. Electric railway journal . to keep their properties efficientat the lowest cost, but the incidents recited may be con-sidered sufficiently accurate and reliable, having beentaken from actual cost records, to demonstrate that de-ferred maintenance or unskilled track work is an ex-pensive method of conserving the roadway and that itis just as important to apply skill and science to themaintenance of track and special work as it is to anyother line of endeavor. Recruiting Car at Belfast BY A. A. BLACKBURN, , , CHIEF ENGINEERBELFAST (IRELAND) CITY TRAMWAYS The tramways committee
. Electric railway journal . to keep their properties efficientat the lowest cost, but the incidents recited may be con-sidered sufficiently accurate and reliable, having beentaken from actual cost records, to demonstrate that de-ferred maintenance or unskilled track work is an ex-pensive method of conserving the roadway and that itis just as important to apply skill and science to themaintenance of track and special work as it is to anyother line of endeavor. Recruiting Car at Belfast BY A. A. BLACKBURN, , , CHIEF ENGINEERBELFAST (IRELAND) CITY TRAMWAYS The tramways committee of the Belfast Corporationhaving been approached by the officer commanding theUlster division of Kitcheners army to assist them intheir recruiting campaign, placed a tramcar at their dis-posal. The car works department then prepared one ofits standard cars for the occasion. The top, side and end boards were very tastefullycovered with a large variety of recruiting posters. Inthe center windows of both the top and bottom com-. BELFAST CAR WITH A STIRRING APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS partments were displayed large colored transparenciesof the King and Queen, with a poster in the center bear-ing the words, Britons, Your Country Needs all other windows were displayed colored postersurgently calling for recruits. Along the lower panels at the sides of the car werethe following inscriptions: Wake Up, Ulster—Stand toArms—Join Kitcheners Army and Ulstermen, JoinOur Heroes at the Front. They Expect You. TheyNeed You. At night the car is brilliantly illuminatedwith 400 16-cp lamps in colors. The car traverses all the routes and runs from 9 until 10 On the car are three recruiting offi-cers, who have found that this car has brought in quitea number of willing recruits from the outlying dis-tricts of Belfast. Progress on the Newark Terminal Construction of Subway Nearly Complete—Steel FrameErection to Upper Train Floor Going Forward Rapidly The accompanying illustration sho
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