. The street railway review . as this for ten hoursevery day. In addition to furnishing vestibules for ourmen, they are provided with overcoats; the conductorsare made short, of heavv blue cloth, the motormens ofheavy grey cloth reaching below the knees, for whichthe company pays half the cost. We find the men,being comfortable, are more contented, and, conse-quently, give better attention to their work. In the sum-mer we run nearly all open motor cars, but a vestibuledcar, with the windows down and doors off is, practically,an open platform car. By putting double glass withquarter inch air sp
. The street railway review . as this for ten hoursevery day. In addition to furnishing vestibules for ourmen, they are provided with overcoats; the conductorsare made short, of heavv blue cloth, the motormens ofheavy grey cloth reaching below the knees, for whichthe company pays half the cost. We find the men,being comfortable, are more contented, and, conse-quently, give better attention to their work. In the sum-mer we run nearly all open motor cars, but a vestibuledcar, with the windows down and doors off is, practically,an open platform car. By putting double glass withquarter inch air space in two or three frames whereneeded in the vestibule there is no trouble from can understand that it would be a very heavy expensefor large roads to vestibule all their cars, but in coldcities it will be found that the conductors will get morefares, and the men will be better satisfied with theirposition. We have never had an accident of any conse-quence during the winter months, although we run 35vestibuled WASON VESTIBULE. favor of vestibules, and it would be poor policy on thepart of any street railway company, not to adopt thesame. BLfore the adoption of vestibules, it was thoughtthey would onl}- increase the liability of accidents, butpractical use has entirely overcome any such the exception of one or two days throughout thewinter season, the vestibule is certainly a great protec-tion, and when a snow or sleet storm occurs, filling upthe glass m front of the motor man, he can let down alittle slide door, similar to those used on an engineerscab on a steam road. However, this is merely my ownopinion of the matter, and numbers of railway men lookupon it in an entirely different light. J. E. Hutcheson, superintendent of the Ottawa Elec-tric Railway Company says : All our closed cars arevestibuled and we find it is a great advantage. Ourwinters here are very cold and from December to Marchthe thermometer rarely goes above freezing, and veryof
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