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Title: History of the West End street railway, in which is included sketches of the early street railway of Boston- consolidation of the various lines- foreign street railways- the Berlin viaduct- anecdotes, etc., together with speeches by President Henry M. Whitney, and others. Also, expert testimony as to the safety of electric currents..
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hager, Louis P
Subjects: West End Street Railway Company Street-railroads
Publisher: Boston, Ed. and pub. by L. P. Hager
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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and a single fare is 10 pfennigs, which is 2 1-2cents. You can ride one and a half miles in Berlin cheaper than youcan in Boston, but if you want to ride two miles it is just the sameas if you were to ride three, three and a half, or four miles. Themaximum distance at which these stations are apart is one and a halfmiles, and they vary from that to eighty-four one-hundredths of amile. Now, you will see that the payment of 2 1-2 cents twice a day,going back and forth every day, for a man who receives only from 25to 75 cents a day for his labor, is a much larger proportion of hisdaily earnings than the sum that is paid in the city of Boston, and itis impossible for these laboring people to pay, with the income thatthey receive, even the fare of 2 1-2 cents for the purpose of getting outof this particular district, and the same thing has operated in Berlinas would be absolutely sure to follow here if the fare were so highthat the people could not go Jnto the suburbs and avail themselves
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INTERIOR OF THE DOUBLE-DECKER OF THE WEST END. WEST END STREET RAILWAY. 73 of the opportunities to get cheap houses and cheap lands, where theycan build better, healthier homes. Now, the system of Berlin is two cents and a half for every mileand a half. That system, if applied here (our road could be operatedat the cost of roads in Berlin), would have brought to the West Endroad a net income of nearly three millions of dollars more than itreceived. There are 16,000 acres of land in Berlin, and less thart8,000 acres are occupied. These 28,000 buildings, holding 1,315,-000 people, occupy less than one-half of the building land in the cityof Berliw. Now, there is an elevated railroad in the city of Berlin^built at a cost of nearly $20,000,000. It is almost 20 miles long, andthe best elevated railroad that there is in the wide world, and it car-ried last year 15,000.000 people and earned less than 4 per cent., igthe aggregate, of its cost. It was started by private capitalists^, an3so exp

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