. Electric railway gazette . 00,000. It pays a State tax, fromwhich the city obtains a benefit, which this year, throughthe three companies, amounted to about $450,000; a citytax of about $90,000 on dividends; a tax on cars, whichaggregated about $90,000, and a tax on real estate ofabout $45,000. In other words, the city and State receiveabout 18 per cent, of the gross receipts of this corpora-tion—a greater tax, the company claims, than any railwaysystem in America is subjected to. Although it has madea vast investment, is liberal in its contributions to publicexpenses, and affords an admirab
. Electric railway gazette . 00,000. It pays a State tax, fromwhich the city obtains a benefit, which this year, throughthe three companies, amounted to about $450,000; a citytax of about $90,000 on dividends; a tax on cars, whichaggregated about $90,000, and a tax on real estate ofabout $45,000. In other words, the city and State receiveabout 18 per cent, of the gross receipts of this corpora-tion—a greater tax, the company claims, than any railwaysystem in America is subjected to. Although it has madea vast investment, is liberal in its contributions to publicexpenses, and affords an admirable service, the public willnot be satisfied until they enjoy still greater privileges,especially the privilege of a most generous transfersystem. 404 ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XIII. No. 22. Horde Conduit System. In the railway conduit system which has been designedby the Horde Huetten Verein, of Germany, a numberof existing ideas are ingeniously combined with sev-eral new ones. It is claimed that its cost is only 9 or. FIG. I.—CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION. 10 per cent, greater than that of the overhead trolley sys-tem. It consists of a bonded track, an inverted conduitfor the conductor, and a commodious drainage sides of this latter conduit are of sheet iron, which isstamped or corrugated at frequent intervals, so as to bet-ter resist earth pressures. The supporting yokes arestamped out of a steel plate 4 mm. in thickness, withribs stamped into their sections, thus giving them greatstrength. The drainage conduit is formed of two piecesof sheet steel, which meet in the pointed bottom of theconduit. They are provided with end flanges, which arebolted to the yokes or trestles, as they are called. The system involves the use of a single con-ducting wire, the track forming the return. Only asingle conduit is therefore needed. This is con-structed with profile iron and angle iron, so joined as toform an inverted U. The principal economical featureemphasized is that the c
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