. The Street railway journal . THE NEW OFFICE BUILDING-AT HIGHWOOD to Rockefeller; grades and curves have been removed fromthe old portion of the road; new rolling stock has been addedto the equipment; stations have been built along the line, anda new operating office has been erected at Highwood. Muchof this work was begun more than a year ago, but the greaterportion of it has been carried out under the direction of A. , who assumed the office of general manager of the roadearly in the spring of 1905. THE NEW OFFICE BUILDINGAll of the operating offices of the road are located in the new
. The Street railway journal . THE NEW OFFICE BUILDING-AT HIGHWOOD to Rockefeller; grades and curves have been removed fromthe old portion of the road; new rolling stock has been addedto the equipment; stations have been built along the line, anda new operating office has been erected at Highwood. Muchof this work was begun more than a year ago, but the greaterportion of it has been carried out under the direction of A. , who assumed the office of general manager of the roadearly in the spring of 1905. THE NEW OFFICE BUILDINGAll of the operating offices of the road are located in the new. STANDARD CROSS-SECTION OF LINE ON EXTENSIONS office building, completed a few months ago at Highwood. Thebuilding, which occupies a site just south of the car repairshops and present power house, is of brick, and its exterior ap-pearance resembles greatly a Colonial residence. At the pres-ent time the tracks run along the rear side of the building, butwhen they are straightened at this point they will pass alongthe west side or front. On the first floor to the right on entering: the central hall is the general managers office. To the left are those of the super-intendent and superintendent of transportation, the despatchersroom being between these two offices. In the rear of the gen-eral managers office are reading and smoking rooms for train-men. The reading room, in addition to being supplied withtechnical magazines, contains several cases of books, whichmay be drawn out and taken from the building under rules simi-lar to those prevailing in public libraries. The auditors andcashier
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