. The Street railway journal . spective towns, andboth are connected with the main office of the railway companyby two telephone circuits. This gives practically, counting the railway. In many cases, furthermore, the company willundoubtedly be able to settle for a few dollars on the spot smallinjuries which might, if taken into court, cost the companymany times their true value. The system to be adopted in despatching interurban cars isas follows: The motorman goes to the telephone, which, assoon as removed from the hook places him in communicationwith the despatcher in the main office. He rec
. The Street railway journal . spective towns, andboth are connected with the main office of the railway companyby two telephone circuits. This gives practically, counting the railway. In many cases, furthermore, the company willundoubtedly be able to settle for a few dollars on the spot smallinjuries which might, if taken into court, cost the companymany times their true value. The system to be adopted in despatching interurban cars isas follows: The motorman goes to the telephone, which, assoon as removed from the hook places him in communicationwith the despatcher in the main office. He receives his orderfrom the despatcher, repeats it to the conductor, who copiesit in a manifolding book. The conductor then steps to thephone and repeats the order, note of which is made by thedespatcher, who marks it O. K. In this way each memberof the crew has a copy of the order, and the despatcher has arecord of it as well, so that should any trouble occur on theline the officials will be able to locate the guilty employee in-. DIAGRAM OF BUFFALO TELEPHONE CIRCUITS the connections through the Bell telephone trunks, three dis-tinct circuits between the main office and the two branch ex-changes. The great advantage of having such a number of one-waytelephones will be readily appreciated. No matter on whatportion of the line a car may be the conductor is able, in caseof accident either to his car equipment or from collision, toimmediately transmit the details of the trouble to the despatcheror any other official of the company. In case of an accident to apassenger, pedestrian or driver, the conductor can in this waybe immediately put in communication with the claim depart-ment, which thus not only gets the very earliest authentic state-ment of the case, but can have its investigators at the scene assoon or sooner than irresponsible or dishonest parties have at-tempted to obtain evidence to be used in damage claims against disputably. The Lockport line, as stated above, has twenty-
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