Electric railroads-Fares -Continued War bonus and electric railways. E. G. Connette. Aera 6:186-9 O '17 Paper read before the conference of the American electric railway association, New York, Oct. 9, 1917. What the service is worth. E. L. Milliken. Stone & Webster J 22:16-30 Ja '18 Comparative information Electric railway fare increases in United States and Canada during the years 1914 to 1917 inclusive. L. R. Nash, comp. Stone & Webster J 22:111-20 F '18 Electric railways in the United States and Canada which have recently been granted permission by regulatory bodies to increase their fares where such consent is unnecessary. Aera 6:625-9 F '18 Fare increases in the larger cities. Aera 6: 1119-20 Je '18 Fares increased in 246 cities. Aera 7:12-15 Ag '18 Fate of the five cent fare. Notes 5:10-11 S 11 '18 Munic Ref Lib Higher fares in many places. Watts Watt 3:2-4 S 21 '17 Increased electric railway fares. bibl Aera 6: 601-24, 723-47 F-Mr '18 Need of greater revenue. Aera 6:1221-42 J1 '18 Record of increased fares. table Financial World 31:6 Ag 19 '18 Government control Urges federal rate control: War board convinces War labor board that President or Congress has power to increase railway fares. Aera 6:1243-51 Jl '18 Legislation, Comparative New York (state). Lib. Leg. ref. sect. Laws on reduced rates for school children. W: E. Hannan, comp. 7p F '18 (Typew. 35c) Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. Finance † Catechism of street railways. C: L. Delbridge. 68p 10c '18 C: L. Delbridge, 206 Walnut st, St Louis Chicago, Ill.-Financial and operating statistics; analytical review of operation; financial and statistical exhibits, costs and locations. tables In Chicago, Ill. Bd. of supervising engineers Chicago traction. 9th annual report, 1916, p 9-96 '18 Cleveland, O.-Defects in the Cleveland plan: faults which eight years of operation under cost-of-service system have developed. Andrew Squire. Aera 7:1-6 Ag '18 Electric power on the C. M. & St Paul railway. table N Y Nat City Bank Circ Economic Conditions etc N '17 p 6-9 Electric railway earnings. table N Y Evening Post 5th Annual Pub Utilities and Eng R sect 5 p 12 Mr 30 '18 Electric railways of N. Y. state. Com. on ways and means to obtain additional revenue. Increased income for the electric railways. J. K. Choate. 13p '17 8 W. 40th st, N.Y. Address before the American electric railway association Oct. 9, 1917. Electric railways of N. Y. state. Com. on ways and means to obtain additional revenue. Problem of getting money threatens the solvency of many electric railways. T. H. D. Perkins. (Bul. no. 17) 1p N 13 '17 • Electric railways of N.Y. state. Com. on ways and means to obtain additional revenue. Rising costs and fixed fares put a 362 mile electric railway system in peril. (Bul. no. 15) 1p N 5 '17 8 W. 40th st, N.Y. Element of financial risk in the street railway business. Econ World n s 14:263 Ag 25 '17 Future of Boston elevated company: rapid transit elevated and subway lines the burden. Morton Sturges. chart M of Wall St 22: 53-4 Ap 13 '18 New York (city)-Financial statistics (street railways): comparative summary of financial data, 1914 and 1915. tables In New York (state). Pub. service comm. for the 1st district. Report, 1915: v. 2, p 81-105 '16 Comparative information Electric railway statistics: comparison of returns for nine months January-September, 1917, with those for 1916. tables Aera 6:4546 D '17 Reports Massachusetts. Pub. service comm. Special report relative to the finances and operating methods of the Boston elevated railway company. (House no. 1240) 91p tables Weight 4 oz Enclose postage F '18 Sec. of commonwealth Franchises Illinois-Street railway grants. E. U. Rugg. Univ of Ill Bul 15:137-46 D 17 '17 Recent developments in the public utility field affecting franchise policies and municipal ownership: a consideration of the development of a constructive franchise policy in the United States; being a report of the committee on franchises of the National municipal league, presented at the 23d annual convention of the league, Detroit, November 22, 1917. D. F. Wilcox. N J Munic 2:139-40,51 My '18 From March 1918, number of National Municipal Review. New York (state)-Legislature of 1917 authorized a commission to investigate the street railroad situation in New York city. Reports * Massachusetts. Street railway investigation comm. Recommendations and proposed legislation as contained in the report on the problems relating to the street railways of the commonwealth. (Senate no. 265) 97p tables Weight 4 oz Enclose postage F '18 Massachusetts. Street railway investigation comm. Report on the problems relating to the street railways of the commonwealth, February 1, 1918. (Senate no. 300) 423p tables maps Weight 22 oz Enclose postage '18 J: B. Babcock, Room 1-338, Mass. institute of technology, Cambridge Electric railroads-Investigations-Reports-Cont. New York (state). Comm. to investigate the surface railroad situation in the city of New York on the West side. Report transmitted to the governor and legislature, January 31, 1918. (Assembly no. 5) 639p map '18 State lib., order sect. Labor disputes Reports Report of the President's mediation commission on street car labor dispute at Minneapolis and St Paul. Official Bul 2:6-7 F 19 '18 Legislation, Proposed Massachusetts-Draft of proposed act to amend the charter of the Boston elevated railway company and to provide for the rehabilitation and improvement of property owned or leased by said company and for the administration of its affairs in the public interest. In Massachusetts. Pub. service comm. Special report relative to the finances and operating methods of the Boston elevated railway company, p 66-75 F '18 Massachusetts-Proposed legislation. In Massachusetts. Street railways investigation comm. Recommendations and proposed legislation as contained in the report on the problems relating to the street railways of the commonwealth, p 65-97 F '18 Materials Railway materials and the war. R. J. Pike. Aera 6:516-20 Ja '18 Municipal ownership Toronto, Can.-Voters of the city at a recent election voted in favor of the acquisition by the city of the Toronto railway system in 1921. At that time the thirty-year franchise in force at present will expire. The vote gave an overwhelming majority in favor of the proposition, about 39,000 to 3,700. Reports • United States. Congress. House. Com. on the District of Columbia. Municipal ownership of street railways in the District of Columbia. (65th Congress 2d session House rept. 410) 26p '18 Apply to Congressmen Ordinances Philadelphia, Pa. Dept. of city transit. Ordinance authorizing the mayor on behalf of the city to execute a contract with the Philadelphia rapid transit company for the maintenance and operation by the said company of the city's transit facilities and extensions thereof, and fixing the terms and conditions of such contract on the basis of unified operation. 33p '17 St Louis, Mo. Bd. of aldermen. Proposed ordinance authorizing the United railways company to construct, maintain and operate a street railway system upon and along the streets of the city of St Louis, Mo., until and including April 12, 1948. (Bd. bill no. 411, session of 1917-18) 38p '17 Munic. ref. lib. Toledo, O. Street railway comm. Tentative street railway ordinance for the city of Toledo. 46p '18 Comm. of publicity and efficiency, 412 Valentine bldg. Toledo, O.-Ordinance pertaining to the operation of street cars by the Toledo railways and light company on street and public places for the operation of which franchises have heretofore expired, and on which cars are being operated without the franchise rights, and fixing the terms for the future operation of cars thereon. Toledo City J 2:3 N 17 '17 Organization Railway equipment maintenance. J: S. Dean. fig chart Aera 6:404-6. 521-9 D '17-Ja '18 (to be cont.) Publicity Public press and electric railways. H. C. Clark. Aera 6:291-9 N '17 Regulation Before the Service commission: discussion of some of the basic railway problems; Margin of safety, capitalization and depreciation, from several interesting standpoints. Thomas Conway, jr. and others. Aera 6: 103-8 S '17 Discussion at a hearing on the six-cent fare before the Public service commission of the 2d district of New York. Six fundamentals of regulation. B. W. Warren. Reports Massachusetts-Oppose state ownership: "service-at-cost' plan for financial relief of street railways sent to legislature by recess committee. Boston Evening Transcript pt 1 p 9 F 2 '18 Reports Chicago, Ill. Bd. of supervising engineers Chicago traction. 9th annual report covering the fiscal year ended January 31, 1916. 277p tables charts maps Weight 24 oz Enclose postage '18 Munc. ref. lib. Cleveland railway company. Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1916. 60p tables Ja 31 '17 Leader-News bldg., Cleveland, O. Make direct application Cleveland railway company. Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1917. 53p il tables Ja 30 '18 Leader-News bldg., Cleveland, O. Make direct application Massachusetts. Pub. service comm. Report on the methods and practices of the Boston elevated railway company, Boston, Mass., to the Public service commission, November, 1917. J: A. Beeler. 279p tables diag plans maps '18 New York (state). Pub. service comm. for the 1st district. Summary of reports of street railway companies operating in the city of New York, for the quarter October-December, 1917. 8p tables '18 120 Broadway, N.Y. State aid State aid for physical improvements. Elec Ry J 50:1030-3 D 8 '17 Chairman Macleod of Massachusetts commission suggests that in rehabilitation thru state credit lies one of best hopes of improving financial results of electric railways. Statistics Electric railway statistics. table Aera 3:348-9 N '17 Electric railway statistics: comparison of returns for the twelve months ended December 31, 1917, with those for 1916. Aera 6: 792-7 Mr '18 New York (city)-Physical statistics of street railways: statistical_epitome and comparison, 1914 and 1915; Traffic statistics (street railways): comparative summary of streetrailway traffic by groups of roads and kinds of transit, 1914 and 1915. tables In New York (state). Pub. service comm. for the 1st district. Report, 1915: v. 2, Statistics of transportation companies, p 36-80 '16 Stops Baltimore to try "staggered" skip stop. fig History of the "skip stop": where and how its introduction on American electric railway systems has been accomplished; its various forms, the economies produced and its benefits to both public and company. Alexander Shapiro. Aera 6:947-61 My '18 (to be cont.) "Skip-stop" schedules for car lines being considered. Official Bul 2:2 F 9 '18 Street car patrons in many cities for retaining skip-stop plan. City Bul 3:281-2 Ag 31 '18 Bibliography Skip stop information: references to methods of selecting and marking stopping places. Aera 6:676-7 F '18 Methods of teaching electrical engineering. D. C. Jackson. In Pan American scientific congress. Proceedings, 1915, v 5, p 21-4 '17 Electrical Industries Development of the electrical industry. Theo. Swight. i N Y Evening Post 5th Annual Pub Utilities and Eng R sect 5 p 13-14 Mr 30 '18 New Zealand-Electrical goods in New Zealand. R. A. Lundquist. il tables US Bur For and Dom Com Special Agents Ser no 147 47p 5c '17 U.S. supt. of doc. Electrical signs. See Advertising, Electrical; Signs, Electrical United States. Bur. of the census. Census of manufactures, 1914: electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies. 18p tables '17 Electrical workers * Minneapolis, Minn. Bd. of educ. Dept. of vocational guidance. Harnessing the lightning: what vocational education is needed for the electrical worker? (Occupational ser. bul. no. 2) 205-33p 15c '16 (Ed. exhausted) Reprint of chapter 7 from the Report of the Minneapolis survey for vocational education, bulletin no. 21, National society for the promotion of industrial education. Electricity Society for electrical development. Useful electrical information for architects, contractors, and engineers. rev ed 8p tables plans '17 29 W. 39th st, N.Y. Furnished by the society and reprinted from Sweet's catalogue, 1917. See also Advertising, Electrical; Factories † Great Britain. Bd. of trade. Departmental Conferences See Public utilities-Conferences Dangers ↑ Safety for the household. il tables US Bur Standards Circ no 75 15c '18 U.S. supt. of doc. of Birmingham [England] increases prices electricity and gas. E. H. Dennison. Commerce Repts no 81 p 82-3 Ap 6 '18 * Cleveland electric rate case. F. W. Ballard. 26p tables chart 17 F. W. Ballard & co., Swetland bldg., Cleveland, O. Electric rates and their tendencies. C. L. King. tables Utilities M 2:7-21 O '17 Glasgow, Scotland-Increase in gas and electric rates. T: H. Bevan. Commerce Repts no 273 p 717 N 21 '17 Los Angeles, Cal.-New basis of rates for industrial power: recently adopted schedule places Los Angeles on equal footing with other cities. table Pub Service 2:5 Ja '18 Reports Chicago, Ill. Dept. of gas and electricity. 20th annual report, 1916. 44p il tables charts maps Weight 7 oz Enclose postage '17 Munic. ref. lib. Massachusetts. Bd. of gas and electric light comrs. 33d annual report for the calendar year 1917, including tables from the annual returns for the year ending June 30, 1917. (Pub. doc. no. 35) 463p tables Weight 37 oz Enclose postage Ja '18 Electrochemical industries Electrochemical industries; with discussion. G. A. Roush. bibl table In Pan American scientific congress. Proceedings, 1915, v 6, p 185-197 '17 Electrochemists of America amazed at the vast resources of South for electrochemical industries. W: H. Stone. Manufacturers Rec 73:57-9 My 9 '18 Manufacturers Record for April 25, 1918 contains the following articles on the electrochemical industries of the South, written in connection with the Southern tour of the American electrochemical society, April 29May 5, 1918: What the visit of the electrochemists to the South may mean to the nation and the world; Appalachian South and its electrochemical industries, by C. G. Fink; Psychological moment in Southern development, by C: H. Herty; Southern tour of American electrochemical society, by C: F. Roth; Waterpower development in Appalachian region, by J. A. Switzer; Niagara of the South, by W. G. Waldo: Extensive Southern resources for electrochemical and electrometallurgical industries, by H. D. Ruhm; Over $150,000,000 to be expended in Muscle shoals district for four nitrate plants and dams, by T: F. Logan; South and the electric furnace industries, by F. J. Tone; New electrochemical centers, by J. W. Beckman; Electrochemical industries and the war, by G. A. Roush; Electrochemistry in the machine shop, by C. G. Schluederberg. Elevator cables Problem of equalizing cost and service of cables used on elevators. A. W. Gabriel. Rec and Guide 100:703+ D 1 '17 Elevators California. Industrial accident comm. Tentative revisions of sundry elevator safety orders prepared by a committee representing various interests relating to manufacture, use and inspection of elevators, at the request of the industrial accident commission of the state of California. 18p '17 525 Market st, San Francisco Guarding of elevators, cranes and moving machines. J: P. Jackson. In New York (state). Industrial comm. Proceedings of the 1st industrial safety congress, 1916, p 48-58 '17 Texas-Act defining and regulating emigrant agents; providing for licensing such agents and exempting from operation of this act all municipal employment bureaus and employment agencies operated purely for charitable purposes. (Ch. 36, P. L. 1917 3d called session) Emigration. See Immigration Condemnation of lands for military purposes. President's proclamation declaring reservation for proving grounds. Woodrow Wilson. Official Bul 1:9 D 27 '17 Proclamation by President taking over certain lands in Maryland and Virginia for navy gun-testing purposes. Woodrow Wilson. Official Bul 2:10 Je 18 '18 See also Excess condemnation and unemployment. Monthly R 5:950-80 N '17 Employment in selected industries in June, 1917. tables Monthly R 5:363-7 Ag '17 † La Salle ext. univ. Employment department and employee relations. F. C. Henderschott and F. E. Weakly. 60p forms 25c '18 4046-58 Michigan av, Chicago Labor New York (state). Industrial comm. Market in September, 1917. 4p tables chart '17 Includes: Employment in factories; Building activity in principal cities. New York (state)-Course of employment in New York state: statistics prepared by department of labor show interesting fluctuations. charts Rec and Guide v 101 sect 3 p 36 Mr 23 '18 New York (state)-Employment. Monthly R 6:132-3 Ja '18 New York (state)-Employment and the labor market; with discussion. C: L. Barnes. In New York state industrial safety congress. Proceedings, 1917, p 224-46 '18 Ohio-Rates of wages, hours of labor, and fluctuation of employment in Ohio in 1915. tables Ohio Industrial Comm Bul v 3 no 9 Weight 21 oz Enclose postage D 15 '16 See also Unemployment; also subhead Employment under various subjects After the war Austria-Demobilization in Austria after the war. Monthly R 6:1121-2 My '18 Great Britain-Employment exchanges Great Britain in 1917. Can Labour Gaz 18: 356-7 My '18 in Great Britain-Woman labor employed Great Britain through system of exchanges. chart Rec and Guide 100:701 D 1 '17 Great Britain-Work of the employment exchanges in the United Kingdom in 1917. tables Monthly R 6:971-7 Ap '18 Juvenile employment through noncommercial employment bureaus. Monthly R 5:358-63 Ag '17 Labour Exchange Daily Supplement to the New South Wales Industrial Gazette contains a list of government labour exchanges of the department of labour and industry operated within the state and may be referred to by employers who are inquiring for labour, or employees who are seeking employment. Labor organizations and public employment offices: how they can be mutually helpful. R. G. Valentine. U S Bur Labor Statistics Bul no 220 (Employment and unemployment ser. no. 6) p 73-9 J1 '17 Nebraska. Dept. of labor. Free employment bureau. 7p il table My '17 the New York (city)-Clearing house for employment offices was established in New York on Oct. 5, 1917, financed by the state defense council and the Mayor's committee on national defense. It comes under supervision of the industrial division of the state defense council and is directly under the control of the state bureau of employment. The purpose of the clearing house is to clear all employment information between the many non-commercial employment offices in Greater New York. Pennsylvania-Organized labor and the state employment bureau; with discussion. J: A. Dept Phillips. Pa Labor and Industry Monthly Bul 4:100-4 F '17 Public employment bureaus vs. private job sharks. Alexander Gittes. Call M Ja 19 '18 p 3-4 Supervision of federal labor necessary. Rec and Guide 100:840 D 29 '17 Résumé of report of the committee on industry and employment of the Mayor's committee on national defense. |