. Electric railway journal . But fire-fighting equipment provides at best only aremedial type of protection. It seems logical to putat least as much stress on preventive protection. Suchprotection means the segregation and isolation of allinflammables and explosives, scrupulously clean prem-ises and adequate supervision. There is much that canbe done in a construction way, even with old is everybodys business is usually nobodys busi-ness, and the entire matter of fire hazard and fire pro-tection must be handled in a businesslike manner byofficials vested with sufficient authorit
. Electric railway journal . But fire-fighting equipment provides at best only aremedial type of protection. It seems logical to putat least as much stress on preventive protection. Suchprotection means the segregation and isolation of allinflammables and explosives, scrupulously clean prem-ises and adequate supervision. There is much that canbe done in a construction way, even with old is everybodys business is usually nobodys busi-ness, and the entire matter of fire hazard and fire pro-tection must be handled in a businesslike manner byofficials vested with sufficient authority to get decisiveresults. 404 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 10 High Passenger Density the OutstandingFeature of New Service to Hog Island The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Uses Train-Operated Surface Cars of LargeStanding Capacity to Carry the Shipbuilders—The Heavy Rush-Hour Traf-fic Imposes Severe Service Requirements Upon the Rolling Stock—NewFeatures Are Incorporated in the Door Control and Interlocking System. GOING AFTER THE HOG ISLANDERS THE heavy passenger traffic suddenly thrown onone corner, as it were, of Philadelphias trans-portation system by the development of UncleSams big shipyard at Hog Island, necessitated aconsiderable increase in the available equipment of thePhiladelphia Rapid Transit Company. As was noted inthe news columns of the Electric Railway Journalfor March 16, 1918, 100 new cars were purchased fromthe J. G. Brill Company, specifically to take care ofthe service to this shipyard. The funds necessary tocover the cost of these cars were provided by theEmergency Fleet Corporation under an agreement thegeneral terms of which were published in the ElectricRailway Journal for Aug. 3, page 186. The transportation of the 30,000 shipbuilders to andfrom the scene of their daily labors is, of course, rush-hour traffic of the mostsevere type. This and theisolated location of theshipyard, taken together,result in a very high pas-senger density per mile
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