. Electric railway journal . -sity should also be shown of allowing interurban linesto secure rights for the development of freight andexpress service in cities, so as to increase their reve-nues. A campaign throughout the country should bemade for a simplified and standardized tax system, sothat electric railways may be able to show any inequi-table incidence of taxation. Lastly, the public shouldunderstand the importance to itself of allowing a rateof return sufficient to attract new electric railway cap-ital in competition with all other industries. These aresimply detailed suggestions alon
. Electric railway journal . -sity should also be shown of allowing interurban linesto secure rights for the development of freight andexpress service in cities, so as to increase their reve-nues. A campaign throughout the country should bemade for a simplified and standardized tax system, sothat electric railways may be able to show any inequi-table incidence of taxation. Lastly, the public shouldunderstand the importance to itself of allowing a rateof return sufficient to attract new electric railway cap-ital in competition with all other industries. These aresimply detailed suggestions along certain lines aboutwhich we feel there might well be a sustained and morenearly universal publicity. If it were possible to sumup the present situation in one clause, we would say thatthe public as yet has not been made to understand whatelectric railway service really costs, and to show thiswith all fairness and truthfulness is the present andfuture problem of the industry. 810 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLVII, No. 18. WILKES-CARRE & HAZLETON CAR EXTERIOR VIEW OF CAR New All-Steel Cars for the Wilkes-Barre c& Hazleton Railway The Ten All-Steel Combination Passenger and Baggage Cars Recently Delivered Embody theLatest Principles in Construction and Equipment for Cars Designed Especially for High-Speed Interurban Service THE Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton Railway, Hazleton, Pa.,has recently received from The J. G. Brill Companyten all-steel interurban passenger and baggage cars,which embody the latest principles of interurban carconstruction, both in their general design and attractive-ness, and in the completeness of the detailed equipmentapplied. These cars were built simultaneously with anorder for ten all-steel city cars for the Lehigh TractionCompany, which is under the same management. Thecity cars were described in the Electric Railway Journal of Jan. 22, 1916. The interurban cars wereshipped to the Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton Railway ontheir own wheels. They are for service b
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