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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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ts. Sound Reasonable? Read It Over, Think It Over. THE BEAVER VALLEY TRACTION CO. ==51h =51;l=l;(r= Hlc=r== Advertisement on Delays The Beaver Valley Traction Company New Brighton, Pa., Jan. 28, 1921. To General Manager of the Factory Addressed.Dear Sir: In order that we may promote the punctuality of,and give improved transportation service to youremployees, will you kindly fill out and mail the fol-lowing facts in the inclosed envelope: Number of persons employed during normaltimes Number now working Time work starts Time of quitting Number of female workers It will also help us to serve you better if you willadvise us when you increase or decrease the numberof your employees. Signed Name of Plant Return to: W. H. Boyce, General Manager,New Brighton, Pa., in theinclosed envelope. Circular Letter Sent to Each Store Proprietor in the Districtin February of This Year Circular Letter Sent to Each Factory in the Districtin January of This Year 356 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 58, No. 10
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September 3, 1921 Electric Railway Journal, 357 Manila Railway Business Growing ONE of the largest utility properties outside theUnited States, conducted by an American com-pany, is the Manila Electric Company, whichoperates the electric railway and light system at Manila,Philippine Islands. The outstanding capital stock(all common) is $5,000,000, on which the company haspaid dividends every year since 1906. The rates from1906 to 1914 varied from 3 per cent to 7 per cent; since1914 the rate has been 6 per cent each year. The earn-ings of the company, both gross and net, have beenlarger this year than last, in spite of the fact that thePhilippine Islands have felt the world-wide businessdepression of the last twelve months. But it has notbeen as acute there as in many parts of the United States, as there have been no large manufacturingplants to close down. The company owns 52 miles of track, about 130 pas-senger motor cars and a number of trailers, the latterused principally during th

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