. The Street railway journal . BOILER ROOM ABOVE BOILERS in the old steam railroad days. At all other cross-ings where electric alarm bells were formerly op-erated there is no provision made for safety other thanthe vigilance of the motorman and his control of his Providence and Fall River the fare, which for-merly was 50 cents, has been reduced to 20 cents. The roadis divided into four sections, a five-cent fare being taken by. CROSSING A SINGLE TRACK BRIDGE the conductor after the line of each section has beencrossed. Tickets are sold for the convenience of passen-gers, but no


. The Street railway journal . BOILER ROOM ABOVE BOILERS in the old steam railroad days. At all other cross-ings where electric alarm bells were formerly op-erated there is no provision made for safety other thanthe vigilance of the motorman and his control of his Providence and Fall River the fare, which for-merly was 50 cents, has been reduced to 20 cents. The roadis divided into four sections, a five-cent fare being taken by. CROSSING A SINGLE TRACK BRIDGE the conductor after the line of each section has beencrossed. Tickets are sold for the convenience of passen-gers, but no reduction is made in price. Each car has itsown conductor, and besides the motorman there is an ex-tra brakeman on every train. The fares are registered ascollected on a register made by the New Haven Car Regis-ter Company, of New Haven, Conn. The cars are providedwith a bell rope which, when pulled, operates a whistle inthe motormans compartment on the platform in the samemanner as the signal whistle in the engine cab of the steamtrains is blown. The work of electrically equipping this branch wascarried out by the electrical department of the New York,New Haven & Hartford Railroad, of which Colonel N. is the chief, the plans for the power station and lineconstruction being prepared in his office. R. E. Wade isthe resident engineer in charge. 258 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 9. The Brown System of Discipline as Us


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