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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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ropertysince January, 1897, has been characterized by rigid butwise economy extending to every branch of the service.No change has been made or step taken without the mostcareful regard for consequences and for the effect upon theearnings of the system. The result is shown in an in-crease of nearly 5 per cent in passengers carried and grossreceipts, a reduction of 10 per cent in operating expenses,an increase of nearly $1,000,000, or 18 per cent, in net in-come, and the turning of a deficit over charges of $851,934into a small surplus, which is expected to be considerablyincreased during the coming year. A most careful andsystematic study of traffic requirements and an adaptationof the time tables to them have been the most important November, 1898.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 693 factors in the accomplishment of this remarkable result, companys management and its employees have neverMoney has thus been saved by cutting off useless mileage, been more satisfactory than is the case to-day.
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FIG 2.—PLAN AND ELEVATION OF 13TH & MOUNT VERNON STREETS POWER STATION and to all appearances the public has been quite as well power stations served, for certainly the relations between the public, the Owing to the number of constituent companies and the 694 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No. u. fact that the electrical equipment of their lines was carriedon independently before the consolidation, the companynow operates its lines from no less than seven main powerstations and three sub stations, while three stations have been abandoned. The location of these sta-tions is shown on themap, and the charac-ter of their equipmentis shown in the ac-companying table. These stations areall connected togetherby special tie linesof large capacity, sothat under varyingconditions of load theycan be made to assisteach other. The exactmethod of doing thiswill be described later. The largest of thesestations is at Thir-teenth and Mount Ver-non streets, or Sta-tion No. i, and thisis also

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