. The Street railway journal . e Yonkers system, with trans-fer points in the city of Mount Vernon, at the Harlem sta-tion, and also from Jerome Avenue to Yonkers. The linesin operation in the city of Yonkers measure about 20 Union Railway system also controls the Tarry town,White Plains & Mamaroneck Railway Company, which(iperates cars from Tarrytown ti > White ] Mains and to Ma-manineck, and also from \\liik Plains t(j Scarsdale, making- It is obvious to anyone who is informed as to the topog-raphy of Greater New York and Westchester County thatour passengers easily get a long h
. The Street railway journal . e Yonkers system, with trans-fer points in the city of Mount Vernon, at the Harlem sta-tion, and also from Jerome Avenue to Yonkers. The linesin operation in the city of Yonkers measure about 20 Union Railway system also controls the Tarry town,White Plains & Mamaroneck Railway Company, which(iperates cars from Tarrytown ti > White ] Mains and to Ma-manineck, and also from \\liik Plains t(j Scarsdale, making- It is obvious to anyone who is informed as to the topog-raphy of Greater New York and Westchester County thatour passengers easily get a long haul for their money, ourtransfer system being also very liberal. We have virtuallytwenty-three routes that our conductors have to memorize,and we have nearly forty different destinations. With hisline nickel a passenger can, and often docs, travel morethan 15 miles from the Harlem up to Hastings-on-the-Hudson ; or if his business takes liim along the Sound, hecan go a ;>Ood \(> miles in Larchnmnt for the same A\lt_ITARY HXHRCISES AND WINTER SPORTS IN VAN AND CROTONA PARKS a total of about 30 miles. The Union kail\\a\- >_\ stem alsocontrols the Southern Ioulevard Railroad Company, whichoperates its cars from 129th Street along the SouthernBoulevard, a line of aljout 44 miles. I understand that another article in this issue of theStreet Railway Jotknal deals with the question of powerin relation to the projected great new central plant atthe Kingsbridge depot of the old allied Third Avenue Rail-way, now under Metropolitan control; but I may note inpassing that we have available for our Union and West-chester companies network current from four strategicpoints—West Farms, with 3850-kw capacity; New Ro-chelle, 1500 kw ; Aonkers, 1025 kw, and White Plains, 1125kw—a respectable aggregate of over 10,000 hp of generat-ing capacity. Such distances make the newspajjcr discussions on ]\Ia-nhat-tan Island, as to whether the Metropolitan system or theManhatt
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