DOCUMENTS, REPORTS, AND LEGISLATION: Industries and Commerce.

This article presents information regarding Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rapid Transit Report. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company in general charges 3 cents for an exchange ticket between surface lines. But there are free transfers between the Market Street subway and outlying surface lines, and this would be an important feature of the plan for new lines. In Manhattan and the Bronx, though free transfers between surface lines are usual within each system, there are no free transfers between street-surface and rapid transit lines. But through rapid transit ride obtainable is much longer than elsewhere and the topography of Manhattan Island also tends to make such a ride quite generally complete and sufficient. The bureau is now corresponding with manufacturers and associations of manufacturers, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, etc., for the purpose of securing their cooperation in taking the census and of obtaining suggestions in regard to improvements in the form of the schedules. Work has also been started on the lists of names and addresses of manufacturers. It has been the experience of the bureau that it requires practically one year to make the canvass and to collect the reports from all manufacturers.