. The Street railway journal . ereare five officeclerks besides theregular officers. Motormen andconductors re-ceive $50 amonth, the mas-ter mechanic andchief engineer,$125 per month,laborers in repairshops from $40 to$75. track men(all colored),$ per fare is fivecents, with trans-fers at Jacksonand NapoleonAvenues, for which different colored tickets are provided at eachstation, and colors changed every day. The transfertickets are issued by agents. Policemen and employes ride on their badges, thelatter as per the following rule which is copied fromthe rule book: No. 12. Conductor
. The Street railway journal . ereare five officeclerks besides theregular officers. Motormen andconductors re-ceive $50 amonth, the mas-ter mechanic andchief engineer,$125 per month,laborers in repairshops from $40 to$75. track men(all colored),$ per fare is fivecents, with trans-fers at Jacksonand NapoleonAvenues, for which different colored tickets are provided at eachstation, and colors changed every day. The transfertickets are issued by agents. Policemen and employes ride on their badges, thelatter as per the following rule which is copied fromthe rule book: No. 12. Conductors and motormenwill be allowed to ride free of fare when off duty, pro-vided they are in uniform, and providing they render allassistance in their power in case of accident or trouble ofany kind that may occur when they are on or near thecar, and providing they are going to and from theirwork. City officials ard provided with a book of couponpasses. WALTER V. CROUCH, SECRETARY AND TREASURER NEW ORLEANS& CARROLLTON FIG. 6.—INTERIOR OF CAR HOUSE—NEW ORLEANS &. CARROLLTON RAILROAD. The conductors and motormen are provided with abook of rules, which includes a folder containing a dia-gram of the entire route and branches, with all the crossstreets named in their order. Owing to the high speed allowed (15 miles an hour),but which is frequently exceeded, the cars make an unusualmileage, the average being 131 miles a day, while some makeas high as 140 miles. The average for the month of Sep-tember last was 131, and the receipts per car per day forthe same month were $; expenses per car, $;receipts per car mile, cts.; expenses per car mile, rcts. The headway on the Carrollton end is two and ahalf minutes, that on Napoleon Avenue four and a halfminutes, Jackson Avenue three minutes. These cars con- May, THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 3°5 verge on St. Charles Street, on which the headway is oneminute and less. The coal consumption for the month of De
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