. The Street railway journal . FIG. STRASSE STATION, INTERIOR. FIG. 21.—SECOND-CLASS CAR FROM SMOKING COMPARTMENT in the side walls. Ticket offices are usually found on the streetlevel, and an excellent device for economizing in wages is theticket slot machine, into which one drops a 10 pfennig piece( cents) and a third-class ticket automatically comes out,without even having to pull a handle. It is surprising that sucha practical and saving affair has not been introduced in thiscountry, in view of its successful use in Berlin, by the Staterailways before the elevated, the ticket
. The Street railway journal . FIG. STRASSE STATION, INTERIOR. FIG. 21.—SECOND-CLASS CAR FROM SMOKING COMPARTMENT in the side walls. Ticket offices are usually found on the streetlevel, and an excellent device for economizing in wages is theticket slot machine, into which one drops a 10 pfennig piece( cents) and a third-class ticket automatically comes out,without even having to pull a handle. It is surprising that sucha practical and saving affair has not been introduced in thiscountry, in view of its successful use in Berlin, by the Staterailways before the elevated, the ticket machines on the BerlinMetropolitan line even supplying four kinds of tickets at dif-ferent prices, and giving back change, delivering, two yearsago, over a million tickets a month. The Berlin cars have some very remarkable and importantfeatures. The three-car trains consist of a third-class smokingmotor car at one end, a third-class non-smoking car at the otherend, and a second-class trailer between, divided by a glazedpartition and door into smoking and non-smoking
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