. Electric railway journal . Mr. Shartel, the automobile even injuresour standing with the regular riding public because ofrainy-day crowding. Unlike most electric railways, the Oklahoma Citylines were planned with a careful eye to the futuregrowth of the city. Thus the lines were so laid outthat beyond lV-> miles from the center of the city paral-lel routes would be about x/% mile apart until an in-creasing population made it necessary to sandwich newlines between at ^-mile intervals. The automobile development has come just in time toprevent this extra expenditure of capital in most cases
. Electric railway journal . Mr. Shartel, the automobile even injuresour standing with the regular riding public because ofrainy-day crowding. Unlike most electric railways, the Oklahoma Citylines were planned with a careful eye to the futuregrowth of the city. Thus the lines were so laid outthat beyond lV-> miles from the center of the city paral-lel routes would be about x/% mile apart until an in-creasing population made it necessary to sandwich newlines between at ^-mile intervals. The automobile development has come just in time toprevent this extra expenditure of capital in most cases. Mr. Shartel regards the automobile for regular city 314 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. 50, No. 8 riding as essentially a luxury, and believes that withhard times it will have an effect on the gross earningsof not more than 10 per cent rather than 20 per course, hard times will cut other riding, so that theaccession from former automobilists, he thought, mighthe regarded as a sort of storage battery for the electric. INTERURBAN STATION AT EDMOND, OKLA. railway. The worst effects of the private city machinewere past. The interurban lines had not felt the automobile toan appreciable extent. Even with improved highwaysthis would continue, because all lines were on privateright-of-way and it would not be long before gradecrossings were eliminated to such an extent that theaverage schedule speed of local trains would be 28in instead of 23 , with express service at One-Man Possibilities Mr-. Shartel has a keen eye on what other railways aredoing with one-man cars, but is making haste grade crossings are numerous, for one thing, asthere are few routes in Oklahoma City without fourcrossings on a round trip. Furthermore, as the con-struction of the Oklahoma system was begun as late as1902, the cars are comparatively new and the deprecia-tion allowance would be very heavy. The standard car type seats forty-four people andweighs 30,960 lb., and we
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