. Elektrische Eisenbahn Überprüfung . Ash-Handling durch die Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company – General View of Receiving Station. Pany, die eine Vereinbarung mit der Stadtverwaltung von Brooklyn hat, um die Verantwortung für die Stadt Asche und Straßenpfeifen zu übernehmen. Früher zog die Stadt ihre Asche, um Scows auf der Flussfront und Dumping-Gelände befindet sich von einem bis acht Meilen von den Punkten der Sammlung, zahlen in den letzten Fällen von 10 bis 15 Cent eine Last für das Privileg des Dumpings, zusätzlich zu den Kosten für die Haul. Der Einwand der pro Kubikyard. Dreizehn provisorische Aschestationen wurden nebenan gebaut
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. Electric railway review . Ash-Handling by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company—General View of Receiving Station. pany, which has an arrangement with the city authorities ofBrooklyn for taking charge of the city ashes and streetsweepings. Formerly the city hauled its ashes to dump scows onthe river front and to dumping grounds located from one toeight miles from the points of collection, paying in the lattercases from 10 to 15 cents a load for the privilege of dumping, in addition to the cost of the haul. The objection of the per cubic yard. Thirteen temporary ash stations were builtadjacent to surface lines, so located that the maximum dumpcart haul should be one mile and the average haul aboutthree-fourths of a mile. From these stations the ashes wereconveyed in heavy steel buckets on flat cars to outlyingmarsh lands and there used as fill, the company receiving aconsideration from the owners of these marsh lands. This business assumed proportions that made it advis-. Ash-Handling by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company—Interior View of Receiving Stati:n. beach resorts to the scow dumping plan and the rapid fillingof available dumping grounds within a reasonable distancefrom collection points, made it necessary for the city to beginto seek for more remote dumping places, which would haveinvolved the maintenance of a large additional number ofJiorses and carts, with the attendant risk of loss, and the able to erect ash stations of more permanent constructionand tln> company has this year rebuilt three of its stationsat a cost of about $25, 000 each. One is located at the cornerof Ralph and Atlantic avenues, Brooklyn, one in Bergen streetand the third in Herkimer street. Engravings from igraphs at the first station are presented herewith. 262 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVII. No. 8. 1) Hidings are of simple but substantial construction, are prac-tically fireproof and kept as clean as possible. The exterioris of pressed brick, the cabin without bei
