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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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s wonderful service,for 5 cents. The story of constantly increasing costs inmaterials, of constant readjustments of labor contractsand of constantly rising costs of operation in general isnot new. Nor is it giving any information to repeatthe story of the continuous fare increases and adjust-ments with which every one is familiar in a hazy orgeneral way. But, viewing the history of the wholeindustry from the knowledge of today, there is one factthat seems certain. As a nationwide average there hasbeen a time lag of fare increases behind increases inoperating costs which has caused a deficit to be created,and this deficit is one of the factors to be considered byrailways and commissions in adjusting conditions oftoday and for the future. But most important to note, from the standpoint ofthe public at least, and most gratifying to those whowould have faith in the future of the industry, is torealize the attitude of those responsible for railway 12 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 57, No. 1
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