. Electric railway journal . considerable number of restraining in-fluences brought about by city councils, state legis-latures, state commissions, etc. Notwithstandingthis, however, there is no instance where the suc-cess of the operation has not followed when the rail-way operator was possessed of a sufficiently broadvision to share part of the economy secured withthe public in the way of better car service and withthe car operators in the form of increased wages. In general it may be said that the best method ofinaugurating the new form of service is by meansof new cars especially built for
. Electric railway journal . considerable number of restraining in-fluences brought about by city councils, state legis-latures, state commissions, etc. Notwithstandingthis, however, there is no instance where the suc-cess of the operation has not followed when the rail-way operator was possessed of a sufficiently broadvision to share part of the economy secured withthe public in the way of better car service and withthe car operators in the form of increased wages. In general it may be said that the best method ofinaugurating the new form of service is by meansof new cars especially built for the purpose, suf-ficient in number to equip some one line in anygiven city, so that the meritorious features of theiroperation may stand out unhampered by restric-tions involved in older types of cars. At any ratewhere this method has been followed there has notbeen a single instance in which economy of opera-tion and success have not been realized. The Quick Service Car By F. W. Hiltl General Manager Denver {Col.) Tramway. N these critical days of the electricrailway industry those who arecharged with the responsibility ofdirecting and financing these prop-erties find themselves faced withdifficulties which in variety andmagnitude are experienced in per-haps no other industry. This has necessitatedstudy of the various problems with an anxiouscare that must in the end result in good for theindustry. These difficulties are partly due to the fault ofthe electric railways themselves through the un-witting mistakes of the earlier operators or pio-neers in the industry and also partly to causes en-tirely beyond the control of the railways. In the former group are such things as over-expansion on many systems and also the old agree-ments to carry passengers for abnormally long dis-tances for excessively low rates of fare, whether ornot this resulted from the expansion of the citylimits or the operation of the universal another is the failure generally among electricra
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