. The Street railway journal . cents (6 for 25 cents) with universal transfers overthe system for one fare. This system, built under the foregoing franchise terms,was the property of the Detroit Railway Company. Thiswill be designated hereafter in this article as the low-fareline, and constitutes what is popularly known as the 3-centfare road. Previous to the building of this svstem the. VIEW ON ONE OF DETROITS NARROW RESIDENTIAL STREETS service on each division. The superintendent of motivepower is responsible for the operation of all power houses,the maintenance of rolling stock and the repa
. The Street railway journal . cents (6 for 25 cents) with universal transfers overthe system for one fare. This system, built under the foregoing franchise terms,was the property of the Detroit Railway Company. Thiswill be designated hereafter in this article as the low-fareline, and constitutes what is popularly known as the 3-centfare road. Previous to the building of this svstem the. VIEW ON ONE OF DETROITS NARROW RESIDENTIAL STREETS service on each division. The superintendent of motivepower is responsible for the operation of all power houses,the maintenance of rolling stock and the repair shops. Theassistant superintendent of motive power, who is practi-cally the electrical engineer of the company, has charge ofall line construction and repairs, plans all electrical work,supervises all electrical testing and advises with the super-intendent of motive power in power house electrical duties of the other officers are evident from their titles. ♦♦^ Three-Cent Fares in Detroit As it has been an impression on the part of the unin-formed in various parts of the United States, that a numberof street railway lines in Detroit are profitably operatedwith a 3-cent fare, in place of the usual 5-cent fare, and asarguments based on this erroneous impression arcsometimes advanced when street railway legislation ispending in other cities, a statement of the true st
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