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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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k. The company has a regular pas-senger and excursion agent in the person of F. H. Thomas,w ho gives a great deal of attention to working up both regularpleasure traffic and special excursions. The company has aregular badge or trade mark which appears on all of its adver-tising, which is shown at the beginning of this article. Thisalso is put on all the companys rolling stock, and serves togive an identity to the East Side system and to attract atten-tion to it. Another excellent idea is the map, Fig. 4, which ispublished on some of the companys advertising matter, andwhich gives at a glance the fare between different points on theline. This general idea could be copied by many other inter-urban railway companies. The prospective passenger does nothave to hunt through a long rate schedule to find out the farebetween any two points. The map does not pretend to begeographically correct, but it shows the principal towns on theline and the general direction. Another map, Fig. 5, is to be
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-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE OF EAST ST. LOUIS Sc SUBURBAN RAILWAY COMPANY used the coming summer extensively on advertising matter,with the idea of diverting some of the traffic which wouldotherwise cross the Eads Bridge on the steam railroads, andgo into the Union Depot. All the steam trains which enterSt. Louis by way of the Eads Bridge, which is also the bridgeby which the East St. Louis & Suburban cars enter St. Louis,stop at what is known as the Relay Depot, in East St- Louis,where the locomotives belonging to the various steam roadsare changed for the switching locomotives of the MerchantsBridge & Terminal Association, which takes the trains acrossthe bridge and into the St. Louis Union Station. As there islikely to be considerable delay in the Relay Depot and theUnion Station in St. Louis this is some advantage to manypassengers in leaving .the steam trains at the Relay Depot at May 14, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 73i East St. Lotus, where they can take an electric car, whi

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