Evening star., 1911-06-09
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adopted is much lower than on any other
line in the United States. and is about
ways. The New York Central carries
| nearly double the dead weight per pas
| senger upon its suburban trains, and the
Pennsylvania little less than what ours
will be.
| I'VE have a new pattern of all-steel
cars without any wood in their construc-
tion. except the arm rests OF the seats
/ The doors are at the ends The cars are
eight inches wider than the standard
railway coach. being seventy-two feet
four and five-tenths inches long and ten
feet four inches wide. with seats for
three passengers on one side OF the aisle
and two passengers on the other, and a
total capacity of 116 passengers. We
have enlarged the cars so as to keep
down the average weight per passenger
to the lowest possible point.
I'VE have accomplished this by re-
ducing the weight of every portion of the
car and increasing the accommodations
| An ordinary coach seating sixty-two pas
| sengers will average in weight LOCO
seating 116, will average 115 pounds per
passenger. This includes the motor as
well as the passenger cars. The average
| weight hauled by the Illinois Central on
| Its suburban trains is $40 pounds per pas
senger. on the New York Interboro. 1.iJi
| pounds per passenger: on the Long
| Island, 1850 pounds per passenger; Oh
| the New York Central electric cars,
| 1,tiS pounds per passenger. and on the
Hudson tunnel cars. New York, 1.G4
pounds per passenger.
Generally speaking, there is no more
economical motive power than the old
fashioned locomotive, hauling a heavy
train of old-fa shioned passenger cars. but
that system has limitations as to the
number of passengers carried. the dis
comfort of the passengers and the ele-
ment of danger. The advantage of elec-
tricity motive power lies In tie apll-
| ity to handle larger number OF passen-
| gers, in greater comfort. at a minimum
| of danger, although the expense is some
what greater With an electric system
you can haul all the cars you can place
en- the tracks, and can increase the trains
until you have reached an equivalent or
a moving platform. You can run them
two minutes apart, or even at one-minute
intervals, with a maximum OF comfort.
cleanliness. safety and speed.
Equipment Is Unsurpassed.
NO railroad in the country has an
equipment that will equal that which we
have adopted in all the points l have
named, and l do not believe it can be
efficiency" said Mr.. Babcock. 1T is the
best, however. because 1t is the latest
and because We have had the benef1t OF
the study, the experiment and the ex-
perience of all other raiiroads we nave nave
found to be successful and improved upon
them. just as the next fellow will i'm
prove upon us.
How does your suburban tramc COM
pare with that of the Illinois Central In
Chicago?"
In 1909 the Illinois Central carried
%. .OG0OOO passengers. and we carrleo
% GO0OOO. In 1910 it carried 2S,OOO.OD ana
we carried 25.oOo,OO, under conditions
that are to our disadvantage. The Hi
nois Central has no ferry. All of our
passengers come from ferry boats or go
TO ferry boats in their journey Inc
| boats collect the passengers and deliver
| them to the cars, or the cars collect
| them and deliver them to the boats AT
the rate of from 1.OOO to 2.5OO passengers
| every twenty minutes, and the passen-
gers have to be accommodated on tne
Instant. Hence We must provide large
| trains, often larger than are necessary
to carry the passengers who appear.
| I'm New York and Chicago the tram
| picks up the passengers at dlnerent sta
| tions and collects fare the same for
| ride of a few blocks that we get TOT
four miles. We are obliged to carry the
average passenger four times as far Tor
| the same price as Is done IN New iork e
our patrons are carried more than six
miles Every passenger coming from or
going to San Francisco must be carried
four miles by beat and two miles over
the trestles between Oakland and the
| ferry That makes a sfx-mile ride for
| the minimum fare for every passenger
without regard to the remainder OF the
| distance 4 majority of our passengers
| embark and leave the cars in Oakland.
perhaps within two miles of the trestle
| or four miles of the ferry. The re-
| mainder go farther, but no other trans
| portation line in the country. or in the
| world for that matter. carries all its
| passengers eight miles as We do for 10
| cents Between here and New York there
! is nothing like the service We are giving.
/ but il is possible to give just as good
| service in Chicago. and l suggest that ii
| would be to the advantage of the rapid
| transit commissioners in that city to
| come out and study the transformation
Pacific coast"