. Electric railway journal . ed in eachdirection daily, except on Sundays, cars leaving Syracuseat a. m., a. m., p. m. and p. m., andleaving Rochester at 8 a. m., 10 a. m., 2 p. m. and 4 p. m.,but very recently this service has been increased as out-lined in another paragraph. The actual running timefor the 86 miles, as aforementioned, is two hours andforty minutes, so that westbound cars have ten minutesand eastbound cars thirty minutes lay-over. In prac-tice it has been found that these lay-overs are ampleto allow for any incidental delays that may take the par
. Electric railway journal . ed in eachdirection daily, except on Sundays, cars leaving Syracuseat a. m., a. m., p. m. and p. m., andleaving Rochester at 8 a. m., 10 a. m., 2 p. m. and 4 p. m.,but very recently this service has been increased as out-lined in another paragraph. The actual running timefor the 86 miles, as aforementioned, is two hours andforty minutes, so that westbound cars have ten minutesand eastbound cars thirty minutes lay-over. In prac-tice it has been found that these lay-overs are ampleto allow for any incidental delays that may take the parlor-car trains there are seventeen inter-mediate stopping points, and a considerable portion ofthe traffic is between these towns and the larger , a flat charge of 25 cents is made for aseat in the parlor car, regardless of the distance that istraveled. On an average, approximately 100 passengers ride inthe parlor cars each day, during the eight trips, sothat the yearly receipts from the two cars is of the. EMPIRE UNITED RAILWAY PARLOR SERVICE TYPICAL ADVERTISING POSTCARD order of $7,500, an attractive return in view of the factthat practically no additional investment was involvedin the introduction of the service through the purchaseof new cars. However, the real reason for the installation of thenew service was not so much because of the revenueobtained from the sale of parlor-car seats but ratherto encourage the through travel between Rochester,Syracuse, Auburn, an important intermediate city fromwhich connection is made to the main line betweenRochester and Syracuse by means of a short branchroad. That results have justified the companys expec-tations in this regard is demonstrated by the fact that,although the general slump in electric railway receiptsthroughout the country has appeared in the form of adecrease of about 10 per cent in passenger earnings onthe Empire United Railways, the through businessbetween the cities of Rochester, Syracuse and Aubur
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