. The street railway review . similar tothose which will be used on the longer interurbans, andthe steam roads that are being changed to electric inthis country. EXPENDITURES. Cents pertrain mile. Maiiitciiauce of way, power plant and stations 4-005 Motive power, (includes repairs on motors) Repairs and renewals of carriages 343 Traffic expenses General charges 3-063 Law charges 011 Compensation 001 Rents and taxes (jovernment duty 009 Total Thomas Craig, president of the Geneva & Waterloo,N. Y. Railway Company, has been chosen general mana-ger of new consolidated Gen
. The street railway review . similar tothose which will be used on the longer interurbans, andthe steam roads that are being changed to electric inthis country. EXPENDITURES. Cents pertrain mile. Maiiitciiauce of way, power plant and stations 4-005 Motive power, (includes repairs on motors) Repairs and renewals of carriages 343 Traffic expenses General charges 3-063 Law charges 011 Compensation 001 Rents and taxes (jovernment duty 009 Total Thomas Craig, president of the Geneva & Waterloo,N. Y. Railway Company, has been chosen general mana-ger of new consolidated Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls& Cayuga Lake Traction Company. At a recent meeting, members of the Cleveland Archi-tectural Club submitted designs for a waiting room suit-able for erection in the public square at Cleveland. Assome street railway companies may contemplate buildingsomething of this sort, the Review reproduces the best. NEAT WAITING ROOM. design, which is by Benjamin S. Hubbell. If a waitingroom was to be built it would have to occupy the spacebetween the curb and sidewalk, which was 15 feet onone street and 13 feet on another. The design contem-plates the tilling of the space between pillars with plateglass, so it will be enclosed for winter. The cost isabout $1,000. King & Andrews Company, Chicago, western manu-facturers and agents of the composite brake shoe, reporta good business. The special claim for this shoe is, notthat it will stop the wheels of a car suddenly, permittingit to shoot ahead under its momentum, skidding andflattening the wheels, but will gradually, and in less dis-tance, bring the car quietly to a stop without the usualjerking and jumping, and with much less danger of flat-tening the wheels. It is also claimed that a car equippedwith this shoe will be more easily handled by the motor-man and will give a largely increased service. 288 (jfeectlJ^aAU^J^ylfiW THE BLOCK SIGNAL U
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