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Harvard will also receive the income from the vending machines, advertising facilities, news stands and other merchandising concerns of the, Interborough subway and elevated stations. Thus the University will profit by each stick of gum sold and each weight vended by the Interborough weighing machines...
...hospitality, Hertz has now completed a new $25,000,000 coach merger, whereby the Fifth Ave. Coach Co. of New York is to be merged with the Chicago Motor Coach Co., along with the New York Transportation Co., under the title of the Omnibus Co. of America. The Interborough Rapid Transit Co., which formerly owned 51% of Fifth Ave. Coach, sold out to the new combine...
Prominent New Yorkers connected with traffic statistics say the London contention is buncombe. According to Frank Hedley, President of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the average speed of local New York subway trains on both east and west sides is 16 miles per hour. From 96th and Chambers Street on the west side and from 125th Street and City Hall or Brooklyn Bridge on the east side an average speed, including stops, of 16 miles is maintained...
...will deny that New York is probably the most honest city in the world. Its mayor says so; so does the police commissioner; and now the Interborough Rapid Transit has revealed through the assistant to its president even more significant proof. In marked contrast to the dishonest Western cities, New York uses only fifty thousand slugs, checks and hammered pennies a month for complimentary subway rides...
...lecturer then began an explana- tion of the Interborough system feeder layout. He showed that it was designed especially to give the minimum variation of voltage on the third rail...