. Electric railway journal . have money tospend and are good riders. Many of the men go toGalveston for the week end. Bad weather increasestravel, as then the aviators are idle. The monthlyincrease in gross earnings for passenger traffic atEllington Field is about $10,000, in addition to from$1,200 to $1,500 for supplying light and power. Theadditional railway service is provided by increasingthe length of trains without change in the usual hourlyheadway. While there is some shipbuilding going on along theHouston Channel at Harrisburg, 5 miles from Houston,it has no direct influence on electri
. Electric railway journal . have money tospend and are good riders. Many of the men go toGalveston for the week end. Bad weather increasestravel, as then the aviators are idle. The monthlyincrease in gross earnings for passenger traffic atEllington Field is about $10,000, in addition to from$1,200 to $1,500 for supplying light and power. Theadditional railway service is provided by increasingthe length of trains without change in the usual hourlyheadway. While there is some shipbuilding going on along theHouston Channel at Harrisburg, 5 miles from Houston,it has no direct influence on electric railway are two plants—the Universal Shipbuilding Com-pany and the Midland Bridge Company—building 3500-ton vessels for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. TheUniversal has a contract for twelve ships and the Mid-land one for six, totaling $4,400,000. There are prob-ably less than 3000 employees, and these travel by steamtrain or automobile. Travel by boat is also possible,but it is too slow. A Graceful Gift. GEORGE H. CLIFFORD,v thenot A v_Jvice-piesident and local f s manager Northern Texas Traction Company, is one ofFort Worths most public-spirited citizens. As one pic-torial proof note the beauti-ful 75-ft. Western red-cedarpole which his company do-nated to fly Fort Worthshonor flag for going over thetop with the Third LibertyLoan. The pole has been erectedin front of the Texas & Pa-cific Railway passenger sta-tion, so that both the nativeand the stranger are not leftin doubt as to where FortWorth stands. Looking atthis handsome pole, one maysay with truth that it was agraceful gift in a doublesense. An earlier similar giftproposed by Mr. Clifford wasa 70-ft. pole which now floatsflag of staff headquarters at Camp Bowie, located3 miles from the center of Fort Worth. Houston War Gardens Win Prizes TO ENCOURAGE the cultivation of war gardens theHouston (Tex.) Electric Company in February senta letter to its men asking them to signify by the endof March whethe
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