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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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57>742 7,158,00092,115,74218,343,327 110,459,069 IOO.3 8-5I08.821.7 89,697,051 7,588,00097,285,05118,355,887 I03.6 8 8112 421.2 95,757,733 8,018,506103,776,23919,186,122 108 29-1 117.321.6 102,641,3838,355,000 no 996,383 19,501,994 II3.6 9.2122.821.6 130.5 115,640,938 133-6 122,962,361 138.9 130,498,377 144.4 Summary.—Increase in population, 1896-1900, 10 per cent. Increase in passengers: On street cars 39 per cent, total 33 perper cent. Increase in trips per capita: On street cars 27 per cent, total 21 per cent. June 7, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 675 The traffic increase in Greater Berlin is shown by thetable on the opposite page. A similar table prepared for Greater Hamburg showsquite different results. The receipts of the roads operated by the Grosse Berliner and 5 pfennigs on time tickets, amounting to 9,142,198marks, or a sum equivalent to about 63 per cent of the divi-dends paid on the capital stock, in addition to enormouspayments for pavements and widening of streets.
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EXPERIMENTAL HIGH-SPEED CAR, ZOSSEN LINE Strassenbahn in 1901 were 30,196,534 marks, against 27,-580,968 marks in 1900; 76,674,000 car km were traveled. The receipts of the Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn onlywere 26,537,664 marks in 1901, the average daily receipts,therefore, 72,715 marks. Ten years ago they were aboutone-half, namely, 14,400,000, and in 1881, twenty years ago,not even one-quarter, namely, 6,600,000 marks. The receipts of the Strassen-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, ofHamburg, amounted to the much smaller sum of 10,348,371marks in 1901, against 9,803,892 marks in 1900, the meandaily receipts being 28,352 marks. The passengers trans-ported in 1901 numbered 94,500,000, against 90,300,000 in1900, an increase of 4.65 per cent, against 30 per cent inBerlin. The following financial figures of the Hamburg road are TRACK CONSTRUCTION ON ZOSSEN LINE Naturally, little attention could be paid by the companyto the demands of the public for lower fares in view ofthese payments, and the same

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