The company began with graduated fares, but I heard they were considering a minimum general charge, which it was thought would encourage more traffic, especially in the visits of women to one another, as their outdoor dress is unsuited to walking in comfort.

The tramway cars have separate compartments for women.

The travelling pace is necessarily slow, in order to avoid hurt or harm to people and animals in the crowded thoroughfares.

In the East, accidents at the hands of Europeans or their employes are not readily understood or easily accepted as such.

The Tehran Tramways Company has had its trials in this respect.