. Electric railway journal . rate of 2,000 coins or tokens per also was, designed and constructed by the sorting of the coins is accomplished by the agita-tion of the screen over a series of inclines at therate of 280 movements per minute. From this ma-chine coins of each denomination are passed to a specialmotor-operated disk counter, of which there are fivealtogether. Three of these count tokens, one countsnickels and the fifth counts pennies. The coins passthrough the registering mechanism of these machinesinto bags containing respectively 500 tokens, $50 innickels and
. Electric railway journal . rate of 2,000 coins or tokens per also was, designed and constructed by the sorting of the coins is accomplished by the agita-tion of the screen over a series of inclines at therate of 280 movements per minute. From this ma-chine coins of each denomination are passed to a specialmotor-operated disk counter, of which there are fivealtogether. Three of these count tokens, one countsnickels and the fifth counts pennies. The coins passthrough the registering mechanism of these machinesinto bags containing respectively 500 tokens, $50 innickels and $10 in pennies. When the correct amount isdeposited in the bags an automatic stop on the metershuts down the machine. The count of this machine is checked by weighingthe bags on a sensitive scale. The tabulation of ticketsis checked in a similar manner, this having been foundmore satisfactory than counting by automatic machinesdue to the fact that unevenly torn tickets caused con- I May 1, 1920 Electric Railway Journal 893. AT LEFT. COUNTING TICKETS, AN OPERATION WHICH HAS LARGELY BEEN SUPPLANTED BY GENERAL VIEW OF THE CASH ROOM OF THE KANSAS CITY RAILWAYS AT siderable extra labor on the part of the tabulator. Af-ter the count has been checked by weighing, the bagsof coins are sealed with metal seal and deposited inspecial boxes, in which they are taken to the de-positories. The tokens are again placed in circulationand the tickets are passed from the scale to a masticat-ing machine which mutilates them beyond coins of denomination larger than 5 cents are■counted by hand, bundled and prepared for the sale of tickets off the cars, the handling ofcoins of large denomination through the fare boxeshas been materially decreased. Such coins reach the■counting room through the division cashiers, who sup-ply the conductors and who in turn purchase theirsupply from the general office. As stated before, thefare-box returns consist large
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