Excerpt from The Street Railway Gazette, Vol. 3: January to December, 1888 The figures resulting in a saving of time by increasing tfie ve/oez'ly are equally surprising when thus takenin the aggregate, as will be seen from the. Following extracts: By doubling the velocity it is evident that for a given length of trip one half the time is saved, so that the round trip re quiring one hour, at street-car rate, would take but a half hour at the elevated rate of travel.' Thus a half hour would be saved for each pass enger, and for the this would amount to hours, or work ing days of nine hours. Taking 300 working days to the year, it would make years. Startling as the result seems, it represents the amount of time actually sacrificed in this com munity each year by the z'z/qfierfeeliou of one of our ways of communication, What is this waste of time worth? Taking the average value of the working day at only $2, it gives These figures explain very fully why it is that the public works of a city have so great an influence upon her material welfare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.