. The Street railway journal . VIEW IN RUA PRIM ERA DO MARZOment, track, etc., is antiquated and useless, this is rather anadvantage, as it reduces the value of the material which. RUA LARANJEIRAS, A FINE RESIDENTIAL STREET The wages of the employees vary from an equivalent inUnited States money of from 40 cents to 60 cents and 75cents per day for common labor. Conductors and driversare paid from 60 cents to $1 for twelve hours work. Itwould seem as if in most respects the city is admirablyadapted to a system of electric transportation. The longdistances to be traversed would give to the highe
. The Street railway journal . VIEW IN RUA PRIM ERA DO MARZOment, track, etc., is antiquated and useless, this is rather anadvantage, as it reduces the value of the material which. RUA LARANJEIRAS, A FINE RESIDENTIAL STREET The wages of the employees vary from an equivalent inUnited States money of from 40 cents to 60 cents and 75cents per day for common labor. Conductors and driversare paid from 60 cents to $1 for twelve hours work. Itwould seem as if in most respects the city is admirablyadapted to a system of electric transportation. The longdistances to be traversed would give to the higher speed ofthe electric cars an enormous advantage over the present would have to be scrapped. The only possible drawbackis the high price of coal, all of which has to be this is not an insurmountable hindrance, however, isshown by the experience in other cities similarly situatedin regard to their fuel supply, where it has been shown thatthe advantages of electrical working are very patent, evenin competition with horses and mules in a region whereanimals and fodder are exceedingly cheap. THE BERLIN ELECTRIC ELEVATED ROAD The constant growth and development of
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