. The street railway review . sible, always keeping a safe marginfor a reserve. They cannot fall back on the ratepayers for anydeficit. On the other hand, there is no attempt at relieving ordi-nary city rates with tramway profits. The rates are imposed topay for necessary work of various specific kinds performed (or thecommunity, and the work of each department is accounted forseparately. Glasgow Corporation makes its own gas. It does not,however, ask the consumers of gas to pay more than the cost ofits production, in order to lessen the police, or sanitary, or anyother rates. The same with th
. The street railway review . sible, always keeping a safe marginfor a reserve. They cannot fall back on the ratepayers for anydeficit. On the other hand, there is no attempt at relieving ordi-nary city rates with tramway profits. The rates are imposed topay for necessary work of various specific kinds performed (or thecommunity, and the work of each department is accounted forseparately. Glasgow Corporation makes its own gas. It does not,however, ask the consumers of gas to pay more than the cost ofits production, in order to lessen the police, or sanitary, or anyother rates. The same with the tramways. The benefits go to theusers in cheaper (ares, and a better service. INTERESTING OVERHEAD WORK. The accompanying illustration shows an interesting piece of over-head work at one of the car houses of the Cleveland Electric Rail-way Co. Ten tracks are provided, and it will be noted that afterpassing the switch shown in the (oreground only one additionalswitch must be thrown to reach any desired berth in the barn. The. OVKRHEAI) WOKK. CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY. Storage tracks branch from a main track, the switches being nor-mally open, instead of being reached by the continued branching ofYs, which arrangement necessitates the throwing of a greater num-ber of switches, one at every junction. EMPLOYES ROOMS AT CAMDEN. N. J. On the evening of June nth the management of the Camden &Suburban Railway Co., of Camden. N. J., opened a club room lorits employes. Mr. Walter E. Harrington, general manager of thecompany, making the presentation speech. The room was accepted 394 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. X, No. 7. in behalf of the men by Mr. Samuel Holmes, one of the com-panys oldest employes, and later the employes voted a resolutionof thanks to the company. The club room is in the new car houseon Newton Ave., near the City Hall; it has been nicely furnishedand a large number of popular magazines and technical journalshave been subscribed for. While social features will not be
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