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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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Avenue reachingtheir places through anoverhead passageway. Atthe entrance is a Rochestertime recorder (Fig. 9),made by the Willard &Frick Manufacturing Com-pany. Upon arrival anddeparture each workmantakes his card from therack, drops it in the slotof the time clock, and M 12? \f 1211 er sf~ T 6i; 12; >s~ 12;; 6!? r W 615 12! 1211 029t>3D M T 6 S3 12? m° 62 F n°, m S m 12? li 65 s Total Time,._ <JT_%T. nauU.F-~ Total wages for week, $jt. FIG. 10.—TIME SLIP pushes down a lever till a bell rings, and the exact timeis recorded. There is a rack on either side of the clockand the printed card is placed in its proper place in thesecond rack. Thus the time occupied in registering isreduced to a minimum, as the line of employes is con-stantly moving from one card rack to the other. Fig. 10is a reduced facsimile of the time card; there is no trans-ferring of the record to time book, the card alone beingutilized in making up the pay roll. Electric Cars Cross the Brooklyn Bridge
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FIG. 11.—TRANSFER TABLE AT ERECTING SHOP operated on the double trolley system, as is the entire Cin-cinnati Street Railway. The conductors, are, however,underground, two open slots reaching down to them. THE PAINT SHOP This is the largest room in the shops and affords spacefor ninety cars. From fifteen to thirty-five men are em-ployed in this department, and it is expected to turn out1000 cars per year. The floor is cement throughout as arealso the floors of the pits. The pits both here and in theerecting shop are supplied with hot air pipes for thawingout and drying the cars. The formal opening of the Brooklyn Bridge for theuse of the electric street railway systems of Brooklyn tookplace on Saturday, Jan. 22, and a rep-resentative of the Street Railway Jour-nal had the pleasure of riding on the firstelectric car to make the journey. Threespecial parlor cars of the Brooklyn HeightsRailroad Company, the Nassau ElectricRailroad Company, and the Coney Island& Brooklyn Railroad Com

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