. The Street railway journal . harge by the observation car conductors and lecturers. Thepassengers secure their tickets at the office, except, of course, thosewho take the car while en route, these purchase coupon ticketsfrom the conductors. The regular fare is 50 cents. Many partiesare met at their hotels, taking the car as it passes on its regularschedule trip. The lecturers are men of fine appearance, withpleasant and well-trained voices and experienced in addressingassemblages of people. Before taking the cars they are put complished fact, and when the reader remembers that the cartravels
. The Street railway journal . harge by the observation car conductors and lecturers. Thepassengers secure their tickets at the office, except, of course, thosewho take the car while en route, these purchase coupon ticketsfrom the conductors. The regular fare is 50 cents. Many partiesare met at their hotels, taking the car as it passes on its regularschedule trip. The lecturers are men of fine appearance, withpleasant and well-trained voices and experienced in addressingassemblages of people. Before taking the cars they are put complished fact, and when the reader remembers that the cartravels through some of the busiest streets, it seems wonderfulthat a training can be acquired to speak so as to be heard above thenoise and din of the traffic of busy thoroughfares. The enterprise is operated in a systematic and businesslike man-ner. The management keeps well informed as to all excursionparties and conventions expected in the city, and sends its agentsto meet the trains bearing .them some distance from the city, and. CLOSED CAR USED FOR SEEING WASHINGTON plan for entertaining the visitors on the observation cars. Otheragents look after the visitors at their hotels and arrange for ex-cursion parties of societies and orders, composed of the local citi-zens. When necessary, the cars meet the trains at the depots, and inevent of delayed trains, instead of waiting any length of time atthe depot, make trips around short loops, thus avoiding a blockadeof the street railway system. The winter cars used have a seating * August io, 1901.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 171 capacity of fifty passengers, the summer cars seat eighty. Nocrowding is allowed. In the event that there are more passengersthan the cars will seat, other cars are provided. There are a num-ber of fine amusement resorts on the suburban lines of the Wash-ington Traction & Electric Company, and private excursion par-ties secure the observation cars and lecturers for these trips. As seen in the two views, one showing
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