. Electric railway journal . LI NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1913 No. 4 PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY McGraw Publishing Company, Inc. James H. McGraw, President. C. E. Whittlesey, Secretary and West 39th Street, New York. Chicago Office 1570 Old Colony Building Philadelphia Office Real Estate Trust Building European Office. ... Hastings House, Norfolk St., Strand, London, Eng. Terms of SubscriptionFor 52 weekly issues, and daily convention issues published from timeto time in New York City or elsewhere: United States, Cuba and Mexico,$ per year; Canada, $ per year; all other countri
. Electric railway journal . LI NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1913 No. 4 PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY McGraw Publishing Company, Inc. James H. McGraw, President. C. E. Whittlesey, Secretary and West 39th Street, New York. Chicago Office 1570 Old Colony Building Philadelphia Office Real Estate Trust Building European Office. ... Hastings House, Norfolk St., Strand, London, Eng. Terms of SubscriptionFor 52 weekly issues, and daily convention issues published from timeto time in New York City or elsewhere: United States, Cuba and Mexico,$ per year; Canada, $ per year; all other countries, $ peryw. Single copies, 10 cents. Foreign subscriptions may be sent to ourEuropean office. Requests for changes of address should be made one week in advance,giving old as well as new address. Date on wrapper indicates the monthat the end of which subscription expires. Copyright, 1913, by McGraw PubliEntered as second-class matter at the post Of this issue of the Electric Railway Jou A NEGLECTEDFEATURE INREBUILT CARS. On cars whicfcsh&H&.-bstructed to include*- enter feature it is distinctly surpris-ing to find that in some instances the mutually operated half-doors which used to be customary in the old-style designshave been retained, notwithstanding the fact that thestanchion separating the entrance and exit passages on theplatforms completely obviates the necessity for the widedoorway. The prime object, of course, of the pay-as-you-enter design is to eliminate confusion through the segrega-tion of incoming and outgoing passengers into two orderlysingle files, and under these circumstances the necessityfor a clear opening of great width becomes nil. When thedevice for making the two half-doors operate in conjunc-tion is left in the car after its transformation into one ofthe pay-as-you-enter type, it results in the first place in aburden upon the passenger in compelling him to open twodoors when the movement of one would be sufficient, andin addition it involves a cer
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