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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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ould be required whether the railwayexisted or not, on account of the other electrical circuitswhich are being constantly erected. To the cities the com-pany must pay a percentage of the gross receipts and agraduated percentage of the net profits. The cities fre-quently designate the materials to be used for constructionand repairs. Then there is the free transportation of offi-cial employees, which are very numerous in France, some-times the free lighting of the streets and always the main-tenance of street pavements. For example: The largestcompany of Paris, the Cie Generale des Omnibus de Paris(cars and omnibuses), paid in 1899 for each of its 34,000shares 162 francs to the state and city before the stock-holders received a dividend. The other imposts amountedto 1.8 centimes per passenger, or 10 per cent of the grossreceipts, which amounted to 1.2 francs per car kilometer.Very constant, Mr. Fuster calls one city, which alsodemands 6 per cent to 7 per cent of the gross receipts, but
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PARIS-ORLEANS ROAD—LOCOMOTIVE WHICH HAULS TRAINS FORA DISTANCE OF 3.8 KM FROM THE QUAI D ORSAYTO THE CENTER OF THE CITY is willing to wait for payment until the dividend reachesthe same amount. Recently a number of cities governed by Socialists haveprescribed to the railway companies a maximum workingday of ten hours, minimum wages of 5 francs and a pay-ment of an additional 6 per cent of the wages into the em-ployees insurance fund. This has increased the expensesof a prominent Paris street railway 30 per cent. The conditions here described naturally undermine thefinancial foundations of street railways, so that the latterare forced to look for some means to relieve oppression rather than to improve traffic facilities. The writer hasentered rather minutely into these conditions because theyapply not only to France, but more or less to all of Europe. In France, as in other countries, the most interestingelectric railways are to be found in the capital. The situa-tion in Paris is wel

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