. The Street railway journal . S five couponbooks, each contftining 100 five-cent coupons, good for pass-age on all suburban lines. Watch for the lucky numbers. ADVICE ON BACK OF PASSENGERS RECEIPTlected. The stubs of the round-trip tickets and the dupli-cates of the cash-fare receipts show the amount of moneythe conductor should account for to the conipnny. Thecash-fare receipt lias been given a value by agreeing togive away a certain amount of transportation on the firstday of each month to persons holding numbers selected bysome one designated by the company. Thus the passengersall insist u
. The Street railway journal . S five couponbooks, each contftining 100 five-cent coupons, good for pass-age on all suburban lines. Watch for the lucky numbers. ADVICE ON BACK OF PASSENGERS RECEIPTlected. The stubs of the round-trip tickets and the dupli-cates of the cash-fare receipts show the amount of moneythe conductor should account for to the conipnny. Thecash-fare receipt lias been given a value by agreeing togive away a certain amount of transportation on the firstday of each month to persons holding numbers selected bysome one designated by the company. Thus the passengersall insist upon getting receipts. Tiie company lias foundthe system very satisfactory during tlie short time it hasbeen in use. 384 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [\c)L. XXXI. No. lo. THE VIRGL CABLE RAILWAY IN SOUTHERN TYROL The engineering and financial success of the MendelRailway* in the famed Etsch Valley of the Southern Tyrol,Austria, has led to the construction of a neighboring moun-tain cable line known as the Virglbahn, and which offers. CAR STOPPED OVER THE GREAT CONCRETE ARCH 945 ft.) long horizontally and 195 meters (about 640 ft.)vertically. The road construction, however, is consider-ably lighter than the Mendel Railway because the cars aresmaller and the braking stress on the track less. The ex-periments in automatic vacuum braking made on the 70per cent grade showed that loaded cars freed from thecable could be stopped without shockwithin a length of meters (about4 ft.). The line begins at the southern lim-it of the Bozen, connecting at thelower end with a steam railroad. Itextends westerly over a curve of 250meters (820 ft.) radius in its lowerhalf to the Virgl observatory, whichcontains a large restaurant. Thepopularity of this place as a touristresort appears from the fact that evenin the dull autumn season 500 to 1000passengers were carried every Sun-day. The line was opened Nov. 20,1907. Fully 75 per cent of the railway iscut through the porphyritic rock ofwhich the mount
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