. The Street railway journal . of the stenographer and typewriter whoaccompanies him on his trip. There are several emergency and patrol wagons locatedat several points in the city. These wagons are kept readyfor immediate call in exactly the same way as is done bythe fire department, harnesses being suspended in such amanner that the horses can be immediately put into po-sition and the wagons run out of the house with but a fewseconds delay. On a recent inspection trip a patrol wagonwas called by telephone at a point one-half a mile away from its house, and it arrived on the ground in less th
. The Street railway journal . of the stenographer and typewriter whoaccompanies him on his trip. There are several emergency and patrol wagons locatedat several points in the city. These wagons are kept readyfor immediate call in exactly the same way as is done bythe fire department, harnesses being suspended in such amanner that the horses can be immediately put into po-sition and the wagons run out of the house with but a fewseconds delay. On a recent inspection trip a patrol wagonwas called by telephone at a point one-half a mile away from its house, and it arrived on the ground in less than2:j minutes after telephone connection was made. For the purpose of providing against blockades frombreakdowns on the road each motorman is given a tool-box, which is numbered with his badge, and for which heis responsible. This box is equipped with all the toolsnecessary for above repairs on the road. While it is notthe companys purpose to allow the motormen to do any-thing except emergency work on the cars, they are given. STANDARD INTERURBAN CAR a training sufficient, it is believed, to enable them to gettheir cars into the station under ordinary conditions. The construction cars have already been referred to, andan illustration of one is given on the following page. The snow equipment is somewhat extensive, and isstrong enough to grapple with any storms which may visitMilwaukee; in fact, there have been some fine recordsmade in dealing with heavy storms which have blockedrailroad travel while the electric cars have been able to; un. It is found from the companys books that the entirecost of maintaining the rolling stock in 1898 was $.0091per car mile, of which $.0022 was expended for car bodies,$.0017 on trucks, $.0038 on electrical equipments, and
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