The Street railway journal (1904) (14574114297)

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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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trucks, being used even on the surface cars inBerlin. It is curious that such bearings are not more used inthis country to reduce track wear, especially in view of theirsuccessful use on the cars of the Brooklyn Bridge, where, withabout forty curves of 100 ft. radius to be taken every hour, andno elevation of the outer rail possible, their introduction onthe motor trucks not only stopped derailments, but prolongedthe lift of the rails on curves and cross-overs to an average oftwo years from a previous minimum of even sometimes lessthan six weeks when locomotives were used. 848 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIII. No. 23. VIRGINIA PASSENGER & POWER COMPANYS YOUNG MENSCHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BY S. W. HUFF The Street Railway Journal has contained notices ofplans for the organization of a Street Railway Young MensChristian Association among the employees of the VirginiaPassenger & Power Company, of Richmond and Petersburg,Va., and it has been suggested that a more extended notice of

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FIG. 1.—ASSOCIATION BUILDING IN RICHMOND the formal organization and launching of this work might be ofinterest. It will be recalled by some that about a year ago the Vir-ginia Passenger & Power Company was in the midst of a verybitter and hard-fought strike, with the result that its lines arenow being operated by non-union men—a combination ofstrikers, strike breakers and men who came into the employ ofthe company after the strike. The company resolved not tocountenance any organization among the employees that wouldbring to the front unwise and radical leaders, but it alsorealized the necessity and the justice of providing some kindof acceptable home for its men, and, at the suggestion of theprincipal owner, Frank Jay Gould, the matter was taken upwith the officials of the Young Mens Christian Association,and plans mapped out for the organization of such an asso-ciation among the employees of the company. Some years back there was a beneficial association among theemployees

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