. The street railway review . , do not attempt to run on a sched-ule. Safety and caution first, time second. In street railroading you must remember equal dis-tance between the cars is the main point, and if carsget in any way mixed up, use your own judgement,and under no condition get nearer than 300 feet toyour leader. You must bear in mind this important fact: If j-oumiss two fares each half trip, each car makes 36 halftrips per day, which means $ per car per day;20 cars is $ per day, or $26,280 per year, whichmeans five per cent interest on a capital of $550,000. The conductor who
. The street railway review . , do not attempt to run on a sched-ule. Safety and caution first, time second. In street railroading you must remember equal dis-tance between the cars is the main point, and if carsget in any way mixed up, use your own judgement,and under no condition get nearer than 300 feet toyour leader. You must bear in mind this important fact: If j-oumiss two fares each half trip, each car makes 36 halftrips per day, which means $ per car per day;20 cars is $ per day, or $26,280 per year, whichmeans five per cent interest on a capital of $550,000. The conductor who understands what to do in thecase of breakages and prevent detention of the line,will be a more valuable man to us than the man whodoes not. A CAPITAL CABLE CAR. THE illustration is of a cable train of the Washington& Georgetown Railway, at the national train is going north on Seventh street, and-has just crossed G. street. At the right is seen the Pat-ent Office, while the large building just beyond and far-. tluT to the s(jiiih is the PdStoffice. The view is a com-mon one during the base ball season, and is from a pho-tograph of a train en route to the base ball grounds lastsummer. The ability of the cable system to carry allwho can get on is fulh demonstrated, every bit of spacewithin the car and on the foot boards being fully occupied. THE NEW JERSEY TROLLEY LAW. THE Supreme Court of New Jersey recently decidedthat the council of Newark had no authority to grantfranchises for electric trolley lines, and the legis-lature of the State was asked to pass a bill legalizing theelectric lines, which was done. Now Gov. Abbett hasrefused to sign it, and consequently all the trolley lines inthe State are operating contrary to law. An appeal maybe taken to the Court of Errors in the hope that the de-cision will not be reached before the next session of thelegislature. A. Q. Keasbey is quoted as saying that he does notthink that the veto will affect the wires already in op
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