Identifier: streetrailwayjo101894newy (find matches)
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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FIG. 8.—EIGHTH STREET VIADUCT—CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY. FARES. The fare is five cents, with a three cent fare for chil-dren under ten years of age, or two childrens fares forfive cents. On all of the horse car lines six tickets aresold for twenty-four cents, or twenty-five tickets for $1.A lump sum is received from the Post Office departmentfor the fare of mail carriers and messengers who ride ontheir uniform. The employes tickets are issued to theheads of the departments who issue to such employes asrequire them, the tickets being punched by the issuingofficer. Before the practice of issuing tickets to the headsof departments was adopted, a very large number of em-ployes tickets were required, but after the introduction ofthe above arrangement, their use fell off about half. July, 1894.) THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 4r 7
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4i8 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. X. No. 7. By the new ordinance the company is required toissue transfers as noted above, over all connecting linesand extensions, Walnut Street being the dividing line forthe city. Coupon tickets are employed, which are num-bered, and the day, hour and minute indicated in theordinary manner. Transfers are issued only to passen-gers paying five cents cash tare, and must be called for atthe time the fare is proffered. In issuing the transfersthe conductors retain the coupon, which they return tothe receiver, and for which they receive new tickets, beingrequired to purchase their original supply of transfertickets from the receivers. The present system of trans-fers is not wholly satisfactory to the management, and anew system will probably be adopted as soon as one isdevised. Considerable loss is experienced from the abuseof the transfer privilege by passengers, and some by con-ductors. The conductors are provided with the bell punchand the new mode

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