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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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are added andother computations are made. This device was manufact-ured by Felt & Tarrant, of Chicago. The paving is tobe done under a special contract. The material betweenthe rails and on each side is vitrified brick, but betweenthe tracks there will be a strip of asphalt to correspondwith the asphalt paving on the remainder of the street.The combination of asphalt and brick paving between thetracks is used to comply with the requirements of thedistrict commissioners. The closed cars to be placed in service on this linewhen completed are modeled after those of the Broad-way, New York, cable road, except that they will beabout two feet shorter. They will be built by the JohnStephenson Company, of New York, which company willalso build the open cars. The grip will be operated fromthe front platform. FARE AND TRANSFERS. The fare on the Columbia Railroad is at present fivecents, with six tickets for twenty-five cents and schooltickets thirty-three for $1. Transfers are made with one
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FIG. 8.—CABLE CONSTRUCTION ON COLUMBIA RAILROAD, SHOWINGPORTABLE TOOL BOXES EMPLOYED. or two other lines, but school tickets do not allow oftransfer. Employes are provided with passes, on whichtheir name and date of issue are placed and each em-ploye is provided with two tickets a day. A very simpleand efficient system of bookkeeping is employed byJames B. Adams, secretary and treasurer of the company,who has also designed a very complete system of reportblanks for use by the different departments. In the superintendents office an automatic receivingsafe is provided, which was invented by the former super-intendent of the road. This safe is so arranged that eachconductor can deposit his returns in a separate compart-ment within the safe. The Columbia Railroad was for a number of yearsoperated under the direction of the late Wm. J. Stephen-son, and in his administration and that of PresidentR. F. Baker, the change from animal to mechanical trac-tion has been carried out. Another inte

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