. The street railway review . into power,to explain to him that it is a part of his duty to have hismen watch the boys who make it a practice to hitch onthe cars, and to make an example of some of them,occasionally, by arresting and locking up for a few generally lasts for several weeks. As this is all we get out of the police for their rides, we do not feelwe are asking anything out of the way. Besides, I con-sider it their duty to keep the boys off, if only as asafety measure to the boys themselves. MILEAGE AT AUGUSTA, ME. The trolley wheels of the Augusta, Hallowell & Gard-ner Ra
. The street railway review . into power,to explain to him that it is a part of his duty to have hismen watch the boys who make it a practice to hitch onthe cars, and to make an example of some of them,occasionally, by arresting and locking up for a few generally lasts for several weeks. As this is all we get out of the police for their rides, we do not feelwe are asking anything out of the way. Besides, I con-sider it their duty to keep the boys off, if only as asafety measure to the boys themselves. MILEAGE AT AUGUSTA, ME. The trolley wheels of the Augusta, Hallowell & Gard-ner Railroad rubbed against 579,819 miles of wire in1893. Some of the conductors rode 40,000 miles dur-ing the year, or an average of 109 miles every day, sup-posing that they worked every day. But one personwas killed. Over two million were carried. THE SEVEY FARE BOX. While northern roads have settled down to the fareregister ^s being the best available check on the honestyof the conductor, New Orleans roads have been experi-. CnOSS SECTION tONOITUDINULTHE SEVEY FARE BOX. menting with the attempt to make some of the devices proposed, is the invention of W. It is a fare box, to be carried by the conductor. The passenger is expectedto deposit the fare in thebox. It falls into an upperchamber, as shown in thecross section. It is then infull view. The conductorturns the brass bottom of theupper chamber into the posi-tion shown by the dottedlines, and the inoney is emp-tied into the lower, where it can only be get at byunlocking a Yale lock. The intention is to have theboxes made of aluminum.
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