. Electric railway gazette . is certainly a remarkable Sunday the regulation 72 trips were madewithout a miss. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-day, the regulation week day 93 round trips weremade without amiss; and as everything is work-ing there is no reason, after this date, why sucha record should not be continued. On some trips two hundred passengers arecarried. The total number of passengers car-ried per day is in the neighborhood of seventhousand. March, iSSg THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. 49 There was no little surprise and admirationmanifested at the manner iu which the car toolcits hau
. Electric railway gazette . is certainly a remarkable Sunday the regulation 72 trips were madewithout a miss. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-day, the regulation week day 93 round trips weremade without amiss; and as everything is work-ing there is no reason, after this date, why sucha record should not be continued. On some trips two hundred passengers arecarried. The total number of passengers car-ried per day is in the neighborhood of seventhousand. March, iSSg THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. 49 There was no little surprise and admirationmanifested at the manner iu which the car toolcits haul of more than 150 passengers up the 5^^per cent grade on Cambridge Street, and theease with which the car was stopped and startedupon it. Considering the fact that Cambridge & Sims engines and boilers, having a total ca-pacity of 250 During a severe storm which visited Syracusesome time ago, the motorcars were the only onesto operate on schedule time. This road has runwithout a hitch of any kind since it was first. The Electric Railway in Cleveland, Sprague System. Street is one of the most crowded thoroughfaresin the city of Boston, being the main street overwhich all the Cambridge business from Bostontravels, it is astonishing that such a record couldbe made, and it reflects the greatest of creditupon the engineering skill, and perfect workingof the machinery of the Thomson-Houston com-pany. Taking the performance of these motorcars for one day, as above stated, they made 93round trips. On account of delays through thesteam railroad crossing, or heavy teams, or thedrawbridge being opened, on some days it wasnecessary to put out eight or nine cars ata time. On Monday, seven cars easilyhandled the entire business, making a totalmileage of 604 miles ; this is 86 miles perelectric car per diem. If to this is added thesame mileage of the tow car, a total car mileagewas made of 172 miles to the agency of oneelectric motor car. Figuring on the averagemileage that a horse makes
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