. The Street railway journal . AILWAY age on the gross receipts. This practice formed the sub-ject of an able review by General Secretary Eduard Fuster,of the French Street Railway Association, in his recentlypublished Annuaire General des Tramways de France,a book containing authoritative statistics in regard to allFrench roads. His words will be ([noted in part when thewriter discusses the street railways of France, althoughthey are applicable to all European roads. Another serious burden on street railway operation inEurope results from the fact that the telephone systems areusually owned e
. The Street railway journal . AILWAY age on the gross receipts. This practice formed the sub-ject of an able review by General Secretary Eduard Fuster,of the French Street Railway Association, in his recentlypublished Annuaire General des Tramways de France,a book containing authoritative statistics in regard to allFrench roads. His words will be ([noted in part when thewriter discusses the street railways of France, althoughthey are applicable to all European roads. Another serious burden on street railway operation inEurope results from the fact that the telephone systems areusually owned either by the government or by the Statewhich grants the franchise to the street railway com-pany. The latter generally uses this circumstance to goodadvantage by imposing conditions on the street railwaycompanies which result in those companies paying for theimprovement in the construction of the telephone State not only requires the railway companies to in-stall guard wires above and next to the trolley wires, which. TURKHEIM-DREIAHREN, INTERURBAN RAILWAY are frequently a complicated network, but also that awooden lath be attached directly above the trolley wire fora guard; that the trolley pole must not carry current; thatthe trolley wheels shall be flanged on each side with hard-rubber bushings which are larger than the wheels them- 68o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 23. selves, and that the company furnish the telephone systemwith a metallic return wire for each single telephone lineas soon as a disturbance is noticed thereon. This, of course,has not been necessary in countries where the telephonelines were operated by private companies. In such casesthe latter had to make such changes as the advance in elec-trical engineering made necessary on account of the intro-duction of the electric railway. During the last year, as the result of an extended seriesof experiments, which were, of course, conducted at theexpense of the railway companies, the conclusion
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