. Electric railway journal . two post-ers in the middle of thispage have just been pub-lished by the PittsburghRailways. They formparts of the series begunby the company on Howlong will the nickel standthe strain? mentioned onpage 1338 of the issue ofthis paper for Dec. 30,1916. The reproductionat the bottom of the pageshows four of eight safety-first sketches, published ina recent Sunday comicsupplement of the KansasCity Post and formingpart of the safety cam-paign of the Kansas CityRailways. As a directway of reaching the chil-dren this method of adver-tising seems effective. SOME THINGS THE


. Electric railway journal . two post-ers in the middle of thispage have just been pub-lished by the PittsburghRailways. They formparts of the series begunby the company on Howlong will the nickel standthe strain? mentioned onpage 1338 of the issue ofthis paper for Dec. 30,1916. The reproductionat the bottom of the pageshows four of eight safety-first sketches, published ina recent Sunday comicsupplement of the KansasCity Post and formingpart of the safety cam-paign of the Kansas CityRailways. As a directway of reaching the chil-dren this method of adver-tising seems effective. SOME THINGS THE COMPANY HASDONE TO SAVE THE NICKEL ORIGINATED THE LOW-FLOOR CAR. WHICHMARKS AN EPOCH IN SURFACE CAR IS BEING COPIED IN MANY AMERICANCITIES. V* in weight. V* in electric power. V« in time to enter or leave. Wear and tear on track. Number of steps into car. In number of passengers carried per car. Accidents due to strength and design of car. IC 111 m HIS It I HI II 6 MILES OF NEW CARSPURCHASED IN 6 YEARS. NOW, BOYS andGIRLS : had several hearty Uug! tnny, WAS careless, wasnt he? fllti Con,:.H Happy Hool^a1 CARELESS Thats it Are YOU ever careless? Lets think SERIOUSLYafter our lauch about being careless. ONLY CARELESSBOYS AND GIRLS GET HURT, you know. I .OOK AT THESE RES WHY .i 206 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 5 Development of Traffic Symposium of Articles Describing the Methods Followed by Four Prominent InterurbanRailway Companies—The Haulage of Freight Is Considered a Most Desirable Form of Revenue THE Electric Railway Journal has obtained con-tributions on the subject of freight traffic from theoffices in charge of this class of business on fourimportant interurban railways. Many electric railwaycompanies carry on a freight traffic on a small few of them do a considerable business in this greater number have as yet done nothing. Thewriters in this issue. point out that freight haulageoffers an opportunity for much greater gr


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