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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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he Columbus and NinthAvenue cable line, also owned by the company, runs fromMorningside Park through Ninth Avenue and Fifty-thirdStreet to the Broadway line, and its cars pass over the lat-ter to the Battery. On the east side of the city the Lex-ington Avenue cable system runs from io6th Streetthrough Lexington Avenue and Twenty-third Street to the Broadway line and its cars also pass down the latter to the Battery. Above io8th Street, on the west side, isan underground electric system on Lenox Avenue, Lex-ington Avenue and ii6th Street, all three lines runningto the Harlem River. These four lines comprise the Mechanical System of the company, all its other linesbeing still operated by horses, though improvements inmotive power are planned on a comprehensive scale. STATISTICS OF TRAFFIC. Some idea of the magnitude of the transportationproblems connected with the operation of the MechanicalSystern may be obtained from the following figures ; S^lTKMiUiK, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 517
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During the year ending June 30, 1893, the companygave an exceptionally perfect horse railway service on themain tnnik line from the Battery to Fifty-ninth .Street.Well kept, attractive cars were run at one minute inter-vals during the business hours of the day, at an unusuallyhigh speed for horse cars. This line carried nearly 30,-000,000 passengers (including tran.sfers; during this year,an average of about 82,000 passengers per day for 36.5days. In May, 1893, the company first began puttingcable cars on this Inroad way line, running them in betweenhorse cars, but it was not until July i that the horse carswere entirely, withdrawn and the line operated exclu.sivelywith cable cars. The number of cable cars originallystarted was 125, but was increased to 150 dviring the year,and the time interval between cars was reduced to fortyseconds. The total number of pa.s.sengers (includingtransfers) carried during this first year of cable operation,including the pas.sengers carried on a few hor

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