. The street railway review . ompeting steam railroad lines, but, for the reason thatpeople can get on and off of our cars very close to the pointsto which they wish to go, in most instances directly infront of the places to which they wish to go, whereas travel-ing on the steam railroads heretofore it was necessary forthem to go to the railroad depots and walk to and from theultimate destinations. In my judgment, not over 15 per cent of the patronageof our interurban line is the class that formerly patronizedthe steam railroads. Our road has created a new comingand going, and has not had to d
. The street railway review . ompeting steam railroad lines, but, for the reason thatpeople can get on and off of our cars very close to the pointsto which they wish to go, in most instances directly infront of the places to which they wish to go, whereas travel-ing on the steam railroads heretofore it was necessary forthem to go to the railroad depots and walk to and from theultimate destinations. In my judgment, not over 15 per cent of the patronageof our interurban line is the class that formerly patronizedthe steam railroads. Our road has created a new comingand going, and has not had to depend for its business uponthe traffic formerly handled by the steam railroads. The map shows the interurban and suburban lines of the The McKeesport, Wilmerding & Duquesne RailwayCompany had a special count kept for two days, and Super-intendent Etheridge advises us of the result as follows: On April 29, there were 168 through passengers and 819local passengers, or pick-ups, between the termini, whichare miles apart. LINES OF THE BIRMINGHAM (ALA.) RAILWAY & ELECTRIC COMPANY. ?2l5 ^1JMt%\Uviai\%icw* On April 30, there were 288 through and pick-ups. The percentage of through passengers was: April 29 17-0 per cent. April 30 141 per cent. For the two days per cent. Burt Van Horn, general manager of the BulTalo & Niaga-ra FaJls Electric Railway, furnishes the following statementshowing the number of passengers carried between the dif-ferent points along the line of that road and the distancesbetween tlie several stations, which are also stations of thesteam roads. Mr. Van Horn states: It is very difficult,and indeed impossible, to arrive at the number of passen-gers carried from points along the line which are locatedbetween the places named. The same fare is charged fromany point in a township to any point in any other townshipalong the line. Between. Buffalo and Buffalo and Nortfi Tona-wanda Buffalo and La Salle Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Tonawanda and
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