. The Street railway journal . om the pallbearers. It is intended thatthe immediate family will occupy one of the end compart-ments and the friends of the deceased the other. The car,which is the first of six to be installed on this road, is hand-somely finished on the outside in chocolate brown and hasthe interior upholstered in appropriate colors with blackvelvet curtains and Brussels carpets. In operation, the cars are side-tracked at the nearest con-venient point during the funeral service. In Clevelandthirty-six stations have been set aside for this purpose. Atthe conclusion of the servic
. The Street railway journal . om the pallbearers. It is intended thatthe immediate family will occupy one of the end compart-ments and the friends of the deceased the other. The car,which is the first of six to be installed on this road, is hand-somely finished on the outside in chocolate brown and hasthe interior upholstered in appropriate colors with blackvelvet curtains and Brussels carpets. In operation, the cars are side-tracked at the nearest con-venient point during the funeral service. In Clevelandthirty-six stations have been set aside for this purpose. Atthe conclusion of the service the casket is carried from thechurch or house by the pallbearers and placed in its posi-tion. Arriving at the cemetery the casket is again takenup by the pallbearers and either carried to the grave or elseplaced on a hand carriage or hearse which is in in use the funeral car has the right of way, and as itwaits on a switch, both at the church and cemetery, thefuneral party proceeds throughout with no August 4, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Testing; and Repairing- Methods of the North TerseyStreet Railway Company The Nortli Jersey Street Railway Company, whichoperates all of the lines in Jersey City, Newark, Patersonand in many of the neighboring towns and country, has inservice over 231 miles of track and about 750 cars. Theextent of its system has compelled the company to giveespecial attention to the care and repair of its rolling of this work is carried on at the Plank Road repairshop of the company in Newark, although many of thecar houses of the company are necessarily equipped withfacilities for making slight repairs. One interesting feature of the Plank Road repair shop isthat nearly all work done is paid for on the piece-worksystem. This method was introduced into these shopsfour or five years ago and has proved most satisfactory toboth men and company. The former find that they earnmore than formerly, while the total cost of repa
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