. Electric railway journal . LECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 643 FARE COLLECTION AT PROVIDENCE The use of the Rooke system of automatic fare collectionon the lines of the Rhode Island Company has increasedfrom the initial trial installation of six years ago to thepoint where every car operated in the passenger service ofthe road is using this method of registration, and about 900registers are in use. The register is carried by the conductor, as it weighs but21 oz. In brief, it is a small nickel-plated box having acoin slot on one side, through which the passenger insertsthe nickel, the coin being draw
. Electric railway journal . LECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 643 FARE COLLECTION AT PROVIDENCE The use of the Rooke system of automatic fare collectionon the lines of the Rhode Island Company has increasedfrom the initial trial installation of six years ago to thepoint where every car operated in the passenger service ofthe road is using this method of registration, and about 900registers are in use. The register is carried by the conductor, as it weighs but21 oz. In brief, it is a small nickel-plated box having acoin slot on one side, through which the passenger insertsthe nickel, the coin being drawn into the device by themechanism of the register as soon as its edge touchescertain levers within the slot, whereupon the fare is regis-tered automatically. The coin passes entirely through theregister immediately after it enters the receiving slot, ring-ing a bell in the register as it is recorded, and is deliveredinto an open receiving compartment at the bottom of thedevice, thus becoming available for making change. When. Providence Fare Collection—Receiving Fare in PortableRegister the coin has once entered the slot it cannot be withdrawnbut must pass through the register into the conductorshand. The entrance to the coin passage is automaticallyclosed by the passage of the coin, and no additional coincan be inserted until the re-setting of the opening by theconductor. The Providence equipments carry two totalizing registra-tion trains, one for nickels and one for dimes, and in thelatest type of register made by the Rooke Automatic Reg-ister Company at its factory, in Providence, R. I., an addi-tional counter is provided for metal tickets. It is notintended, however, that the public should pay fares indimes, and while the dime registration feature is built towithstand the same hard service imposed upon the nickel-recording mechanism, the rules of the company requirenickel payments alone. Signs carrying instructions forpassengers as well as a request for them to have nicke
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