This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...of users. Trains on the Elevated are not run at haphazard. Schedules are prepared with the greatest care and a close check of the traflic is made at certain points on the various lines as each train passes. This check is made throughout the entire twenty-four hours of the day and night. With this information in front of him, the man who makes up the schedules has a picture of every train on the entire system. It is his business to keep the number of seats as near to the number of passengers as it is humanly possible. That cannot be done in the rush hours, but it is done at other hours, provided trains are run on schedule time. A delay to a train of two minutes, or even one minute, throws the service out of balance, with the result that one train is over-crowded while the one following is half-filled. Running a system like the "L" isn't nearly as simple as it looks to many. for it is safe to say that one-half the daily patrons think they could run it better than the men who have made it their life work. Fluctuations in "L ' ' Traffic from Day to Day HEN you board an "L" train that is crowded, don't you inwardly, if not audibly, cuss the company for not putting on more cars? Of course you do. It is human nature, and it is much the same in Chicago, New York, London or Hongkong. It doesn't occur to you to reason why that particular train is crowded. You are not interested in that. You are being put to some inconvenience for a few minutes and you feel you have to cuss someone. If you get real peeved about it, you write a letter to the "vox pop" column of your favorite newspaper and complain that you are being ill-treated. The men who are responsible for the movement of that...