. The street railway review . s of people in the country to pick upa good improvement, or even investigate its merits,than the managers of eastern roads, who expend thou-sands upon thousands of dollars every year unnecessa-rily in the operation of their roads where the old-fash-ioned systems of time cards and -large numbers ofstations are used. There is no reason why the service of an electric orcable railway, improperly managed, should not be lookedupon as being even worse than the horse car, which occa-sionally does reach its destination on time, even thoughit may come two-thirds of the way
. The street railway review . s of people in the country to pick upa good improvement, or even investigate its merits,than the managers of eastern roads, who expend thou-sands upon thousands of dollars every year unnecessa-rily in the operation of their roads where the old-fash-ioned systems of time cards and -large numbers ofstations are used. There is no reason why the service of an electric orcable railway, improperly managed, should not be lookedupon as being even worse than the horse car, which occa-sionally does reach its destination on time, even thoughit may come two-thirds of the way with one set ofwheels off the track, while there is every reason in theworld wh)- the service of such roads, properly managed,should surpass anything ever introduced. A few things which are not only unpleasant to thepublic, and very expensive to the company, that aredaily experienced in the operation of over half the elec-tric and cable railways throughout the country at thisadvanced age (and for which we now have a thorough,. dispatchers office LOS ANGELES RAILWAY. 486 (^lJicd5^aUiw2iy5^yW* practical and cheap remedy) are the dela\s and inter-ferences to the traffic; such as an electric car breaking atrolley, breaking an axle, burning out an armature orbecoming disabled in other ways which cannot berepaired while on the road; as well as accidents andjumping the track. Where the ordinary system of run-ning cars on time cards and bj starters is used, the latterbeing at the ends of the roads only, are unable toobserve any trouble or interference to the traffic that maybe going on, until they find that the cars have stoppedcoming, and discover that they are all blocked at somepoint on the road. As is a natural result, where so muchof the companys business interests and welfare areentrusted to the judgment of the trainmen, before it ispossible for a person to catch a car going in eitherdirection, he is ordinarily compelled to wait the length oftime that it requires to make a round
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