. The Street railway journal . CLOSED CONVERTIBLE CAR, WITH DETROIT PLATFORM struction and maintenance; to build and operate, on order of theCouncil, its tracks into new territory, which may amount to 60miles of double track; to waive valuable vested rights, and inaddition to these requirements to pay compensation estimated atfrom 3 per cent to 20 per cent of its gross receipts. Strikes will add largely to the item; increase in insurance pre-miums and damages to persons and property all tend to maintain,if not to increase the rate. The company is asked to invest from fifteen millions to eighte
. The Street railway journal . CLOSED CONVERTIBLE CAR, WITH DETROIT PLATFORM struction and maintenance; to build and operate, on order of theCouncil, its tracks into new territory, which may amount to 60miles of double track; to waive valuable vested rights, and inaddition to these requirements to pay compensation estimated atfrom 3 per cent to 20 per cent of its gross receipts. Strikes will add largely to the item; increase in insurance pre-miums and damages to persons and property all tend to maintain,if not to increase the rate. The company is asked to invest from fifteen millions to eighteenmillions in new construction to meet the demands of this ordi-nance, to stand the depreciation, and to provide for it out of the. TERMINAL OF CONDUIT SYSTEM, WITH DIVIDING WALL EXPOSED SECTION OF CONDUIT SYSTEM the same system. The concrete dividing wall which separatesthe two series of conduit is shown in relief, one of the conduitseries running into a terminal duct and the other ready forcontinuation. To the right and left of the illustration are thecable hanging slots, one of Mr. Gests recent improvements forconduit work. CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY FRANCHISE MATTERS In connection with the publication of the proposed ordinancegranting a new franchise to the Chicago City Railway Com-pany for twenty years, the Council sub-committee has madepublic a letter, addressed by President D. G. Hamilton, of theChicago City Railway Company, to the Council sub-committee,regarding the matter of compensation, which is left blank inthe ordinance. He says in part: It is proposed to require of the company the best service that risks of the future, all out of its present income which is known. All this the company stands willing to do,
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