. The Street railway journal . convention for insertion in the minutes. Both air andelectric brakes began to be pushed prominently to the after all, one of the most important reports was thatby H. I. Bettis on A Uniform System of Street Railway Ac-counts. While reports of a similar nature had been previouslypresented, this brought matters to a head, so that probably thedirect result of this report was the organization of the account-ants, which took place a little over two years later. The Atlanta convention-brings us down to the past decade,and it is probably unnecessary to outl
. The Street railway journal . convention for insertion in the minutes. Both air andelectric brakes began to be pushed prominently to the after all, one of the most important reports was thatby H. I. Bettis on A Uniform System of Street Railway Ac-counts. While reports of a similar nature had been previouslypresented, this brought matters to a head, so that probably thedirect result of this report was the organization of the account-ants, which took place a little over two years later. The Atlanta convention-brings us down to the past decade,and it is probably unnecessary to outline as fully the work ofthe association within that time, because this work is betterknown, and also because it is not as easy to judge of its per-manent value. Accordingly, in the review of the past tenyears, mention will be made principally of such features of thework as lasted through several conventions. At the convention of 1895, which was held in Montreal, thequestion of transfers received more attention than at previous. ROBERT McCULLOCH, ALBION E. LANG, President,1896-1897 President,lS97-1898 conventions, and it may be said in general that this question oftransfers and how best to prevent their abuse and misuse hasreceived much more attention during the past ten years thanformerly, because of the great increase in size of the street rail-way systems operated under one management, due to consolida-tions and the suburban extensions resulting from the adoptionof electric traction. Conditions of the past ten years havenecessitated transfer systems which were unthought of in dayswhen there were many different companies operated in a cityand transfers were not expected. Transfer problems are there-fore of comparatively recent origin, and the transfer has beenheard from several times in conventions since the rather com-plete discussion given to it at Montreal. The convention returned to St. Louis again in 1896. Amongthe more prominent subjects at this convention was that oftra
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