. Electric railway review . king compartment, ahead of the gen-eral compartment, is finished in golden oak as are thevestibules. The seats in the smoker are longitudinal alongthe sides. Each seat extends the whole length of thesmoker, 10 feet 8 inches. Ahead of the smoking compart- Traction Company is closely allied. Cars are started atMuncie at 5:30 a. m., and at Portland at 5:20 a. m. daily,and a 60-minute schedule is provided until 6:20 p. m., afterwhich cars are run every two hours until 11 p. m. The runfrom Portland to Muncie, miles, with its six regular sta-tion stops, and 20 road c
. Electric railway review . king compartment, ahead of the gen-eral compartment, is finished in golden oak as are thevestibules. The seats in the smoker are longitudinal alongthe sides. Each seat extends the whole length of thesmoker, 10 feet 8 inches. Ahead of the smoking compart- Traction Company is closely allied. Cars are started atMuncie at 5:30 a. m., and at Portland at 5:20 a. m. daily,and a 60-minute schedule is provided until 6:20 p. m., afterwhich cars are run every two hours until 11 p. m. The runfrom Portland to Muncie, miles, with its six regular sta-tion stops, and 20 road crossing flag stations is made in 70minutes. These conditions necessitate quite high speedsbetween stations. As three cars are regularly kept on therun, a 25:minute layover is afforded at each terminus. Thisis advantageous in keeping the cars on schedule inasmuch ascars that are delayed less than the time allowed for lay-overs, can again be started out on schedule time. Interline tickets are sold to any point on the lines of. Muncie & Portland Traction Company—Standard Passenger Car. ment is a space 9 feet % inch long set apart by apartition, for the motorman and baggage. The forward di-vision of the car has one door on the left side. Whennot fully occupied by baggage folding seats along the sidesmay be used by passengers. The hot water heater is placedin the baggage compartment close to the smoking compart-ment partition. The total seating capacity of the car issufficient for 50 passengers. The cars are 50 feet 7 inches long over bumpers, 48 feet9 inches long over vestibules and 8 feet 8 inches wide overall. There ai-e seven double windows on either side of the the Indiana Union Traction Company. A charge of twocents a mile is made for all one-way tickets or cash faresand a ten-cent reduction is allowed on round trip tickets be-tween Portland and Muncie. Regular ticket and freight agents are stationed at Port-land, Como, Red Key, Dunkirk, Albany, De Soto and Mun-cie. The rate
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