling machin-ery, mechanical draft, economizers, etc., and contains three 1,000-horse-power Westinghouse steam engines all direct connected to
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