. Electric railway journal . ertakings with which they are con-nected the same thought that they devote to the technicalfeatures. It cannot be questioned that the long period of compara-tive inactivity in railroad construction and the return ofthe roads to their owners must be followed by a revival ofenterprises of vast magnitude. The comparative freedomfrom governmental red tape which will now be enjoyedshould open up a brilliant prospect to men in this service,and the speaker sincerely trusts that in the new era aboutto dawn his professional brethren who have in the pastdevoted themselves to
. Electric railway journal . ertakings with which they are con-nected the same thought that they devote to the technicalfeatures. It cannot be questioned that the long period of compara-tive inactivity in railroad construction and the return ofthe roads to their owners must be followed by a revival ofenterprises of vast magnitude. The comparative freedomfrom governmental red tape which will now be enjoyedshould open up a brilliant prospect to men in this service,and the speaker sincerely trusts that in the new era aboutto dawn his professional brethren who have in the pastdevoted themselves to this branch of engineering will realizetheir long deferred hopes for the day when members of thisprofession will find a proper financial reward for theirservices. Ajyril 10, 1920 Electric Railway Journal 749 Zone Fares Successful in Holyoke Based on 2-Mile Zones at 3 Cents Per Mile with 6 Cents Per Zone and No Reduced Rate Tickets—Conductors Make Hand Collections Zone by Zone with Overhead Registration—Transfers Unknown. THE zone systemin effect sinceNov. 9, 1919, onthe lines of the Hol-yoke (Mass.) StreetRailway is a model forsimplicity, in that therate of fare in eachzone is uniform, freetransfers are a b o 1-ished except at onepoint in the suburbanterritory and reducedrate tickets—exceptthose required by lawfor school children—are unknown. The result is thatthe system has provedsatisfactory to thecompany in that it isgiving sufficient rev-enues to meet the costof service, although ithas reduced the farefor the majority ofcar riders within thecity of Holyoke itself,where by far the greater number of people ride. The conductors find thesystem of collection can be handled rapidly inasmuch asthe difficulties of variable fares do not exist, no matterhow hea-/y the traffic. The Holyoke Street Railway is not a city systementirely. It operates about 57 miles of lines radiatingfrom what might be termed the hub of the system,Holyoke City Hall, and serves a population of appro
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