. Electric railway journal . ch tent hasa kitchen equipped with an oil stove and other necessaryhousekeeping equipment. Where employees have theirown camp outfits, space for camping is furnished free. Upon the basis of present food prices it is calculatedthat supplies for a family of two cost $8 to $12 a weekand for a family of four $15 to $18 a week. The tentcost for single persons, who must combine in groups,is $ apiece a week, and for a family of two or more(all dependent except the head) the cost is $ a relatives or friends may be included ifspare equipment happe
. Electric railway journal . ch tent hasa kitchen equipped with an oil stove and other necessaryhousekeeping equipment. Where employees have theirown camp outfits, space for camping is furnished free. Upon the basis of present food prices it is calculatedthat supplies for a family of two cost $8 to $12 a weekand for a family of four $15 to $18 a week. The tentcost for single persons, who must combine in groups,is $ apiece a week, and for a family of two or more(all dependent except the head) the cost is $ a relatives or friends may be included ifspare equipment happens to be available at the time ofarrival. The company furnishes free round-trip trans-portation to employees and their dependents from anypoint, and the San Bernardino Mountain Auto Linegives reduced rates to these. Two weeks is the maximum stay permitted unless thecamper has his own outfit. Camp periods begin andend with Sunday. Reservations cannot be made forsplit weeks. The season begins on June 15 and extendsto Sent. HOW THE PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY MAKES VACATION PLEaSANT FOR ITS EMPLOYEES 1160 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. 24 Philip Dawson on Future Electrification Ministry of Ways and Communications Will Temporarily Retard But Eventually Accelerate Electrifica-tion on a Large Scale—Plans Made by Individual Railways Would Be Altered in Some Particu-lars—A Wider Choice of Systems Now Possible—Success of the Brighton Electrifica-tion Leads to More Ambitious Plans for Early Development PHILIP DAWSON needs no intro-duction to the American electricrailway engineer nor to otherreaders of the Electric RailwayJounral. In his early days, DawsonsElectric Traction quickly became thehandbook of the street and interurbanrailway. In the last decade, Mr. Dawson hasachieved fame through his pioneer workin heavy electrification, notably that ofthe London, Brighton & South CoastRailways suburban lines. Full of ir-repressible vim and energy, he is thetype of man whose int
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