. Electric railway journal . icket sales sold at theBrooklyn Bridge station by over 20 per cent and at thesame time has increased considerably the ticket sales atBowling Green, Wall Street and Fulton Street. The totalincrease in ticket sales at these three stations will show anincrease of approximately 5,000,000 tickets during 1908which will offset the falling off of ticket sales at Brook-lyn Bridge. As a result the entire ticket sales on theBrooklyn side of the tubes under the East River may betaken as the measure of the influence of the Brooklyn ex-tension on the earning power of the subway.
. Electric railway journal . icket sales sold at theBrooklyn Bridge station by over 20 per cent and at thesame time has increased considerably the ticket sales atBowling Green, Wall Street and Fulton Street. The totalincrease in ticket sales at these three stations will show anincrease of approximately 5,000,000 tickets during 1908which will offset the falling off of ticket sales at Brook-lyn Bridge. As a result the entire ticket sales on theBrooklyn side of the tubes under the East River may betaken as the measure of the influence of the Brooklyn ex-tension on the earning power of the subway. As near asthe earnings can be estimated at present the ticket sales atthe various Brooklyn stations after May 1, 1908, will be atabout the following rates per year: Borough Hall 7,500,000 Atlantic Avenue 9,500,000 Nevins Street 2,500,000 Hoyt Street 2,500,000 a total for the Brooklyn extension of 22,000,000 pas-sengers per year. The passenger traffic to and from Brook-lyn is a fortunate addition to the subway business, as a. — _l v» T * Arnold Report—Loading Diagram of Southbound LocalTrain, Morning Rush Hour large portion of the Brooklyn passengers ride a compara-tively short distance and in a direction opposite to the Man-hattan load tending to use more effectively the return carsand thus cut down the proportion of empty seats. MONTHLY VARIATIONS IN TRAFFIC The ticket sales from month to month show a charac-teristic variation throughout the year, the lowest valuesoccurring during July and August of each year and thehighest during December. The percentage relation of thelowest and highest monthly values to the average monthlyvalue for the corresponding year and the ratio each yearbetween the maximum month and the minimum month areshown in the accompanying table. It will be noticed thatthis latter ratio is decreasing; that is, that the falling off inpatronage during the summer months is less evidencedeach year. The decrease in the traffic of the subway during t
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