. The Street railway journal . orizontalone of 250 H. P., of which only one-half iskept in use, developing a maximum of 100H. P. to run eight cars. The cost of the electric conductor, set upwith its supports, is $1 per foot, with ordi-nary day labor at 50 cents per day, skilledlabor 75 cents to $1. The cost of operation of the electric roadis said to be so great that the general opin-ion seems to be that it is not going to payinterest on the investment, in spite of thefact that the cars are nearly always wellfilled. In regard to regularity and certainty ofoperations, Dr. Siemens asserts that t
. The Street railway journal . orizontalone of 250 H. P., of which only one-half iskept in use, developing a maximum of 100H. P. to run eight cars. The cost of the electric conductor, set upwith its supports, is $1 per foot, with ordi-nary day labor at 50 cents per day, skilledlabor 75 cents to $1. The cost of operation of the electric roadis said to be so great that the general opin-ion seems to be that it is not going to payinterest on the investment, in spite of thefact that the cars are nearly always wellfilled. In regard to regularity and certainty ofoperations, Dr. Siemens asserts that thetraffic is satisfactory in this respect. In arecent address, however, to the local tech-nical club (apropos of another motor), the speaker referred to the frequent interrup-tions of the traffic. On a recent round tripby the writer the passengers had to trans-fer to another car both in going and coming,on account of a crossing out of order. Theroad was three days out of operation for thepurpose of repairs to the steam American Street Railway Association. Officeks, 1884-5. President.—Calvin A. Richards, President Metro-politan Railroad Co., Boston, Mass. First Vice-president.— Julius S. Walsh, PresidentCitizens Railway Co., St. Louis, Mo. Second Vice-president—-Henry M. Watson, Presi-dent of the Buffalo Street Railway Co., Buffalo, third Vice-president.—Edward Lusher, Secretaryand Treasurer the Montreal City Passenger RailwayCo., Montreal, Canada. Secretary and Treasurer.— William J. Richardson,Secretary the Atlantic Avenue Railway Co., Brook-lyn, N. Y. Executive Committee.—President, Vice-presidentsand William H. Hazzard, President Brooklyn CityRailroad Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.; JamesK. Lake, Super-intendent Chicago West-Division Railway, Chicago,ill.; Chailes J. Harrah, President the Peoples Pas-senger Railway Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; WilliamWhite, President Dry Dock, East B. & B. R. R. Co.,New York, N. Y.; B. Du Pont, President CentralPassenger Railroad
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