. Electric railway journal . NEAR-SIDE STOP POSTKK The Toledo Railways & Light Company, Toledo, Ohio,fittingly observed Flag Day on June 14 by hanging a newAmerican flag, 4 ft. x 2x/2 ft., on the trolley rope of everyone of the 300 cars of the company. As the cars trav-eled along with the flags waving in the breeze, there wasmuch favorable comment from the people on the ELMIRA TRACK RECONSTRUCTION FIG. 12 CROSS-SECTION OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION 1180 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 26 How the Costs of Operation AreSteadily Mounting Significant Data from Various Parts of the Cou
. Electric railway journal . NEAR-SIDE STOP POSTKK The Toledo Railways & Light Company, Toledo, Ohio,fittingly observed Flag Day on June 14 by hanging a newAmerican flag, 4 ft. x 2x/2 ft., on the trolley rope of everyone of the 300 cars of the company. As the cars trav-eled along with the flags waving in the breeze, there wasmuch favorable comment from the people on the ELMIRA TRACK RECONSTRUCTION FIG. 12 CROSS-SECTION OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION 1180 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 26 How the Costs of Operation AreSteadily Mounting Significant Data from Various Parts of the Country Show the Need of Financial Relief forElectric Railways—Business Suffering from an Economic Disaster By IVY L. LEE IN the article on this subject last week a generalpresentation was made of some of the tendenciesunderlying the street railway business as a was sought to prove that these tendencies are ab-normal and are so undermining the business that, unlessheroic measures are taken, inevitable disaster confrontsthe electric railway industry. No business can con-tinue indefinitely to sell its product at a fixed price ifthe cost of supplying the product is greater than theprice obtained for it. The point is made in some communities that electricrailways are overcapitalized; in others, that the com-panies have a financial past which is not altogethersavory; i
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