. Electric railway journal . onmuch more rapidly. In 1914, before the war, wages forunskilled workmen in Hamburg were 45 pfennig perhour. In October, 1921, they were marks, an in-crease of approximately 1,600 per cent. In 1920salaries and wages on the system amount to percent of all operating expenses and during the firsthalf of 1921 to per cent. Several steps in therise of the rates of fares of the Hamburg Elevatedduring the same time will be seen in Table II. Therewere various intervening steps, making about tenchanges in all. A comparison in the chart of trafficwith Table II
. Electric railway journal . onmuch more rapidly. In 1914, before the war, wages forunskilled workmen in Hamburg were 45 pfennig perhour. In October, 1921, they were marks, an in-crease of approximately 1,600 per cent. In 1920salaries and wages on the system amount to percent of all operating expenses and during the firsthalf of 1921 to per cent. Several steps in therise of the rates of fares of the Hamburg Elevatedduring the same time will be seen in Table II. Therewere various intervening steps, making about tenchanges in all. A comparison in the chart of trafficwith Table II shows the disastrous effect which theincrease in the rates has had on the total number ofpassengers. This effect was the greater because ofthe fact that the Reichseisenbahn or Government roaddid not raise its rates sufficiently to accord with thefall in value of German currency. The competition ofthis road was therefore severe, and much of the trafficwent over to the parallel route, Blankenese-Ohlsdorf. pOhlsdorf cspOhlsdorf.
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