. Electric railway journal . of labor are often very closely allied,but all will agree that the management of a street railway,which is entrusted with the responsibility of its operation, mustlie the sole judge of the acts of the employees. Discipline im-plies supreme authority and power to punish for cause. If thispower is weakened by the possibility of reversal of judgment bysome outside arbitrator, discipline would soon cease to exist. ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXV. No. 2. NEW CAR HOUSE OF THE CAPITAL TRACTIONCOMPANY, WASHINGTON, D. C. The Capital Traction Company, Washington, D. C,
. Electric railway journal . of labor are often very closely allied,but all will agree that the management of a street railway,which is entrusted with the responsibility of its operation, mustlie the sole judge of the acts of the employees. Discipline im-plies supreme authority and power to punish for cause. If thispower is weakened by the possibility of reversal of judgment bysome outside arbitrator, discipline would soon cease to exist. ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXV. No. 2. NEW CAR HOUSE OF THE CAPITAL TRACTIONCOMPANY, WASHINGTON, D. C. The Capital Traction Company, Washington, D. C, now hasin use a new car house built last summer at Eighth and MStreets S. E., opposite the entrance to the Navy Yard. Threelines, including the Navy Yard-Georgetown line, terminate atthis car house, and facilities have been provided for makinglight repairs and inspections, as well as trainmens quarters,receivers cages and superintendents office. The building isunique in that it is designed to ultimately have two floors over. Washington Car House—Transfer Table in New Section the entire area, the second floor to be used for storing cars outof service. It occupies an entire block, and is 251 ft. x 289 in. in dimensions. Reinforced concrete construction onthe Johnson system has been used throughout for the pit walls,columns, roof girders and slabs. The walls are of red claybrick outside and white sand lime brick inside. A wooden-frame, brick-walled car house, 97 ft. wide and containing ninestorage tracks formerly occupied part of the block, and thewalls of this old structure have been retained in the enlargedbuilding, as they were high enough originally to accommodatetwo floors. The concrete pits, second floor and roof, however,are new, and were designed to be uniform with those in thenew section of the house adjoining. The house is of the transfer table entrance type, which iswell adapted to underground conduit operation because of thesaving over the cost of complicated s
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