. The Street railway journal . tickets, which costs manyroads from 12 cents to 14 cents per thousand, is done by thebureau at a cost of 9^ cents per thousand. This figure in-cludes the clerical expense of keeping the companys ticketrecords, watching the stock on hand at depots and distributingfresh supplies as fast as needed without waiting for requisi-tions. This clerical expense per thousand tickets is are not supplied upon requisition as an ordinary prac-tice. The superintendent of the printing bureau receives aweekly report from all points where tickets are kept in
. The Street railway journal . tickets, which costs manyroads from 12 cents to 14 cents per thousand, is done by thebureau at a cost of 9^ cents per thousand. This figure in-cludes the clerical expense of keeping the companys ticketrecords, watching the stock on hand at depots and distributingfresh supplies as fast as needed without waiting for requisi-tions. This clerical expense per thousand tickets is are not supplied upon requisition as an ordinary prac-tice. The superintendent of the printing bureau receives aweekly report from all points where tickets are kept in the report indicates that the stock of any particularseries is running low the printing bureau is responsible for re-plenishing the stock. Last year 123,000,000 exchange and freetransfer tickets were printed, requiring the use of 85 tons ofpaper. The printing of blank forms, such as conductors waybills, etc., required last year 123 tons of paper. If sent outand paid for at the usual job press prices the bill for the years. PRESS ROOM. PRINTING DEPARTMENT printing would have been not less than $35,000. The entireexpense of the bureau last year was only $23,000. The companyfigures that it saves 25 per cent to 30 per cent on printing billsby doing its own printing. For the benefit of other roads thatmay be interested in the subject of doing their own printing itmay be interesting to describe the equipment of this printingoffice. It contains three two-revolution cylinder presses, fourquarter-medium job presses, two half-medium job presses, twocutting machines, one wire stitching machine, one Webb per-fected press for printing tickets, transfers, etc. The ticketforms are in electrotype plates, of which there are over 5000pieces kept in storage in a fireproof vault. There is also a com-plete equipment of numbering machines. Each press andmachine in the establishment is operated by an individualmotor. Duplicate parts of all electrical equipment are keptconstantly on hand, to be u
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