The Street Railway Journal

July i8, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxi NEWS OF THE WEEK

CONSTRUCTION NOTES pleted from Crawfordsville to Jamestown. Steel for 20 miles is arriving. The Lafayette line, the Danville extension and the coal road will be built next BIRMINGHAM, ALA.—The Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Com- year. This will give Indianapolis two electric lines to Lafayette. It is not unlikely that the coal road into Parke County will be pushed on to Rock pany has begun work on the Glen Iris branch, about a mile long. ville, where it will connect with the Danville Company's line into Clinton and BIRMINGHAM, ALA. At a meeting of the committees from the com- — Terre Haute. mercial bodies of Huntsville and Birmingham and intervening towns, held in The Muncie, Hartford Fort Railway Company Birmingham, to take steps for building a direct line of railway between Bir- MUNCIE, IND.— & Wayne has just begun schedule service on 30 miles of road from Muncie, through mingham and Huntsville, it was determined to appoint a joint committee of Eaton to Hartford City and Montpelier. Cars had been running irregularly twelve to arrange all preliminaries looking to making a survey for the route, since May 1. There are no curves and the grades are 1 per cent outside the securing rights of way, etc. The special committee is made up as follows: For cities where fifty-year franchises are held. The 40-ft. right of way outside the Huntsville, W. I. Wellman, Ben P. Hunt, Oscar Hundley, Milton Humes, cities is outright the Seventy-pound rails, oak ties, D. E. Scroggins and W. L. Halsey; for Birmingham, Rufus N. Rhodes, N. owned by company. Stephenson cars, General Electric Company equipment, Cooper engines. F. Thompson, J. A. Montgomery, James Bowron, M. V. Joseph and Robert Jemison. Sterling boilers and Packham trucks are used. The company owns and operates a summer resort park at Eaton. It contains 37 acres, and is located PRESCOTT, ARIZ.—Ground has been broken for an electric street rail- on the Mississinawa River. The fare is 2 cents a mile. The road will be built way for the city of Prescott, with the objective point at Fort Whipple. It is to Bluffton, 14 miles from Montpelier, by Nov. 1. The company is capitalized proposed that the line will eventually furnish passenger and freight transpor- at $1,000,000 and bonded for the same amount. Lewis Hester, Muncie, Ind., is tation for a number of the more important mining districts of the company, general manager. The superintendent is L. J. Shlessinger, of Eaton, Ind. S. the first to be tapped being the Groom Creek section. Backing the enter- M. Hester, of Cleveland, is president; A. L. Johnson, of Muncie, Ind., vice- prise is the Prescott Electric Company, from whose works power will at president; J. C. Gilcris, of Cleveland, treasurer, and F. W. Osborne, of Cleve- first be furnished. land, secretary. The other directors are: W. B. Cooley, of Hartford City, and Pacific MONTEREY, CAL—The Monterey & Grove Electric Railway has L. Hexter and A. Lewenthal, of Cleveland. been placed in operation. NEW ALBANY, IND.—The incorporators of the company that is to build SAN JOSE, CAL.—The work of laying the rails of the San Jose & Los the proposed electric railway between Louisville and Cincinnati have organ- Gatos Interurban Railway was begun at San Jose a few days ago. Already 15 ized the Indiana Interurban Bridge Company to build over the Ohio River. miles of line are graded, and ties are laid ready for the rails for a distance of The company is capitalized at $1,500,000, and the bridge that it plans to build 5 miles. The officers of the company are: President, J. W. Rea; vice-presi- will span the river at the head of Sand Island, about 200 yards above the dent, E. N. Rea; general manager, F. S. Granger; secretary, Thomas Rea; Kentucky and Indiana Bridge. The new structure will be constructed of directors, J. W. Rea, F. S. Granger, O. A. Hale, Gus Lion, A. Barnard and steel, double-tracked, and will be vised for the interurban cars and wagons. L. M. Robbins. RICHMOND, IND.—The Eastern Indiana Electric Railway Company has BRADENTOWN, FLA.—All work on the line of the Manatee Light & commenced its survey of the proposed line from Richmond to Portland, Ind., Traction Company has been completed except the placing of the steam the road to be completed by July 1, 1904. It has a clear right of way and turbines. The road extends from Bradentown to Manatee, a distance of 6 franchises granted along the proposed route. miles, with two 3-mile branches. Six motor-cars and two trail cars will be operated. The power-station equipment consists of two 260-kw Bullock SEYMOUR, IND.—The City Council has granted a thirty-year franchise to generators, two 300-hp De Laval steam turbines, two 300-hp Babcock & Wilcox the Indiana Central Electric Railway Company, which is projecting a line from Columbus to West Baden. water-tube boilers. The cars were made by the J. G. Brill Company, of Philadelphia, and are of the convertible type. The authorized capital stock VERSAILLES. IND.— Center Township, Ripley County, has voted by a of the company is $100,000, all of which has been issued. The authorized large majority in favor of a subsidy in aid of the Madison, Greensburg & funded debt of the company is $100,000, none of which has been issued. The Indianapolis Electric Railway. officers of the company are: John A. Graham, president and manager; W. DUBUQUE, IA.—The Dubuque & Western Railroad Company has filed A. Carter, vice-president; N. H. Graham, secretary and treasurer; H. C. articles of incorporation. Peter Kiene. of Dubuque, is president. The pur- Sloan, superintendent and electrician; R. N. Ellis, engineer. pose of the promoters is to connect Dubuque and the northern and southern McKinley, DECATUR, ILL.—W. B. of Champaign, the head ot the McKin- parts of the county by electric lines. The Eastern Securities Company, of ley syndicate, which is building electric lines in Illinois, has announced that New York, is backing the project. work would begin in connecting up interurban and street railway lines and CITY, IA.—Smith Dows, of Cedar Rapids, who have in contem- making a through fast-service line between Danville, 111., and St. Louis. At IOWA & interurban railway Iowa City and Danville the syndicate expects to have connections into Terre Haute, and, plation the construction of an between Cedar Rapids, have applied for a franchise in Iowa City. A hearing is to be by the line that the Consolidated Company is building, through Crawfords- ville, Veedersburg and Covington, into Indianapolis and to the East. given on the application on July 17. Electric Interurban DECATUR, ILL.—The sale of the Decatur Traction & Electric Company's MARSHALLTOWN. IA.—The Marshalltown Street & Council. property has been effected by a syndicate of Eastern capitalists represented Railway Company has been voted a franchise by the by W. B. McKinley, of Champaign, purchasing the entire issue of $250,000 in ROCK FALLS, IA.—The Rock River Traction Company, which will build capital stock for $200,000. The system has been bonded for $212,000. This an electric railway to Rock Island, has secured the right of way from Rock- makes the total valuation of the capitalists system $412,000. The represented Falls to Geneseo. by Mr. McKinley are now building interurban systems that will eventually be CARIBOU, MAINE.—The Caribou. Washburn & Perham Railroad Com- joined and make an electric railway from Danville through Champaign and pany has made a preliminary survey of its route from Caribou to Washburn Decatur to Springfield, thence to St. Louis. and Perham, and it has considerable preliminary work to do before getting I Additional laborers have been put to work CRAWFORDSVILLE, ND.— down to the work of construction. The road is to be principally a freight at Lebanon on the Northwestern Traction Company's line, and the grade is road, and will be built mostly outside the highway so as to get a very low now Crawfordsville. being made toward The work of building eastward from grade. The company will not make any contracts at present. The line will Crawfordsville is progressing satisfactorily, and tracks are connected with the connect Caribou, Washburn and Perham, a distance of 14% miles. The steam road, and cars of material are run out 3 miles or more to a point where officers of the company are: S. L. White, president; J. D. Emery, vice-presi- the tracks are laid. The grade has been completed for a distance of 5 miles. dent; E. A. Holmes, secretary; George W. Irving, treasurer. All material for the track is distributed, and the contractors expect that the BOSTON, MASS.—The Railroad Commissioners have issued three certifi- line will be completed by Sept. 1. cates, to the effect that the following extensions of locations are consistent FORT WRYNE, IND.—It is stated that the Fort Wayne & Southwestern with public interests: Of the Framingham. Southboro & Marlboro Street Traction Company, between Wabash and Fort Wayne, which is now in the Rail- Railway, in the town of Framingham ; of the Boston & Worcester Street hands of a receiver, will probably be restored to the stockholders within a few way, on Eastern Avenue, in the town of Framingham ; of the Lowell & days. The property was placed in the hands of S. L. Nelson, the general man- Boston Street Railway, on Boston Road, in Billerica. ager, as receiver, at the instance of the National Bank of North America, New The Railroad Commissioners have issued a certificate of York, which held a $100,000 note of the company, and which sued to prevent its BOSTON, MASS.— reconstruction of that portion of the Old Colony claim becoming a junior lien under a mortgage about to be executed. The operation approving the Street Railway, located in West Roxbury, which was leased to the Boston bank has dismissed the case, the company having adjusted the claim to its Elevated Railway Company. satisfaction, and Mr. Nelson, it is said, will soon retire as receiver and re- sume his duties as general manager. The company has no floating debt. BOSTON, MASS.—The Massachusetts Electric Companies has increased turbine engines from five to ten, deliveries to FRANKFORT, IND.—The dispute between the Indianapolis & North- its order for General Electric this year and 1904. These engines will be each of 2000 hp western and the Consolidated Traction Companies for the possession of the extend over will be distributed among the various power stations operated disputed right of way between this city and Lebanon has been decided by capacity, and by the subsidiary companies. Judge Neal in favor of the Northwestern Company, which is given priority of right and authority to proceed with the construction of its line. BOSTON, MASS.—The Boston Transit Commission has opened bids for

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Consolidated Traction Company, which is the construction of the last section of the tunnel which will connect East now busy pushing the construction of its line to Crawfordsville, by the direct Boston with the city proper. Eight bids were received, ranging from $125,000 route through Jamestown, will build a line from Crawfordsville to Lafayette, to $229,170. The successful contractor will have until Dec. 20 to complete will extend the Indianapolis-Crawfordsville line on to Danvile, 111., through his work, and this will not include the laying of the tracks. This section Veedersburg and Covington, and will build a coal road' from Crawfordsville will run from the westerly end of the old State House across Washington down into the Parke County fields. The road will be a coal carrier into In- street and along Court Street to Scollay Square, where it will connect at dianapolis. The grading on the Crawfordsville-Indianapolis line is com- grade with the present subway. xxii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 3.

BOSTON, MASS.—The Boston Elevated has filed a protest with the Rail- road Commissioners against the route determined by the transit commission. The notice reads as follows: "Believing that the route designated by the transit commission will not furnish the best facilities for public travel, the THE CLIMAX FENCE POST CO. company feels it duty bound to apply to the Board for revision of such determination of the commission, to the end that the board may consider THE BEST THINQ IN FENCE POSTS and finally determine the question." The notice is signed by President Wil- liam A. Bancroft. CONCORD, MASS.—The Concord, Maynard & Hudson Street Railway " Company has petitioned the Selectmen of Stow for locations in that town " CLIMAX for an extension of its present line to connect with the proposed Lowell, Acton & Maynard Street Railway. Farm Line Fence Posts EXETER, MASS.—The Epping, Brentwood & Kingston Street Railway, chartered at the last session of the Legislature, with an authorized capital of $200,000, has been organized. The directors are: Russel H. Fellows, of Brentwood; Levi W. Bartlett and L. Waldo Collins, of Kingston; D. Frank R. R. Right of Way Fellows, of Brentwood; John Scammon, of Exeter; Mr. Perrin, J. A. Edgerly, Fence Posts W. S. Goodridge and R. R. Morris, of Epping. Russel H. Fellows was elected president. The proposed road will run through Epping, Brentwood and Kingston, towns without electric service, to Exeter. Railroad Signal Posts FALL RIVER, MASS.—The Tiverton & Seaconnet Street Railway incorporators—the company proposing to build from New Bedford to Horse Neck and thence through Little Compton and Tiverton to Fall River—lias formed City Sign Posts a corporation with the following directors: A. S. Pennock, of Boston; B. W. Carlow, of Boston, N. L. Sheldon, of Boston; Henry M. Brett, of Boston; George T. Howard, of Little Compton; Job Wordell, of Tiverton, and Frank Grinnell, of Tiverton. corner, End and HUDSON, MASS.—The Concord, Maynard & Hudson Street Railway Ornamental Posts Company has selected new locations in Stow and Acton, which are to become a part of the Lowell, Acton & Maynard Street Railway, now being built. These locations are over private right of way for most of the distance, and BASE made of Vitrified Shale Clay franchises are being asked for where highways are crossed. POST, any height, made of steel angle NORTH ADAMS, MASS.—The petition of the Hoosac Valley Street Rail- cemented In the base way Company for approval of a location on private land in Adams will be PUNCHED FOR ANY KIND OF FENCE granted as soon as word is received from the Selectmen of the town that a on the adjoining highway has been revoked, the Board not desiring location 715 Marquette Building to have two locations standing at the same time. ITTTSFIELD, MASS.—The Selectmen of Lee have revised their ruling relative to the speed of street cars in that town, and have adopted a rule CHICAGO permitting cars to be run at a speed of 6 miles an hour in the center of the town and 15 miles an hour elsewhere in the town. The Berkshire Street Rail- way Company, of Pittsfield, is the company affected by this rule. H. E. OVERSTREET, Gen. Mgr.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Springfield Board of Aldermen has come fcnd Post Line Post Steel Post, Clay Rase to an agreement with the Springfield Suburban Street Railway Company (Patented) relative to a franchise for which the company has asked for locations in Springfield. The company is to post a forfeit of $10,000 in cash or a certified check for that amount, and will give in addition a bond of $50,000 to insure satisfactory execution of all the conditions of the franchise. The line must be complete in eighteen months after the franchise is granted. The bond and forfeit are provided by Fred T. Ley personally as a temporary arrangement until the organization of the company is completed. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—A franchise has been granted to the Springfield- Suburban Street Railway Company from the Wilbraham line to the postoffice of Springfield. TIVERTON, MASS.—The Tiverton & Seaconnet Street Railway Company has been incorporated to build an electric railway, from Tiverton to Horse Neck, and thence through Little Compton and Tiverton to Fall River. The directors of the company are: A. S. Pennock, B. W. Carlow, N. L. Shelden, Henry M. Brett, of Boston; George T. Howard, of Little Compton; Job Wordell, of Tiverton; Frank Grinnell, of Tiverton.

WHITINSVILLE, MASS.—The Selectmen of Northbridge have voted to grant a franchise to the Uxbridge & Blackstone Street Railway Company for an extension of its track to connect at Whitinsville with the Linwood Street Railway. WORCESTER, MASS.—The Worcester & Providence Street Railway Com- pany is renewing its efforts to get locations in towns between Worcester and Providence. The company has met with delay in Millsbury, but the obstruction there has been removed. WORCESTER, MASS.—The franchise granted the Hartford & Worcester Street Railway Company for locations in Charlton, which expired June 13, has been extended to June 13, 1904. WORCESTER, MASS.—The Railroad Commissioners have approved the extensions of the Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company in Eastern Avenue, Framingham; of the Framingham, Southboro & Marlboro Street Railway Company in Worcester street, Framingham, and of the Hampshire & Worcester Street Railway Company in Warren. WORCESTER, MASS.—The Railroad Commissioners have given a hearing to the Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company on its petition for. authority to ifsue $1,000,000 in bonds and additional stock to the amount of

$250,000. The present stock issued by the company is $1,000,000. . WORCESTER, MASS.—The Worcester, Rockdale & Charlton Depot Street Railway Company has been given a hearing by the Railroad Commissioners on its petition for authority to issue bonds to the amount of $40,000 to pay for putting in double track in Worcester. The company has a capital stock of $40,000 and no bonds outstanding. WORCESTER, MASS.—The Worcester & Southbridge Street Railway Company has completed a $10,000 sub-station near Pinehurst, the principal pleasure resort on the line. The new station is to provide additional power for the section of the line between Pinehurst and Worcester, over which the heaviest part of the travel -will go. A transformer is being put in at Pine- July 18, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxiii

hurst, through which the current for the electric lighting service at the park •will pass. The park is being developed into one of the finest street railway amusement parks in New England.

WORCESTER, MASS.—Work will be begun within a month on the Hart- iford & Worcester Street Railway. James F. Shaw & Company, who built the Boston & Worcester Street Railway, will build the new line, and will transfer men to this job as soon as the Boston & Worcester line, on which there is a little more work to be done, has been finished. The line, is to be built over private rights of way for most of the distance in Massachusetts, and the track will be laid with the purpose of operating at a high-speed schedule. Existing lines from Hartford to Rockville, Conn., will be used, and the greater part of the new construction will be in Massachusetts, where about 35 miles of track are to be built.

BENTON HARBOR, MICH.— In order to hold its franchise the Kala- mazoo-Benton Harbor Electric Railway Company began work here a few days ago on its proposed line. Only a few poles were placed in position, but the assurance is given by the promoters that active work will be begun at once. HANCOCK, MICH.—The Council of Lake Linden has granted the Hough- ton County Street Railway Company a franchise to build a line through the village.

JACKSON, MICH.—Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Jack- son, Ann Arbor & Detroit Traction Company, with a capital stock of $2,500,000. The company is organized to lease, purchase or otherwise acquire an electric railway from Jackson to Detroit, through the counties of Jackson, Washtenaw and Wayne, the city of Ann Arbor and all intervening villages and cities. The stockholders are: William Halls, Jr., Summit, N. J.; U. S. Potter, Jackson, Mich.; Leonard H. Hole. Montclair, N. J.; William N. Coler, Jr., Newark, N. J.; W. A. Boland, Yonkers, N. Y.; Henrv R. Carse, New York, N. Y., and George W. Mechem, Battle Creek, Mich.

LAKE LINDEN, MICH.—The Common Council has granted a franchise to the Houghton County Street Railway Company to extend its line into Lake Linden.

LANSING, MICH—A. J. White and others, of Battle Creek, are the incorporators of the Grand Rapids & Southern Michigan Tnc*ion Company, organized with $1,300,000 capital to build an electric line connecting Grand Rapids, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. ST. JOSEPH, MO.—The County Court has refused to grant changes asked by the St. Joseph, Parkville & Kansas City Electric Railroad Company, in the franchise formerly granted the company for a line through this county. ST. LOUIS, MO.—The West Olive Street Railway Company has filed a petition in the County Court asking for a franchise to construct and operate a street railway. SPRINGFIELD, N. H.—At the annual meeting of the Springfield Electric Railway Company the following directors were elected: E. C. Crosby and C. W. Wyman, of Brattleboro: F. S. Coolidge and M. A. Coolidge, of Fitch- burg, and W. W. Brown, of Springfield. The directors elected E. C. Crosby president and general manager. M. A. Coolidge, vice-president and treas-

urer, and Allyn J. Crosby, superintendent. JERSEY CITY, N. J.—The Public Service Corporation has recently placed an order for 150 new cars. The new vehicles are to be' of three different types. Twenty-five are to be of the half-open, half-closed type adopted by the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, of New York; twenty-five are to be of the Detroit platform type with an entrance in the middle, and the others are to be of the convertible type.

JERSEY CITY, N. J.—President Thomas N. McCarter, of the Public Service Corporation, in a lengthy communication to the Street and Water Board, Jersey City, has promised that by Sept. 1 transfers will be granted by the company at several points where lines intersect and transfers are not now granted. He declares that the company is studying the transfer problem with a view of ascertaining where transfers will most benefit the public. After making this promise, Mr. McCarter asks for three new trolley franchises, two of which will be for the purpose of establishing a double line to Hoboken in place of the single-track line which now runs through Grove Street, and the third is a request that the company be permitted to connect the tracks of the Jersey City, Hoboken & Paterson Street Railway Company at the Five Corners with those of the North Jersey Street Railway Company.

PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—The Central Jersey Traction Company has applied to the South Amboy Borough Council for a franchise. The route outlined is from the borough line at Swamp Hill, through Broadway to Borden- town Avenue, where it will connect with the Middlesex & Somerset Traction Company. The Central Jersey has its tracks laid to the borough limits. For several months it has been understood that the tracks would be built around South Amboy to reach the new bridge across the Raritan River.

BUFFALO, N. Y.—Justice Kruse has dismissed the complaint of the New York Central Railroad Company in its action brought against the Buffalo & Williamsville Electric Railroad Company. The plaintiff asked for an injunction restraining the defendant from constructing an electric railway from Williamsville to Rochester, on the assertion that the electric road should first have applied to the State Railroad Commission for a certificate of necessity. The construction of the road will now be proceeded with.

NEW YORK, N. Y.—The sub-committee of the Rapid Transit Commission, which has had under consideration the application of the Hudson & Manhattan Company for permission to construct a tunnel from Jersey City to Cortlandt Street, has reported favorably on the project to the Rapid Transit Commis- sion. The proposed franchise provides for the payment to the city of $9,000 a year for the first ten years and $15,000 a year for the next fifteen years; and at the end of twenty-five years for a readjustment of terms, with the proviso that the price to be paid to the city shall not be decreased. XXIV STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 3.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—The Chautauqua Traction Company has been granted authority by the State Railroad Commission to build an electric railway 14 miles long from Lake Wood to Mayville. The company has a capital of $500,000. THE EQUITABLE SYRACUSE, N. Y—Horace Andrews, president of the Utica & Mohawk Valley Electric Railway Company, has approached the Syracuse Rapid Transit, officials with a proposition for a traffic arrangement in this city. The road is TRUST COM PANY now complete from Little Falls to Canastota, and a survey has been made between Canastota and Syracuse, 19 miles. It is planned to enter this city. 152 Monroe Street, CHICAGO CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The stockholders of the Indianapolis & Cincin- nati Traction CompSny have voted to increase the capital stock of the com- Capital paid up $500,000 pany from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, and have authorized a bond issue of $4,000,000. Surplus 275,000 The company's line will be double track. The right of way as far as Con- nersville has practically been secured, and the contract for the construction of the grade has been let to the Callahan Bros. & Katz Company, of Omaha, Neb., who are ready to begin work. Rails for the line have been purchased from the Cambria Steel Company, and the ties have been con- Acts as Trustee for Corpora- tracted for from the Gray Tie Company, of Evansville. Fence posts have tions, Firms and Individuals and been ordered from the Fowler-Jacob Company, of Chicago. as Agent for the registration CINCINNATI, OHIO.— Charles W. Baker has been elected to the board and transfer of bonds and stocks of directors of the Cincinnati, Milford & Loveland Traction Company in the place of J. H. Puerrung, who resigned in order that he might give his per- of Corporations and the pay- sonal attention to the construction of the road beyond Milford, to which ment of coupons, interest and point the track has been practically completed. Mr. Baker, Jr., will have charge of the company's office, which is to be opened in the building on dividends. Interest paid on de- Fifth Street, near Walnut, occupied by the Carrara Paint Company, and will posits give his whole time to this work. The board has created an executive committee, consisting of President B. H. Kroger, Charles W. Baker and Thorne Baker, which will have charge of the business affairs of the company. Presi- dent Kroger states that cars will be running between Cincinnati and Milford DIRECTORS by Aug. 1, and probably at an earlier date. A temporary contract for power has been made with the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railroad Com William Best Andrew McNally pany, but the Cincinnati, Milford & Loveland will begin the erection of a Maurice Rosenfeld John M. Smyth power house, probably at Camp Dennison, as soon as acceptable plans can F. M. Blount J. R. Walsh it is expected, will not be later than Aug. 1, and by the be secured. This, L. A. Walton end of the year the company contemplates operating its cars with power from its own plant. Work on the extension of the road from Milford to Loveland OFFICERS and Blanchester will begin in a few days, and under the direct supervision of Mr. Puerrung will be pushed to the earliest possible completion. The formal J. R. WALSH, President transfer of the Cincinnati, Milford & Eastern franchises and properties to L. A. WALTON, Vice-President Cincinnati, Milford & Loveland Traction Company has been made, all the C. D. ORGAN, Sec. and Treas. of the papers having been approved and signed by the parties interested. C. HUNTOON, Ass't Sec'y and Ass't Treas. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—Glenville's City Council has granted the Cleveland City Railway Company a new franchise for the operation of cars on Doan Street. The ordinance grants the right for the construction and operation of a line from the Lake Shore Railway tracks to the city limits near Superior Street. The new ordinance was passed to overcome the fight being made in the courts by Mayor Johnson on the old one. By the terms of the new ordinance two transfers must be given on each fare paid, the same rate of fare obtaining as in Cleveland, cars must be operated between Saint Clair and

Superior Streets within six months, and the company must pave 17 ft. of Doan Street whenever the city is ready to pave that thoroughfare.

COLUMBUS, OHIO.—The Lancaster, Logan & Nelsonville 'Iraction Com- pany, of Logan, has been incorporated, with a capital of $10,000, by A.

Magoon, J. W. Jones, D. A. Rannells, F. M. McKay and F. E. Pierpont. The company will operate an electric line from Lancaster to Nelsonville, through Fairfield, Hocking and Athens Counties.

MANSFIELD, OHIO.— It is said that the Mansfield & Eastern Railway has been financed and that the construction of the road will be begun in about two weeks. The line will run from Mansfield to Petersburg Lake, a small pleasure resort 12 miles southeast of Mansfield, and thence to Ashland, a distance of 17 miles. It is the intention after the line from Mansfield to Ashland is built to run from Petersburg Lake to Wooster, a distance of 22

miles. Robert McCrory and W. J. Pentz, of Mansfield, are interested.

NEWARK, OHIO.—J. F. Shrontz, Edward Kibler, Edward H. Everett, E. E. NAUGLE Frank Moore and F. E. Elliott have applied for incorporation papers at Columbus for the Newark, Martinsburg & Mount Vernon Traction Company. Ninety per cent of private right of way has already been secured for the 33-mile road, which will be built through Gambler. This will form a link in TIE CO. the electric railway from Cleveland, and when constructed will give Newark four electric interurban roads.

PORT CLINTON, OHIO.—The long-projected Napoleon, Bowling Green & Lake Erie Railway has taken on new life, and the Kerlins, of Toledo, who CEDAR have an entire roadbed built from Fremont to Port Clinton, a distance of

It! miles, are said not to be averse to joining hands with the Toledo road into Port Clinton and Lakeside. Their line would use about 5 miles of the POSTS AND POLES Toledo road, should a traffic agreement be made, between Port Clinton and Fremont alone, and the Fremont road could, no doubt, make further arrangements to run its cars through to Lakeside and Marblehead over the Toledo, TROLLEY POLES Port Clinton & Lakeside Railway, now building. The Bunn syndicate, of Tiffin and New York, has a roadbed constructed between Tiffin and Fremont, and rumors are often heard of a joining of forces of the Bunn people and the E. E. NAUGLE, President. G. B. SHAW, V.-President Kerlins. The latter recently secured an extension grant from the Commis- J. J. P. CDELL, Treasurer. sioners of Sandusky County. CHICAGO, 159 LaSalle St. SIEGFRIED, PA.—The Siegfried & Danielsville Traction Company has filed SSfiSfc in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, at Easton, a notice of the extension of MESSAGES AT OUR EXPENSE. its route. The extension includes a line beginning in the borough of Alliance

" 11 i i i i ' "« < . . and extending to a point known as James Bossard's Corner, in Lehigh / } Township, passing through Cherryville en route. July 18, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXV

TOLEDO, OHIO.—The Onio & Michigan Traction Company hopes soon to be able to let the contracts for building its proposed line between Toledo and Ann Arbor, Mich. Forty-seven miles of track will be laid and ten motor cars will be operated. The three-phase power transmission system- will be used. The authorized capital stock of the company is $1,650,000, and the o()in$!eltCont)ft)or$ authorized funded debt is $1,000,000. The officers of the company are: John H. Clauss, president; Harlow C. Stahl, vice-president; L. L. H. Austin, secre- Are great savers of time, money, labor and space Stations tary and general manager; J. W. Pero, treasurer; W. J. Sherman, engineer. in Power Houses and Coaling

ALLIANCE, PA. —The Town Council has granted the Siegfried & Daniels- 17 - 2 , Row Robins Conveying Belt Co., PBrk ville Trolley Company a franchise. Nlew< York

CONNELLSVILLE, PA. — If the Council passes the ordinance now pending, the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Connellsville Railway Company will build two loops in the town, one on the North Side and one on the South Side. The completed system in the town will form a figure 8. In connection with this new line through town, the company proposes to build either a new line to Moyer, making a loop with the present line out Main Street, or to build the Send for Catalogue line to Broad Ford, the right of way for which has already been secured and RICHARDSON SCALE the final survey made. All the bridges, nine in number, have already been 18 Park Row, N. Y. City. completed for the latter line. The franchise is asked for in the name of the Connellsville Electric Traction Company. The company's line from Fair- chance to Mount Pleasant is now connected up with the exception of the big viaduct between Everson and Scottdale, a distance of 30 miles. From Fair- chance to Uniontown the distance is 5 miles; from Uniontown to Dunbar, 9 .miles; from Dunbar to Connellsville, 4 miles; from Connellsville to Scott- dale, 7 miles; from Scottdale to Mount Pleasant, 5 miles. Besides this, the company's branch lines reach in all directions. The tracks are now laid to the edge of Vanderbilt and the Leisenring lines have been busy hauling THE MULFORD & PETRY COMPANY passengers for a year. C&.r Advertising Contractors CONNELLSVILLE, PA.—The first car was run over the tracks of the Street Will be pleased 10 submit Iheir proposition Pittsburg, McKeesport & Connellsville Electric Railway from Connellsville to roads. [or advertising sp«ce in cars of electric Uniontown July 1. The Vanderbilt line is also in service. DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Bedminster Railway Company, capital $15,000, Offices, St. Paul Building. NEW YORK. Eastern DETROIT. has been chartered to build an electric line 2% miles long from Bedminster Executive " Puritan Building, Toledo, Dayton, Grand Rapids, etc. over the Frenchtown Road to the tracks of the Philadelphia & Easton Rail- Also offices at Chicago, Indianapolis, way Company, on Durham Road, Bedminster Turnpike. This line will be a spur of the Philadelphia & Easton system. The incorporators are: Isaac R. Rosenberger, of Colmar, president; Lewis Keller, Dr. N. S. Nonamaker, John S. Bissey and John H. Nickel, of Bedminster; Charles R. Rosenberger, M. P. HILLYER & COMPANY of Colmar; Harry J. Shoemaker and Samuel A. Hellyer, of Doylestown; Aaron Kratz, of Plumsteadville, and L. P. Muthart, of Allentown. 49 WALL ST., NEW YORK FREELAND, PA.—The Freeland Electric Coach Company has been or- ATLANTIC BUILDING ganized to operate a trackless trolley line from this place to Upper Lehigh, St. Johns, Eckley, Sandy Run and other towns. The officers are: President, Steam and Electric Railroads Financed Hugh Malloy; vice-president, Albert Goeppert; secretary, S. Neuberger; J. Railroad and Gas Bonds a Specialty treasurer, M. Schwabe; directors, Hugh Malloy, A. Goeppert, S. J. Neu- berger, M. Schwabe, A. Oswald, of Freeland, and Harry W. Davis, of Wil- We Invite Correspondence mington, Del. GETTYSBURG, PA.—Engineers have begun the preliminary surveys for the proposed electric railway between Mount Holly Springs and Gettysburg via Biglerville and Bendersville. HARRISBURG, PA.—The East Harrisburg Passenger Railway Company, The which is operated by the Harrisburg Traction Company, has filed notice at the State Department of extensions of its tracks on a number of city streets and to Dauphin and Penbrook. The extensions embrace all of the territory covered by the charter issued to the Dauphin County Street Railway Com- Columbia Machine worhs pany two years ago, but whose franchises have lapsed because permission to build the lines was not secured from the local authorities, as required by law. HUMMELSTOWN, PA.—The Borough Council has granted a franchise to 21 Malleable iron company the Palmyra & Hummelstown Electric Railway Company. HARRISBURG, PA—A charter was granted July 9 to the Central Penn- sylvania Traction Company, capital $2,100,000, which will take over the lines BROOKLYN, IN. Y. of the Harrisburg Traction Company by August. The directors are: T. C. Calder, Edward Bailey, James M. Cameron, E. Z. Wallower, A. G. Knisely, H. A. Kelker, Dr. W. H. Seibert, James Russ, George W. Reily, B. F Meyers, E. E. Walz, S. F. Dunkle, Harris Cohen, E. C. Felton, E. W. S. Parthemore. Edward Bailey is president; W. G. Calder, secretary and treasurer, and Frank Musser, general manager. The stock is divided into Manufacturers of 42,000 shares, the par value of $50 each. It is stated that the property of the Harrisburg & Mechanicsburg Electric Railway Company, with lines to River- ton, New Cumberland, Shiermanstown, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Warn- leysburg, West Fairview and Marysville will be acquired by the new company shortly. The company is now building an extension from Progress to Linglestown, and has extensions to Hummelstown and Dauphin projected. THE COLUMBIA New machinery will be installed at the power plant and new rolling stock secured. HARRISBURG, PA.—Gov. Pennypacker has been holding under advisement the granting of charters to the Central Pennsylvania Rapid Transit TROLLEY POLE Company, the corporation which is to take over the Harrisburg Traction Company and the South Broad Street Railway Company, of Philadelphia; the former until he is assured by the Attorney-General that the powers of the Harrisburg Traction Company can be so enlarged in the charter asked for as to cover territory outside of Dauphin County, and the latter, because the description of the route proposed was rather vague. It is understood that both charters will be issued in a few days, however. Electric Railway HARRISBURG, PA.—A charter has been issued to the Wilkinsburg. Supplies Turtle Creek & East Pittsburg Railway, capital $36,000, to build 6 miles of road in Allegheny County. The line will extend from Penn Avenue and of Every Description Hay Street, Wilkinsburg, along Hay Street to South Avenue, thence to Johnson, to Penn Avenue, to the borough line of Wilkinsburg; thence along the Greensburg Pike to Turtle Creek at the Penn Avenue intersection; thence along Penn Avenue to Brown. The officers are: President, Thomas Gearing; WRITE FOR PRICES directors, E. J. Kent, George McClelland, C. G. Kiscadden, M. Doganiere, all of Pittsburg. XXVI STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XXII. No. 3.

HARRISBURG, PA.—The East Harrisburg Passenger Railway Company, Harrisburg Traction Company and will be operated which is opf atet* °y tne filed notice at the by the Central Pennsylvania Traction Company, has all of the territory of State pepartment of an extension of its tracks covering new Dauphin County Street Passenger Railway Company. The Dauphin t j-,„ Company was chartered two years ago, but its franchises have lapsed, as permission to build its line was not secured from the local authorities as required by law. HAZLETON, PA.—Surveys are being made for the new electric railway between Hazleton, Weatherly and Mauch Chunk. The company, of which overcome the almost Frank W. Larned, of Wilkesbarre, is president, expects to secure right of Only a good power brake can way through Beaver Meadow. By failing to comply with the terms of the universal prejudice in favor of air brakes. And yet the ordinance granting the company a franchise in this city the promoters sacri- following railroads have purchased the Neal Brake after ficed all rights in this city. testing out one or two trial brakes : HOMESTEAD, PA.—An electric railway is to be built from Hays Borough south to Currys Station, a distance of about 6 miles. The right of way has been secured by E. VV. Curran, of Homestead. The capital of the new com- North Jersey Street Railway Company pany is $36,000. The officers of the company are: President, F. N. McKin- Jersey City, Hoboken & Paterson Street ney, of Pittsburg; secretary, F. W. Curran, of Homestead.

IRWIN, PA.— It is announced that the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Greens- Railway Company burg Traction Company has obtained right of way along the original survey Union Traction Company of Indiana between this place and Manor, and will abandon the old line at the Union Cemetery, building a spur to connect with the line already surveyed from Indianapolis Street Railway Company West Newton through Herminie, Madison, Edna and Adamsburg, and out to the Pittsburg-Greensburg Pike. The line will eventually reach McKees- Scranton {Pa.) RaiFtoay Company port via White Oak Level. Columbus (0.) Railway Company LANCASTER, PA.—The Lancaster County Railway & Light Company has leased the line of the Lancaster & Rocky Springs Railway Company. Why ? Write, and we will tell you. Our longest test is on MEADVILLE, PA.—Ten surveyors have . begun work on the proposed one car of the Boston Elevated Railway, where it has been system of the Cleveland, Geneva & Meadville Electric Railway Company, from Geneva to Meadville, a distance of 45 miles. It is expected to complete the in the passenger service for over two years. surveys in about six weeks, the line as contemplated being almost straight. Two other lines are seeking entrance into Meadville. The Neal Brake is not an air MECHANICSBURG, PA.—An effort is being made to interest New York brake—it is a hydraulic brake capitalists in a scheme to merge several local trolley companies into one company, which would build a line from Steelton to Mechanicsburg by way of New Cumberland and Bowmansdale, and also a line from Bowmansdale to Dillsburg, making a total mileage of 23 miles. PITTSBURG, PA.—The new Atlantic Avenue Street Railway Company has United stales Steel Co. secured a franchise to operate on both North and South Atlantic Avenue, in Pittsburg. The company is backed by the same men who have been pro- Dept. moting the new electric system in that city, and who now have grants for a Brake WEST EVERETT, MASS. dozen new lines.

PITTSBURG, PA.—An electric railway system is to be built between Avalon and Freedom, in the Ohio Valley. It is the project of officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Ordinances asking the right of way are pending in Ben Avon, Emsworth and other Borough Councils. Mr. Taylor, fourth vice- president of the Pennsylvania Company, says: "The Pennsylvania Company is not in the trolley business, and has not heretofore favored the introduction An Investment which is endorsed by of trolley lines into the Sewickley Valley, but on account of the recent location of large industries at Leetsdale and Ambridge, it is thought that the Master Mechanics and Electrical building of a street railway system is a necessity. The Pennsylvania Com- pany is prepared to withdraw any opposition that it had heretofore exerted, and will use its influence toward securing the construction of an electric Engineers street railway, provided that it is of up-to-date construction and operated so

as to assist in building up the community through which it will pass." Our device will increase the efficiency of the present PUTTSTOWN, PA.— It is reported that the Pottstown & Reading Street brake 300 per cent, without changing present mode of Railway has closed all contracts for material, and that the construction of equipment. It will do away with slipping wheels and with the road, which will form the connecting link by electric railway between Philadelphia and Reading, will be started at once. the use of sand. We substitute magnetism for dead weight SHAMOKIN, PA.—An extensive addition is being built to the car house to increase adhesion between drive wheels and rails. of the Shamokin & Mount Carmel Electric Railway.

SHAMOKIN, PA.— It is proposed to extend the Shamokin & Edgewood Electric Railway to Trevorton and Herndon, connecting at the latter place THE WABASH RAILROAD COMPANY Office of Master Mechanic with the Sunbury lines, which will in turn connect with Northumberland, C. H. Doebler, Master Mechanic Springfield, III. Milton, Danville and Lewisburg, all of which lines are to be combined in one company. A large new pavilion is to be built at Edgewood Park. Mr. James Wood, Engineer C. R. I. & P. SHENANDOAH, PA.—The Council has refused the Shenandoah Suburban My Dear Jim ;— Thought you would be glad to know the Electric Railway Company a franchise because of the objections of a number Magnetic Equipment Company have their engine equipped of property owners. The company will proceed, however, next spring with with their device, and that it is a decided success. I had the satisfaction, as well as the pleasure of handling the the construction of a line from Shenandoah toward Hazleton. engine while making the tests, which were made on May 28th. SCRANTON, PA.—Select Council has passed the Dal ton Street Railwav The tests showed an increased efficiency of almost 30 per cent, with device operative. ordinance, which has, however, been held up in Common Council. The C. M. & ST P. R.R. officials are going to make a practi- WASHINGTON, PA.—The Washington & Canonsburg Electric Railway, cal test about the 15th of this month. I feel sure the stock we boueht will soon be worth many times what it cost us. running between Washington and Cannonsburg, has been placed in oper- Tell all your friends the good news and have them get some ation. The line is 10 miles long, and was built by Pittsburg capital. It is of the stock before it goes out of sight. It can be got now for said that the intention is to extend the line in one direction to Pittsburg, and $1.50 a share. Yours very truly, in the other to Wheeling, W. Va. A. T. WHITSEL, Wabash Engineer. WILKESBARRE, PA.—The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railway Company has begun the erection of its terminal buildings in this city, in- SHALL WE SEND YOU OUR PROSPECTUS ? cluding a brick freight station 40 ft. x 100 ft. and a passenger station on Market Street costing $40,000. Westinghouse. Church, Kerr & Company, New York, are erecting the freight station. The abutments for the bridges and the up-raffing along the river are about completed, and the workmen are Magnetic Equipment Co. divided into day and night shifts. It is expected to have the line in operation to this city by 1. Jan. 1213 MERCHANTS' LOAN AND TRUST BUILDING YORK, PA.—The Gettysburg Battlefield Electric Railway, which was recently sold by the Gettysburg Transit Company to Philadelphia capitalists, will be extended to Westminster, Md. The line will run by way of Littles CHICAGO town. July 18, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxvu

EASTON, PA.—The ordinance granting a franchise to the Easton & Washington Trolley Company has passed first reading in Phillipsburg Council. A protest has been filed against the ordinance by the Easton Traction Com- pany, Easton Consolidated Electric Company, the Lehigh Valley Traction Company and the Phillipsburg Horse Car Company, based on the act of If your_ March 27, 18%, prohibiting the building within two blocks ol a street railway parallel to an existing street railway, except for a distance of 200 ft. NASHVILLE, TENN.—The Tennessee Western Railway Company has TROLLEY been incorporated, with $100,000 capital stock, to construct a railroad from Humboldt, Gibson County, to Alamo, in Crockette County, a distance of about 40 miles. A portion of the line will extend over to Dyer County, and it is thought this means ultimate extension to the Mississippi River. The WHEELS line may go over as far as Brownsville, in Haywood County. It will tap two leading trunk lines. The plans may call for a steam railway, but all the in the enterprise have lately been identified with electric railway gentlemen wear out like this enterprises. They are Pittsburg and Nashville parties. Part of the personnel of the company is interested in the interurban line to be constructed between Nashville and Columbia. The incorporators of the company are: W. your

H. Skevington, J. H. Connor, Albert Akers, James Brown and Bradley Walker.

SALT LAKE, UTAH.— Plans are being perfected by the Consolidated Railway & Power Company for the removal of its car houses and power TROLLEY station from their present location on Second East Street to a point in the western part of the city beyond the Jordan River. The size of the tract of land purchased affords ample room for car houses and every other building BASES or improvement that will be needed by the company.

NORFOLK, VA.—The Chesapeake Transit Company has increased its capital stock from $500,000 to $630,000. The additional capital is to be used for are wrong. Try the the construction of more cars and other equipment. One feature of the additional equipment is to be an electric locomotive and another is to be a booster.

SEATTLE, WASH.—The differences between the Seattle Electric Com- pany and the linemen's union, which have been on for the past eight or nine months, have been finally and amicably adjusted. STERLING BASE CHARLESTON, VV. VA.—The Kanawha Water & Light Company, which proposes to build an electric railway to connect Charleston with Montgomery, St. Albans and a number of other towns in the Kanawha Valley, has been granted a franchise by the Council of Charleston to run its track on a number 1st— Even tension at all heights. of the principal streets.

MORGANTOWN, W. VA.—Surveys have been started on the proposed electric railway from Morgantown to Granville. The Union Utility Company 2d— Pole goes down to roof of car. is having the surveys made. It will build the line under the charter recently granted the Fairmont, Morgantown & Cheat River Trolley Company, and they will operate it together. The latter company will build from Fairmont to a 3d— Four springs are safer than one. point at or below Rivesville this summer, and will connect Fairmont and Morgantown next year.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS.—The Chippewa Valley Electric Railroad Company 4th freely, has asked the Common Council of Menominee to pass a franchise giving the $ —Works turns corners easily, company the right to operate an electric line in the city of Menominee. keeps the wire in center of wheel FOND DU LAC, WIS.—The Fond du Lac & Northwestern Railway Com- pany has been incorporated to construct and operate an interurban railroad and the wheel on the wire. from Fond du Lac to Manitowoc and Appleton. The line is to start in Fond du Lac and extend northerly and northeasterly through Fond du Lac, Tay- cheedah and Calumet, in Fond du Lac County, to the northerly line of Calu- met; thence in a northerly direction through Brothertown and Chilton, in Calumet County, to the city of Chilton; thence in an easterly direction across Charlestown to the east line of Calumet County; thence through Eaton, Liberty, Cato, Manitowoc Rapids and Manitowoc, in Manitowoc County, to the city of Manitowoc, also extending in a northerly direction in the town of Brothertown, Calumet County, through Stockbridge and Harri- son to Appleton and Kaukauna. The line is to follow the highways as much as possible. The incorporators are: W. H. Phillips, H. W. Wilson, Frank- lin Phillips, J. E. McMullen and F. H. Sweet.

LA CROSSE, WIS.—The La Crosse & Black River Electric Railroad Company, which proposes to build between La Crosse and Black River Falls, has made application for a franchise. The construction of the road will begin in the fall, and it will cost $1,000,000. The road is incorporated temporarily at $500,000.

MADISON, WIS.—The Fond du Lac & Northeastern Railway Company is building an electric line from Fond du Lac to Appleton and Kaukauna. The capital stock of the corporation is $10,000. The route of the proposed new t Sterling Brakes, Registers, line is from Fond du Lac northeast through the towns of Fond du Lac, Taycheedah and Calumet, through the towns of Brothertown and Chilton in Calumet County to the east line of Calumet County; thence through the Sand Boxes, Fenders, Etc. towns of Eaton, Liberty, Cato, Manitowoc Rapids and Manitowoc Town to the city of Manitowoc; thence through the towns of Stockbridge and Harri- son to the cities of Appleton and Kaukauna. MILWAUKEE, WIS.—The Milwaukee Street Railway & Light Company will build a line on Lisbon Avenue.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Attorney W. J. McElroy is authority for the statement that the electric railway contemplated by the Withee & Maplehurst Sterling-Meaker Co. Electric Railway & Light Company, recently incorporated, will eventually connect with the Soo and Omaha roads. The right of way for the line is now being secured.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.—It is said that the Milwaukee Heat, Light & Trac- NEWARK, N. J., U. S. A. tion Company will renew its application for a franchise in the city of Wauwa- tosa, which was withdrawn a few weeks ago, owing to the opposition of certain citizens who, when the franchise was about to be accepted, made a sudden demand for a decrease in the rate of fare. xxviii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 3. CANADIAN NOTES

WINNIPEG, MAN.—Last week the first car built in the shops of the W innipeg Street Railway Company left the shops of the company. It is one JOHN BLAIR MacAFEE year, of the mam- cars which the company intends to build in Winnipeg this to at present in service. It is of the open type, and and is «tierior anything

: far the largest car of that type at present operated in Winnipeg. It is lS ] v ft. long with eighteen seats, giving a seating capacity of ninety persons, d a total carrying capacity of more than 150 passengers. The car is mounted THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OF STEAM n double trucks, each equipped with two motors. AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS SYDNEY, N. S. —The Cape Breton Coal, Iron & Railway Company will SYSTEMS. build an electric railway from the mines to the docks at Mira Bay, a distance AND LIGHTING of 5 miles. PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES. PORT ARTHUR, ONT-A by-law to raise funds to extend the electric REPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN OPERATION. street railway to Current River will be voted on July 28. TORONTO, ONT.—At a recent meeting of the directors of the Toronto Street Railway Company. Frederick Nichols was elected vice-president in the place of James Ross, resigned. HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA NEWS NOTES

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—Plans, specifications and cost estimates for the reconstruction and new equipment of the Geary Street, Park & Ocean Rail- road have been filed by the Board of Public Works. It is estimated that the entire cost will be $751,000, and that the total receipts will be from $175,000 to $200,000 annually. The expenses are put at $202,850, in addition to which money would need to be put aside to create a sinking fund for bond redemp- J. G. WHITE & COMPANY tion. The question of the purchase of the road will soon be submitted to the voters at a special election. INCORPORATED, SAN JOSE, CAL.—The differences between the San Jose & Santa Clara Railroad and its employees regarding wages and conditions of service have Engineers, Contractors, been amicably adjusted. The terms of the settlement are that the men shall receive 21 cents an hour and 25 cents for overtime, ten hours to constitute a day's work. Heretofore the men have received a flat rate of pay. 29 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. OAKLAND, MAINE—The Waterville & Oakland Electric Railway has been opened. LONDON CORRESPONDENT: BOSTON, MASS.—The Massachusetts Railroad Commission held a hearing J. C. White & Company, Limited on July 6 in reference to the petition of the Boston & Worcester Street Rail- 22a College Hill, Cannon St. way Company for authority to issue bonds to the- amount of $1,000,000 and additional capital stock of $250,000, the present capital stock being $1,000,000. President William H. Butler stated that the money was desired for paying off floating indebtedness. G. W. Townsend, an engineer, who has been making an inventory of the property, filed a statement showing that there had been expended $2,595,843.32. Treasurer Butman filed a statement showing the assets and liabilities to be $2,657,854.72. The commission asked for a more detailed financial statement, which will be submitted in a few days. ST. LOUIS MO.—The St. Louis Transit Company has closed a ten-year Sanderson & Porter contract with the Union Electric Light & Power Company for the use of approximately 12,000 hp per day. Delivery of this power will commence on ENGINEERS AND May 1, 1904. The closing of this contract indicates the abandonment of the CONTRACTORS plans outlined a few months ago, whereby the St. Louis Transit Company was to establish a power house on the East Side. Electric Railways, 52 WILLIAM STREET Light, Power and CRAWFORDSVILLE, 1ND.—The litigation between the Indianapolis & Hydraulic Plants. NEW YORK Northwestern Traction Company and the Consolidated Traction Company in regard to the laying of tracks in Crawfordsville has, by motion of the latter company, been removed to the United States Court.

BROOKLYN, N. Y. —The Postorfice Department has issued a fraud order W. BJ. BAKER H. R. BISHOP against the American Street Car Transportation Company of Brooklyn. The company advertised to sell for one cent each, tickets good on any electric and elevated street in car the United States. This it did by an "endless W. E. BAKER 6k CO. chain" scheme, whereby, in order to obtain 25 cents worth of one-cent tickets, ir would be necessary for the applicant to sell three •'introductions" at 25 ENGINEERS cents each to his friends, and for each of the three friends to return their "introductions" to the company with 75 cents, with which to supply in turn three of their friends, with "introductions." The company operated in many 170 BROADWAY NEW YORK cities, and by its methods caused street railway managers much annoyance.

CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Council has decided that the franchises of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company, which are expiring, are not subject to public sale and cannot be offered, in view of the litigation which is pending in HEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS in the Street Railway Journal you will connection with the validity of the Rogers law, under which the company confer a favor on both publisher and advertiser by mentioning this paper. holds a fifty-year franchise. BEAUMONT, TEX.—The employees of the Beaumont Street Railway Com- pany are on strike. The rate of wages is 20 cents an hour, but the men are not satisfied. The strike was precipitated without warning, and the residents THOMAS B. WH/TTED of the city are thoroughly incensed at what they term the high-handed action of the men. Consulting Engineer 221-224 Equitable Building - DENVER, COLORADO FINANCIAL NOTES

CHICAGO, ILL. —The chairman of the creditors' committee of the National Bank of Illinois has sent out a circular letter to the depositors of the Calu- Tennis Brothers Company met Electric Railway, endorsing the plan for taking the road out of the ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, hands of the receiver and exchanging its stock for the claims of the bank's BUILT AND EQUIPPED creditors. Messrs. Cobe and McKinnon have announced that they are ready to take up the question of reorganizing the Calumet Electric. Their plan, 22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, briefly stated, provides for the purchase of the property and all of the other Cincinnati, Ohio Pittsburg, Pa. assets of the National Bank of Illinois now in the hands of the receiver in behalf of the certificate holders who join in such a way as to free the road July 18, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxix from the bonded indebtedness. Messrs. Cobe and McKinnon have asked that the certificates be deposited with the Chicago Title & Trust Company, as trustee, as an evidence of the desire to carry out a plan.

CHICAGO, ILL.— It is announced that the Lake Street Elevated Railroad securities committee has secured sufficient deposits of stock 10 warrant its proceeding with its reorganization plan. Pending the preparation of such a plan the committee has adopted resolutions extending the time for depositing the securities to Sept. 15, 1903.

ANDERSON, IND.—A mortgage for $5,000,000 by the Indiana Union Trac- tion Company to the Girard Trust Company, of Philadelphia, has been filed for record here. It secures a bond issue by the Indiana Company and is payable thirty years from July 1, 1903, with 5 per cent interest, and re- LIGHTI/NG- POWER—RAILWAYS deemable any time after five years from date at $1.05 and accrued interest. The mortgage covers existing systems leased by this company and for such additional lines as it may build in eighty counties named out of ninety-two * X * in Indiana.

LAFAYETTE, IND.—The directors of the Lafayette Street Railway Com 1504-IS06-IS03-1510-ISI2 flslicr Building, = CHICAGO pany have voted to turn the road over to the Fort Wayne, Logansport & Lafayette Traction Company. Superintendent C. D. Emmons, of the La fayette Company, will become general manager of the Traction Company, with headquarters at Fort Wayne. This is the beginning of the merger system.

LOUISVILLE, KY—Work on the Blue Grass Consolidated Traction Com- pany's lines has been suspended and the office here has been closed. The office furniture and fixtures have been attached for $2,700, and nothing definite can be learned about the promoters. It is said unofficially that a new company will be organized to complete the roads. Arnold Electric Power Station Co. BALTIMORE, MD-Upon the application of the Cleveland Construction Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, Judge Morris, of the United States District Court, has appointed James Christy, Jr., of Akron, Ohio, and George VVeems ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS, Williams, of Baltimore, receivers of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway Compay. Receivers will also be appointed in the District of Columbia. The bill alleges that the construction company entered into Designers and Builders of Complete a contract with the railway company to furnish plans and specifications for the road, and also to design and supervise the construction of cars. The Electric Railway, Lighting and Power Installations. railway company has an authorized capital stock of $2,000,000, and was chartered to build an electric railway between Baltimore and Annapolis and Washington. The road between Baltimore and Washington is now con- Marquette Building, being Transit Building, structed, and large sums of money have been spent upon it. The company NEW YORK Chicago. alleges that it is a creditor to the amount of $9,300.46 by virtue of the contract. This amount has been demanded and not paid. It is alleged that the railway company is now insolvent and is unable to pay its liabilities. An answer was filed by the railway company admitting the allegations and assent- ing to the appointment of receivers.

NEWTON, MASS.—The Railroad Commission has authorized the New- ton Street Railway Company to issue $185,000 additional capital stock for payment of floating indebtednes. The Board determines that the value at which the new stock shall be offered proportionately to stockholders is $125 per ISSUES OF share. The previous issue of stock by this company was authorized on Dec. 11, 1896, when the Railroad Commissioners authorized $105,000 to be sold at ELECTRIC RAILWAY BONDS $120 per share. BOUGHT AND SOLD DETROIT, MICH.—The United States Circuit Court at Detroit has ordered the discharge of the receiver of the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad. BENJAMIN FISHER Control of the company is now held by the Grand Trunk Western Railway and the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad, which own the entire stock, 20 Exchange Place, BOSTON, MASS. and jointly guarantee the bonds, principal and interest by endorsement.

ST. LOUIS, MO.—According to the report of the auditor of the St. Louis Transit Company, the gross earnings of the company for June were $645,589, as against !'557,114 during the same month last year. This shows a gain on the gross earnings of $88,475. The June earnings bring the total gross earnings of the company for the first six months of this year up to about $3,467,249. During the first half .of 1902 the gross earnings were $3,014,686. This shows a AMERICAN gross gain of $471,060 for the first six months of 1903 over the same period in 1902. "The

JERSEY CITY, N. J.—The Consolidated Traction of New Jersey has STREET RAILWAY Street Railway declared a dividend of 1% per cent, payable as registered June 30. Red Book." . . HUDSON, N. Y.—Permission has been granted by the State Railroad INVESTMENTS Commissioners to the Albany & Hudson Railroad Company to issue $150,000 additional bonds for improvements.

NEW YORK, N. Y.— It is reported that the proposed deal between the American Light & Traction Company and the United Gas Improvement Com- The Standard Manual of Street pany, of Philadelphia, has been abandoned. Under the deal, the American Company was to have been leased to the Improvement Company on a 6 per Railway Statistics cent guarantee on the stock of the former.

COLUMBUS, OHIO.—The stockholders of the Central Market Street Rail- way Company will meet Aug. 1 to act upon the question of leasing to the Columbus, London & Springfield Railway Company the right to operate its PRICE, $5.00. through cars on the tracks of the Central Market Street Railway Company in Columbus, and to act upon a proposition of the Columbus, London & Spring- field Railway Company "to guarantee the payment of principal and interest of 500 twenty-year 5 per cent gold bonds of $1,000 each, issued by the Central Market Company. STREET RAILWAY PUBLISHING CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA.—A 5 per cent mortgage for $5,000,000 by the Union 114 LIBERTY Traction Company, of Indiana, to the Girard Trust Company, payable thirty STREET, NEW YORK. years from July 1, to cover electric railways in eight counties of Indiana, has been filed. xxx STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 3 AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS

H. F. SANVILLE, of Philadelphia, Pa., has been fortunate in securing tne services of A. E. Meixell to sell his various lines of street railway supplies on the road. Mr. Meixell was until very recently superintendent of the Fairmount Park Transportation Company. He has just returrfed from his maideft" trip, on which he met with very decided success. BERRY C. HUDSON MACHEN, sales engineer, representing the Cutter Electrical BROTHERS & Manufacturing Company, of Philadelphia, announces that he is prepared to (LIMITED) submit blue prints and give any information required relative to I-T-E circuit breakers and Keystone measuring instruments. ±iis office is at 120 Liberty MANUFACTURERS OF Street, New York City; telephone No. 1130 Cortlandt.

C. J. HARRINGTON will open within the next few days a Southern office and sample room at Richmond, Va., in charge of F. Boykin Jacobs. As is well known, .Mr. Harrington is handling an excellent line of electric railway material and supplies, and this fact, coupled with Mr. Jacobs' wide ac- quaintance throughout the South, will doubtless result in a very satisfactory increase in Mr. Harrington's business through the Southern States.

THE TAYLOR ELECTRIC TRUCK COMPANY, of Troy, N. Y., has recently engaged Frank M. Nicholl, of Rochester, N. Y., to represent the company as salesman of the well-known Taylor trucks in the Central and Middle

West. Mr. Nicholl is the son of T. J. Nicholl, president of the Rochester Railway Company, and has had considerable experience in railway work, having been associated with his father for some time in the Rochester Rail- way Company.

THE BURT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of Akron, Ohio, recently received its twelfth order for exhaust heads from the Baldwin Locomotive Vvorks. The order this time was for twelve heads, making a total of thirty- three now in use by the Baldwin Works. The Burt exhaust head is an appliance made to fit over the end of the exhaust steam pipe, and while allowing the dry steam to escape, effectually prevents oil, water or wet steam from getting out to rot roofs and disfigure walls. booklet, describing the RAILWAY A Burt exhaust head, will be sent by the Burt Manufacturing Company to anyone asking for it. THE HELENA LIGHT & TRACTION COMPANY is building a new power house at Helena, Mont., whicli will be equipped with Westinghouse apparatus throughout, a portion of which has recently been ordered from the VARNISHES Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, the remainder having been in use for some time. The electrical equipment consists of two 75-kw NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA. direct-current generators, each to be direct coupled to a 100-hp type C induc- BALTIMORE, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, tion motor; two 15-hp motor-generator sets; nine 10,000-volt transformers—six ST. LOUIS, SAN FRANCISCO. of 150 kw and three of 125-kw capacity; also two 175-kw rotaries. Three FACTORY and r\c-rr*s\tT- lbO-kw and three 125-kw transformers will be equipped with a face plate MAIN OFFICE DLT ROIT. for obtaining different voltages from the transformers, this dial being connected to the low tension circuit to give variation of voltage between 2400 volts and 2050 volts. Seventeen low-tension leads are brought out from the secondary winding, one lead directly connected into the line, and another lead connected to the spark gap, the remaining fifteen connected to the regu- lator face plate outside of the transformer case. This allows the purchaser to secure proper voltage regulation for extreme variation in load without valuable changing the voltage at the Missouri River Company's station, 14 miles Save time every day by carrying the distant. EDGAR PECKHAM, president of the Peckham Manufacturing Company, Practical Electric Railway Hand Book Las written an open letter to the Kingston Daily Freeman, of Kingston, N. in your pocket. Y., disposing of the labor trouble rumors which have been current regard- in--.' the Kingston works of the company. It appears that about two months PRICE $3.00 ago, when the company's works were very busy and working nights, a mcgraw publishing company, ii4 Liberty street, New York number of the blacksmiths organized a labor union. They tried to get other employees to do likewise, but had small success. The situation be- came so strained, however, that it was necessary to take some action to sustain the loyal employees. When the works were re-opened, after taking the annual inventory, notice was given to the men that they might apply for work by signing printed applications. Most of the employees applied for reinstatement, and in choosing the men the company selected those who WILLIAM A. ROSENBAUM had remained loyal to the company and who belonged to no labor union. The works are now running in all departments, and will continue to run all electrical expert summer with non-union employees. The employees of the Peckham Manu- and facturing Company work under very favorable conditions and have no patent Solicitor cause for dissatisfaction. The whole trouble appears to have been caused by Building. NEW YORK CITY. a few "loafers." The company is determined, however, that it will manage Nassau-Beekman its works in its own way, and will accept no dictation from any labor unions.

DIRECT AND ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATORS FOR Railway Lighting and Power Service

Special attention has been given to the Insulation and Ventilation of our Apparatus

NATIONAL ELECTRIC CO. 150 K W. Alternator

D. C. Generator, Belted Successors to CHRISTENSEN ENGINEERING CO. Chicago: OLD COLONY BUILDING KILBOURNE & CLARK CO. Pittsburg: GELLATLY & CO. M I LWAUKBB la^Frandsco [ JULV 25. 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XX!

RICHMOND, IND.—A survey is being made of the Eastern Indiana Trac- but will oppose the approval of the franchise by the Railroad Commission. tion Company's line from here to Marion by way of Ridgeville. To carry out the conditions stipulated in the franchise the Springfield Suburban Street Railway Company will have to spend $60,000 outside of the SEYMOUR, IND.—Mark Storen, of Scottsburg, and Joseph H. Shea, of actual construction of the road. The conditions imposed in the original draft Seymour, have been granted a franchise for an electric railway through Scotts- of the franchise called for an expenditure of $112,000, according to the estimates burg. They hold a franchise through Scott County, and promise to have a line made, but this was reduced on the claim of the company that the conditions in operation within three years. were prohibitive. The Aldermen were not unanimous in granting the fran- SOUTH BEND, IND.—The County Commissioners have granted a franchise, three out of the eight members voting against it. It is announced chise to the Northern Traction Company, of Indiana, formerly the Hobart in Springfield that the Springfield Street Railway Company is likely to make & Western Electric Railway Company, to operate in St. Joseph County. The an extension of its line into Wilbraham, which is in the general direction of company proposes to build an electric railway between South Bend and the line proposed by the Springfield Suburban Street Railway Company and Laporte. The company has not as yet accepted the franchise, but has ten the existing line of the Springfield & Eastern Street Railway Company, an days in which to file a written acceptance. allied company.

TERRE HAUTE, IND.—The Terre Haute Electric Company has pur- WORCESTER, MASS.—The Worcester & Providence Street Railway Com- chased a lot on the river front between Mulberry and Eagle Streets, and will pany has come to an agreement with the Selectmen of Millbury in regard to soon erect a new power plant. The new location will enable the company to locations. This was the only Massachusetts town in which the company had build a much larger plant than the present one, and will be on the railroad. failed to secure locations, and the delay has been such that extensions of time will have to be asked for in other towns. DAVENPORT, IA.—Rumor has it that a contract has been let to the J. P. Calnan Construction Company, of Clinton, for building what has been known WORCESTER, MASS.—The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Com- as the John U. May interurban line, which is to extend from Le Claire to pany has petitioned the Selectmen of West Boyleston for locations in that Clinton. town for a new line between Worcester and Leominster.

MARSHALLTOWN, 1A.—The Toledo Electric Railway Company is figur- WORCESTER, MASS.— Locations have been granted the Hartford & ing on an extension of its system to Grinnell on the south and through Worcester Street Railway Company in the towns of Holland and Brimfield, Traer to Waterloo on the north. Part of the surveys have been made. and the company has petitioned the Railroad Commissioners for approval of locations. MUSCATINE, IA.—The Citizens' Railway & Light Company has made a has proposition to the lighting committee of the city i.n which it proposes rates HOUGHTON, MICH.—The Houghton County Street Railway Company to for gas and electricity to the public and to private consumers, stating, if an been granted a franchise through Torch Lake for a line from Lake Linden acceptance is made, that the street car service will be extended to Weed Park; Tamarack City. that an extension will be made on Lucas to Newell Avenue, and also to a LANSING, MICH.—The Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Electric Railway school house in Musserville. Company is now trying to secure a new franchise in St. Johns. WICHITA, KAN.—The Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway Company has RICHLAND, MICH.—The Township Board has granted a franchise to the been chartered to build an electric railway from Wichita, southeasterly to Grand Rapids & Southern Michigan Traction Company by the terms of which 37 miles, thence east to Winfield, 10 miles; west to Wellington, 14 Oxford, to Kalamazoo on if accepted, Richland will be assured of an electric railway miles; south to Geuda Springs, 12 miles, and to Arkansas City, 10 miles or before the first of July next. farther. The total length of the line will be 83 miles. The main power sta- Forster have tion will be at Oxford, where it is believed there is sufficient water-power to MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Flenry C. Hanke and Edwin J. construction of run the whole line, unless it may be a month or two in summer, when they petitioned the County Commissioners for a franchise for the will possibly need a small steam plant as an auxiliary. The water-power is to an electric railway from Minneapolis through Robbinsdale, Osseo and Champ- be taken from the Arkansas River, which is estimated to furnish 2200 hp at ,in to Anoka. It is the intention of the promoters to connect with tbe Twin ordinary low water, and 1500 hp is the amount estimated to run the road. City Rapid Transit Company's line now running to Robbinsdale.

The company is capitalized at $1,000,000, and most of the stock is subscribed. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—The Journal says that the Twin City Rapid is far. expects carry Local capital alone interested so The company to both recently Transit Company will build an office and power building on the lots passengers and freight, and furnish electric lights and power for the towns Paul. bought of C. G. Goodrich at Wabasha Street and College Avenue, St. along the line. Mr. Boyle, the president of the company, is also the general this corner According to the Journal, it is expected that the improvements to manager, and he is pushing preparations as fast as possible toward comple- by the street railway company will cost $100,000. tion of specifications, which it is hoped will be ready in a few weeks. The officers of the company are: O. A. Boyle, president; William Allison, vice- HATTIESBURG, MISS.—The Hattiesburg Power & Light Company has president; J. E. Howard, secretary; C, L. Davidson, treasurer. All the applied for a fifty-year franchise for a street railway system. officers are residents of Wichita. KANSAS CITY, MO.—The Board of County Commissioners of Wyandotte FRANKFORT, KY.—W. S. Louge, of Cleveland, Ohio, said to be represent- County has granted William Lackman an extension of five months in the time building ing Pennsylvania capitalists, has purchased of the city a twenty-year franchise allowed him in his franchise to complete the electric railway he is for the operation of an electric street passenger and express railway in Frank- between Rosedale and Olathe. The road is known as the Kansas City & fort. He paid $300 for the franchise. Olathe Electric Railway, and Mr. Lackman was granted a franchise through Wyandotte County by the Commissioners on Aug. 25, 1902. Under its terms LA. It is said that within sixty days work will be begun THIBODAUX, — for an ex- the road was to be in operation by Jan. 1, 1904. In his application upon the proposed third-rail electric railway between Thibodaux and Donalds- tension Mr. Lackman told the Commissioners that he had graded the roadbed ville and the important towns down the Gulf Coast. The road will be 124 County: that through all of Wyandotte County and for 8 miles in Jackson miles P. at with the Milwaukee Electric long. C. Young, one time connected County, he had built all the bridges and culverts so far required in Wyandotte Railway & Light Company and later connected with the Galveston Electric impossible to have the and all but one in Johnson County, but that it would be Street Railway, is said to be the principal promoter of the project. completion road completed within the specified time. The time allowed for the the PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE.—The town has voted to purchase $10,000 of limit been fixed in an ex- of the road is now June 1, 1904, and the same has preferred stock of the Aroostock Valley Railroad, which assumes the building tension granted by the Commissioners of Johnson County. of the electric railway to Washburn and Perham. LINCOLN, NEB.—Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Sioux BOSTON, The work of laying the tracks for the cars of the MASS.— construction of an City, Homer & Southern Railway as a preliminary to the Boston Elevated Railway on South Huntington Avenue, Jamaica Plain, has interurban electric railway beginning at Sioux City, la., and running to been completed. This avenue connects Centre Street, Jamaica Plain and Homer, Dakota County, and on south if the promoters so desire. The capital Brookline village, and is a great convenience for the residents of Jamaica Plain provide for an increase to stock is fixed at $500,000, although the articles and Roxbury. actual time from the stables Plain to The running at Jamaica people, in- $1,000,000. The incorporators are largely Sioux City and Omaha the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Huntington Avenue is about 25 cluding Senator Joseph H. Millard, Postmaster Crow and J. B. Haynes, of minutes, and from there to the subway station at Boylston Street the run is Omaha; R. A. Talbot, of Sioux City, and R. S. Hall and C. J. O'Connor, of made in about 15 minutes. Homer. FITCHBURG, MASS.—A director of the Leominster, Ayer & Shirley MILLVILLE, N. J.—Official information is lacking, but it is understood Street is that that Railway authority for the statement line will be built from Millville, that surveys have been made for an electric railway to extend from North Leominster to Ayer this year. The line is 9 miles long, It is also paralleling the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad, to Belle Plain, Cape May stated that the Lowell & Ayer Street Railway, in which the same persons are Court House and Cape May, with branches to Anglesea, Sea Isle City and interested, will be built this year. Ocean City. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Aldermen have granted to the Springfield N. The State Railroad Commission has granted authority to Suburban ALBANY, Y— Street Railway Company locations from Indian Orchard into the electric road the Chautauqua Traction Company, of Jamestown, to build an center of the for city, which a petition was brought several months ago. The capital of 14 miles long, from Lakewood to Mayville. The company has a locations are entirely independent of the Springfield Street Railway Company, $500,000. which controls all the existing street railway inlets to the city. Fred T. Ley, N. Y.—The opposition to the building of the Albany-Catskill for the company, has made a cash deposit of $10,000, and has filed a bond ALBANY, Electric Railroad has been withdrawn, and Highway Commissioner Oliver, of $50,000 to insure the building of the new line within eighteen months after town of Bethlehem, Albany County, who had previously denied the the franchise has been accepted. Strenuous opposition was made to the grant- of the the company, has reversed his decision upon the company's ing of a franchise to the Springfield Suburban Company by the Springfield application of modification of its former plan to utilize the highway. The road will begin Street Railway Company, and the matter aroused a great deal of public in- construction next Spring, and will run its line just west of the highway. The terest during the months it has been under consideration. The Springfield is about 35 miles. Street Railway Company petitioned for locations over practically the same distance territory in an effort to forestall the granting of the locations to the new com- ALBANY, N. Y.—The Albany & Hudson Railway Company has secured bonds for pany, but so far no action has been taken on this petition, except to give a permission from the State Railroad Board to issue $150,000 in its line. hearing. It is intimated that the qld company y/.ti] not give up its fight now. making improvements to xxii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 4.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Plans have been filed in the Building Bureau at Long Island City for new car houses to be erected at the corner of DeKalb and Covert Avenues, Ridgewood, by the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad. The building will be of brick, and will cover a space of 105 ft. by 700 ft., and will The Climax stock Guard be one story high.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The new elevated structure of the Long Island Rail- H. E. OVERSTREET, General Manager road on Atlantic Avenue, from Manhattan crossing to the borough line, where it descends to the surface, has been opened to the regular traffic of the 714 Marquette Bldg. Chicago, III. road. This is the first section of the big Atlantic Avenue improvement to be completed.

killed BUFFALO, N. Y.— Seven persons were and a score injured in a 40 50 trolley accident between Lockport and Olcott Beach on July 4.

COHOES, N. Y.—At a meeting held at Crescent, N. Y., for the purpose of forming an electric railway company to connect Schenectady and Cohoes by 70 trolley 250 shares of stock were subscribed for and the following board of directors was selected: William K. Mansfield, E. H. Stiles, D. C. Fry, Peter Smith, Freeman Guyer, James A. Buck, E. H. Shear R. E. Dedrick, C. L. Van Slyke. Subsequently the board of directors elected the following officers: President, James A. Buck; vice-president, Wm. K. Mansfield; secretary and treasurer, R. E. Dedrick. Steps will be taken at once to secure the right of way and franchise, and it is expected that active operations will be commenced in the near future.

CORTLAND, N. Y. — Commissioner of Highways Clarence A. Knapp, of Homer, has decided to grant a franchise to the Cortland County Traction Company to extend its tracks through Homer from its present terminus to a point north of Little York, where the company will locate a new park upon the shore of the lake.

GENEVA, N. Y.—The Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls & Cayuga Lake Trac- tion Company has been granted a franchise in Auburn.

GLENS FALLS, N. Y.— It is said that Plattsburg men have formed a syndicate which has quietly secured the rights of way for an electric railway The above is a view made for the General Electric Co., of one up the Saranac Valley from that city to Clayburgh, a distance of 20 miles, of 8oo Climax Stock Guards, sold to Aurora, Elgin & Chicago connecting Morrisonville, Cadyville, Saranac, Moffettsville, Redford and Railway, last year. Claysburgh. it is proposed to do both a freight and passenger business. sold last season HEMPSTEAD, N. Y.—The South Shore Traction Company and the New Over 3,000 Guards

York & Long Island Traction Company have applied to the Highway Com- SALES IN MARCH AND APRIL, THIS YEAR : through certain sections of the south Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Ry., Elgin Branch 120 Guards missioners for a franchise side of Nassau " Stark Electric Ry. Alliance, Ohio 120 County. The New York & Long Island Company desires a small grant from " Canton & New Philadelphia R.R., Ohio go Freeport to the easterly line of the town of Massapequa, while the South Rochester & Eastern Rapid Ry " " Shore Company desires a franchise from the city line of the Greater Long Island Railroad Co New " Vandegrift Construction Co., Kennett Square, Pa 25 York, Valley Stream, through the entire section of the at south side of the Rock Island System " county, passing through the villages of Lynbrook, Valley Stream, Rockville Centre, Baldwin, Freeport, Merrick, Seaford and several smaller places. 515

JAMESTOWN, N. Y. —Five gangs of men have begun work at different points between Jamestown and Mayville on the construction of the Chautau- qua Traction Company's proposed road. A new power house is being erected in Jamestown and power plants or distributing stations will be erected at Asheville, Stowe and Mayville. The track is already completed between the village of Celoron and Lakewood.

NEW YORK, N. Y.—The contract for sinking the Weehawken shaft of the Hudson River Tunnel jf the Pennsylvania Railroad has been filed in the Hudson County Clerk's office at Jersey City. The contracting parties are the Pennsylvania and New Jersey & New York Railroad Companies and the United Engineering & Construction Company, of New York. The work is to be completed by Dec. 8, 1903, the contractors to forfeit $250 for each day's delay.

NEW YORK, N. Y. —Because of objections made by Mayor Low to the form of franchises to be granted to the Manhattan & Hudson Railroad Com- pany, which seeks permission from the Rapid Transit Commission to operate a tunnel under the Hudson River from Jersey City to Cortlandt Street, final action at the meeting of the Board last week was not taken, but the application went over to this week.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The construction of the Rochester & Eastern Elec- tric Railroad has been completed from Rochester to Canandaigua, with the exception of the crossover near Victor. The poles are being set at the rate of a mile a day. The power station is completed and is ready for the installation of the machinery. It is expected that the road will be opened from Rochester to Canandaigua by Sept. 1. It will be some time later before the line from Canandaigua to Geneva can be put in operation, but it will probably be officially opened by Nov. 1.

WATERTOWN, N. Y.—The St. Lawrence International Electric Railroad & Land Company is about to begin the extension of its tracks in the village of Alexandria Bay, in order to cover all the territory allowed it by the terms of its old franchise.

CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The Kingsville & Southern Railway Company, of Cleveland, has been incorporated, with $20,000 capital stock, by E. F. Pegg, L. F. McAuley, F. M. Nowak, C. W. Sailtzer and Thos. H. Bell. The company plans to build an electric railway from Kingsville to North Kingsville. COLUMBUS, OHIO.—The Urbana, Mechanicsburg & Columbus Railway Company has completed its track from the city loop to the bridge over the Scioto River, on Dublin Avenue, and is operating cars over that portion of its line. The grading is finished and ties and rails strung to Arlington, 4 miles out, but the County Commissioners have stopped the company from laying its tracks over the Dublin Avenue bridge until the company has paid the money demanded for the privilege. LOGAN, OHIO—The Lancaster, Logan & Nelsonville Traction Company has filed papers of incorporation. The headquarters of the company are to be at Logan, Ohio, and the purpose is to establish an electric railway between the points named. The company incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, the incorporators being A. Magoon, J. W. Jones, D. A. Bannells and others. July 25, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxiii

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.—A. H. Clausscn, president of the Metro- politan Electric Railway Company, lias announced that work on the Guthrie line will be commenced in that city at once.

GUTHRIE, OKLA.—H. G. Beard has been granted a franchise to construct a street railway in Shawnee. Several similar franchises have been granted, but none of them have materialized, but this last is to be started within three months, according to the promise of the promoter.

BAKER CITY, ORE.—Letson Balliet, of San Francisco, owner of the Baker City Traction Company, has placed orders for rails, ties and the necessary grading for 3 miles of electric railway in the city. T. B. Whitted, of Denver, Col., has been retained as consulting engineer, and will make the installation and supervise the erection of the machinery. Power will be obtained from the Baker Gas & Electric Company in the form of alternating current, and will be converted by means of rotary converters to direct current. It is planned to have the railway in operation this summer, and next year extensions will be made to the mining camps in the vicinity.

SALEM, ORE.—The Salem Light, Power & Traction Company, operating a steam-driven plant, has been purchased from the London and San Fran- cisco Bank by Joseph J, Henry, of Denver, owner of ten or twelve other electric properties in the West, who has also purchased the Salem Gas Com- pany and merged the two into the Citizens' Light & Traction Company. A contract has been entered into for a period of years to secure power from the Union Light & Power Company, of Silverton, Ore. T. B. Whitted, of Denver, has been retained as consulting engineer, and contracts have been let for motor-generator sets and complete switchboard equipment for controlling the railway and 1'ghting circuits. The 10 miles of street railway are being rebuilt and the entire system is being brought fully up to date. It is hoped that the improvements will be completed by Jan. 1.

BEAVER, PA. —Ordinances granting franchises h. the Beaver & New Brighton Electric Street Railway Company and the Bridgewater Electric Street Railway Company have been presented to the Council and referred to committee. The first-named company desires to build a line between this place and Bridgewater, and the latter company wants to build over a number of the town streets and continue its line across the Ohio River on a bridge to be erected by the Beaver & Monaca Bridge Company.

BRISTOL, PA.— The last move in the famous Croyden fight has beer made, and, as forecasted in the Street Railway Journal some time ago. the Philadelphia, Bristol & Trenton Street Railway will pass in front of the Pennsylvania Railroad station at Croyden at grade. After a long and hitter fight, covering a period of eight years, the Philadelphia, Bristol & Trenton Company won a signal and final victory over the steam railroad company by securing a favorable decision from the Supreme Court as to the validity of the law under which the Bristol & Neshaminy Elevated Railway Company was incorporated. Tt was proposed to erect an elevated line 1800 ft. long over lands condemned by the Bristol & Nashaminy Elevated Company, and part of the structure was placed in position. Since being bested in all the courts, the Pennsylvania Company has withdrawn its objections to a surface line, and the track is now laid in position. Within a few days cars will be running throuerh without change from the city line of Philadelphia to Morrisville. opposite Trenton. The Pennsylvania Railroad tracks will be changed in Morrisville Borough within the next sixty davs, and the Philadelphia, Bristol & Trenton line will then be extended tn the New Jersey & Pennsylvania Traction

Company's line, a distance of about 400 ft. from the present terminus. If traffic arrangements are made it willl be possible to run cars directly into the center of Trenton.

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.—The Chambersburg & Gettysburg Electric Railway Company will soon begin construction of the remainder of its lines in this city. OVERHEAD LINE mm , . CORRY, PA.—The Erie, Cambridge, Union & Corry Traction Company has purchased the abandoned Clark & Warren refinery site, where its power house and car houses will be built. This road has accepted the local franchise, and cars will probably be running between Corry and Erie by July, 1904.

EASTON, PA.—About S miles of the Philadelphia & Faston Street Railway remain uncompleted between Durham Furnace and Tohickon Park, the northern terminus of the division extending from Doylestown. The two ends of the line will be connected up late this year or early next, it is expected.

GETTYSBURG, PA.—It is said to be the intention of the new owners of the Gettysburg Transit Company, operating the Battlefield trolley line, to extend the line to Littlestown and Westminster, Md. C. Taylor Leland, of Philadelphia, and Thomas V. Cooper, of the Westinghouse Company, recently secured almost the entire stock issue of the company.

JOHNSTOWN, PA.—The Johnstown & Geistown Electric Railway Company has purchased a site at Jacob's Hollow for a power house. Right of way for the line between Johnstown & Geistown has been secured from Walnut Grove to Geistown.

MILLERSVI LLE, TA. —Grading for the electric railway between Millers- ville and York Furnace is about completed, and upward of 6 miles of track- will be laid. The line will be 12 miles long, and will be completed in eight weeks. It crosses the Pequea and Conestoga Creeks on substantial bridges. The Conestoga Traction Company will furnish the powej- for the road.

NAZARETH, PA.—The Town Council has passed the ordinance granting a ON ABOVE MATERIAL franchise to the Easton & Belvidere Electric Railway Company. It is stated that those citizens opposing the ordinance will test its validity in court,

• • taking the ground that the Council cannot legally pass a measure on three readings at a single session. xxiv STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 4.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The new Fifty-Eighth and Sixtieth Street line of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company has been placed in operation. The new route is the westernmost one of the entire traction system, and extends within only three squares of the Philadelphia County line. The line is THE EQUITABLE double tracked throughout the entire route.

PITTSBURG, PA.—The Pittsburg, McKeesport & Connellsville Street franchise for tracks on Shaw TRUST Council for a COMPANY Railway has asked the McKeesport Avenue from Walnut to Locust Street. The company agrees to sell thirty- three tickets for $1 over the line in the city limits. The franchise would com- 152 Monroe Street, CHICAGO plete the company's loop in McKeesport, connecting with the Connellsville line from the Pittsburg Railways Company. Capital paid up $900,000 SCRANTON, PA.—A route has been surveyed for an electric railway from Surplus 275,000 Scranton to the summit of Bald Mountain, and a charter will soon be applied for. Local capitalists are backing the venture.

SCRANTON, PA.—The Dalton Street Railway Company proposes to go Acts as Trustee for Corpora- ahead with the construction of its line along West Market Street, even if the Common Council should defeat the ordinance granting the company a fran- tions, Firms and Individuals and Company, chise. West Market Street is owned by the Northern Boulevard as Agent for the registration and the Dalton Company has an option on it. The road is owned in fee simple by the company, even to the coal underlying it. It can sell the street and transfer of bonds and stocks trolley company outright to the trolley company, so it is claimed, and the of Corporations and the pay- will thereby be vested with the same kind of title. Having this title, it will have a right to use the street for whatever purpose its charter prescribes. ment of coupons, interest and The fact that the Wilkesbarre & Wyoming Valley Company built its road dividends. Interest paid on de- on a private right of way through the city without consulting the city authorities is pointed out by the Dalton Company as a precedent for its con- posits templated action.

WEST CHESTER, PA.—Thomas E. O'Connell has been given the contract for the completion of the Kennett extension of the West Chester Street DIRECTORS Railway. William Best Andrew McNally WOONSOCKET, R. I. — E. K. Ray, who recently obtained a franchise to Maurice Rosenfeld John M. Smyth build, equip and operate a double-track passenger and freight electric line be- F. M. Blount J. R. Walsh tween North Smithfield and Lincoln, from the city of Woonsocket to the L. A. Walton town of North Providence, has engaged engineers to begin preliminary work and by fall the work of grading for the road will be begun. The proposed new line will connect with the Woonsocket Street Railway tracks in this city OFFICERS at the city line, and with the tracks of the Philadelphia Company at North J. R. WALSH, President Providence. L. A. WALTON, Vice-President CHATTANOOGA, TENN.-An ordinance has been passed giving the C. D. ORGAN, Sec. and Treas. Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company a franchise over Eighth Street from C. HUNTOON, Ass't Sec'y and Ass't Treas. the corner of Broad and Cedar Streets, and north to the Cedar Street terminus, and from the corner of Sixth and Cedar Streets westwardly to the terminus of Sixth Street.

KNOXVILLE, TENN.-A survey has been made for the extension of the Central Avenue line of the Knoxville Traction Company to the junction of

Chickamauga Avenue and the K., C. G. & L. Railway. The extension is ^radically a mile in length, and will serve a large population and a growing portion of the city.

SEATTLE, W ASH.—A franchise has been granted to the Arctic Railway to lay tracks and operate a railway on Fourth and Fifth Streets, ami to build spurs and side tracks to the water front. A. Simpson has been granted a franchise to operate a street trolley line on Front Street, and the Pioneer Mining Company, J. W. Kelly and the Wild Goose Company have been granted the right to build a depot and line out to Dexter Creek, to connect by a spur with the Anvil Railroad of the Wild Goose Company.

SPOKANE, WASH.—A contract has been let by the Creur d'Alene & Spokone Railway Company for the entire equipment required for connecting the two cities with an electric railway service. Over 300 men are now at work on the grade, and this division of the work is almost completed. A 60-lb. rail will be laid and the track will be thoroughly ballasted.

BLUEFIELD, W. VA.—The Bluefield & Hinton Electric Railway Company has applied for amendments to the franchise to permit it to build an electric railway in Bluefield. GRAFTON, W. VA.—The Taylor County Electric Street Railway 6i Supply Company has organized by electing directors as follows: A. J. Wilkinson, George L. Jolliffee, James W. Holt. L. E. Ward. Dr. A. S. Warden, 15. F. Bailey and T. E. Joyce. The County Court has granted the franchise asked by the company to build through the county.

WHEELING, W. VA.—Hie County Commissioners have given a franchise to tlie Wheeling & W est Liberty Belt Line Railway.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS.—The Chippewa Valley Electric Railway Company is planning extensive improvements of its system.

FOND I) 1 LAC, WIS. A electric 1 new railway will he built t.i Appleton and- Kaukauna by the new loud du Lac & Northeastern Railway Company, CEDAR which is being incorporated.

KAUKAUNA, WIS.— Grading for the Kaukauna-Green Bay Electric Rail- way was begun at Kaukauna on July 13, and if the wea:her permits will be POSTS & POLES completed in about ninety days. When this line is completed the Twin Citie- will be connected by interurbah with Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Appleton, Kaukauna and Green Bay, all the cities in the valley.

MADISON, WIS.—The Superior & Southeastern TROLLEY POLES Railway vhos incorporation was noted ir. the Street Railway Journal of July 21 is to be a logging railway. It will extend from Pratt, Bayfield County, to a' junction willi the Chippewa Valley & Northwestern Road. 60 miles. V July 25, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXV NEWS NOTES

SAN BERNADINO, CAL.—The San Bernardino Valley Traction Com- pany, Redlands Street Railway Company and San Bernardino & Highlands iobinsIelfContftior^ Electric Railway Company, recently consolidated as the San Bernardino Val- ley Traction Company, have elected officers as follows: President, Henry Are great savers of time, money, labor and space Fisher, of Redlands; vice-president and general manager, A. C. Denman, Jr., in Power Houses and Coaling Stations of San Bernardino; secretary and treasurer, C. W. A. Cartlidge, of San Ber- 17 Park Row, nardino. Robins Conveying Belt Co., w York

COLUMBUS, GA.—The strike of the employees of the Columbus Railroad & Light Company has not inconvenienced the company. New men were

secured at once to fill the strikers' places, and the regular service was re- sumed in full a few hours after the old employees went out.

ILL. The motormen and conductors in the employ of the AURORA, — Send for Catalogue. Elgin, Aurora & Southern Traction Company who have been in the service RICHARDSON SCALE more than one year have had their wages increased 10 per cent. 18 Park Row, N. Y. City.

ROCKFORD, ILL.—The directors of the Rockford & Interurban Railway Company have ratified a proposition by the directors of the Rockford & Free- port Electric Railway by which the latter line is to be leased to the Rockford & Interurban Railway Company for one year, and at the expiration of that period to consolidate the two lines. Under the plan of consolidating the lines there will be no change in the headquarters, and the work of the two companies will be left with the president and general manager of the Rockford & Freeport Electric Railway, T. M. Ellis, who will retain the offices in Rock- THE MULFORD & PETRY COMPANY ford. Street C&.r Advertising Contractors IND.—The stockholders of the New Albany Street Rail- NEW ALBANY, Will be pleased to submit their proposition electric roads. ' way Company, at their annual meeting, elected the following board of di- '{or 'advertising space in cars of rectors for the ensuing year: Samuel Insull, of Chicago; R. W. Waite, YORK. James W. Dunbar, Louis Hartman and Alexander Hartman, New Albany. Eastern Offiee^ SU, Raul Building. " Building. DETROIT. Samuel Insull was elected president; Louis Hartman, vice-president; R. W. Executive Puritan Indianapolis, Toledo. Dayton, Grand Rapids, etc. Waite, secretary and treasurer. V5 Also offices at Chicago, BOSTON, MASS.—The Old State House station of the East Boston Tun-

nel is completed with the exception of a portion of the north side entrance and the surfacing on the platforms. The granolithic surfacing will be laid M. P. HILLYER & COMPANY within a few days. The State Street section of the tunnel is nearly ready for the laying of tracks, as the tunnel will shortly be clear from the Old State 49 WALL ST., NEW YORK House to Atlantic Avenue, where 30 ft. of core remain to be taken out and 40 ATLANTIC BUILDING ft. of invert to be laid. Connection has already been made with the harbor section, which runs through to East Boston. By the early part of August the Steam and Electric Railroads Financed Boston end from Washington Street to Atlantic Avenue will be completed, Bonds a Specialty and the East Boston section may also be finished about the same time. The Railroad and Gas recent explosion or escape of compressed a ; r has delayed the work somewhat We Invite Correspondence on that section, as some of the walls and steel work had to be replaced. State Street is now being resurfaced in places, the excavation and wall work in the Atlantic Avenue station are completed and everything is ready for the insertion of steel girders and beams for the station house. Restoration of the Old State House has been already started. Walls are being rebuilt, and the The interior is being remodeled. A part of the first floor has been laid also. Con- tracts will soon be awarded for the construction of the last important section; that from Scollay Square to Washington Street, under Court Street.

CITY, N. Corporation Columbia Machine worts JERSEY J.—The Counsel of Jersey City has filed with Sheriff John Zeller papers in the suits instituted by Mayor Mark M. Fagan to recover from, the Jersey City & Bergen Railroad Company, the Consolidated Traction Company, and the North Jersey Street Railway Com- ei Malleable iron company pany a license fee of $10 a year for each car used on each line for a period of about thirty-five years. The companies paid this fee to the city until 1868, when they refused to pay it longer on the ground that they were exempt under BROOKLYN, IN. Y. a law passed by the Legislature in that year. The Corporation Counsel says the fees in question will amount to about $250,000. The defendant companies have thirty days in which to file their answer. If they do not dispute the validity of the act of 1868 the suit will be tried in Jersey City. If they do it will be heard by the Supreme Court at Trenton. Manufacturers of NEWARK, N. J.—Chief Justice Gummere has instructed Sheriff William Nicoll to draw a special panel of 500 jurors from whom to select a jury to try the nine officials and subordinates of the North Jersey Street Railway Company who were indicted in connection with the fatal Clifton Avenue grade crossing accident of Feb. 19. The trial will take place during the September term. THE COLUMBIA

NEW YORK, N. Y.—A decision in the matter of the third, or express, track on the West Side lines of the Manhattan Elevated Railway has been handed down by Supreme Court Justice Truax, who holds that though Henry B. Auchincloss, the plaintiff, is not entitled to have the extra track removed TROLLEY POLE yet he is entitled to receive both fee and rental damages, amounting in his case to $9,000 for fee and $8,000 for rental. Mr. Auchincloss objected to the third track on the ground that it was unauthorized by law, and contended that the building of the express track in short sidings was only an evasion of the statute which prohibited a continuous third track. When the suit was first brought Justice Bischoff dismissed it, but the Appellate Division reversed him and ordered a new trial, holding that the construction of the Electric Railway Supplies track was unauthorized, and imposed an extra burden on the plaintiffs property. Justice in Truax his decision says that it is unnecessary to consider whether the third track was a siding, as had been claimed, or not. of Every Description

N. NEW YORK, Y.-The Rapid Transit Commissioners have sent a letter to John B. McDonald, the subway contractor, in which it is declared that he is responsible for the damage done by the Park Avenue cave-in. WRITE This was in FOR PRICES response to a letter from Mr. McDonald, in which he said that he could not be held liable for such damages. XXVI STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. fcXII. No. 4.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The Monroe County Electric Belt Line Company has elected the following directors: G. D. Beebe, Syracuse; Andrew H. Bown, Despatch; Percy R. McPhail, Charles T. Chapin, Merton E. Lewis, Rochester; William Nottingham, Syracuse; Walter A. Paroe, Fairport; F. C. Soule, Syracuse; inspectors of election, George S. McMillan, George P. Baker, Rochester. The officers of the board of directors are: Andrew H. Air Brake Prejudice Bown, president; DeWitt C. Becker, vice-president; Merton E. Lewis, secretary; Percy R. McPhail, treasurer. The road will not be in operation to Rochester for a year.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Through application to the Supreme Court at Only a good power brake can overcome the almost Albany the Rochester Railway Company and the Rochester Gas & Electric universal prejudice in favor of air brakes. And yet the Company have succeeded in having their franchise taxes for the year re- following railroads duced $25,000. Of this amount the reduction secured by the Rochester Rail- have purchased the Neal Brake after

way Company amounts to $7,014. testing out one or two trial brakes :

TOLEDO, OHIO.—The Findlay, Fort Wayne S: Western Railway has been sold at Master's sale at Ottawa to Judge J. J. Moore, of New York, who, it North 'Jersey Street Railway Company is said, represented the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Traction Company, which has been in control of the property for the past year. Jersey City, Hoboken & Paterson Street OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.—The Metropolitan Railway Company has Railway Company notified its employees that commencing August they will all be given an in- Union Traction Company of Indiana crease of 1 cent per hour. The increase was not asked for or even expected by the employees, and they were much pleased and surprised when they re- Indianapolis Street Rail%>ay Company ceived the notice of the increase. Scranton (Pa.) COLUMBIA, PA.— It is stated that the by-laws of the Lancaster County RaiVtoay Company Railway & Light Company will be amended so as to provide for a vice-presi- Columbus (0.) Railway Company dent who shall also be a controller of the company. The identity of the new official has not as yet been revealed. William B. Given will remain as presi- Why ? Write, and we will tell you. longest test is on dent. Our one car of the it EASTON, PA.—The Northampton Traction Company has increased the Boston Elevated Railway, where has been wages of conductors and motormen in service a year or more to 20 cents an in the passenger service for over two years. hour, and others from 17% cents to 18 cents an hour, taking effect July 1. FLOURTOWN, PA.—The Philadelphia & Lehigh Valley Traction Com- The Neal Brake is not an air pany and Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company have concluded an agree- brake—it is a hydraulic brake ment whereby the former will be allowed to cross the tracks of the latter at this place at grade. This will allow the trolley cars to run through from Allentown to Chestnut Hill without a break. The crossing has been completed. HARRISB URG, PA.—At a meeting of the incorporators of the new Central United Slates Steel Co. Pennsylvania Traction Company, held July 15, Frank B. Musser, for several years superintendent of the Harrisburg Traction Company, was chosen president; Edward Bailey, president of the Harrisburg Traction Company, whose Brake Dept. WEST EVERETT, MASS. lines will be absorbed by the new company, declining to take the office. He will remain president of the Harrisburg Traction Company and a director and member of the executive committee of the new company. B. F. Myers was SXS)®®s)®®(iXs^ chosen vice-president; W. J. Calder, secretary and treasurer, and the fifteen directors of the Harrisburg Traction Company were continued as directors of the new company. The meeting lasted until after midnight, important extensions to the system being under consideration. It was decided to present an ordinance in Councils for a franchise for certain streets not now occupied An Investment which is endorsed by by the company's lines and for the double tracking of Second, Derry and Thirteenth Streets. Arrangements were also made for taking over the lines Master Mechanics and Electrical of the Harrisburg Traction Company. SCRANTON, PA.—The Scranton Railway Company has entered into a Engineers three-year contract with Division No. 168 of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees, in which provision is made for every con- Our device will increase the efficiency of the present tingency that might arise in the relation of the company and its employees. It goes into effect July 20, and remains in force until April 1, 1906. brake 300 per cent, without changing present mode of The agreement provides for a board of five arbitrators, one of whom shall be equipment. It will do away with slipping wheels and with a neutral. Motormen and conductors are to receive 18 cents an hour for the first year, 19 cents for the second, and 20 cents thereafter. the use of sand. We substitute magnetism for dead weight Council Columbia has passed an ordinance COLUMBIA, S. C.—The City of to increase adhesion between drive wheels and rails. providing separate scats on street cars for whites and blacks. The ordinance was in effect the same as that in force in Augusta, Ga., and other cities in the South having a heavy negro population. Since, the passage of the ordi- THE WABASH RAILROAD COMPANY nance the negroes of the city have virtually determined upon a boycott Office of Master Mechanic against the street railway company. C. H. Doebler, Master Mechanic Springfibld, III. BEAUMONT, TEX.—The strike of the employees of the Beaumont Trac- Mr. James Wood, Engineer C. R. I. & P. tion Company has been broken. The company succeeded in filling the places My Dear Jim ;— Thought you would be glad to know the regular schedule time. of the strikers, and cars are now being operated on Magnetic Equipmeut Company have their engine equipped witu their device, and that it is decided success. BURLINGTON, VT.—On July S, at the Crescent Beach County Club, a I had the satisfaction, as well as the pleasure of handling the a dinner to Elias Lyman, in celebration of his Louis H. Turk tendered Hon. engine while making the tests, which were made on May 28th. fourteenth annual election as president of the Burlington County Traction The tests showed an increased efficiency of almost 30 per cent, with device operative. Company. Among the guests present were the following officers of the com- The C. M. & ST. P. R.R. officials are going to make a practi- pany: Elias Lyman, president; John J. Flynn, vice-president; W. F. Handee, cal test about the 15th of this month. I feel sure the stock we treasurer; A. E. Richardson, A. O. Humphrey, A. W. Brownell, directors. bought will soon be worth many times what it cost us. Tell all your friends the good news and have them get some CHARLESTON, W. VA.—Employees of the Kanaw.ha Valley Traction Com- of the stock before it goes out of sight. It can be got now for $1.50 a share. Yours very truly, pany are on strike, and the cars are being run by officers of the company. A. T. Wabash Engineer. The company refused to accede to a demand for increased wages and recogni- WHITSEL, tion of the union.

SHALL WE SEND YOU OUR PROSPECTUS ? FINANCIAL NOTES Magnetic Equipment Co. LOS ANGELES, CAL.—A few days ago the Times said the long-talked-of sale of the traction company of Los Angeles has been consummated and 1213 money put up. The amount was $1,515,000, and this sum, together with over MERCHANTS' LOAN AND TRUST BUILDING $200,000, which has already been paid, completes the purchase price. It is said the money was put up by the Southern Pacific in accordance with an CHICAGO agreement made some time ago, whereby Huntington and Hillman are the major parties in interest. July 25, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXVII

NORWICH, CONN.—It is reported that the controlling interest in the 12,459,212 Norwich Street Railway Company and the -Montville Street Railway Company, which has been held by Tucker, Anthony & Company, of Boston, has been purchased by Stillman F. Kelley, of that city.

15,645,702 CHICAGO, ILL. —The Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company reports 2,626,590 traffic for year to date as follows: 2,478,4482,727,659 2,685,7412,569,404 1903 1902 January 2,116,2322,557,860 1,922,310 February 1,956,775 1,813,2S0 March 2,172,179 2,026,220 April 2,140,190 1,962,911 May 2,076,692 1,959,176 June 1,997,144 1,824,393

Six months 11,508,290

CHICAGO, ILL.—The South Side Elevated Railway Company reports traffic for the year to date as follows: 1903 1902 January 2,453,151 February 2,222,808 March 2,489,703 April 2,430,270

May $782,285 2,357,953 June 2,293,470

Six months 14,247,356 The following figures are also given: 1903 1902 Daily average 86,440 78,716 Sterling No. 5. Gross passenger receipts $712,368 Gain over last year 69,917 43,410

CHICAGO, ILL.—The Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway Company reports earnings as follows: Gross Operating Net Increase THE BEST REGISTER Earnings Expenses Earnings per Cent January $12,035 $6,570 $5,465 7.5 February 10,644 5,817 4,827 24.0 March 13,356 6,318 7,038 40.0 April 15,161 6,242 8,918 25.0 EVER MADE. May . 20,042 7,156 12,886 42.0 June 22,482 7,742 14,740 38.0 Totals $93,720 $39,845 $53,874 ten ELKHART, IND.—A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, has been appointed re- Tested equal to ceiver of the Winona, Warsaw, Elkhart & South Bend Traction Company, which had in contemplation the construction of an electric railway to connect Winona, Warsaw, Elkhart and South Bend. The application was made years' service. by Major S. A. Collins, of Troy, the promoter who has had charge of the securing of right of way, franchises, etc. The plan is to reorganize the company and then, interesting new capital, prosecute the construction of the road so as to secure advantage of the valuable franchise rights which the Test it on your own company holds.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Indianapolis, Shelbyville & Southeastern Electric Railway will make a new $600,000 bond issue to cover the cost of cars. building the extension from Shelbyville to Greensburg. The bonds will bear 5 per cent interest.

. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Indianapolis, Martinsville & Southern Rail- Built to last 20 years. road Company has filed with the Secretary of State a certificate of the change of its name to the Indianapolis & Southwestern Traction Company, and articles certifying to an increase of capital stock from $50,000 to $900,000, of which $600,000 is to be common and $300,000 6 per cent preferred stock. The Square case or round company will build to Evansville, through Martinsville and Vincennes. When the company first organized the purpose was to build only to Martins- ville. Under the new organization Evansville will be the southern terminus, with Indianapolis the northern. case.

LOUISVILLE, KY.-Circulars setting forth the terms of transfer of the stock of the Louisville Railway Company for that of the new Louisville Trac- tion Company are being sent out. The date of delivery of the new stock is ALSO fixed at April 1, 1904. Shareholders who desire their stock will receive in-

terest at the rate of 5 per cent from July 1, 1903, to April 1, 1904, and also interest at the rate of 5 per cent on the cash deposits for the additional share of common stock to which each holder of a share of old common stock is STERLING SAFETY BRAKES. entitled on payment of $55. This cash deposit is to be paid in three instal-

ments as follows: $25, Sept. 1, 1903; $15, Dec. 31, 1903, and $15, April 1, 1904. The stock will be deposited with the Fidelity Trust Company.

BALTIMORE, MD- It is stated in Cleveland that the appointment of a receiver for the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway Com- pany was due indirectly to the financial embarrassment of the Everett-Moore syndicate. The syndicate members were the underwriters for a very con portion of the securities of the Sterling-Meaker Co. siderable company, and the failure of these gentlemen made it impossible for them to take up their portion of the underwriting. Acting in the interests of the Cleveland security holders, the Cleve- land Construction Company obtained a receivership for the road. A new NEWARK, N. J., U. S. A. financial plan has been prepared, and it will be placed in operation as soon as possible. The officials of the road claim there is no occasion for alarm, and state that there is little doubt that the road will be completed and placed in operation on the lines originally laid down by the promoters. xxviii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 4.

BOSTON, MASS.—An order has been issued by the Railroad Commis- sioners authorizing the Newton Street Railway Company to issue 1850 additional shares of capital stock, which at par would amount to $185,000, for the purpose of paying floating indebtedness and the purchase of real and personal property. The order provided that this additional stock shall be offered pro- JOHN BLAIR MacAFEE portionately to stockholders at $125 per share.

GREENFIELD, MASS.—The stockholders of the Greenfield & Deerfield and the Greenfield, Deerfield & Northampton Street Railway Companies have voted to merge the former company into the latter. The companies must get THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OF STEAM the approval of the Railroad Commission. AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS WORCESTER MASS. hearing has been given by the Railroad Commis- —A AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS. sioners on the petition of the Worcester & Holden Street Railway Company for authority to issue additional capital stock of $50,000 and bonds of $100,000. PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES.

The appraisal of the company's property showed it had cost $273,563. The REPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN OPERATION. treasurer's statement, made by E. S. Douglas, showed total assets of $274,942.

WORCESTER, MASS.—The trustees of the Worcester Railways & Invest- ment Company have declared a semi-annual dividend of $2.25 per share, payable Aug. 1 shareholders to of record at the close of business July 20. HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA DETROIT, MICH.—The Detroit United Railway Company reports earnings as follows: June 1903 1902 Gross earnings $381,900$79,316 $333,624 Operating expenses and taxes 222,797 183,171

Net earnings 1,217,487$159,103 $150,463 Other income 3,036 3,120

Total income $162,139 $153,573 J. G. WHITE &, COMPANY Charges 82,823 78,594 INCORPORATED,

Surplus $74,979 Jan. 1 to June 30 1903 1932 Engineers, Contractors, Gross earnings $2,011,488 $1,806,228 Operating expenses and taxes 1,03S,997 29 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. Net earnings $793,999 $767,231 Other income 22,701 15,038 LONDON CORRESPONDENT: J. C. White & Company. Limited Total income $816,700 $782,269 Charges 490,765 462,572 22a College Hill, Cannon St.

Surplus $325,935 $319,697

BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—The Binghamton Street Railway Company reports earnings as follows: June 1903 1902 Gross earnings $22,774 $20,242 Operating expenses 11,021 10,645 Sanderson & Porter Net earnings $11,753 $9,597 For the year ended June 30 1903 1902 ENGINEERS AND Gross earnings $226,702 $207,900 CONTRACTORS Operating expenses 126,600 114,630 Electric Railways, 52 WILLIAM STREET Net earnings $100,102 $93,270 Light, Power and Hydraulic Plants. NEW YORK Deductions from income 68,100 65,318 $105,377 Net income $32,002 $27,951

ROCHESTER, N. V.—The Rochester Railway Company reports earnings as follows: W. K. BAKER H. R. BISHOP June 1903 1902 Gross earnings from operation $89,669 Operating expenses 51,338 W. K. BAKER & CO. 47,618 ENGINEERS Net earnings from operation $54,039 $42,051 Income from other sources 425 375 170 BROADWAY NEW YORK Gross income from all sources $54,464 $42,42o Fixed charges 25,647 24,754

Net income 28,817 $17,672 IfffilHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS in the Street Railway Journal you will CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The first official statement of the earnings of the Aurora, Elgin Hall confer a favor on both publisher and advertiser by mentioning this paper. & Chicago Railway has been issued. For the month of lune the gross earnings were $39,101; operating expenses, $18,082; net earnings, $21,019. The operating expenses were 46.24 per cent of the receipts, which indicates that the management will come close to carrying out the prediction that B. WH/TTED the road will be operated the first year 45 per cent of the gross. The THOMAS cost of operating was 10.46 Consulting Engineer cents per car-mile. In connection with the foregoing statement it is interesting to note that the interest on the funded 221-224 Equitable Building - - DENVER, COLORADO debt and the dividends on preferred stock amount to $20,000 per month, so that the road is already showing a small surplus.

COLUMBUS, OHIO.-The Scioto Valley Traction Company has increased its capital stock from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000. Of the increase $800 000 is common and $1,200,000 5 per cent preferred Tennis stock. W. F. Burdell is president of Brothers Company the company, and E. R. Sharp, secretary. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, BUILT AND EQUIPPED DAYTON, OHIO.-The Lebanon & Franklin Traction Company, of which Charles H. Bosler is president, and R. E. Kline secretary, has increased its capital stock from $10,000 to $160,000. 22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, DAYTON, OHIO.-The Dayton Cincinnati, Ohio & Southern Railroad Company has in- Pittsburg, Pa. creased its capital from $10,000 to $150,000. Of the increase $40,000 is common July 25, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxix

stock and $100,000 5 per cent preferred. M. L. Mourer is president, and F. E. James, secretary.

HAMILTON, OHIO.—The Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo Traction Com- pany reports earnings as follows: May 1903 1902 Total gross earnings $46,173 $40,113 Operating expenses 25,021 21,922

Net earnings $21,152 $18,191 Deductions from income 16,050 16,798

Net income $5,101 $1,393

HARRISBURG, PA.—The directors of the Harrisburg Traction Company LIGHTI/NG—POWER—RAILWAYS on July 13 declared a regular cash dividend of 3 per cent and a scrip dividend of 5 per cent, both payable Aug. 1. Another meeting will be held shortly to consider plans for extensions of the lines. y y *

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The American Railways Company reports gross earnings for June, 1903, at $114,742, against $101,154 for June, 1902. From 1504-1506-1505-1510-1512 Fisher Building = CHICAGO July 1, 1902, to June 30, 1903, the gross earnings were $1,240,807, as against $1,009,504 for the corresponding period of the previous year.

PITTSBURG, PA.—The Philadelphia Company reports earnings as follows: J June 1903 1902 Gross earnings $1,206,999 $1,076,849 Operating expenses and taxes 755,334 692,702

Net earnings $451,665 $384,147 Miscellaneous income 18,825 14,016 Charges 319.201 307,070 Arnold Electric Power Station Co.

Total income $151,290 $91,093 ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS, Preferred dividends $23,936 $23,935 Net income $127,353 $67,158 Designers and Builders of Complete WILKESBARRE, PA—Keyboldt & Company, of New York, have purchased $500,000 of first mortgage bonds of the Wilkesbarre & Hazleton Trac- Electric Railway, Lighting and Power Installations. tion Company. NORFOLK, VA.—The plan for uniting under the management of the Nor- Marquette Building, folk, Portsmouth & Newport News Company a number of street railway, gas Transit Building, and electric light companies has been abandoned. According to General NEW YORK Chicago. Manager Hathaway, of the company, the organization of the company was a tentative one and based on the supposed saving that could be made by having one set of officers. Mr. Hathaway also says that it was the diversity of the interests and the distance separating the Newport News, Hampton and Danville properties that resulted in the decision to abandon the project. ~m None of the securities had been sold to the public. SPOKANE, WASH.—The Spokane Traction Company has filed for record the mortgage for $1,000,000 recently given to the Title Guarantee and Trust Company. Third Edition. Revised and Enlarged. MILWAUKEE, WIS.—The Milwaukee Railway & Light Company has declared the quarterly dividend of V/2 per cent on its preferred stock, pay- 1. Electric able Aug. Power Tran/m i $ s i o n AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS By LOUIS BELL, Ph.D.

CATALOGUE NO. 19 has just been issued by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. The greater part of this publication is de- {""f\rVTF*l^T^k Chapter I.— Elementary Principles. II.— V/V/i^ I LH »0 General Conditions of Power Transmission. voted to mining machinery, but there are also numerous cuts of Jeffrey III. — Power Transmission by Continuous bucket, trough and belt conveyors for economically conveying coal or other Currents. IV.—Some Properties of Alternating Currents. V.— Alter- material. nating Current Generators and Transformers. VI.—Synchronous and Induction Motors. VII. —Current Reorganizers. VIII.—Engines THE NATIONAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, of Milwaukee, successor to and Boilers. IX. —Water Wheels. X —Hydraulic Development. XL— The Organization of a Power Station. XII. The Line. XIII.— Line the Christensen Engineering Company, of that city, has just closed the con- — Construction. XIV.—Centres of Distribution. XV.—The Measure- tract for the World's Fair Exposition at St. Louis for the entire air-brake ment of the Power. XVI.—The Commercial Problem. XVII.— Present equipments for the intramural road. It was a very keenly contested con- Limitations of High Voltage Transmission. tract, and the company feels quite elated over its success. Cloth out) pages. 300 illustrations. Price, $3.00.

THE STANLEY ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY has just The plan of this work is essentially published Bulletin No. 135, which contains descriptions and illustrations of its hot-wire voltmeters and ammeters. These instruments are not affected by practical and non -mathematical, and while changes of wave form, frequency, or electrical disturbances due to the pres- ence of foreign circuits or magnets. They measure correctly both alternating primarily an engineering treatise, is also and direct currents. The manufacturer states that many instruments of this intended for the information of those inter- type are now in use and that they are giving very satisfactory service. ested in electrical transmission of "EQUIPMENT OF A RAILWAY SHOP" is the title of an interesting power, and valuable pamphlet just issued by the Crocker- Wheeler Company, of financially or in a general way. Ampere, N. J. The publication is devoted to a detailed description of the new Collinwood (Ohio) locomotive and car shops of the Lake Shore & Michigan Copies of this or any other electrical book published will Southern Railway. The well-known Crocker-Wheeler two-wire multiple-voltage be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any address in the system has been installed in these shops with very satisfactory results. In world, designing the motors for driving the machine tools a careful study was made on receipt ofprice. of the exact requirements of each tool. Not only is this installation proving very economical, but it deserves to be ranked among the finest of its kind.

THE COMPOSITE PULLEY & CLUTCH COMPANY, of Boston, Mass., has McGraw Publishing' Co. just issued a pamphlet which contains a very interesting description of this company's method of using natural cork inserts for pulleys, friction Book Dept. 114 LIBERTY ST., N. Y? clutches and braking mechanisms. This company does not manufacture pulleys or friction clutches, but aims to introduce its cork inserts into every well XXX STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 4.

known make of pulley or clutch for frictional driving or braking purposes. It will license manufacturers and builders of machinery in which friction drives or brakes are used, to make and sell on a royalty basis pulleys and clutches, .whether of wood, metal, paper or other material.

THE AMERICAN CONDUIT COMPANY has recently been organized for the purpose of taking over the business, good will, the manufacturing plants, patents, orders, etc., of the Electrolysis Proof Conduit Company, of BERRY BROTHERS Chicago. The latter company is well known to the electric and street railway (LIMITED) . public as a manufacturer of bituminized fibre conduits. The new company ,, is prepared to commence extensive operation in the manufacturing of conduits. It has factories in Chicago, 111.; Los Angeles, Cal., and Chester, Pa. MANUFACTURERS OF The company has also offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Phila- delphia. Several million feet of its electrolysis-proof conduits have been installed within the past few years, and have given excellent service and satisfaction. With the record of the old company behind it, and with the active pushing business management at the head of the new company, good success may be predicted.

THE FRANKLIN ROLLING MILL & FOUNDRY COMPANY, of New York, N. Y., and Franklin, Pa., has purchased the Tripartite Steel Pole Com- pany's patent rights, and is now prepared to furnish tripartite high-carbon rolled-steel poles any length for all overhead construction. This is claimed to be the only pole that will not take a set when extra load is put on, by heavy winds, snow and ice, and if pulled over or bent by accident can be straightened without removing from setting. All parts are solid, and as these poles have

positive anchorage they require to be set only 3 ft., thereby saving cost of digging and cement. They can be transported in parts and assembled on ground along the line, and they can be painted internally, as well as exter- nally, thus insuring longevity. This company is prepared to contract, according to customers' specifications, for all overhead work, including tripartite steel poles, span, trolley, feed-wire, all fixtures, bonds and bonding, set and "lined up," complete in working order. RAILWAY DIFFERENT TYPES OF THE ROOT SPRING TRACK SCRAPER AND FLANGER are described in detail in the latest publication issued by the Root Track Scraper Company, of Kalamazoo, Mich. This company's cleaners are guaranteed to give perfect contact on all conditions of track. The steel VARNISHES springs used are warranted not to break or bend for one year. Any of these scrapers may be operated alone by the motorman, and need no attention after being placed in position to work, as they pass over all obstacles, such as NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, crossings and uneven pavements, without injuring the scraper. The flanger BALTIMORE, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, shovel used is independent of the main shovel. As it is of the same width SAN FRANCISCO. as the rail, it follows any elevation or depression of the same readily, being FACTORY and nrTDAIT always on the rail, even when it is several inches below the pavement. This MAIN OFFICE ULTROIT. assures at all times a clean rail and groove. The "Kalamazoo" scraper made by this company deserves special attention. It is raised and lowered by the same device as the single scraper, and is easily handled by the motorman alone. It is designed to clean all the snow from between the rails and 9 ins. outside the same, throwing it each way from the center. It also cleans the top of rail and groove. The company claims that by using this scraper more practical work can be done and more track can be cleaned than with a sweeper, Save valuable time every day by carrying the as it can be run much faster. Among the many railways now using this company's scrapers successfully are the following: American Railways Com- pany, Philadelphia, Pa.; South Chicago City Railway Company, Chicago, 111.; Practical Electric Railway Hand book Detroit United Railway, Detroit, Mich.; Indiana Railway Company, South in your pocket. Bend, Ind.; Lehigh Valley Traction Company, Allentown, Pa.; Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway, Fitchburg, Mass.; Binghamton Railway Company, PRICE S3.00 Binghamton, N. Y. McGRAW publishing COMPANY, H4 Liberty Street, New York

VIRGINIA'S HEALTH RESORTS The mountains and the mineral springs of Virginia, reached by the Norfolk WILLIAM A, ROSENBAUM & Western Railway, are unexcelled anywhere in natural attractions, equability of temperature and salubrity of climate. In fact, nature has more highly electrical Gxpert and endowed the summer resorts of Virginia than those of any other section of the country, and thev are cool in summer, being at an elevation of from patent Solicitor. 1000 ft. to 5000 ft. Address Norfolk & Western Railway, 398 Broadway, New Nassau-Beekman Building, NEW YORK CITY. York, for excursion rates, etc.***

DIRECT AND ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATORS FOR

Railway Lighting and Power Service

Special attention has been given to the Insulation and Ventilation of our Apparatus

NATIONAL ELECTRIC CO. 150 K. W. Alternator

D. C. Generator, Belted Successors to CHRISTENSEN ENGINEERING CO.

Chicago : OLD COLONY BUILDING Pittsburg: GELLATLY & CO. M KILBOURNE & CLARK CO- ILWAUKEB ia^Fraricisco f ;

xxi August 15, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. NEWS OF THE WEEK

CONSTRUCTION NOTES AUGUSTA, GA.—A meeting of the directors of the Augusta Railway & Electric Company will be held Aug. 15, at which the question of improvements in the rolling stock will be considered. R. L. Williams was re-elected presi- Articles of incorporation of the Humboldt Transit Com- EUREKA, CAL.— dent of the above company at a recent meeting of stockholders. pany have been filed. The purpose of the company is to build 20 miles of Electric Company has pur- electric railway in the city of Eureka and an additional 54 miles to other towns ATLANTA, GA.—The Georgia Railway & the equipment of two sub-stations. One of in Humboldt County. The capital stock is $300,000, of which $75,000 has been chased $250,000 of machinery for these stations will be erected near Decatur and the other will be built on the subscribed. The directors for the first year are: J. C. Bull, Jr., of Eureka; sub-stations the Georgia Railway & Elec- George Henderson, of Oakland; R. W. Bull and John C. Bull, of Areata, and Marietta line. By means of these distance of fifty Charles P. Cutten, of Eureka. tric Company will be in a position to furnish current for a miles from Atlanta. Work on the trolley line to Marietta has already begun LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The Los Angeles Railway Company has begun and an extension of the Decatur line at some time in the near future is con- laying six miles of track under a franchise beginning at Main and Twelfth templated. The Decatur line will probably be extended as far as Lithonia. Streets, and running to the southern city limits. ATLANTA, GA.—Application has been made to the Secretary of State for LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The West Second Street line of the Los Angeles a charter for the Atlanta, Buford & Gainesville Electric Railway Company. Railway Company is being extended about two miles over a private right The plan of the company is to build to connect Gainesville and Flowery cf way to the popular Bimini baths. Branch, in Hall County, Buford, Suwanee, Duluth and Norcross, in Gwinnett LOS CAL.—The Los Angeles Railway is building ANGELES, Company County, and run through the tipper portion of DeKalb and Fulton Counties a new car house, 263 ft. x 400 ft., on South Park Avenue, between Fifty-Third "into or near" Atlanta. From Buford there will be a branch line in a north- and Fifty-Fourth Streets. It will cover twenty tracks and will be the largest westerly direction to the Winding Shoals on the Chattahoochee River, the in the city. Tracks and structure will cost about $75,000. evident intention being to establish the power station at that point. The LOS ANGELES, CAL.—Work will be commenced at once on the exten- charter is applied for by H. D. Jacquish and C. C. Sanders, of Gainesville, Ga. sion of the main line of the Pacific Electric Railway Company from San M. S. Garner, George W. Thompson and J. O. H. Brown, of Buford, Ga. Gabriel to Covina, Ontario and Riverside. Board of Pomona, The Trustees E. J. Michael, of Bayhorse, Idaho; J. W. Peterson, W. W. Gorman and of Covina has sold a franchise for one mile along Badillo Street to the com- George W. Winslow, of Chicago, 111., and D. B. Stancliff, of Atlanta. pany for $100, covering the only gap in this county for the proposed Los CHICAGO, ILL.—The public service committee of the county board has Angeles-Riverside electric road. Chief Engineer George Pillsbury says cars postponed action on the ordinance of the Chicago, Milwaukee Avenue & In- will be running into Riverside before Christmas. land Lakes Traction Company until Sept. 7. LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The Los Angeles & Pacific Railroad Company the lias begun the erection of a new sub-station at Sixteenth and Bush Streets, CHICAGO, ILL.—John M. Roach, general manager of Chicago Union that the to have a capacity of 300 hp. This sub-station is about three miles from Traction Company, has assured Corporation Counsel Tolman Union the large power house being built on Sixteenth Street outside the city Traction Company will lay grooved rails in all its permit work so far as limits, and will greatly increase the service of the Santa Monica, Ocean Park, possible. Playa del Rey and Redondo lines from the center of the city out to Bush CHICAGO, ILL.—Plans have been divulged by the Chicago & Milwaukee Street. Electric Railway Company for building two additional tracks from Lake used by the line. At LOS ANGELES, CAL.—Plans are being worked out for an electric road Forest to Wilmette by the side of the two tracks now Chicago, between Stockton and the Yosemite Valley, according to Charles Gage, of Wilmette, where the present line now turns east to connect with the proposed tracks will turn from the elec- Denver, representing a syndicate )f Chicago, New York and Cleveland cap- Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, the Northwestern Railroad to italists. Interested with Mr. Gage in the project is Edwin De Haven, a tric road's right of way and follow the Chicago & with the Northwestern Tonopah mining man. The present plan is to build a standard-gage road Ravenswood, where it is said the line will connect from Stockton to the valley by way of Chinese Camp, to Big Oak Flat, to Elevated Road. Merced, to Hamilton, Crocker. to EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.—Articles of incorporation for the Southern Illinois LOS ANGELES, CAL.— Since the Los Angeles Traction Company was Electric Railroad Company have been filed in the Recorder's office. The purchased by Southern Pacific money and passed into Huntington control, company is to build an electric railway from East St. Louis through the the management of the enterprise is in charge of S. B. McLenegan, super- counties of St. Clair, Clinton, Washington, Marion, Jefferson, Hamilton and intendent under the regime of the Hooks. Mr. McLenegan has inaugurated White to a point on the Wabash River near Maumee, 111. The incorporators series of in tracks, rolling stock. The double- capital a improvement power and are: J. R. Piercy, G. F. M. Ward, Sam Casey and others, and the tracking of the interurban line to San Pedro is being considered. This will stock is placed at $50,000. probably mean new cars for the system, as the blue cars from St. Louis for QUINCY, ILL.—At the annual meeting of the Ouincy & Western Illinois the Hooks have proved too heavy and unwieldy for the grades. Railway Company, which has franchises for building interurban lines in Board of Supervisors of Tehama County has RED BLUFF, CAL.—The Ouincy, the franchises voted the company by the city of Quincy were accept- adopted an ordinance granting a franchise to the Tuscan Mineral Springs ed, and General A. B. Nettleton, S. H. Bracey, F. E. Lonas, James Potter, Corporation to construct and operate an electric railway on the public high- directors. It W. A. Howard, L. J. Highland and John Tierse were elected ways from Red Bluff to Tuscan Springs, also the privilege of crossing the was voted to increase the capital stock from $500,000 to $3,500,000, and to county bridge across the Sacramento River at Red Bluff. Work shall be authorize a bond issue of $3,500,000. commenced within three months and shall be completed within two years. BLOOMINGTON, IND.—It has become known that W. H. Schott, presi- SANTA CRUZ, CAL.—R. Gorley, constructing engineer for an electric dent of the electric light and heating plant in Bloomington, and also inter- road from San Jose to Los Gatos, says an electric railway from San Jose to ested in the Indianapolis plant, will ask for a franchise from the Bedford City Alviso is assured. Preliminary surveys have been started. The projectors Council at the next meeting for an electric railway through the quarry are said to be backed by Pennsylvania capitalists, who propose to open up districts of Monroe and Lawrence Counties. He hopes to begin work within a line of steamers for passengers and freight between Alviso and San Fran- a few months. The plan is to include all the small settlements in and about cisco. It is also a part of the scheme to build a hotel, bath house and Bedford, beginning at the cement mills; from Bedford to extend north to docks at Alviso, where the above capitalists own thirty acres of land. Oolitic, thence to the P. M. & B. quarries, thence to the Victor and Smith- SANTA MONICA, CAL.—The City Trustees have denied the application ville districts, thence to Bloomington and the Hunter districts. It is esti- of R. Taylor for an electric electric railway franchise on Colorado and J. mated that no less than 5,000 people go to and from work daily, in addition to Ocean Avenues. This franchise was wanted by the Los Angeles, Ocean traffic that would naturally arise from the cities and half a hundred settle- Park & Santa Monica Railway Company. ments within the stone districts. HARTFORD, CONN.—The Crystal Lake Railway Company, chartered at CHESTERTON, IND.—The Council has granted a franchise to the Chi- the last session of the Legislature, has organized and $50,000 of capital stock cago, Indiana & Michigan Raillway Company, which proposes to build an has been subscribed for. Charles E. Perkins is president of the company electric railway from Michigan City through Chesterton and other towns in and Judge Arthur Perkins is secretary and treasurer. It is the intention to Northwestern Indiana. The company received a blanket franchise, with the build an electric railway from Crystal Lake to run north to the Massachusetts right to lay tracks on any street. line, a distance of nine or ten miles. This road will make connection with the Stafford Springs Street Railway Company in Ellington and with the En- ELWOOD, IND.—In speaking of the incorporation of the Union Traction field & Somers Street Railway Company in Somers. Tucker, Anthony & Coal Company, President McCulloch, of the Indiana Union Traction Com- Company, of Boston, who own the Hartford & Springfield Street Railway pany, says that the company was simply organized to hold extensive coal Company, operate the Endfield & Somers line, although it is another cor- leases and properties that have been acquired in Sullivan County. Mr. Mc- poration. Culloch says that no plans have yet been made to run a coal line to the coal however, that the plans of the Indiana Union Trac- STAMFORD, CONN.—The extension of the New York & Stamford Rail- fields. It is understood, and its allied Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Company, both road from Greenwich to the Stamford town line is completed, and cars are tion Company interested in the new Plainfield line that is to be pushed making regular trips between New Rochelle and that point. This is the last of which are propose to penetrate not only the Sullivan County coal link in the direct line of trolley between New York and New Haven, and there through to Brazil, of City and Park Counties. There is a probability that is a saving in time of forty minutes between Stamford and New Rochelle by fields, but also those this route over the Sound Beach way. the line will run north to Rockville. With such a coal feeder the traction lines will be able to serve themselves with coal and give Indianapolis and PENSACOLA, FLA.—The Pensacola Electric Terminal Railway Company the gas belt a coal service from the company's mines. will shortly submit a proposition to the City Council asking for additional privileges. It is the desire to extend all of the lines and electrify the present INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Indianapolis, Danville & Rockville Trac- steam division to Fort Barrancas. The Council recently granted these privi- tion Company has asked for a franchise to enter the city on West Washing- lege's, but the terms were such that the company refused to accept them. ton Street, xxii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 7.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.— Indiana Union Traction interests have incorporated the United Traction Coal Company, with $100,000 capital stock, to buy and develop coal lands in Indiana. Among the directors of the company are: George F. McCollough, Hugh McGovvan, Arthur Brady. J. J. The Climax Slock Guard INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Tipton, Frankfort & Attica Traction Com- pany, which is to furnish connections with the Indianapolis, Northern & H. E. OVERSTREET, General Manager Northwestern trunk lines, has been incorporated; capital stock, $50,000. The directors are: Ii. Fear, G. Clark, C. Shanklin, W. R. Dunham, G. M. J. J. J. 714 Marquette Bldg. Chicago, III. Shortle, L. M. Green and Samuel Clark. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Indianapolis Terminal & Traction Com- pany has taken out a building permit for the new terminal passenger sta-

tion for which the foundation is now being laid. The permit names $500,000 as the cost of this branch of the structure. Another branch of equal cost will be built next. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Indianapolis, Danville & Rockville Traction Company has filed a petition with the County Commissioners for a franchise over and along the Rockville gravel road in this county. The request was filed by G. T. Patterson, of Danville, attorney for the road, and is signed by Everett Wagram, president, and John W. Trotter, secretary. Contracts for the work have been let and the construction of the road will commence as soon as the right of way is obtained. The road was incorporated last January, and it is the intention to extend it west through Rockville. A private right of way has been obtained over nearly all the line.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—An electric railway to connect this city with

Toledo is being promoted by J. Morgan and J. L. Weadock, of Toledo,

who recently held a conference in this city with J. P. MacGeath, of Hart- ford City; Mayor Coffee, W. E. Fulk and YV. H. Niblack, of Decatur; John Corry, of Pennville, and other interurban promoters and builders from Matthews, Fort Wayne and Dayton. Mr. Morgan is president of the Day- ton, Ohio, Traction Company, and has been instrumental in building the network of lines about Dayton. He insists that a line from Indianapolis to The above is a view made for the General Electric Co., of one Toledo would be a paying investment, and has already secured estimates on of 8oo Climax Stock Guards, sold to Aurora, Elgin & Chicago the cost of construction. The line will parallel the Wabash for some dis- Railway, last year. tance, connecting Toledo, Defiance, Napoleon and Van Wert, Ohio; Decatur,

Hartford City, Alexandria and Noblesville, Ind. A portion of this route is occupied by the Union Traction Company, tjut Mr. Morgan said arrange- Over 3,000 Guards sold last season ments could be made with this company to use its tracks in return for con- SALES IN MARCH AND APRIL, THIS YEAR : nection with Toledo by the Union Traction Company. Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Ry., Elgin Branch 120 Guards Stark Electric Ry. Alliance, Ohio 120 MADISON, IND.—Work has been begun on the Southern Indiana Trac- Canton & New Philadelphia R.R., Ohio go tion Company's line between Madison and Hanover. Rochester & Eastern Rapid Ry 70 Long Island Railroad Co 40 MICHIGAN CITY, IND.-Col. Russell B. Harrison has confirmed the Vandegrift Construction Co., Kennett Square, Pa 25 rumor that the Lake Cities Electric Railway Company has been transferred Rock Island System 50 to the Michigan City Electric Company. 515 MUNCIE, IND.—The Indiana LTnibn Traction Company bought ground for the location of an interurban terminal to be used by six interurban railways.

NEW CASTLE, IND.-G. M. Hodges has sold to the Indiana Union Traction Company his right of way secured for the Richmond & North- western Interurban Company between New Castle and Middletown.

RICHMOND, IND.—The Indiana Eastern Traction Company will be the Inst electric line in this State to use the third-rail system. The overhead trolley will be used only in passing through cities. In the country the line will have its own enclosed right of way. Construction on this line, which will extend from Hamilton, Ohio, to Marion, Ind., via Richmond, will begin soon. It is the ultimate purpose of the company to build from Marion to Chicago.

RUSHVILLE, IND.—The Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company has awarded contracts for the construction of its power house at this place, work to begin at once. The contracts include in their specifications the erection and equipment of five sub-stations along the road. The Westing- house Electric & Manufacturing Company secured the contracts for the electrical apparatus, and the Babcock & Wilcox Company was given the boiler contract. The engines will be installed by the Fulton Foundry & Machine Company, of St. Louis. The work of grading this line is progressing rapidly.

SPIELAND, IND.—The Indianapolis & Eastern Electric Railway Com- pany is now spiking the rails to complete the branch from Duluth, via Spieland, to New Castle. The pole- are in place on most of the right of way, and it looks as though the 10% miies of branch line would soon be in operation.

TERRE HAUTE, IND.—The Terre Haute & Clinton line of the Terre Haute Electric Company has been completed and opened as far as Ells- worth, about half of the distance of sixteen miles to Clinton. The entire line will be open for regular service in two weeks.

WINCHESTER, IND.—Surveys have been made here by the Eastern Indiana Traction Company for its line, which extends from Hamilton, Ohio, to Marion, Ind. Construction will be begun about Sept. 1. DAVENPORT, IA.—The Davenport & Suburban Railway Company has filed amended articles of incorporation with the Scott County Recorder, increasing its capital stock from $500,000 to $1,400,000. The company intends to build an interurban line of railroads from Davenport to Muscatine. A contract is said to have been let to the International Construction Company, of De- troit, for constructing the lines. DES MOINES, IA.—There is a project on foot for the construction of an interurban electric railway from Greenfield to Winterset, a distance of 26 miles. It is stated that Chicago capitalists are interested, and after looking over the field, have decided to construct the line. The route of the proposed road follows what is known as the "Cherry Surveys" from Winterset to Greenfield, said surveys having been made for the Des Moines Southern and later abandoned by the Rock Island, which acquired the franchises and property of the road. August 15, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxiii

DES MOINES, IA.—The Council Bluffs, Tabor & Southwestern Electric Railway Company has filed articles of incorporation. The headquarters are

in Tabor, Fremont County; capital, $200,000; William J. Dobbs, president; Arthur S. West, secretary. The company is authorized to construct an interurban railway in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, and it is designated that the main line shall run through Pottawattamie, Mills and Fremont Counties in Iowa, and Atchison, Nodaway, Holt, Andrews and Buchanan in Missouri.

RUSSELLVILLE, KY-The Southern Kentucky Interurban Railway & Power Company, capitalized at $125,000, has been incorporated to build an electric railway from Russellville through Logan, Simpson, Warren, Allen, Butler, Muhlinberg, Todd and Christian. The incorporators of the com-

pany are: C. W. Courts, J. M. McCutcheon, J. C. Browder, J. R. Crewdson,

R. P. Manly, R. R. Clark, J. W. Clark. H. S. McCutcheon, of Russellville; W. P. Bainbridge, of Trenton. The New Jersey office of the company is at 4 Broad Street, Trenton. CARIBOU, MAINE—At a special meeting Caribou voted to appropriate $25,000 toward the construction of an electric railway from Caribou to Wash- burn and Perham. Man ufacturers ELKTON, MD.—The Kent & Cecil Light, Power & Railway Company has awarded the Tennis Construction Company, of Philadelphia, the contract for building its new line from Chesapeake City to Elkton, Newark and Stan- ton. ELKTON, MD.—At a meeting of the board of directors of the Elkton & Iron and Steel Chesapeake City Electric Railway Company the contract for the construction of the railway was awarded to the Tennis Construction Company, of Phila- delphia, which will commence work within a few days. TUBULAR POLES LAUREL, MD.—The Laurel Traction Company has received a franchise

permitting it to build an electric railway through Laurel to connect with the outlying towns of Sandy Springs and Savage, Md. The company will Electric Rallwad, the Electric Construc- Jir use the Purris closed conduit system, owned by Union tion Company, of Philadelphia, Pa. I BOSTON, MASS.—The Old Colony Street Railway Company has peti- m EMM tioned for authority to issue new stock amounting to $27,600, the proceeds to be used for the purchase of the Lakeside Park Company's park property in Freetown, Mass. The company's outstanding stock amounts to $6,786,700. mone Service FITCHBURG, MASS.—The Leominster, Shirley & Ayer Street Railway Company has been organized, with these officers: George W. Clifford, of Fitchburg, president; Wesley W. Sargent, superintendent; Charles F. Baker, of Fitchburg, clerk; Manson D. Hawes, of Leominster; George N. Proctor, of Fitchburg: Thomas H. Shea, of Fitchburg; Thomas L. Hazen, of Shirley; George L. Clifford, Charles F. Baker and W. W. Sargent, directors. The directors a 10 assessment on tlie stock subscriptions and TRIMMINGS voted to make per cent to begin at once the construction of the road. The company holds franchises for a line forming a connection between the Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway and the proposed line from Ayer to Lowell. The franchises expire

June 1, 1904.

HOLYOKE, MASS.—The Holyoke Street Railway Company will equip its line to Westfield with block signals, and is making additional safety provisions on its other lines. IPSWICH, MASS.—The Board of Railroad Commissioners has issued an order approving the locations granted to the Haverhill, Danvers & Ipswich Street Railway Company in Topsfield, Ipswich, Rowley, Georgetown, Grove- land and Boxford, and allowing the company to operate over private land in those towns. The approval of the Commissioners may be followed by the beginning of the work of building the railway, which will bring Haver- hill and the towns of that part of the county into closer communication with Salem.

NAHANT, MASS.—The members of the Board of Selectmen have deemed it advisable to defer action on the matter of granting a franchise to one or the other of the recently organized corporations intending to connect Nahant with the city of Lynn by a trolley line until the town shall pass upon the electric railway project. They have therefore issued a call for a special town meeting to be held early in September for the purpose of voting on the MATERIAL matter. NAHANT, MASS. —The Selectmen of Nahant have received two petitions asking for a franchise for street electric rights, one being from the Lynn & of every description Nahant Street Railway Company, backed by Walter H. Southwick, a Lynn attorney, and the Carahar Brothers, who conduct an amnibus line between the two places. The other is that of the Nahant Street Railway Company with Ellerton James at the head of the subscribers, who include United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and the wealthiest of the summer resi- 5 dents of the peninsula. In September a special town meeting will be called Main Officer to decide the question. A. NORTHAMPTON, MASS.—The Northampton Street Railway Company will Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S. double track its line between Northampton and Florence. 1 »' • Works; SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Hoosac Valley Street Railway Company ^fticinnatl, O. # Reading, Pa. Etna, Pa. has received a decree granting a location for the railway on the west side of the State road south of the city. The location was first granted on the east side, and the change is the result of a remonstrance from abutters on that side. The company must do its work in a way not to injure the State road, and must widen the road wherever necessary. ASK FOR W1LLIAMSTOWN, MASS.—The Selectmen of Williamstown, Mass., have received an application from Dr. S. L. Lloyd, of that town, for a franchise for an electric railway from Williamstown station to the Vermont State line, QUOTATIONS a distance of nearly three miles. It is an important piece of road, since, it is the link for the connection of the proposed roads from Troy to the State line, ON ABOVE MATERIAL and Bennington, Vt., to the State line, with the Hoosac Valley Company for North Adams and points in the southern part of the county. The Selectmen have taken the matter under consideration. The survey has been begun for the proposed railway from Pownal, Vt., to Williamstown, to connect with the STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 7.

Hoosac Valley Street Railway to North Adams. The survey includes the route over which Dr. Lloyd and his company wishes to get a franchise.

WORCESTER, MASS.—A block-signal system is to be installed on the Worcester & Webster division of the Worcester & Connecticut Eastern Street THE EQUITABLE Railway, and later, it is announced, it will be extended over the entire system. WORCESTER, MASS.—The Worcester & Southbridge Street Railway 1 TRUST COMPANY Company announces its intention of double-tracking its entire system, a small part of which it is now operating with double tracks. 152 Monroe Street, WORCESTER, MASS.—The Boston & Worcester Street Railway Com- CHICAGO pany has issued orders to double-track its road between Worcester and Capital paid up ------$900,000 Whites Corner, Southboro. This will make a double track all the way to Boston, except five miles between Whites Corner and Framingham. Surplus ------275,000 WORCESTER, MASS.—Improvements are being made along the line of the South Middlesex Street Railway between Hopkinton and Westboro, with the intention, it is announced, of running through cars between Worcester and Newton, if not into Boston. The Westboro & Hopkinton and the Worcester Acts as Trustee for Corpora- & Westboro lines would be used west of Hopkinton. tions, Firms and Individuals and WORCESTER, MASS.—The Hartford & Worcester Street Railway Com- pany has petitioned the Railroad Commission for a location in the town of as Agent for the registration Oxford under the "missing-link" law, the Oxford Selectmen having for three and transfer of bonds and stocks months refused to act on the company's petition. Locations are held in the adjoining towns. of Corporations and the pay- WORCESTER, MASS.—The Selectmen of West Boyleston have been in- ment of coupons, interest and structed by a vote of the citizens of the town to grant a franchise in West Boyleston to the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Company for a line dividends. Interest paid on de- between Worcester and Leominster. posits WORCESTER, MASS.—The Hartford & Worcester Street Railway Com- pany has petitioned the Massachusetts Harbor and Public Land Commission for permission to fill in a portion of Wales' Pond, in the town of Wales, and to build a trestle there. A hearing has been given. DIRECTORS HOUGHTON, MICH.—The Houghton County Street Railway Company William Best Andrew McNally proposes a new extension from Lake Linden to Tamarack-Osceola Mills, Maurice Rosenfeld John M. Smyth and possibly to Hancock. This extension will make the last link in a loop which includes Houghton, Hancock, Laurium, Red Jacket and Lake Linden. F. M. Blount J. R. Walsh L. A. Walton IONIA, MICH.—Local capitalists are planning an electric railway from Ionia to Crystal Lake, Montcalm County. The distance is 35 miles, and it is estimated that the railway can be built for $125 per foot, or $230,000. Ionia's OFFICERS Common Council has guaranteed a bonus of $5,000. J. R. WALSH, President VICKSBURG, MISS.—Vicksburg Street Railway Company proposes ex- L. A. WALTON, Vice-President tending its system to Wattersville, two miles. An act of Congress will first C. D. ORGAN, Sec. and Treas. be necessary to get right of way over National Cemetery road. C. HUNTOON, Ass't Sec'y and Ass't Treas. ST. LOUIS, MO.—Three cars were placed in commission Aug. 4 on the Central Traction division of the St. Louis Transit Company. The new route is from the corner of Fourth and Pine Streets to Jefferson and Chouteau Avenues, via Pine and Twenty-First Streets. The new division is less than three miles long, and is of little importance to the public. The tracks have been laid for some time. ST. LOUIS, MO.—The certificate of incorporation of the Southern Illinois Electric Railway Company has been filed. The company is capitalized at $50,000, and its principal offices will be at Mount Vernon. The electric rail- DO HEATING PLANTS PAY? way projected by the company will run from East St. Louis through the counties of St. Clair, Clinton, Washington, Marion, Jefferson, Hamilton and White, to a point at or near Maumee, on the Wabash River. The incorporators are John R. Piercy, George F. Ward, Samuel Casey, Louis G. Pavey, Samuel T. Maxey and Albert N. Johnson, all of Mount Vernon. ST. LOUIS, MO.—The directors of the Alton Railway, Gas & Electric WHAT CONSTITUTES A Company, and those of the Alton & East Alton Railroad & Power Company, at a recent meeting voted to merge the companies into a new corporation, to be known as the Alton Light & Traction Company. The capital stock of the HEATING SITUATION ? new company will be $1,000,000. The directors elected were J. F. Porter, James Duncan, C. A. Caldwell, O. S. Stowell and George M. Ryrie. The new corporation will have control of the electric street lines in the Altons, as well as the heating, power and lighting plants. The new company will complete the For Particulars Address constructions of the new line to East Alton, which was commenced several months ago. ST. LOUIS, MO.— It is said that D. J. Houseman, general manager of the W. H. SCHOTT St. Louis, St. Charles & Western Railroad, intends extending that line to Ferguson shortly, thereby beginning the first active work toward consolidat- Engineer and Contractor ing all the street railway systems in St. Louis County under one manage- 1219-21 Marquette Building, ~ CHICAGO ment. By virtue of an arrangement with the St. Louis Transit Company he has secured control of the tracks of the St. Louis County Railway, running from Wellston to the junction of Lucas and Hunt and Natural Bridge roads. By direct cut it is not more than a mile to Ferguson, and the country over Designer and Builder which the line would be built is level. It is Mr. Houseman's intention to more actively the scheme of consolidating push the various lines in the Scbott $ Balance Column fiot (Uater System, county as soon as the highway bridge across the Missouri River at St. Charles, which is under way, is completed. After the consolidation of the Scbott' $ Regulated Steam System. Transit, Suburban and St. Charles lines in the county a terminal for the World's Fair is contemplated somewhere in the vicinity of Wellston. BILLINGS, MONT.—The Montana Construction Company, with a capital of $500,000, has filed articles of incorporation. The directors are: P. B. SYSTEMS BUILT LAST YEAR Moss, W. H. Rowley and T. D. O'Donnell, all prominent citizens of Billings. 111. The company is behind the movement for the new electric railway from Mt. Vernon, Butte to the Salmon River country in Idaho. Indianapolis, - Ind. Peru, - - - Ind. BUTTE, MONT.—The Butte & Salmon River Electric Railway Company - has been incorporated. The new concern is capitalized at $2,000,000, of which Lafayette, - " New Castle, $200,000 has already been subscribed. The incorporators are all Billings men " Connorsville, - " and are: T. B. Moss, W. H. Rowley, M. A. Arnold, T. D. O'Donnell and O. Elwood, F. Goddard. The new road will traverse Silver Bow and Beaverhead Coun- ties, starting from Butte. It will run to Horse Prairie and thence through the Lemhi Pass into Idaho. August 15, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXV

OMAHA, NEB.—The Omaha Street Railway Company has let the contract for the construction of its new power house at the foot of Jackson Street to Rochford & Gould, of Omaha. Work on the structure will be commenced at the earliest practicable moment, and it is expected that the walls will be up by the time snow flies, so that the machinery can be installed during the iobinsielfContftjors winter. The contract for the structural iron work for the power house was let some time ago to a Minneapolis firm. An award for the boilers was let Are great savers of time, money, labor and space to a Pittsburg firm; that for generators to the General Electric Company; that in Power Houses and Coaling Stations for the engines to a St. Louis firm; that for the condensers to a New Jersey - ' 7 2 a k R <" firm, and that for furnaces to a Pittsburg firm. Robins Conveying Belt Co., N'^ ; ork SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NEB.—The company that proposed to build an electric railway between Sioux City, la., and Homer, Neb., has not yet completed its organization and plans. It will be a standard gage road, and will be 16 miles long, passing through South Sioux City, Neb., Dakota City, Neb., the county seat of Dakota County, and on to Homer, Neb., on the edge of the Winnebago Indian Reservation. The whole 16 miles is perfectly level Sen d for Catalogue. 3 I ^*^^^^| and will require no grading. The road will be operated for both freight SCALE and passengers. Steam locomotives will be used during the construction RICHARDSON 18 Park Row. N. Y. City. of the road. The high tension system of power distribution will be used, the plan being to erect one main station and necessary sub-stations.

. PATERSON, N. J. —The Paterson State Line Traction Company expects to build a line from Paterson to the State line near Suffern, and although it has secured the right of way through the major portion of the route, considerable opposition has been met in some quarters, and it has had to apply to have commissioners appointed to assess the damages the company will have to pay. The company intends to run through Hawthorne, North Paterson, Midland PROFITABLE and PLJ&ASING Park, Ridgewood, Allendale and other villages, but will not begin the work of construction until the right of way over the entire route has been obtained. ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y—The St. Lawrence Electric Railway & Land ADVERTISING IN YOUR GAR© Improvement Company, which owns and operate the trolley road between Alexandria Bay and Redwood, is preparing to build a large recreation park before next season on the. William Avery farm, midway between Alexandria DETROIT Bay and Redwood. Work on the park will commence this fall, and it is THE MULFORD & PETRY COMPANY hoped to have it nearly completed before next year. On the park it is planned to build a baseball and football ground and to erect pavilions and swings and all the conveniences of a big recreation park. The officers of the company are also seriously contemplating building a 20-mile extension of the road to Watertown, taking in the route along Indian River and Butterfield M. P. HILLYER & COMPANY Lake. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Notwithstanding the request of Bridge Commis- 49 WALL ST., NEW YORK sioner Lindenthal that trial of the Poulson plan, as a means of relieving the ATLANTIC BUILDINQ congestion at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge, be made by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, that company declared that the request Steam and Electric Railroads Financed will be denied. It is pointed out that the request for another trial of the and Gas Bonds a Specialty Poulson plan is manifestly unfair just at this time, because of the work be- Railroad ing prosecuted on the proposed four additional trolley loops at the Park We Invite Correspondence Row bridge approach in Manhattan. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Plans for the proposed improvement of the Brighton Beach division of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company have been submitted to the Grade Crossing Commission. The proposition made by the engineers The of the company ii to erect an embankment along the line, from Church Ave- nue to the end of the road. This will do away with the rumored steel elevated structure, against which there has been so much opposition. To carry out this work it will be necessary for the company to raise its right of way to a considerable height, so that the various streets crossing the line can be Columbia Machine works cut through the embankment. BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—The Binghamton Railway Company is to be granted « a franchise over the Tompkins Street Bridge, through Tompkins Street to Malleable Iron company Conklin Avenue, connecting at this point with the Orphans' Home line. The company is also to be granted a franchise on Conklin Avenue extending from the end of the present Home system to the eastern city limits. BROOKLYN, IN. Y. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Work on the elevated structure of the underground rapid transit system, which will extend from Forest and Westchester Avenues in the Bronx to 180th Street, has been begun. NEW YORK, N. Y.—The spur of the subway at 104th Street has been broken through, thereby opening the connection between the main line and Manufacturers of East Side branch. The opening is not very important, but it is interesting to know that the eastern branch of the subway is open from the main line to the Harlem River. From Sixtieth Street to King's Bridge there are four tracks in the subway, two of them, in the middle, lower than the others. The middle tracks turn at 104th Street, and go under the east side track, in order to connect with the east side branch. The tunnel which goes under THE COLUMBIA Central Park at this point was finished a year ago. It remained to open the spur at 104th Street to have the road open the entire length. OSWEGO, N. Y.—Quit-claim deeds from Christopher Brackin, Sr., to the Syracuse & Ontario Railroad Company transferring the Fulton & Oswego TROLLEY POLE Falls Street Railway Company, have been filed in the county clerk's office. The deed from William H. Enos to Christopher Brackin, transferring the same property, has also been filed. SENECA FALLS, N. Y.—The Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls & Cayuga Lake Park Traction Company is actively engaged in securing rights of way between Cayuga and Auburn for the proposed extension of its line, and work on the Auburn city line will be begun at once. Electric Railway Supplies UTICA, N. Y.—It is said that arrangements have been made by the Clinton Electric Company to furnish additonal power for the Utica & Mohawk Valley Railway Company. It will be used in operating the Clinton line, and will of Every Description greatly improve the service. The contract will necessitate the continuous operating of the local power house, and, according to local gossip, will necessitate the installation of additional machinery. CLEVELAND, OHIO—The Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railway WRITE FOR PRICES Company will complete its line between Painesville and Ashtabula about Oct. 1. Arrangements have been made with the Pennsylvania & Ohio Rail- "xxvi STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 7.

way to furnish current until the new station at Painesville can be completed. This will complete through traffic between Cleveland and Erie, Pa., and

except for a very few miles at the western portion of the State, it will be possible to travel entirely across Ohio by electric cars. 1 TO PREVENT OR CLEVELAND, OHIO.—Applications for street railway franchises are coming thick and fast in Cleveland. A. E. Green, representing John B. REPAIR AN ACCIDENT Hoefgen, has made application for four new 3-cent fare routes as follows: On Denison Avenue, from Rhodes Avenue to the city limits; on Summit | instantaneous telephone communication is often essential. You Street, from Erie to Seneca Streets; on Edgewater Boulevard, from Taylor i\ can obtain such communication with the different parts of your Street to Lake Avenue; on Doan Street, from Wade Park Avenue to Ansel Avenue. The Cleveland Electric Railway has also asked for a franchise 1 system by installing the telephone illustrated below. It is on Woodland Hills Avenue, Fairmount Street, Cedar Avenue, Doan Street, especially constructed to meet the requirements of traction tc the city limits, or by way of Quincy Street instead of by way of Cedar 1 companies. Avenue. COLUMBUS, OHIO.—The Central Market Street Railway Company, which is the city system of the Appleyard lines, has applied for a franchise to extend its line on Summit Street to Ninth Avenue, to Grant Avenue, and thence to Woodruff Avenue, to a point opposite the State fair grounds. The franchise calls for eight tickets for 25 cents, 33 for one dollar and transfers on its own lines. This would give the company a portion of the State fair business, now handled by the Columbus Railway Company. ! - DAYTON, OHIO.—The Dayton & Lebanon Traction Company has been incorporated with temporary capital stock of $1,000 by James P. Wolf, Way- land P. Sunderland, Frank M. Hamilton, W. C. Ely and O. F. Davidson. American ElectwcTe The line is to extend from Dayton to Lebanon. Work has already been done in Montgomery and Warren Counties. A- : CHICAGO . 1 J r TOLEDO, OHIO.—Contractors have been invited to bid on the construction of the Ohio & Michigan Traction Company's line. Contracts will be awarded Sept. 1, and work will start as soon as possible thereafter. The line will be 48 miles long, and will extend from Toledo to Ann Arbor, by way of Dundee, Milan and Petersburg.

TOLEDO, OHIO.—J. Morgan and J. L. Weadeck, of Toledo, promoters of the proposed electric railway from Toledo to Cincinnati, by way of Green- ville, line a point near Van Wert to are planning to build a branch from \ Decatur, Ind., and eventually to Indianapolis. They have had several con- L ferences with Indianapolis capitalists relative to financing the Indiana end of the proposition. MAY WE SUBI1I A PROPOSITION AND SEND SA/IPLE FOR YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—The Youngstown & -Southern Railway Com- COMPETITIVE TEST,? pany has placed a contract with William Ripley & Sons, of Boardman, Ohio, for 130,000 ties to be used in the construction of the road from American Electric Youngstown to East Liverpool. Work of grading for the line is now be- Telephone Co. ing pushed. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

BUTLER, PA.—A charter has been granted to the East Butler Street Largest Telephone Manufacturers in the World Railway Company to operate between Butler and Bonny Brook. The officers are: D. Harper Sutton, president; J. F. Anderson, J. H. Troutman,

J. S. Campbell, Frank H. Murphy and W. D. Brandon, directors. BUTLER, PA.—The Butler Passenger Railway will extend its lines to the edge of the new town of East Butler, three miles up the Bonnie Brook Valley, and a company composed of the promoters of the new town will run the line up to the old Bonnie Brook mill. The officers and directors of the new company are: D. H. Sutton, president; J. F. Anderson, J. H. Troutman, J. S. Campbell, F. H. Murphy and W. D. Brandon, directors. CHARLEROI, PA.—The Pittsburg & Charleroi Street Railway Company has bought the property between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets for the purpose of constructing large car houses. The company is now preparing plans to erect the buildings at once. JEANNETTE. PA. —An electric railway from Jeannette through Adams- burg, Madison, Arona and other coal mining towns to West Newton has been planned and will be built by Jeannette capital. Franchises at Adams- burg and other towns have already been secured, and very little difficulty, it is expected, will be met with at Arona and Madison. The length of the line will be 14 miles. It is estimated that the new line is to be in reality a part of the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Connellsville line, and that it will ultimately be connected with the Greensburg & Southern PITTSBURG Company's line at Ludwick, west of Greensburg. W. A. Cribbs, of Jean- nette, is interested. PA.

PHILADELPHIA, PA. —Newspaper reports say that the statement is made in well informed quarters that the Susquehanna Power Company, which was recently incorporated for the purpose of harnessing the water PIPING "ENGINEERS' power of the Susquehanna River, changing it into electric energy and conveying it for use in Baltimore, has secured subscriptions to nearly $10,000,- its is sign a contract with the General 000 of capital and about to Electric Furnish, also Erect Company for electrical machinery involving, before the apparatus shall all have been installed, the expenditure of from $2,500,000 to $3,000,000. Steam, Water, Air or Hydraulic READING, PA.—Extension papers for the construction of a line of the Pottstown & Suburban Street Railway Company from Pottstown to Boyertown have been filed. The new line, when completed, will furnish the connecting PIPING SYSTEMS link between Reading and Philadelphia by trolley.

READING, PA. —Another electric railway is to be built between Birdsboro, Best Gate Valves. Gulland Non-Return Valves Berks County, and Reading, by the Reading & Birdsboro Street Railway Com- Climax Globe and Angle Centrifugal Separators. pany. It will be a part of the United Traction Company's system, and will Valves. "Climax Rolled" and Con start from the terminus of that company's line at Black Bear. From there it Climax 3 and Way Hy- rugated Pipe Joint, fitted will run down the east side of the Schuylkill River, crossing the Big Dam, 4 and go on through Seyfert's, Naomia, Gibraltar and CUngan to Birdsboro. draulic Valves. with cast iron or cast or The company is capitalized at $12,000, at $50 a share. Work will be begun in Gulland Reducing Valves. rolled steel flanges. the fall and pushed rapidly.

PROVIDENCE, R. I.— E. K. Watson, of Warren, has been awarded the contract for building the sub-station for the Warren & Bristol branch of the PIPE BENDING A SPECIALTY Rhode Island Company. It has been decided to locate the station at Bar- rington. The new station, for which plans have recently been drawn, is to cost about $13,000 and will be a sightly structure of brick, with Smithfield 1

XXVI August 15, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. granite trimmings, the foundation walls to be of concrete formed of Portland cement. ^fyymymyyyymyyyyyyyyyfyyfmymmmymryyfyyfyyyyy^ NASHVILLE, TENN.—A charter has been granted the McMinnville, Woodbury & Nashville Railroad Company, with $10,000 capital stock. The incorporators are: John M. Gant, Thomas S. Weaver, W. E. Gamble, M. D. Smallman and Walter S. Anderson. The line of the proposed road is from McMinnville through Woodbury, Jefferson, Smith's Springs to Nashville, with a branch from Smith's Springs to Donelson.

LAREDO, TEX.—The Laredo Electric & Railway Company is about to build a 2%-mile extension, and plans to add to its power station equipment a new 250-hp engine and a 150-kw alternator. Grading for the extension has been started. HOUSTON, TEX.—Work has just been begun on the addition to the power house of the Houston Electric Company. The addition, with the new machinery that is to be installed, will entail an expenditure of $100,000. The present plant is being enlarged primarily to provide power for the line to Harrisburg, which the company plans to construct next year. NORTON, VA.—The Wise County Electric Light, Power & Transporta- tion Company has been organized to build an electric railway from Norton, via Jones' Creek, Coeburn, Wise Courthouse, Glanmorgan, Dorchester and Blackwood, to Norton, and from Norton via Looney Creek, Stonega, Preach- ersville, Dooley, Inman and Big Stone Gap to Norton, connecting practically all of the Wise County mining regions. BENNINGTON, VT.— Preliminary surveys for the North Adams & Ben- nington Electric Railway have been recently made. The road will run via Pownal and Williamstown, the length being 20 miles. Several Bennington capitalists are among the incorporators. SNOHOMISH, WASH.—Local interests plan to build an electric railway from Snohomish to Monroe and Cherry Valley, a distance of 15 miles. W. M. Snyder, cashier of the First National Bank, is interested. SPOKANE, WASH.—The Adams County Electric Transit Company expects to build a railway between Spokane and Washtucna. SPOKANE, WASH.—The Cceur d'Alene & Spokane Railway has completed 85 per cent of the grading of its roadbed. The bridge across the Spokane River near Post Falls is about completed, and' it is expected that the line will be in operation by Nov. 1. The plans for securing power for operating the line in the day time provide for two sub-stations. For the first 6.6 miles east from the city power will be furnished directly for operation of the cars from the city power plant of the Washington Water Power Company. In East Spokane the Cceur d'Alene transmission line will be tapped, and power will be carried to a step-down station on the new line located near Trent, where the voltage will be reduced from the 45,000 volts carried on the mining transmission line to 22,000 volts. From the step-down station the evirrent will be carried to two sub-stations, located 13.2 miles apart, the more eastern of which will be 6.6 miles west of Cceur d'Alene City. These sub-stations are to be

35 ft. x 40 ft. in size, and built of either brick or stone. Each will be equipped with a rotary converter; arrangements are to be made so that a second unit may be installed later. Plans for the pole lines provide that the

poles shall be 40 ft. apart, or 20 ft. from the center of the tracks. The trolley wire will be suspended 22 ft. above the rails. One line of poles on one side of the track will carry the high-potential circuit and the other pole line will carry the feeder v ires and the telephone line.

WHATCOM, WASH.—By the unanimous vote of the City Council the city granted the Whatcom-Skagit Interurban Railway Company a franchise over certain streets desired to connect with 70 miles of electric railway which the company is to build between Mount Vernon and Deming, on the Noosack River, in Whatcom County.

WHEELING, W. VA.—The County Commissioners have granted the Wheel- ing, West Liberty Belt Line Company a franchise to build from Stackyards to Greggsville, with a few spurs and branch lines on the side.

NEWS NOTES

HARTFORD, CONN.—The action taken by the Selectmen of North Haven with reference to approving the plans and layout of the part of the street railway line which the Wallingford Tramway Company proposes to build in that town may seriously delay the building of the connecting link of a continuous trolley line between New York and Boston. The proposed road of the company is to run from the centre of the town of Wall- ingford to Montowese, in the town of North Haven. But the Selectmen of North Haven in approving the layout of the road impose many conditions which are obnoxious to the company. They insist that the company shall establish and maintain, without expense to the town, electric lights along

the highway through which the road runs, that it shall macadamize the road, cobble the gutters, maintain the bridges and be responsible for all damages. The tramway company will not accept any such conditions, and the case will be appealed to the State Railroad Commissioners. Considerable surprise is expressed over the radical attitude assumed by the North Haven Selectmen.

ALTON, ILL.—On July 30 the Alton Railway, Gas & Electric Company and Alton and East Alton Railway & Power Company were consolidated as the Alton Light & 'iraction Company. The authorized capital of the company is $1,000,000, of which $500,000 is preferred stock and $150,000 common stock. All the stock has been issued.

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.—A new scale of wages went into effect with the employees of the East St. Louis & Suburban Electric Railroad August 2. By the new scale the trackmen will receive $1.57% per day, for nine hours' work. xxviii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 7.

DIXON, ILL.—The Dixon, Rock Falls & Southwestern Electric Railway, which is engaged in the preliminaries for an electric railway from Dixon to Rock Falls and nearby points, has elected officers as follows: G. H. T. Shaw, of Dixon, president; A. C. Hanley, vice-president; R. L. Leitch, secretary; O. E. Maxon, treasurer; H. L. Sheldon, attorney. The company has re- JOHN BLAIR MacAFEE $8,218,980 cently been granted a franchise in De Kalb.

BELLEVILLE, IND.—The ordinance committee of the City Council has favorably reported an ordinance to grant the Morrison Express Company, of East St. Louis, a franchise to run freight and express cars over the THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OF STEAM tracks of the Belleville Railway system. AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Behind time and running1,023,747at a high rate of AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS. speed, a south-bound car on the Indianapolis & Martinsville Rapid Transit C ompany's line crashed into a north-bound car three miles south of Moores- PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES. ville, Aug. injuring over thirty people. 2, REPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN OPERATION. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—After three weeks of labor the Indiana State Tax Board announces its assessment list for electric railroads as follows: 1902 1903 Main track $10,313,795 Second main 40,000 68,890 HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA Side track 54,455 75,657 Rolling stock ' 1,177,135 Improvements on right of way 302,070 378,285 Increase $2,347,450

LOUISVILLE, KY.— St. John Boyle has been elected vice-president and general counsel of the Louisville Traction Company and Samuel G. Boyle has been elected secretary and treasurer of the company. Both occupied similar positions with the Louisville Railway Company. WORCESTER, MASS.—The hearing as to the cause of the recent accident J. G. WHITE & COMPANY on the Boston & Worcester Street Railway will be continued at Boston on Aug. 21 by the Railroad Commissioners. Reference to the hearings that have INCORPORATED, been held was made in the Street Railway Journal of Aug. 8. NEWARK, N. J.—The Public Service Corporation has denied the request Engineers, Contractors, of Alderman Young, of Paterson, for a three-cent fare in that city during the hours of 6 to 8 o'clock in the morning and 5 to 7 o'clock in the evening.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Corporation Counsel Rives has sent to the Board 29 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. of Aldermen an opinion saying that the Board has a right to regulate by ordinance the surface railroad traffic in Jamaica Avenue, between Cypress LONDON CORRESPONDENT: Hills and Jamaica, wher the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company is operating J. C. White & Company, Limited three-car elevated trains in a manner objectionable to some of the people. 22a College Hill, Cannon St. The elevated tracks are conected with those on the surface in Jamaica Avenue by an incline, and the elevated cars run from the Bridge or Broad- way ferry right through to Jamaica.

POUGHKEEPS1E, N. Y—A few days ago the bumper at the foot of Main Street to stop runaway cars was given the first test it has had since it was erected by the Poughkeepsie City & Wappingers Falls Electric Rail- way Company after the car went in the river in Decemoer, 1901. The test was- accidental, but it was entirely satisfactory and convinced the officials of the company that the bumper will serve its purpose. A car got beyond the motorman's control after leaving the railroad station. The rain had just Sanderson & Porter started falling and the rails were slippery. The brakes were put on, but the wheels began to slide and the motorman couldn't stop the car. About ENGINEERS AND 5 ft, of the car ran upon the bumper and it was not damaged in any way. CONTRACTORS The car did not carry any passengers. Electric Railways, 52 WILLIAM STREET TOLEDO, OHIO.—The Toledo Railways & Light Company is experi- Light, Power and menting with a new testing car, the invention of A. B. Herrick, of New Hydraulic Plants. NEW YORK York. The car shows the alignment of the track and also the power developed at any point on the line. As the car passes over the line it makes a record on a roll of paper. By consulting this roll the track superintendent can determine the condition of the track. W. B. BAKEK H. Ft. BISHOP COLUMBIA, PA.—The directors of the Lancaster County Railway & Light Company have elected the following officers: William B. Given, president; Charles B. Keller, vice-president; O. M. Hoffman, secretary and treasurer; W. E. BAKER & CO. executive committee, President Given, Vive-President Keller, P. Eckert Slay- maker, P. B. Shaw and W. W. Griest. ENGINEERS

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The American Railways Company report that the gross receipts of the subsidiary companies for July show an increase of 170 BROADWAY NEW YORK about 15 per cent over July of last year.

FINANCIAL NOTES HEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS in the Street Railway Journal you will confer a favor on both publisher and advertiser by mentioning this paper. PUEBLO, COL.—The Pueblo & Suburban Traction & Light Company reports earnings as follows: Gross earnings for June, $41,867; operating expenses and interest, $34,S40; net for dividends, $7,026. THOMAS B. WHITTED CHICAGO, ILL. —The Aurora, Elgin & Chicago road reports earnings Consulting Engineer $53,338 for its passenger traffic for July. The May receipts were $28,002, and those of June $38,848, June being the first month in which the Elgin 221-224 Equitable Building DENVER, COLORADO J branch was operated. The gain of over $5,000 for July shows how the traffic of the new road is growing.

BOSTON, MASS.—The Boston News Bureau quotes a director of the Massachusetts Electric Companies as saying that the gross earnings of the company for July exceeded those of any previous July in the history of the Tennis Brothers Company company. "The net showing," says the News Bureau, "was not quite so ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, BUILT EQUIPPED good, but as a whole it was very satisfactory. It is understood that the gross AND for the month for all of the companies was considerably above $500,000." Taking the highest quotation of the year for the preferred stock, 96, and the 22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, common at 37%, the shrinkage in market values, so the News Bureau says, Cincinnati, Ohio Pittsburg, Pa. would amount to $8,281,969, of which the preferred has suffered a decline of $4,094,569, while the common has shrunk $4,187,969. Says the News Bureau August 15, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxix

in concluding: "If the company was to be liquidated at present prices it would require only $16,239,003 for the preferred stock, leaving $5,383,497 for the common stock, or approximately $21.50 per share. In addition to this the company has bills receivable in excess of $4,000,000, which would provide another $13 per share for the common stock. This is in addition to the earning capacity of the company and its future development."

GREENFIELD, MASS.—The Greenfield, Deerfield & Northampton Street Railway Company and the Greenfield & Deerfield Street Railway Company have petitioned for authority to consolidate. WORCESTER, MASS.—The Worcester, Rochdale & Charlton Depot Street Railway Company has given a mortgage in trust to the International Trust

Company, of Boston, for $100,000, to run twenty years and drawing V-fe per cent interest, payable semi-annually. This is to protect a bond issue of LIGHTING—POWER—RAILWAYS $40,000, which is to be made at once. This company forms a part of the Worcester & Southbridge Street Railway system and has been making extensive improvements this year to facilitate the handling of its heavy traffic * * y between Worcester and Pinehurst, an amusement park. BOSTON, MASS. —The Railroad Commissioners have authorized the Blue *763,457 I504-I506-IS05-I510-1512 fisher Building, = Hill Street Railway Company to issue 1200 additional shares of stock for CHICAGO funding its floating debt. ST. LOUIS, MO.—The statement issued August 7 by the auditor of the St. Louis Transit Company shows the gross earnings for July to be $632,704, a; against $575,173 for the same month in 1902. The gain for July this year over July, 1902, is $64,531. The gross receipts of the company for the first seven months of this years are $4,099,953, as against $3,589,859 for the same period last year, a gain of $535,591. International Traction Company reports earnings BUFFALO, N. Y. —The *763,457 as follows: June 1902 1903 Arnold Electric Power Station Co. Gross earnings $271,245 $323,098 Operating expenses (excluding taxes) 147,613 176,935 ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS, Net earnings 123,631 146,163 126,141 130,528 Fixed charges (interest, taxes, rentals, etc.) 2,509 Designers and Builders of Complete

Net income 15,634 Electric Railway, Lighting and Power Installations. Net income, July 1 to date 176,065 25,673 Operating cost, per cent of earnings (exclusive of taxes) 554 .557 Marquette Building, Transit Building, * Includes earnings of Pan-American Exposition period. NEW YORK Chicago. INTERNATIONAL TRACTION COMPANY SYSTEM INCOME ACCOUNT For quarter ending June 30 1902 1903 Gross earnings $786,280 $945,556 Operating expenses (excluding taxes) 436,914 519,061

Net earnings 349,365 426,494 Fixed charges (interest, taxes, rentals, etc.) 375,039 3S9.393 H. M. BYLLESBY & CO. Net income 37,100 Net income, July 1 to date 176,065 INCORPORATED Operating cost, per cent of earnings (exclusive of taxes) 565 558 Engineers * Includes earnings of Pan-American Exposition period. For year ending June 20 1902 1903 Gross earnings *$4,566,402 $3,728,173 Design, Construct and Operate Railway Operating expenses (excluding taxes) 2,254,084 2,013,624 Light, Power and Hydraulic Plants Net earnings 2,312,418 1,714,549 Fixed charges (interest, taxes, rentals, etc.) 1,548,969 1,538,483 EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS Net income 763,457 176,065 Net income, July 1 to date *763,457 176,065 Operating cost, per cent of earnings (exclusive of New York Life Building CHICAGO, ILL. taxes) 509 .549

* Includes earnings of Pan-American Exposition period. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern Railroad Company reports earnings as follows for June, 1903: Gross earnings, $19,765, as against $18,715 for June, 1902; operating expenses, $11,486, as against For the six months ending $10,488; net earnings, $8,278, as against $8,227. WILLIAM A. ROSENBAUM Gross earnings, $91,405, as June 30, 1903, the company reports as follows: as against $84,144 for the same period last year; operating expenses, $55,909, against $49,287; net earnings, $35,494, as against $34,857. electrical expert and YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—The Youngstown-Sharon Railway & Light Com- 4* patent Solicitor , pany reports earnings as follows: Six months ending June, gross earnings gross were $246,182; operating expenses, $152,636; net earnings, $93,546; June Nassau-Beekman Building, NEW YORK CITY. earnings were $42,831; operating expenses, $25,268; net earnings, $17,562. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—W. S. Louge, representing Cleveland interests, has purchased the franchises and property of the Frankfort & Suburban in opera- Railway. The line comprises 7 miles of road, which has not been were with- tion for about a year because certain freight carrying rights ISSUES OF drawn. The new owners have posted a forfeit of $1,000 to have the road in miles of new operation within four months. It is claimed that several ELECTRIC RAILWAY BONDS track will be built. BOUGHT AND SOLD ALTOONA, PA.—The Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway Com- as pany and the'Tyrone Electric Railway Company have been consolidated BENJAMIN riSMCR The total authorized the Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway Company. companies were con- 20 Exchange Place, capital stock of the united company is $800,000, pV'tll BOSTON, M«88. trolled by the American Railways Company, XXX STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 7. AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS

DALLETT & COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa., have just issued their August bulletin. This comprises a list of new and second-hand railway and trolley supplies, which they have ready for immediate shipment. Railway men when needing material quickly should find such bulletins very con- venient. BERRY BROTHERS CLIMAX FENCE POSTS are illustrated and described in a neat booklet just issued by the Climax Fence Post Company, of Chicago, 111. The base of this fence post is made of vitrified shale clay. Into this base a high carbon steel angle is inserted and cemented, thus making a solid, strong and durable post which will not rot, rust or burn. THE LAGONDA MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of Springfield, Ohio, has received a letter which speaks very highly of its No. S water-power boiler cleaner. It is from O. E. Randolph, general superintendent of the Union Waxed & Parchment Paper Company, of Franklin, Ohio, who states that since using this device to clean a battery of four Babcock & Wilcox boilers his company is saving 20 per cent on fuel, and that he considers it a great machine.

RIDLON'S REPRESENTATIVE has just made its appearance for Au- gust. Typographically it is as neat as a first-class magazine, and its literary contents smack of both philosophy and humor. "What Ben Franklin Never

Did" is a skit which deserves to be widely quoted, yet it is only one of similar sallies in this publication. The magazine is published by the Frank

Ridlon Company, the repair experts of Boston, Mass., who will send it regularly to all readers of the Street Railway Journal desiring it.

THE PEERLESS RUBBER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of New York, has just published a new catalogue, No. 58, describing its Rainbow packing", which the company states is especially adapted for very high pressure, and is not affected by any degree of steam heat. Nor is it affected by oils, ammonia, liquors, steam or alkalies. This publication also describes RAILWAY the company's Germane sheet and flange packing, besides its other specialties. Readers of the Street Railway Journal, by writing the company, will be furnished with a copy of this catalogue.

THE KUHLMAN CAR COMPANY has delivered to the Eastern Ohio Traction Company, of Cleveland, eight very fine cars to take the place of a VARNISHES number of cars which were destroyed by fire some months ago. They are 47 ft. over all, interior finished in mahogany with black and white marquetry and elaborate inlaid work. All metal work is of oxidized bronze finish, and the lights are mounted on beautiful electroliers manufactured by the Cleve- land Gas & Electric Fixture Company. The cars are equipped with four 50 and hp Westinghouse motors mounted on Peckham trucks. Wilson trolley FACTORY nPTnAIT catchers, Christensen air brakes and Smith hot water heaters are other items MAIN OFFICE ULTROIT. of equipment.

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY has just issued the following circulars: No. 4327, Small Continuous Current Stationary Motors; No. 432S, Direct Connected Railway Generators, containing complete description and numerous cuts of the same, together with sizes, voltages, dimensions and a list of railways and power stations using this type; No. 4329, Motor Starting Rheostats; No. 4330, Automatic Carbon Brake Circuit Breakers, Type C, Form G, for 125 volts to 250 volts direct current circuits; No. 4331, Portable BARRETT JACKS Torque Balance, for measuring the torque of any motor meter; No. 4332, Arc Meet Every Lifting Requirement Lamps of interchangeable types; Price List No. 5111 covering snap, pen- dant and punched clip switches; Supply Catalogue No. 7579, covering parts THEY ARE . . . of Thomson recording wattmeters; Supply Catalogue No. 7580. parts of Form EASILY HANDLED. 2, direct current power circuit enclosed arc lamps. QUICK. DURABLE and POWERFUL.

WaterlDury Send for Button Catalog and Prices THE Watertoury DUFF MFG. GO, Conn. PITTSBURG. PA. Works: Allegheny, Pa 3=8 Howard St., INT. Y.

DIRECT AND ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATORS FOR Railway Lighting and Power Service

Special attention has been given to the Insulation and Ventilation of our Apparatus

NATIONAL ELECTRIC CO. CO. D. C. Generator, Belted Successors to CHRISTENSEN ENGINEERING

Oicaeo : OLD COLONY BUILDING KILBOURNE & CLARK CO- Pittsburg: GELLATLY & CO. MILWAUKEE ISi'M.* [ September 5, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxvii

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—A new company, organized to engage in build- an electric railway from Marion in an easterly direction to Springville, and ing steam and electric railroads, has been incorporated with tlic Secretary of from Springville in a northerly direction through Whittier, Waubeek and State. The title of the company is the Southern Construction & Equipment Prairiesburg, all inland towns in Linn County, to Manchester, the county Company. The capital stock is $50,000. The directors are: Frederick Cline, seat of Delaware County. The line will be about 36 miles in length, and Frank N. Fitzgerald, William H. Lacey, and others. The principal offices will pass through a rich agricultural country, about midway between the of the new company will be in this city. Marion & Calmar division of the Milwaukee and the Cedar Rapids-Man- chester branch of the Illinois Central. The line has already been surveyed INDIANAPOLIS, IND.— The Appleyard syndicate is reported to have per- as far north as Prairiesburg, and the surveyors are now at work between fected a plan to build its own track through Indiana, connecting Indianapolis Prairiesburg Manchester. The money to construct, equip and operate with its system in Ohio. and the line has ?lready been arranged for, and the work of construction will INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The directors of the Indianapolis & Shelbyville commence this fall. Senator J. S. Alexander is interested in the project. Traction Company are receiving bids for the construction of 28 miles of road SIOUX CITY, IA.— It is said that the Sioux City, Homer & Southern between Shelbyville and Greensburg. .Robert C. Light is president of the company. Electric Railway, which is to run from Sioux City to Homer, a distance of 16 miles, has placed the contract for the equipment of the line. Capt. Richard INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—A franchise has been granted to the Indianapolis, A. Talbot is the promoter of the company. Danville & Rockville Traction Company by the Marion County Commis- TOPEKA, KAN. An application for a charter for the Topeka, Lawrence sioners. It permits the company to enter the county by way of the Rock- — & Kansas City Electric Railway Company, with a capital of $4,000,000, has been ville Pike. A short distance west of the city the railway will approach the applied for to the States Charter Board, and a forfeit of $25 put up for the National Road over a private right-of-way and enter the city by way of Washington Street. payment of the $1,225 charter fee which will have to be paid if the charter is granted. The survey for this road was made about a year ago, and ex- LA PORTE, IND.—The Northern Traction Company, with a capitaliza- tends through Jackson County, Mo., Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas and tion of $100,000, has filed articles of incorporation. The incorporators are Shawnee Counties, in Kansas, to Topeka. The survey ended at Vinewood Samuel A. Wight, John L. Devine, Walter C. Nelson, Francis M. Case and r'ark, and although the officials of the Vinewood Railway, and now of the William J. Root, of Cook County, Illinois, and the purpose of the company Topeka Railway, deny it emphatically, it is generally believed that the Kan- is to build an electric railway system connecting South Bend, La Porte, sas City-Topeka line, if built, will enter Topeka over the Vinewood line of Valparaiso and Hammond. The Northern Traction Company already has the Topeka Railway Company. It is also remarked that as there is nothing secured considerable right of way for which cash was paid and has secured specific in the charter applied for with regard to the motive power to be a number of franchises in the several counties which it will traverse with used, this may be a scheme of the Rock Island Railway to get a right of its lines. way to Kansas City. It now uses the Union Pacific line between Kansas LEBANON, IND.— Work on the Crawfordsville division of the North- City and Topeka. The new line is to be chartered by T. S. Salathiel, J. B. western Traction Company has been suspended, and the men employed on Adams, IT. M. Levan, C. L. Bloom and A. P. McBride, all of Independence, the line have been transferred to the Lafayette division above Frankfort. Kan., and will build, including switches and turnouts, 75 miles of track, and Work on the Lafayette division has not progressed as rapidly as expected will carry on a freight and passenger service, with all the privileges of a and as the line must be completed by January, in order to comply with the steam railway. The company also asks for the right to mine coal and other franchise granted by the City of Lafayette, it was decided to quit work on the minerals, to drill oil and gas wells, and to pipe gas. Crawfordsville division and rush the work on the Lafayette division. LOUISVILLE, KY.— Colonel J. D. Powers, of the United States Trust MONTPELIER, IND.— A company of oil men, headed by James West, Company, and a number of other bankers have been asked to go to Columbia, has projected an electric railway to connect this city, Portland and Warren, Ky., and inspect the route of a proposed electric railway between Columbia to be known as the Oil Belt Tiaction Line. The right of way is being and Lebanon. The road will connect Columbia with the Louisville & Nash- secured. ville Railroad at that point, and will pass through Elkhorn, Akron, Manns- RICHMOND, IND.— Construction of the Eastern Indiana traction road ville and Merrimac. The proposed road is to be 40 miles long, and the pro- has been begun near this city. The line will run from Hamilton, Ohio, to moters are very anxious to finance it with Louisville capital. Marion, Ind., via Richmond. The third-rail system will be used. The VERSAILLES, KY.—Application will soon be made to the Woodford Lamar Contracting Company, of New York, is doing the work. Fiscal Court by the Municipal Bond & Securities Company, of Cincinnati, RICHMOND, IND.— Construction has been begun on the Eastern In- for a right of way franchise along the Versailles and McCracken's Mill Turn- diana Traction Company's railway, which will extend from Hamilton, Ohio, pike, in this county, for an electric railway to be built from Frankfort to to Marion, Ind., passing through Richmond, Fountain City, Lynn, Win- Versailles. The company recently bought the local street railway. chester and Gas City. The work will be done north of Richmond. The sur- AUGUSTA, MAINE—The Rockland, Thomaston & Camden Railway Com- veyors have completed their work as far north as Ridgeville. pany proposes to have its central station changed from Rockport to Belfast, right of for Boonville ROCKPORT, IND.—The way the Evansville, & using its Rockport buildings as auxiliary. The survey from Camden to Bel- Rockport Electric Railroad has been secured from Boonville to within 6 fast is nearly completed. This line will be 18 miles long. W. B. Getchell, Evansville, the right miles of and of way for the entire line between Boon- of Augusta, Maine, is the engineer. ville and Evansville will be secured within a short time. F. Britton and J. BELAIR, MD.—The Town Commissions of Belair have passed an ordinance E. C. Henning, having charge of that work, are pushing it as rapidly as pos- authorizing the Baltimore & Belair Electric Railway Company to lay tracks sible. Further than Boonville nothing definite has been determined upon as and operate an electric railway in Belair. The ordinance provides that the to the extension of the line. work shall be commenced by Dec. 31, 1905, and the road be in operation by SHELBYVILLE, IND.—The survey for the extension of the Indianapolis Dec. 31, 1906, and the work, when once begun, is to be continued with rea- & Shelbyville line to Greensburg has been completed. sonable expedition. On and after Dec. 31, 1910, the company is to pay the WAVERLY, IND.—The Indianapolis & Southwestern Traction Company, town of Belair, in addition to the usual property tax, an annual amount, to which is getting a right of way for a line from Indianapolis to Evansville, be determined every five years by arbitration, as a franchise tax for the use has purchased 227 acres of land here for a park and pleasure resort. The of the streets. river is to be dammed at this point, and a large generating plant is to be ARLINGTON, MASS.—A hearing has been held here on the application of built. It is the purpose of the company to make the park the finest pleasure the Middlesex Street Railway Company for a franchise. The plan of the resort in the State. company is to build a high-speed electric railway between Arlington Heights BURLINGTON, IA.—Articles of incorporation for the Burlington In and Billerica, a distance of 10 miles, about 3000 feet in the town of Arlington, terurban Railway Company have been filed here. The capital stock is $200,000. 2% miles in Lexington and 4 miles in Burlington. It is proposed to acquire The officers are all well known Burlington capitalists, including Carl Leo- a location on private land and maintain an average speed of from 35 to 40 pold, president; I. Copland, vice-president; Charles Blaut, second vice- W. miles an hour. George E. Morgan, of Lexington; Charles F. Remington, of president; Charles Armknecht, treasurer, and Topping, secretary. The J. W. Woburn, and Fernald E. Ham, of Woburn, are interested. new line will be built from Burlington to Keosauqua. BOSTON, MASS.—The Boston & Northern Street Railway Company is BURLINGTON, IA.—The Burlington Interurban Railway Company has purchasing land along Flighland Avenue, Salem, for a new electric line been incorporated with $200,000 capital. which will connect Town House Square, Salem, with Scollay Square, Boston, DAVENPORT, IA. —The Iowa & Illinois Interurban Railway Com- by an almost direct route, enabling cars to make the distance in an hour's pany has commenced the work of constructing its projected line between run. Davenport and Clinton. Thomas J. Wilcox, of Des Moines, the promoter of MARLBORO, MASS.—Extensive improvements are planned for the Marl- the line, states that the right of way has all been secured and that the com- boro Street Railway, which has recently passed into the hands of James F. pany has completed arrangements for the capital to build and equip the line. Shaw, of the Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company. The Boston & IOWA CITY, IA. —The City Council has granted an extension of time Worcester system of safety appliances, by the use of telephones, flags, lights to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa City & Southern Railway Company for the com- and torpedoes, is to be adopted. The line runs from Marlboro Junction to pletion of the line from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City. The franchise grantea Hudson, and through cars are operated between Hudson and South Framing- by Iowa City to the company called for the completion of the line by Dec. ham over the Framingham, Southboro & Marlboro Street Railway. 31, 1903. The City Council has now extended the time limit to March 31. Colonel Dows, of Cedar Rapids, promoter of the line, states that the work MT. WASHINGTON, MASS.—The construction of the New York & Railway here. of grading is progressing rapidly and that the request for more time was Berkshire has been begun The Taconic Power & Construction due to the fact that the company is having some trouble in securing material Company, which proposes to finance the enterprise, has options on more than for the bridges. The work of laying the rails will commence soon. 6000 acres of the most desirable real estate in town, will construct a first-class LE MARS, IA.—The Sioux City & Le Mars Interurban Railway Com- hotel and cottages, and will improve old and lay out new roads to desirable points of interest now inaccessible to any pedestrians. pany will commence the survey of a route for the line between Sioux City but within the next few and Le Mars days. General Manager B. B. Josselyn, of NILES, MICH.—The South Bend-Niles interurban line of the South Bend the Union Terminal Railway Company, of is Sioux City, one of the prin- & Southern Michigan Railway Company has been placed in operation. The cipal promoters of this line. South Bend & Southern Company is a copsolidation of the South Bend & MARION, IA.— Capitalists of Linn County have organized the Marion Northern Railway Company and the South Bend & Southern Michigan Rail- & Northwestern Interurban Railway Company, for the purpose of building way Company. The former extends from South Bend' to the Michigan State xxviii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 10.

line, and the latter extends from the Michigan State line to St. Joseph, Mich. The construction of the line between South Bend and Niles completes the first division of the proposed line between South Bend and St. Joseph, Mich. MANKATO, MINN:—M. G. Willard and others contemplate forming a The Climax stock company to build an electric railway to St. Clair. Guard ST. PAUL, MINN.—The St. Paul City Railway Company will soon com- H. E. OVERSTREET, General Manager mence work on its new terminals at Como Park. For ground on which to build the new terminals, the company has aTready invested $10,000, and this 714 Marquette Bldg. Chicago, III. is to be further increased by an addition of $30,000 which' will be used in the improvement proper. Two bridges of fancy cut stone are provided in the plans, and these will be supplemented with viaducts which will allow vehicle and passenger traffic without crossing the tracks. The tracks will be elevated the same as at Lake Harriet and Wildwood. This will do away with the present loop and remove the confusion which always has existed in the handling of east and west-bound traffic. KANSAS CITY, MO.—The Metropolitan Street Railway Company has let the contract for altering the Eighth Street tunnel through the West bluff to the General Construction Company, of this city. The contract price for the work is about $200,000. The grade in the tunnel will be lowered from 8.8 per cent to 5.3 per cent. In doing this the tunnel will be extended eastward several hundred feet. It is expected that the work of altering the tunnel will take about four months. MARYVILLE, MO.—A certificate of incorporation has been issued to the Maryville & St. Joseph Electric Railway Company, of Maryville. The company is capitalized at $700,000. The proposed road will be 70 miles in length and will run from Parnell, in Nodaway County, to St. Joseph, in Buchanan County, traversing the counties of Nodaway, Andrew and Buchanan. The incorporators are: Richard Kuchs, Richard M. Bradbury, btephen H. Kemp. Clarence E. Eartlette, Adolphe Lippman, Charles C. Donnell, John W. Thomp- son, all of Maryville.

ST. LOUIS, MO.—H. M. Crane, of Oneida, 111., president of the Gales- Climax Stock Guards on the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley burg & Kewanee Electric Railway Company; W. D. Godfrey, of Galesburg. Railway between Pittston and Scranton, Pa. 111., attorney for the same company, and Charles A. Hart, of Staten Island, N. Y., were in the city recently conferring with St. Louis people, with a view- to interesting local capital in the enterprise. The line was only recently com- Over 3,000 Guards sold last season pleted, and the first trip over it was made a few days ago.

ST. LOUIS, MO—At a recent meeting of the East St. Louis City Council SALES IN MARCH AND APRIL, THIS YEAR : the East St. Louis & Suburban Company was given an ordinance permitting Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Ry., Elgin Branch 120 Guards " it to lay a double-track electric railway, beginning at Tenth Street and Mis- Stark Electric Ry. Alliance, Ohio 120 Canton* New Philadelphia R.R., Ohio 90 " souri Avenue, out Missouri Avenue to Fourteenth Street; north on Four- " Rochester & Eastern Rapid Ry 70 " teenth Street to Cleveland Avenue; east on Cleveland Avenue to Eighteenth Long Island Railroad Co 40 " Vandegrift Construction Co., Kennett Square, Pa.. Street; north on Eighteenth Street to Illinois Avenue, and east on Illinois 25 " Rock Island System 50 Avenue to the city limits.

ST. LOUIS, MO.— It is generally understood in the southern part of St. 515 Louis County that a new street railway will be in operation out the Gravois Road by next summer. A petition for a franchise is said to have been already drafted and will be presented to the County Court within the next few weeks. The road, it is said, is to be built as far as the old U. S. Grant farm,

1 miles from the city limits. Later, it is said, the line will be extended through Fenton to Morris Mill, in Jefferson County. The prime object of the road, according to report, is to furnish transportation to the Grant farm, a part of which was recently purchased by August A. Busch. A large number of men are now at work on the Busch property, which it is thought is to be converted into a pleasure resort. FLiliJiLI RACKETS 1";' :- ST. LOUIS, MO.—Articles of incorporation of the St. Louis" & Olivette Railroad Company have been filed in the Recorder's Office in Clayton. The ;->yJ ARE STANDARD capital stock is $100,000, divided into 1000 shares. The incorporators are: W. Carl Feld, S. S. Senne, E. H. Daves, A. H. Werrenmeyer and W. E. Iieapes. The company is a successor to the West End Railway Company, to which the Secretary of State objected on account of its name. A franchise to construct and operate an electric railway has been granted by the County Court to the company. The company will grade all streets for a width of

40 ft. before laying single tracks, or a width of 52 ft. before laying double tracks. It will macadamize the highways over which it travels on the outside of the outer rails. Girder rails are to be used. Cars will be run on a thirty-minute space during the day and an hour apart from 7 p. m. until midnight. Work will begin by May 15, 190'4. A 5-cent fare will be charged. A $5,000 bond is to be filed, $1,000 for repairs, deposited in the County Treas- urer's office, and $500 a year given to the county after the first ten years.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.— It is said that the Brooklyn Rapid transit Company contemplates lengthening platforms at elevated stations so as to permit the running of longer trains. BUFFALO, N. Y. —The International Traction Company has purchased property on Morley Place adjoining its Cold Spring car houses, and on

Michigan Street adjoining its Hertel Avenue car houses. It is said that the company plans to build extensions to both of these car houses.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—It is said that a new survey of the route of the Jamestown & Warren Street Railway Company has been ordered because of opposition to the line from obdurate property owners. D. N. Siggins, of No. 190 Bracket, 10 ft long. No. 439 Double Wire, Double Jamestown, is president of the company. Curve Insulators. Two No. 0000 Round Trolley Wires. the Best. LOWVILLE, N. Y. —A meeting of those interested in the proposed elec- Bourbon No. 2 Strain Insulators. Buy tric railway between Lowville and Croghan was held here a few days ago, and LINE MATERIAL POLE FITTINGS the question was gone over thoroughly. The company is to be organized at Complete Equipment tor Overhead Construction $150,000, and the statement is made that $100,000 of this stock has been sub- WRITE FOR CATALOGUE scribed. The road will extend through New Bremen and Beaver Falls. Frederick S. Eaton, of Lowville, is interested. CREAGHEAD ENGINEERING CO. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Last week one of the dailies worked up into a ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS "spread" story about the electrical equipment of the Long Island Railroad, an 315 Walnut Street CINCINNATI, OHIO interview that has been given by a Pennsylvania official on the subject of electricity in Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, where the company is now completing a tunnel and an elevated structure to take trains off the street surface. :

xxix September 5, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.

Early in the year the Street Railway Journal published a map showing the lines the company proposes to equip with electricity, and gave a sum- mary of the distances.

SCHENECTADY, i\. Y.—It is said that the Schenectady Railway Com- pany has practically decided to extend its lines from Albany to Schodack Landing, assing through Brookview and Castleton. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—W. E. Stanley, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Mc Railway & Ohio Traction Company, is said to be interested in a plan to build an electric railway from Cleveland to Pittsburg. Mr. Stanley wants a private right of way into the heart of the city, although the proposed line will use the public streets for a short distance and will reach the Public Square. It is said that two routes have been suggested and surveyed. One of them goes to Akron, passes across to the Mahoning Valley, and then down to Pittsburg over some lines which are already in process of construction or which are projected in that territory. The other plan is to have the road built on a private right of way direct from Cleveland to the Mahoning Valley points. CINCINNATI, OHIO.—Work on the Cincinnati, Hillsboro & Columbus Railway is progressing rapidly, and a large force of men is at work on the Ohio River & Columbus line. The latter road is projected from Maysville, Manufacturers Ky., to Columbus, and the link of the same from Ripley to Georgetown will soon be completed.

CINCINNATI, OHIO.—A deal is now pending between the officers oi the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg & Aurora Traction Company, the Cincinnati In- terurban Terminal Company and the Indianapolis & Shelbyville & Southeastern Iron and Steel Traction Company, which, if completed, will link Cincinnati and Indianapolis 3p with a direct line. Col. J. H. Woodward, president of the Interterminal lines, in a statement to the City Council, confirms the report made some TUBULAR POLES months ago that the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg & Aurora is seeking entry into this city over its own tracks, in order to make fast time for the proposed through run. r Electric Railway, DAYTON, OHIO.— It is said that the Dayton & Northern Traction Com- pany has in contemplation the construction of a branch line from Greenville to Versailles. Lighting and GENEVA, OHIO.—Surveys have been made here for the electric railway between Geneva and Meadville. The line, as surveyed, comes into the county east of Pierpont and to Jefferson through the center of Denmark. 111 L C The road will be over private right of way, except through the villages and ^&hone Service Jefferson, where it will run the length of Jefferson Street, and on to Geneva.

LIMA, OHIO.—Walter Toy, a local stockholder, has secured an injunction restraining the directors of the Toledo, Columbus, Springfield & Cincinnati

Electric Railway Company from holding a stockholders' meeting on Sept. 7, and was further granted a hearing for a receiver on Friday, Sept. 4. The INGS petition of plaintiff alleges that President Ellis Bartholomew and the directors have conspired to transfer right of way and franchises to another company, and have fraudulently placed to their credit, without consideration, large blocks of stock and bends. The company is incorporated for $10,000,000, most of which stock has been sold. MASON, OHIO.—The Rapid Railway, a branch of the Interurban & Ter- minal Company, has been put into operation to Kings Mills, a distance of ,' " 1 1 i five miles. The road is being pushed to completion between Kings Mills and Lebanon, and it is hoped to have cars in operation from Cincinnati to Plain and Flexible Lebanon before the fall festival opens.

NAPOLEON, OHIO.—The First National and the Citizens' banks of IP lilii Napoleon and a number of prominent citizens have taken the bonds of the Tgpes Lake Erie, Bowling Green & Napoleon Electric Railway. Thirteen miles of the road have already been built between Bowling Green and Pemberville, hHBL and have been in operation for some time. It will run from Port Clinton 1 through Bowling Green to this town, which has been made the western nr terminus. The route lies through one of the richest agricultural districts in ' I4 Ohio. OVERHEAD LIME NEWARK, OHIO.—The Newark, Martinsburg & Mt. Vernon Traction m Company has just been organized by the election of the following officers:

Edward H. Everett, president; Dr. J. W. Shromtz, vice-president; John A. Chilcote, treasurer; F. E. Elliott, secretary; MATERIAL Edward Kibler, counsel. Messrs. Chilcote and Kibler are Newark men, while Dr. Shromtz and Mr. Elliott are from Martinsburg. The company has secured practically the whole right of way from Newark to Martinsburg and from Gambier to Mt. Vernon.

TOLEDO, OHIO.—The capital stock of the Toledo & Michigan Electric Railway is to be increased fiom $450,000 to $4,500,000, to extend the line from Adrian to Coldwater, a distance of 60 miles, passing through Quincy and several other important Michigan towns.

BERWICK, PA.—The Berwick & West Nanticoke Electric Railway Com- Main Office- pany has purchased the old Pennsylvania Canal Company's dam at Nanti- coke, where it will build a power plant for the purpose of operating not only Pmcinnatir6hio, U.S.A. its own cars, but those of the Columbia & Montour Traction Company. The -•fpi"- Works company has also acquired the right to use such sections of the old towpath i.- ,o: Pa. Etna, Pa. as may be available in getting its tracks from Berwick to West Nanticoke. Cincinnati, Reading, • It is expected that by next summer there will be a continuous electric line paralleling the Lackawanna tracks from West Pittston to Catarussa. The new line will connect with the Columbia & Montour line at Berwick and extend to West Nanticoke, a distance of 27 miles, making a trolley system of 43 miles. Negotiations are also pending for an extension to Plymouth, where ASK WOR connections will be made with the Wilkesbarre & Wyoming Valley Traction system.

COATESVILLE, .PA.—The action of Borough Council in granting a UOTATIONS franchise to the Brandywine Trolley Company promises to stir up legal troubles. The management of the Westchester Street Railway Company is more determined than ever that their Coatesville extension shall be pushed to a successful completion, and say that they have always stood ready to comply with every reasonable condition imposed by Coatesville Council. xxx STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XXII. No. 10.

DOYLESTOWN, PA.—Bucks County is to have another new trolley road, which will run from Tohickon Park to Bedminsterville, about 2% miles, as a branch of the Philadelphia & Eastern Street Railway Company's line. It is estimated that the road will cost between $35,000 and $50,000. THE EQUITABLE DOYLESTOWN, PA.— Rights of way for the extension of the Philadelphia & Easton Railway's line from Tohickon Park to Bedminster, 3 miles, have been secured, and the directors expect to let the contract within a few weeks. TRUST COMPANY The extension will cost about $50,000.

DOYLESTOWN, PA. — It is the intention of the New Jersey & Pennsyl- 152 Monroe Street, CHICAGO vania Traction Company to extend its line from Newtown to Willow Grove lines of the Union Traction Company, of and make a connection with the Capital paid up ------$500,000 Philadelphia within a year. The line is to be built via Richboro, Southamp- Surplus ------275,000 ton, Davisville and Hatboro.

HARRISBURG, PA. —The directors of the Harrisburg & Lewisberry Street Railway Company have decided to extend the line from Lewisberry to Bow- ma'nsville by way of Lisburn. Work will be started shortly. The final merger Acts as Trustee for Corpora- the Harrisburg & Lewisberry Street Railway Company and the Star Street of tions, Railway Company is expected in a few weeks. Firms and Individuals and for MECHANICSBURG, PA.—The Borough Council is considering an ordi- as Agent the registration nance granting the White Hill & Mechanicsburg Street Railway Company a and transfer of bonds and stocks change of route in that town. of Corporations and the pay- PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company has ment of coupons, interest and opened its new line on Torresdale Avenue. dividends. Interest paid on de- PITTSBURG, PA.— E. H. Converse & Company, 515 Times Building, Pittsburg, have secured the contract for preparing plans and specifications posits for the Paulsboro Traction Company, whose proposed line is to extend from Woodbury to Paulsboro and Billingsport, and thence to Swedesboro, via Clarksboro, in New Jersey. Surveys will be commenced at once, and construction will commence as soon as possible. Messrs. Converse & Company DIRECTORS will be pleased to hear from parties interested. William Best Andrew McNally SCRANTON, PA.—The Central Labor Union, having demanded that the Maurice Rosenfeld John M. Smyth employees of the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Electric Railway in this F. M. Blount J. R. Walsh city become members of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway L. A. Walton Employees, and the employees having said that they would prefer to join the Trainmen's Union, the matter was finally referred to the company with OFFICERS a request that it direct its men to become members of the Street Car Men's Union. The answer of the company was delivered to the Central Labor J. R. WALSH, President and was a refusal of the request. The company Union Saturday, Aug. 29, L. A. WALTON, Vice-President says that the men can join any union that they please, but that their em- C. D. ORGAN, Sec. and Treas. ployers prefer the Trainmen's Union. C. HUNTOON, Ass't Sec'y and Ass't Treas. ASTORIA, ORE.—E. M. Ormen, an electrical engineer of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been making an examination of the country between Astoria and Seaside in the interest of the projected electric railway to connect the two towns. Local reports say he represents the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. PORTLAND, ORE.—A. L. Stone and others of Fairview are securing right of way for an electric railway along the Columbia slough through Fair- view, possibly to Troutdale. The plan is to offer the right of way to the Portland Railway Company, which, it seems, has agreed to build the road. DO HEATING PLANTS PAY?

PORTLAND, ORE.— Efforts are being made to induce the City ei Subur- ban Railway Company to extend its Montavilla line to Fairview and Trout- dale. PROVIDENCE, R. I.—The Providence & Taunton Street Railway Com- WHAT CONSTITUTES A pany, it is said, is considering the extension of its tracks to Hunt's Mills, or as near there as possible.

WOONSOCKET, R. I.—A second survey is being made by the Providence & Burrilville Street Railway Company of the route of its proposed line be- HEATING SITUATION ? tween Woonsocket and Providence. The route is through North Smithfield, Lincoln and Smithfield to Centerdale, and will be several miles shorter than the present steam railroad route, which is 16 miles long. President Ray, of For Patticulars Address the Woonsocket Street Railway Company, is interested in the project.

MEMPHIS, TENN.—The Memphis Street Railway Company has completed the extension of its Union and Spring ' Street line to the Raleigh W. H. SCHOTT Avenue line. The company is aggressively pushing a large number of extensions and improvements in all parts of the city. Engineer and Contractor BEAUMONT, TEX.—The Beaumont Traction Company has presented to 1219-21 Marquette Building, - CHICAGO the County Commission another proposition in which it asks for a franchise and a right of way for an electric railway from this city to Spindle Top. CORPUS CHRISTI, TEN.—The Council has granted Edgar Watkins, of Designer ana Builder Houston, a street railway franchise providing for work to commence on same within eighteen months and to be completed in three years. Mr. Wat- Scbott's Balance Column Rot mater System, kins has also been granted a franchise for the construction of an electric lighting system. | Scbott's Regulated Steam System. CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX.—The City Council has passed ordinances granting Moling Brothers franchises to build an electric street railway and light plant. The franchises run for fifty years. Work on the railway must begin within eighteen months and must be completed and in operation within SYSTEMS BUILT LAST YEAR three years. Additional voltage power was granted the Corpus Christi electric light plant. Mt. Vernon, III. DALLAS, TEX.—The Council has granted a franchise to Robert Mc- Indianapolis, - Ind. Peru, - - - Ind. Cart, A. T. Byers, M. Sanguinett, C. S. Mitchell, Stuart Harrison and associates for the construction of a street railway to Arlington Heights. Lafayette, - " New Castle, - " FORT WORTH, TEX.—The City Council has granted the Northern Texas Elwood, - - " Connorsville, - 44 Traction Company a franchise to lay its tracks from the intersection of Main Street and Central Avenue, out North Main Street to the city limits. The company will build its track in the center, and have poles placed on each side of the street. xxxi September 5, 1903. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.—The County Court has under consideration the petition of D. R. Roberts for an electric railway franchise. Mr. Roberts PU&ASIIHG wants the right to build from Richmond to VVellsville, thus traversing the PROFITABLE and county from end to end. It is understood that he will next apply for a to your company, your passengers, and the advertisers repre- franchise in Logan City. sented. This would be the result of awarding the contract for

NORTON, VA. The Wise Coal Company is said to be interested in a — A DV BRT I SING IN YOUR GA RS scheme to build an electric railway system to the coal fields of Southwest to the company best qualified to handle it successfully. :: Virginia, connecting Norton, liig Stone Gap, Tom's Creek, Appalachia and Offices, Bldg., YORK Executive Offices, SteYe«» BWg., DETROIT a half-dozen other mining towns. Eastern St. Paul NEW

CHELAN, WASH.—An electric railway is projected to connect Chelan with THE MULFORD O PETRY COMPANY Chelan Falls. The men behind the enterprise are: R. D. Johnson, of Chelan, and E. O. Burdon, of Seattle. Hie company is to be known as the Chelan Railway & Navigation Company, with a capital stock of $350,000. FAIRIIAVEN, WASH.—The County Commissioners have granted the ^Tiol^et Systems Whatcom-Skagit Interurban Railway Company a franchise over a specified Advise us of your wants in the ticket line and let us give in County. The company to build 36 miles of road route Whatcom plans you the benefit of our experience. in the county. We will submit a complete system covering your par- records. APPLETON, WIS.—The Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat & Power Com- ticular needs together with all necessary books and for illustrated catalog. pany will extend its interurban l:ne to the city limits. Ask our 111. EAU CLAIRE, WIS.—The Chippewa Valley Electric Railroad Company, THF, FARR & FOSTER CO. Chicago, through its president, Arthur E. Appleyard, and assistant secretary, George B. Wheeler, has filed an amendment increasing its capital stock from $200,000 to $^00,000, and enlarging the scope of its business so as to enable it to furnish electric power for manufacturing and commercial purposes. THE NATIONAL TICKET CO. STOUGHTON, WIS.—The Stoughton Mill -Company, at its annual meeting, adopted a resolution to the effect that an electric railway be constructed Write us for information concerning our "tear" Cash Cambridge and Oregon, ffiby the company to connect Stoughton, providing Fare Receipt, it gives the best protection of any franchises can be obtained through these places. The officers were instructed form in use, and saves time in handling. to apply to the Common Council of Stoughton without delay for the right to construct, build and maintain an electric railway through and over the streets and alleys. The backers of the enterprise are men of financial re- CLE•VELiQ.ND, OHIO sponsibility. *4>*

CANADIAN NOTES M. P. HILLYER & COMPANY 49 ST., NEW YORK LONGUE POINT, QUE.—The Chateauguay & Northern Railway Com WALL BUILDING pany has, in a communication to the Municipality of Longue Point, offered ATLANTIC to proceed with the construction of an electric railway on the main road of the municipality, and to connect the road with the lines of the Chateauguay Steam and Electric Railroads Financed and Terminal Railways. The courts recently held that only the Chateauguay Railroad and Gas Bonds a Specialty & Northern could legally build the line. We Invite Correspondence HAMILTON, ONT.—The Cataract Power Company and the City Council have come to terms about the proposed extension of the street railway. The company has agreed to double track the line from Barton Street to the Leering Harvester Works, and give eight limited tickets to workingmen for 25 cents. In consideration of this, the city agrees to throw off the percentage on the extension for twelve years.

VANCOUVER, B, C— Dalton & Eveleigh, architects, have taken tenders on a car barn for the British Columbia Electric Railway Company.

ORANGEVILLE, ONT.—A proposal to construct an electric railway from Guelph to this town is being considered.

PETERBORO, ONT.—The city lias granted a franchise to the Peterboro & Ashburnham Electric Railway Company. Five miles of line are to be ready for operation not later than July 1, 1904.

CHATHAM, ONT.—The Radial Railway Company has secured its charter from the Dominion Government, and will proceed at once to build the railroad. The first section to be built will be from Chatham to Wallaceburg. N. H. Stevens, William Ball and David Gordon are interested.

HAMILTON, ONT.—The Hamilton & Caledonian Electric Railway and the Finance Committee of the City of Hamilton have about come to an agreement on the question of what route the line should follow within the

city limits. The by-law gives the company until July 1, 1906, to complete its line to Caledonia, a distance of fourteen miles. It also provides that a 5-cent rate be given within the city limits, and that workmen's limited tickets be sold eight for 25 cents, and the company is to furnish the material to keep the streets between the tracks in proper repair.

NEWS NOTES

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—The Board of Supervisors has passed for printing an ordinance giving notice that a special election will be held on Thurs-

day, (Jet. 8, for the purpose of voting on the issue of bonds for constructing and operating the Geary Street, Park & Ocean Railway under municipal ownership. This step in the proceedings is demanded by the charter, which says that the date shall be formally announced by ordinance. The cost of the

electric railway, fully equipped, as estimated by the city engineer, is $7111.11110. The total maximum cost given in the bill, including interest, to be raised by a tax levy for forty years, is $1,219,425, and the maximum interest to lie paid in any one year is $42,600.

CHICAGO, ILL. —The Board of Review has cut the assessment for taxes of the Union Traction Company to the amount of $1,149,400 from the asses- sors' valuation. xxxii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 10.

CHICAGO, ILL.—Fire in the motor car of a train on the Metropolitan Elevated inconvenienced thousands of patrons of that road Saturday morning, Aug. 29, by completely paralyzing the service for more than an hour. Trains on the Douglas Park and Garfield Park branches were blocked The Importance of Telephones in west to the Laflin Street station, and on the Logan Square and Humboldt Park lines the congestion extended to Marshfield Avenue. Many of the passengers left the cars and walked along the elevated structure to the nearest Electric Railway Operation stations. has emphasized the need of a practical and reliable BOSTON, MASS.—A 20-foot section of the foundation wall of the Adams self-contained telephone. Building, on Court Street, collapsed Aug. 26, and fell into the East Boston We are prepared to fur- Tunnel excavation, crushing three men. nish you such a device. All parts are mounted on the iron plate as shown. The windings are all PLYMOUTH, MASS.—The following officers have just been elected by boiled in paraffine, the Plymouth & Sandwich Street Railway Company for the coming year: preventing the absorption of Horace B. Taylor ?nd Eben Kimball, of Boston; T. Everett Cornish, of moisture. Philadelphia; Thomas Arnold and William B. Arnold, of North Abington, and Walter L. Boyden and John H. Marshall, of Plymouth. The board has organized with H. B. Taylor as president, T. E. Cornish as vice-president, and Walter L. Boyden as secretary and treasurer.

WORCESTER, MASS.—Motormen and conductors of the Boston & Worces- ter Street Railway have petitioned for an eight-hour day with a uniform wage scale of $2.50 per day with 35 cents an hour for overtime work. The men ask that spare men be paid $1.50 a day while on waiting time, and that the schedule be arranged so that the regular men may complete their eight hours' work within a period of ten hours. The company has refused to American Elect mcTe grant the demands, and the local papers say the men have under consideration the question of striking.

WORCESTER, MASS.—The hearing in regard to the fatal accident on the Boston & Worcester Street Railway, July 25, in Shrewsbury, was continued at Boston, Friday, Aug. 21. The company was represented by ex-President William M. Butler, and P. S. Cunniff appeared for Leon I!. Downs, the S&«3 motorman of one of the cars, who was arrested for his part in the catastrophe. J Mr. Cunniff said that in view of the fact that the motorman and conductor had been indicted for manslaughter Dy the Grand Jury, it was deemed inad- visable for Downs to appear before the commission at this investigation. Mr. Butler then filed a written statement in behalf ot the railway company. It was very long, and showed in detail the dispatching system of the company, the method of running the cars by telephone, the time-table, "the HAY WESUBnir A PROPOSITION AND SEND SA/1PLE FOR road's instructions to employees, etc. Signed statements by Motorman Downs COMPETITIVE TEST ? and Conductor Daley were presented covering the material features of the accident. Chairman Jackson, of the commission, said that the commission AMERICAN ELECTRIC TELEPHONE CO would take all the evidence into consideration; that it was not for the commission to do anything to punish the persons responsible for the accident, but CHICACO, ILLINOIS to act for the protection of the public in the future. The evidence, so Mr. Largest Telephone flanufacturers In the World Jackson said, should be used in shaping the general policy of the Board toward the public.

NEWARK, N. J.— The eleven officials and directors of the North Jersey Street Railway Company indicted for manslaughter in connection with the fl. F. REDDIG, President W. G. HUMPHREY, Secretary J. 0. REDDIG, Treasurer Clifton Avenue grade crossing accident of Feb. 19 last, in which nine pupils J. E. MURPHY, Manager of Sales F. W. FRITCHEY, Manager of Works of the Newark City High School were killed, were placed on trial before Chief Justice William S. Gummere in the Circuit Court here Aug. 31. The defendants were represented by Joseph Coult, who was assisted by ex-Gov- AMERICAN ernor George T. Werts, Richard V. Lindabury, and James B. Vredenburgh. The entire morning was consumed in the selection of a jury out of the special panel of 250 names. In his opening, Prosecutor Chandler W. Riker said that FROG AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY all of the defendants were under indictment, charged with manslaughter, for the death of Ernestina Miller, one of the nine school children victims of the Works and storerooms, 1 9th St. and Manchester Ave. accident. He retold the story of the wrecking of the Clifton Avenue car by the Bernardsvillc express on the Lackawanna Road on the morning of Feb. General offices, 302-303 New England BIdg. KANSAS CITY, M0. 19, and of the mangling of the riders on the crowded car, with nine high school pupils killed and a score or more seriously injured. MANUFACTURERS SPECIALTIES BROOKLYN, N. V.—It is said that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company AND DEALERS IN ELECTRIC RAILWAY proposes to prosecute every conductor who may be caught acting dishonestly, Frogs, Switches, Castings, Track Material, Car Brasses, Electric Brakes, Expansion Joints, Fenders and Guards, Gears and Pinions, Headlights, instead of simply discharging each man and putting him on its blacklist, as Trolley Wheels, Pipe—Wrought Iron and Steel, Wire Rope, Wheel- has been the policy heretofore. barrows, Wires and Cables, Crossings, Switch Points, Forgings, Track Tools, Brass Castings, Engines, Fare Registers, Gaskets, Car Gongs, STATEN ISLAND, N. V.—A decisive step toward the final settlement of Car Replacing Jacks, Packing, Pulleys, Springs, Wheels and Axles. the ferry approach dispute which has agitated Staten Island for the past six months was taken Friday, Aug. 28, at the Special Term of the Supreme Court, in the County Court House, Brooklyn, when application was made by the City of New York for the appointment of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment to acquire title to the property required for the plan of approach to the St. George Ferry devised by Borough President Cromwell, of the Borough of Richmond, and known as the Cromwell plan. The matter of the approach to the ferry is one of the street openings entirely and is distinct BARRETT JACKS from the matters of an improved ferry service, upon which there is no fleet Evepy Lifting fteqaigement division of opinion. The changes proposed are almost entirely in the approach to the ferry from the south, no change being made in the northerly approach, THEY ARB . . . except to widen it. At present, vehicles approaching the ferry from the EASILY HANDLED. south pass up a 6 per cent grade on Central Avenue. Returning from the QUICK, DURABLE ferry all vehicles have to ascend South Street, which has a grade of 12 per and POWERFUL. cent. The trolley cars approaching from the south take a more easily graded but much more circuitous route, making some nine turns to enter the viaduct Send for through which they reach the ferryhouse. The cars from the north have Catalog and Prices practically a level approach to the viaduct. The Cromwell plan proposes to make a wide curve into South Street through the corner of the United THE States Lighthouse property, and, further, purposes to widen Stuyvesant Place from the present width of 30 ft. to 100 ft., and then to reduce the 6 DUFF MFG. CO, per cent grade of Central Avenue to 3 per cent. The carrying out of this PITTSBURG, PA. plan would entail a very heavy expense, as the route passes through the best Works: Allegheny, Pa. residential section of St. George. The ferry and railway terminal situation was reviewed in the Street Railway Journal for May 30, 1903. xxxiii September 5. 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company has caused the arrest of five men who are said to be implicated in a gigantic scheme to defraud the company by the exchange of transfer tickets.

W1LKESBARRE, PA.— Counsel for the Lehigh Valley Railroad has petitioned the Court to restrain the city of Wilkesbarre from interfering with or preventing the construction of the railway tracks on the old canal bed of the new electric line, which seeks to enter the city over that route. The city has policemen stationed at all crossings, and refuses to allow the employees of the company to proceed with the laying of the tracks under the threat of arrest. Why BEAUMONT, TEX.—The officers elected for the Beaumont, Sour Lake & Port Arthur Electric Railway are: G. W. Meeker, president; Captain Will- iam Weiss, vice-president; J. B. Linn, of Springfield, Ohio, second vice- president; Theodore Weyant, secretary; B. R. Norvell, treasurer. Worry About

FINANCIAL NOTES Poles?

BAKERSFIELD, CAL.—The Power, Transit & Lighting Company has made a mortgage with the Mercantile Trust Company of San Francisco, as trustee, to secure $2,500,000 of 5 per cent gold bonds, of which $750,000 have been issued. These bonds are dated June 1, 1903; and are due June 1, 1933; are subject to call at the company's option "on the basis of 4% per cent, re- The investment;" denomination, $1,000; interest due June 1 and Dec. 1; sinking fund, 10 per cent of earnings after 5 years. The company owns in fee and covers the properties of the former Power Development Com- TRIPARTITE its mortgage pany, the Bakersfield Gas & Electric Light Company, and the Bakersfield & Kern Electric Railway, subject to $175,000 existing bonds, namely, $125,000 STEEL on the street iailway and $50,000 on the gas and electric light plant, to retire which at the date of maturity a like amount of the new issue is reserved.

CHICAGO, ILL.—R. H. Donnelly, of Knight, Donnelly & Co., is quoted POLE as saying: "The protective committee of Lake Street Elevated wanted a majority of Lake Street stock and they have got it. That is all the news in is better in every way the Lake Street Elevated situation. The fables to the effect that the committee will appoint a receiver and seize control of the annual meeting is than any other kind. nonsense. Nothing has been done or decided on beyond strengthening the voting power of the party in favor of some new plan of reorganization. First cost is a trifle The annual meeting is too far away and no one can tell what will happen in higher than wood, half a year's time."

KOKOMO, IND.—A. W. Thomson and Newton Todd, both of Indianapo- but this trifle is saved lis, offer at 95 and interest, with $300 stock bonus to each $1,000 bond, in freight. $250,000 of the company's first mortgage 5 per cent thirty-year gold bonds, dated July 1, 1903. The interest is payable January and July at the office of the Security Trust Company, of Indianapolis, Ind., trustee. The total GAIN authorized bond issue is $1,000,000, of which $250,000 is reserved to retire Kokomo Railway & Light bonds, and $750,000 for the construction of an in- Cheaper Installation and terurban railway between Kokomo and Marion, Ind., a distance of about 30 Endless Life. miles, with 11 miles in Kokomo, making a total of 41 miles of lines, $500, 000 of bonds have been sold. No Renewals, for These Poles Never Wear Out. NEW ORLEANS, LA.—The Times-Democrat quotes L. Carroll Root, third vice-president of the New York Security & Trust Company, who has been Cheaper Than Wood. making a critical examination of tne New Orleans Railway Company's properties, as saying that he is well pleased with the physical condition of the property and the results obtained. Quoting Mr. Root, the Times-Democrat We are here for the says: "My attention has been called to a rumor that the Railways Company purpose of answering is not earning the interest on its bonds. This I most emphatically deny. For the purpose of effectually quieting all such rumors, I have suggested to any and all ques- Mr. .Foster that he prepare and issue as soon as possible a brief semi-annual report, showing just what has been accomplished in the last half year. Mr. tions, and will do it

Foster has consented to get up such a report, and has it already well under cheerfully, too. way. The facts are, as Mr. Foster's report will show, that notwithstanding the increased cost of both fuel and labor, the largely increased taxes and the decreased price for municipal lighting, the company has fully earned the interest on its bonded debt and has a surplus left over." We Also Make a Specialty of WORCESTER, MASS.— Eight claims, aggregating $100,000, have been filed against the Worcester & Southbridge and the Worcester, Rochdale & Charlton ton Depot Street .Railway Companies. Five of the claims are liens filed by Malleable Willis E. Putnam on the Worcester & Southbridge Road, amounting to $15,000. These are for work done at Hotel Overlook and on property belonging arid to the company in Charlton. Mr. Putnam is a contractor. Oliver W. Rugg attached the Worcester, Rochdale & Charlton Depot Company in a $20,000 Iron action on contract. A similar attachment was recorded against the Worcester Grey & Southbridge line. The third attachment was that of the Trust Company of the Republic of New York City in a suit of $40,000 against Wilford A. Bailey, Castings. the general superintendent of the two railways.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company reports earn ings as follows: NEW YORK OFFICE : Year ended June 30 1903 1902 253 Broadway. Gross receipts $12,357,041 $11,525,202 Address, "Chasmackey." Operating expenses 7,553,939 7,717,129 Cable

Net earnings $4,803,102 $3,808,073 WRITE FOR IPRICES. Other income 222,389 331,524

Total income $5,025,491 $4,139,597 Ihe Franklin Rolling Mill and Fixed charges 4,2S9,907 4,268,753

Surplus $735,584 *$129,156 Foundry Co. &t FRANKLIN, PA. Deficit. :

XXXIV STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 10.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—The 1 win City Rapid Transit Company reports earnings as follows: July $121,9971903 1902 Gross receipts $364,471 $337,452 Operating expenses 164,037 142,369 1,086,409 JOHN BLAIR MacAFEE

Earnings from operation $200,434 $195,083 Deductions 78,437 76,233

Surplus $118,850 THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OF STEAM Seven months AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS Gross receipts $2,283,124 $2,003,892 AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS. Operating expenses 922,740 PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES. learnings from operation $1,196,715 $1,081,152 K EPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN Deduction 548,755 532,767 OPERATION.

Surplus $647,960 $548,385 GLENS FALLS, N. Y.—On Aug. 20 the loan of $400,000 obtained for the construction of the Saratoga extension of the Hudson Valley Railway fell HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA due, and the $500,000 bonds and $100,000 stock pledged as collateral were nearly all promptly taken up by the underwriters on the basis of 80 for the bonds. Underwriters of $70,000 of the bonds and $14,000 of the stock sought to enjoin the enforcement of their subscriptions, on the ground that the rate of interest was usurious, but their application for a permanent injunction was denied by Justice Stover at Amsterdam on Aug. 22. CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The report of the receivers of the Miami & Erie Canal Transportation Company has been filed in the Superior Court, as per the order of court made at the time the receivers were authorized to borrow $5,000 for certain work necessary to be done on the line of the railway. At J. G. WHITE & COMPANY that time it was shown to the court that it was necessary to ballast and INCORPORATED, otherwise put into condition the track between Middletown and Hamilton, and $2,018,906 to make some repairs between this city and Hamilton. The court allowed the receivers to borrow the money they needed. At that time, the judge remarked Engineers, Contractors, that it seemed strange to him what had been done with the large amount of money at which the company was capitalized, and which capital was probably largely paid in. The report of the receivers shows what was expended in 29 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. equipping the line, and the assets on hand and the receipts and disbursements to date under the receivership. The report shows first the expenditures for LONDON CORRESPONDENT: material, labor, equipment, etc., by the company, as shown by the books. J. C. White Company, Limited They are as follows: Track and roadway, $577,382; bridges, trestles and cul- & verts, $149,217; electric line equipment, $307,784; tools and machinery, $14,620; 22a College Hill, Cannon St. power plant equipment, $50,468; cars or locomotives, $61,242; boats and equipments, $64,821; real estate, $lo, "95; buildings and fixtures, $46,701; special account, engineering, for making surveys and plans, $3,118. Total, $1,285,550. Then follows a long list of the material, equipment, tools and machinery on hand, to which no value is given in that list. Then follows the inventory of the power plants and equipments, the cost of which is given as $50,339, which, together with the cost of the locomotives, $55,840, makes a total of $106,179. The dry-dock material is valued at $36,088. The value of boats purchased from other companies is placed at $29,900, this being the amount paid for the boats. Sanderson & Porter The real estate as inventoried, giving the purchase price, shows that $9,255 was paid for it. There is also a gravel pit valued at $650. The value of the ENGINEERS AND fixtures, etc., in the buildings at Main and Canal Streets, is placed at CONTRACTORS $2,379. There is also a statement of all the work completed, to be completed, Electric Railways, material on hand and .that necessary to complete the road. There is no value 52 WILLIAM STREET Light, Power and placed on this, as a whole, but there is an estimate of the amount that will NEW YORK 1,429,737 Hvoraulic Plants. be required to complete the line and put it in first-class condition from Cin- cinnati to Dayton. The total is $217,200. Included in this is one item of $50,000 for raising and lengthening bridges; for a bridge over Mad River, $25,000; for concrete walls and trestles in Dayton, $25,000; for ballasting, $28,000, and for completing twenty new boats. $18,000. There is no statement W. K. BAKER H. R. BISHOP of the liabilities of the company, but the receivers say they are preparing a statement of them and will file them as soon as they are completed and verified. The report contains a statement of the receipts and disbursements from W. E. BAKER & CO. the date of the receivership, July 3, to Aug. 8. It shows that the receipts for ENGINEERS the entire period were $6,270, and the disbursements, $10,214, a deficit of $3,945. This does not include the $5,000 borrowed, though the report includes that sum in the receipts of the period from Aug. 1 to Aug. 8. With that in- 170 BROADWAY NEW YORK cluded, the receipts exceed the disbursements.

SEATTLE, WASH.—The Seattle Electric Company reports earnings as follows $33,914

June 1903 1902 WILLIAfl A. ROSENBAUM Gross earnings $175,513 $151,317 Operating expenses 117,745 109,332 6lectrical Gxpert and patent Solicitor NassauBeekman Building: NEW YORK CITY

Net earnings , $57,967 $41,985 Fixed charges 24,052 21,557 THOMAS B. WHITTED Net profit $20,428 Consulting Engineer Year ending June 30 Gross earnings $1,655,128 221-234 Equitable Building DENVER, COLORADO Operating expenses 1,134,300

Net earnings $589,169 $520,828 Fixed charges 282,473 249,554 Tennis Brothers Company Net profit $306,696 $271,274 ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, BUILT AND EQUIPPED NEWPORT NEWS, VA.— R. I. A. Mason has been appointed receiver of the Hampton Roads Railway & Electric Company. The appointment of a receiver was brought about by a suit against the company entered by John G. 22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, Powell & Bro.. of Philadelphia, who are among the principal bondholders, and Cincinnati, Ohio Pittsburg, Pa. assert that the three years' time limit for completion of the building of the road has nearly expired, and that it is impossible to complete the road on September 5, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXXV

time. They say that their interests are jeopardized. The Vandcrgrift Con- struction Company, which is building the road, is made a party to the suit. The capitalization of the company is about $1,000,000, and its bonded indebtedness is $1,500,000. It was organized to build a line from Newport News to Old Point Comfort to compete with the Newport "News, Hampton & Old Point Railway, owned by the Payne syndicate. MONTREAL, QUE—The directors of the Montreal Street Railway have decided to ask the shareholders for the power to make an issue of $1,000,000 additional stock. A special meeting of the shareholders has been called tor Sept. 10, and if the power is given the issue will be offered to the share-

holders at par. The first instalment of 10 per cent will be payable Nov. 1, and the remainder at such time as the directors may deem most advisable. The object of the directors in asking for new capital is to improve the road- LIGHTING—POWER—RAILWAYS bed and construct new lines and cars. With the new stock the company will have a capital of $7,000,000 in stock. MONTREAL, QUE.—The Montreal Street Railway Company reports earn- V * * ings as follows: July 1903 Gross earnings $216,236 IS04-I506-I505-1S10-1512 Fisher Building, = CHICAGO Operating expenses 116,157

Net earnings $100,079

.tixed charges » 24,696

Surplus $75,383 Ten months Gross earnings $1,788,178 Operating expenses 1,109,810

Net earnings $678,368 Arnold Electric Power Station Co. Fixed charges 189,363

Surplus $4S9,005 ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS,

AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS Designers and Builders of Complete Electric Railway, Lighting and Power Installations. THE ALLGEMEINE ELEKTRICITATS-GESELLSCHAFT, Bferlin, Germany, has issued Circular No. 30, describing certain insulating materials of its manufacture. Marquette Building, GEORGE C. EWING has just been appointed the New England representa- Transit Building, tive of the Cooper Hewitt Electric Company, of New York. This position is NEW YORK Chicago. in connection with Mr. Ewing's other business (Nernst lamps, etc.), and is not a change—simply an addition.

W. T. WATSON, of Newark, N. J., has just issued a neat publication describing the advantages of his automatic fender and automatic wheel guard. An extended description of Mr. Watson's life-saving devices was presented in the Street Railw\y Journal for June 6. A LAMP FOR YOUR FEET is the suggestive title of the latest advertising card sent out by the Wilson Trolley Catcher Company, of Boston, Mass. This company's trolley catcher is now made in three sizes—for city, suburban and high speed, and extra high speed service. H. M. BYLLESBY & CO. THE AMERICAN BLOWER COMPANY, of Detroit, Mich., is supplying INCORPORATED an extensive heating apparatus for the St. Louis Transit Company's new repair shop, to consist of a 15,000-ft. heater and two 160-in. three-quarter housed fans. This contract was secured by Jos. McWilliams & Co., of Louis- the apparatus. Engineers ville, Ky., to whom the American Blower Company furnished THE R. D. NUTTALL COMPANY, of Pittsburg, Pa., reports that a large number of street railways are taking advantage of its very liberal offer to Design, Construct and Operate Railway sell union standard trolleys and take as part payment one old or obsolete trolley for each new one ordered. By this arrangement the Nuttall Company Light, Power and Hydraulic Plants believes that the trolley equipment of street railways can be modernized at a minimum expense. GROUND WAS BROKEN Aug. 25, at Barberton, Ohio, for extensive ad- EXAMINATIONS ditions to the factory of the National Drill & Manufacturing Company, whose AND REPORTS business has grown so rapidly during this season as to necessitate doubling its manufacturing space and adding to its equipment new machinery and Life Building tools valued at $75,000. This company manufactures a line of contractors' New York CHICAGO, ILL. earth-handling machinery, well-drilling machinery, and road-grading machinery and tools. AMONG A NUMBER OF OTHER ORDERS recently received by the Apex Equipment Company, of New York, are the following: Specially constructed standard-gage hopper-bottom cars, and 6-yd. capacity standard-gage two-way dump cars, for the Ballston Terminal Railway Company; special flat cars for the Conneaut & Erie Traction Company. It is also building for export to the Philippine Islands, to be used in harbor improvement work, for the United States government, twenty specially constructed all-steel flat cars. One feature of these cars is that they are equipped with the John W. King patent steel underframe. THE INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY has contracted Archbold-Brady Company, with the Otis Elevator Company for an escalator to be installed at the Thirty- Third Street Station of the Sixth Avenue elevated road division. The Engineers and Contractors escalator will be placed on Broadway just north of Thirty-Third Street, and will carry passengers direct to the downtown station. A foot-bridge will extend over the tracks to the uptown station, and it is anticipated that a Electric Railways Electric Light Plants majority of the north-bound passengers will avail themselves of the escalator High Tension Power Transmission and foot-bridge, thus avoiding the laborous climb up the stairway used at present. In connection with this installation, the commendable action of the Structural Iron and Steel owners of the department store cn this corner in surrendering much of their sidewalk and part of their basement space should be noted. ORDERS for car bodies have been placed &- by the Stone Webster man 918-920 University Bldg., agement, of Boston, to increase the rolling stock of its various lines, viz.. Syracuse, N. Y. with the St. Louis Car Company for fifteen 20- ft. closed car bodies for the Dallas (Texas) Consolidated Electric Railway Company, and six 26-foot xxxvi STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 10.

closed car bodies for the Metropolitan Street Railway Company,- of the same city; with the Chicago Car and Locomotive Company for ten flat freight cars for the Tacoma (Wash.) Railway & Power Company; with the American Car Company for two open car bodies, of ten-bench capacity , for the El WE MANUFACTURE Paso (Texas) Electric Railway Company; with the Ottawa Car Company for three 20-foot car bodies for the Cape Breton Electric Company, Ltd., of Sydney, N. S., and two 20-foot car bodies for the Glaco Bay Railway Com- pany, Ltd., of Sydney. THE WESTERN ELECTRICAL SUPPLY COMPANY, of St. Louis, STANDARD Mo., is preparing to enlarge its business by increasing its capital stock from $300,000 to $1,000,000. It is stated that the company will be reorganized and that a number of New York capitalists will be interested in it. Howard K. SCREW GLASS Oilman, president of the company, is to retire from that office, but will retain an interest in the company and be a director. It is not known who is to succeed him as president. The plant of the company is located at the INSULATORS southwest corner of Seventh Street and Clark Avenue. For a number of years it has been known as one of the largest companies of its line in the West. It is understood that Roger Scudder is to become an active partici- pant in the affairs of the company. The company's trade-mark is "Wesco," FOR ALL PURPOSES

made from the first letter of each word comprising the name, and it is said this word will be prominently used in devising a new name for the corpora-

tion if such a step is decided upon. Mr. Gilman, it is said, is now organizing a construction company, of which he will be president. The company will carry on electrical railway and light construction work. STREET RAILWAY INSULATORS THE STOW MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Binghamton, N. Y., has just issued Bulletin No. 52, describing the construction and operation of its motors, showing a number of applications to machine tools, and containing instructive data on different methods of securing speed control. The motors .described are said to carry their full rated load at any speed within POWER INSULATORS FROM in their range at practically uniform efficiency; in other words, the horse-power capacity of the motors is not increased by increasing 10,000 to 60,000 VOLTS jthe speed, and the capacity is not reduced by reducing the speed. This results from the special construction of the pole pieces, which are made hollow. Each pole piece is provided with a large iron core or "plunger," which may be adjusted by means of a screw-threaded hand wheel. The pole pieces are stationary and only the "plungers" are adjusted to secure the speed changes by varying the reluctance of the magnetic circuit of the motor. This method permits a range of speed in the rstio of 1 to 2%. The absence of any auxiliary HEMI/MGRAY GLASS CO. controlling resistances and also the fact that the motor requires but one

voltage, makes the motor especially desirable in many installations where Established 1848. compactness, ruggedness and simplicity are required. The Stow Manufactur- ing Company will be pleased to mail Bulletin No. 52 to anyone interested in Factories, this subject. Office, Covington, Ky. THE STANDARD VITRIFIED CONDUIT COMPANY has recently Muncie, Ind. made a change in its official staff, R. W. Lyle having resigned as president, on account of the great volume of business on his hands in the future, he being president of several other corporations. B. S. Barnard, vice-president and secretary, has been made president of this company. The success of the company has been somewhat phenomenal, due to Mr. Barnard's efforts and standing in the trade. He is as well known throughout the country as he is at his desk in the home office. The capacity of the company's factories has been greatly increased, and it is producing, at the present time, upward of The Practical Electric 100,000 feet of conduit daily. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company is using this conduit, and the contract has just been awarded to the Standard Railway Hand Book Vitrified Conduit Company for 55,000 third-rail insulators, covering the entire traction system of the New York subway. The insulator purchased is of the Manhattan type, with slight alterations. The Scioto Valley Traction Com- By ALBERT B. HERRICK pany, of Ohio, has placed an order for 29,000 Manhattan-type insulators, and the United States Steel Corporation has also equipped several of its plants valuable of with this insulator. An exceedingly compilation engineering facets, figures and dimensions which BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE are directly applicable in the construction, testing and operation of electric railway Every visitor to Saratoga Springs should see peerless Lake George with its systems. Three Dollars per copy, postpaid. magnificent mountain environment, its hundreds of fairylike islands, its wooded shores with fine hotels and summer residences. Tickets, good one day, from Saratoga to Lake George, via D. & H. R. R., thence steamer through McGRAW PUB. CO., BOOK DEPT. (he entire length of the lake and returning by steamer through the lake and by rail from Lake George to Saratoga, only $3.35 for the round trip. This trip 114 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK through the loveliest lake in the world is the finest one-day ride in Americaa.***

ONE THOUSAND YARDS OF GRADE IN TEN HOURS You can place in embankment 1.000 cubic yards of earth in ten hours with

The NATIONAL ELEVATING GRADER, DITCHER and WAGON LOADER Using six teams and three men. or load 500 to 600 wagons, each holdine one and one-half vards. THIS MAKES THE COST OINE-FIFTH OP THE SCRAPER METHOD

Your own rock ballast can be produced conveniently by using

THE NATIONAL PORTABLE ROCK CRUSHER Fifteen to twenty yards per hour from a portable machine which is five thousand pounds lighter than most crushers. THE NATIONAL DRILL & MFG. CO.

Gen'l Offices, PULLMAN BLDG., CHICAGO, U. S. A.

Factories, BARBERT0N, OHIO September 12, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxv ii NEWS OF THE WEEK

that either the Indianapolis & Northwestern CONSTRUCTION NOTES at present. Mr. Campbell denies or the Indiana Union Traction Company is behind the project to connect the two great systems with a cross-State line. LOS ANGELES, CAL—The new branch of the Pacific Electric Railway The Kokomo, Marion & Western Interurban Com- Company from Long Beach to Alamitos Bay was completed on Aug. 26, and BLUFFTON, IND.— west line through the city immediately after formally opened on the following day. This extension adds 2 miles of pany is to construct an east and is completed. double track. the Kokomo and Marion branch Nees, of Brazil, at the head of a com- LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The Los Angeles & Pacific Railroad Company MARTINSVILLE, IND.—W. M. obtain franchises for an interurban elec- has plans under way for the erection of car houses, shops and a depot at pany of Indiana men, is trying to Coffeyville and Cherryvale, in Southern Redondo. To this end a condemnation suit has been begun to obtain posses- tric railway between Independence, of the Indiana Union Traction Company, is also sion of five lots in a whole block that is to be used for the purpose. The Kansas. A. A. Anderson, of has vetoed balance of the block the company already owns. asking franchises of the same cities. The Mayor Cherryvale the franchise voted to Mr. Anderson by the Council of that city. He favors the LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The Ninth Street line of the Los Angeles Rail- Nees company on the ground that its proposed franchise is more liberal. way Company has been extended a mile and a half over new track built Mr. Nees has received a franchise at Independence. from Grand View Avenue to Vermont Avenue. This division was built has largely to improve the transit facilities of Westmoreland. PRINCETON, IND—The Evansville & Princeton Traction Company elected these officers: Joseph Hestone, president; Jonah Legrange, vice- LOS ANGELES, CAL.—A large number of superannuated cars of the old president; William Sontag, general manager; E. J. Baldwin, secretary and Pasadena city system, which have been used here for many months on the general passenger and freight agent; Sam Weston, treasurer. These officers Pacific Electric Railway Company's "belt line," have been overhauled in the were elected as a board of directors. Perry Freeman, of Indianapolis, who local shops and are being repainted, reupholstered and fitted with new end is a heavy stockholder, is not represented. The capital stock is placed at mirrors and other interior fixtures. Natural wood colors are being used on $000,000, of which $50,000 has been sold. The road is completed from Princeton the inside finish, while the cars on the outside will be maroon in body, to Darmstadt, a suburb of Evansville. trimmed with black and gold. BURLINGTON, IA.—The organization of the Burlington & Interurban LOS ANGELES, CAL— It is reported that money of the Pacific Electric Railway Company, mention of which was made in these columns recently, Railway Company is to used in building a new steel wharf at Long Beach, has been completed by the filing of articles of incorporation with the shipping privileges being desired by that company. The structure will cost Secretary of State. The articles state that Burlington shall be the principal about $30,000, and, when built, will take the place of the present wharf of place of business, and that the authorized capital stock shall be $200,000. The wood. While the city of Long Beach is to control the wharf, the railway nature of the business to be transacted is the construction and operation of company will buy the bands at a low rate of interest. A large pavilion is to interurban railways and electric power plants; also the construction and be included in the improvement. operation of an interurban line running west from Burlington, through Des LOS ANGELES, CAL.—It is reported that the new road between Los Moines, Henry, Lee and Van Buren Counties, to Keosauqua, the county seat built others in oppo- Angeles and Santa Monica, being by Abbot Kinney and of Van Buren County. Carl Leopold, president; W. W. Copeland, first vice- sition to the system of the Los Angeles- Pacific Railroad Company, is rapidly president; Charles Blaul, second vice-president; Charles Armknecht, treas- nearing completion, only seven miles more of track remaining to be laid. urer; J. W. Topping, secretary, of Burlington, la. These officers, with the The Hooks, former owners of the Los Angeles Traction Company, which was following-named parties, constitute the board of directors; H. Weinrich, C. recently acquired by Huntington and Hellman, were interested with Mr. H. Mohland, W. G. Mercer, W. VV. Parsons, James A. Guest, W. E. Blake, in the project, it is that Kinney new but now understood in the agreement F. S. Churchill and H. W. Chittenden, of Burlington. to purchase, the Huntington-Hellman syndicate assumed all the outstanding CEDAR RAPIDS, IA.— R. A. Wallace, A. T. Averhill, John T. Hamilton obligations entered into by the Hooks. In this event it looks as if Hunting- and John M. Redmond, well-known capitalists of this city, have made appli- tori were bound up with Mr. Kinney in the new road, and Mr. Kinney refuses cation to the City Council for a franchise permitting them to construct and to sell, wherefore it may transpire that the former will be compelled tc operate an entirely new street car system in Cedar Rapids. The new com- break an agreement with Gen. M. H. Sherman, of the Los Angeles-Pacific pany, if granted the franchise, will build to all the parks and all parts of Railroad Company, not to invade the Santa Monica field. In this connection the city. The work of construction will commence next spring. the further rumor is afloat that Harriman proposes to electrify the Southern Moines Street Railway has let the Pacific branch to Santa Monica. DES MOINES, IA.—The Des Company contract for a new bridge over the Des Moines River on what is known as SAN BERNARDINO, CAL.—The San Bernardino Valley Traction Com- the Belt Line, to J. B. Marsh & Company. The exact contract price is not pany is preparing to build a line along Pacific Avenue, in Highland, to con- known, but is approximately $12,000. The work is to be commenced at once nect with several large packing houses, in an endeavor to capture the lion's and finished by Feb. 1, 1904. share of citrus fruit freight, hauling it to the Southern Pacific main line at Colton. OTTUMWA, IA.—The business men of this city are considering plans for the construction and operation of a railroad from Ottumwa, in a south- SAN BERNARDINO, CAL.—The San Bernardino Valley Traction Com- westerly direction through Moravia and Corydon to Allerton, to a point on pany has begun a half-hour service over its new line to Highland. It is the Southern Iowa division of the Rock Island in Wayne County. The hoped that the proposed line to Rialto will be operating by Christmas. Sur- name of the company will be Corydon, Moravia & Kansas City Railroad veys have been made. Company. The business men of the towns through which the road will pass SAN DIEGO, CAL.—William Clayton, general manager of the San Diego have expressed a willingness to assist in the enterprise. The promoters have Electric Railway, states that the company is considering an extension of its not yet decided whether to use steam or electricity as motive power. The lines in San Diego. line will be about 45 miles in length. TROPICO, CAL.—The Los Angeles, Tropico & Glendale Electric Railway TABOR, IA.—Articles of incorporation of the Tabor Construction Com- Company has secured right of way through the ranch of Q. C. B. Richard- pany have been filed with the Secretary of State. The articles of the com- son, extending from Los Angeles River, south of Griffith Park, to Tropico. pany state that the general nature of the business to be transacted shall be This takes the line through Tropico across the Southern Pacific Railroad. the construction and building of steam and electric railways. The capital At Tropico, after crossing Pacific, the Southern to which point it is under- stock is fixed at $50,000. The immediate cbject of the company is the con- stood the road is to be the Santa Barbara main line; the road will probably struction of the road projected by the Council Bluffs, Tabor & Southern diverge westerly in the direction of Santa Barbara and traverse the San Railway Company, of Tabor, which was organied recently. The officials of Fernando Valley. the later company are also interested in the Tabor Construction Company. COLORADO SPRINGS, COL.—The Monument Park Cemetery Associa- HUTCHINSON, KAN.—The Commercial Club has taken up the matter tion has been incorporated. It is proposed to spend between $500,000 and of an interurban electric railway from Hutchinson to Sterling, through Nick- $750,000 on the investment, which may include also the building of an inde- erson. President Charles Williams spoke of the proposition as being a pendent street railway line from the property acquired by the company. feasible one. One hundred and fifty acres 1% miles southwest of Edgerton have been FRANKFORT, KY.—The Frankfort Street Railway Company is preparing acquired within the last month, which will form the cemetery. to extend the line to Versailles, and has had a new route surveyed to pass BOISE, IDAHO.— The question of building an electric railway from the over the Glens Creek Road. It is proposed to build the line by next spring. Pearl mining district down to the Payette River has been revived, and the for the matter is being seriously considered by those interested in properties in that PADUCAH, KY.—Ground power house and transfer station for the proposed electric railway between Paducah and Cairo, 111., has district. The rapid development of the mines makes it almost imperative been bought that some other means than wagons be secured for transporting the ore to at Bandana, the central point on the proposed line. While full facts have given out regarding this line, it is some water supply where mills can be erected. At the present time the never been known that the promoters are Paducah, Louisville and other outside capitalists. Mr. Pall, mines are handicapped by not being able to get their ore out except at great of Louisville, is interested. The plan is to conduct a passenger freight expense. By erecting mills on the Payette, there would be a sufficient water and business. An effort is on foot to get the use of the tracks of the Paducah City supply for all purposes. The distance trom the summit to the river is about Railway Com- pany here. 2y2 miles, and is not a difficult country through which to construct a road. The SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—The Decatur, Tuscola & Champaign Railroad Com- GREENFIELD, MASS.— Conway Street Railway Company has petitioned the Selectmen of Greenfield for an extension pany has been incorporated. The capital is $5,000. The incorporators are: from Sept. 1, 1903, to January, 1905, of franchises it holds for locations in Greenfield. J. H. Culver, Charles S. Hankins, William H. Black, J. M. Clokey, D. L. Campbell, L. Ray, Ashton Campbell, Charles Eckhart J. and A. W. Wallace. NORTH ADAMS, MASS.—The Aldermen have a petition from the Hoosac ANDERSON, IND.-Wm. B. Campbell has asked for franchises in Nobles- Valley Street Railway Company asking for a franchise for a line over the ex- ville, Lebanon, Lapel and Westfield for his proposed electric cross line paral- tension of Ashland Street, toward which the company contributed $10,000, leling the Old Midland Railroad. Crawfordsville will be the western terminal and for double-track locations on Main Street. XXVI 11 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. n.

NORTH ADAMS, MASS.—The Berkshire Street Railway Company has purchased 100 acres adjoining the Berkshire Park on the east. This tract will give the company about 300 acres, which will constitute the Berkshire Park, and will be developed into one of the greatest places for outing and THE CLIMAX FENCE POST CO. picnic parties in Western Massachusetts. The new purchase comprises the top of the hill, from whence can be secured an unparalleled view up and fl\ THE BEST THING IN FENCE POSTS down the county. On the highest point of the hill the company will erect a steel tower 100 ft. high; a circuitous road will be built to the summit and a 'bus line established, while later the company expects to build a cog railway to the top similar to that on Mount Tom. This purchase will enable the " CLIMAX " company to develop the park in a way that it has desired for the past two I years. It has, in fact, wanted more room; especially did it want to acquire the summit of the hill, which in many ways is the most attractive part of the Farm Line Fence Posts entire tract, and this purchase will enable it to develop along the lines first laid out by prominent landscape gardeners.

WORCESTER, MASS.—The Worcester & Connecticut Eastern Street Rail- R. R. Right of way way Company has completed its power station at Wauregan, Conn., where it Fence Posts can develop 3000 hp by water-power. The addition gives the company a total of 5000 hp.

IONIA, MICH.—An enthusiastic meeting of the projectors of the electric Railroad Signal Posts railway between Ionia and Crystal Lake was held here a few days ago. The question was gone over thoroughly, but no definite action was taken. N. B. Hayes, H. B. Slocum and E. Kendall, of Ionia, are interested. City Sign Posts

WINONA, MINN.—Work has been started for rebuilding the plant of the Winona Railway & Light Company at a cost of $100,000. Corner, End and

SAUK RAPIDS, MINN.—The Watab . Dam Improvement Company has under advisement the project of establishing an electric railway from here to Ornamental Posts Watab, a distance of 3 miles, and also a line to the granite quarries 2 miles north of town. The plans are being prepared by engineers of the company, H BASE made of Vitrified Shale Clay and a report will be ready in a few weeks. ,. POST, any height, made of steel angle MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Thomas Lowry, president of the Twin City cemented in the base Transit Company, has agreed to survey the route proposed by the Park Board PUNCHED FOR ANV KIND OP FENCE for the Fort Snelling line from the end of the Minnehaha line. According to the plans of the Board, it is desired that the line be extended from the end I 715 Marquette Building of the present Minnehaha line through the park property along the river for % mile, and then over the Milwaukee tracks by an overhead bridge and across the reservation to the ion. 1 CHICAGO ST. LOUIS, MO.—The uncompleted Farmington & Delassus Electric

1 Railroad, in St. Francis County, has been sold to Ward & Vaughn on condi- \_J H. E. OVERSTREET, Qen. Mgr. tion that cars will be running over the now completed track within sixty End Post Line Post days. The purchasers have undertaken to fulfil that agreement, and now Steel Post, Clay Base (Patented) have men at work preparing for the starting of traffic. The road was organized several years ago among Farmington capitalists, but the money gave out after the track had been built from Deiassus to the power house, 1% miles north of Farmington. The finances were then taken charge of by the courts and a receiver appointed. Nothing was done until a few days ago, when propositions for the sale of the road were received. Mr. Ward is a Colorado capitalist identified witli copper mining interests. Mr. Vaughn is connected with the Irish-American in St. Louis. They hope to extend the lines to Broad River without loss of time. BRACKETS ST. LOUIS, MO.—The St. Louis & Va'ley Park Railroad Company has FLEXIBLE filed a petition in the St. Louis County Court, asking for a franchise to construct and operate an electric railway from St. Louis to Valley Park by way ARE STANDARD of Fenton. The proposed route begins on the Gravois Road and city limits and runs in a southwesterly direction to the Jefferson County line. Another branch is to begin at the intersection of the city limits and the Watson Road, running southwest to the McKenzie Road and over the McKenzie Road to the Gravois Road. Another spur will run from the intersection of the Fen- ton and Smizer Mill Road with the Gravois Road, near Fenton, over and along the Fenton and Smizer Mill Road to its intersection with the Vandover Road; thence north over the Vandover Road, through Valley Park to the right of way of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and east to the Frisco Station. The tracks will also run from Fenton at the intersection of the Lackin Williams Road north to the Vandover Road. The tracks will be constructed on each side of the road, except in towns and villages, where they will be laid in accordance with orders from the County Court. The company offers $1,000 for the franchise, to complete the road within three years after its acceptance, and 10 run cars every thirty minutes during the day and every hour at night to midnight. The fare will be 5 cents to Affton ; another 5 cents to Fenton, and a third 5 cents io Valley Park. A $5,000 bond is offered.

JEFFERSON CITY, MO.—The Excelsior Springs & Missouri City Elec- tric Railway Company has been granted a certificate of incorporation by the Secretary of State. The new company is capitalized at $200,000, and proposes to build a standard-gage electric railway from Excelsior Springs to Missouri City, both in Clay County, a distance of 10 miles. The incorpo- No. 190 Bracket, 10 ft. long. No. 439 Double Wire, Double rators are: John W. Creech, of Harrington, Kan.; Charles S. Curry, Sidney Curve Insulators. Two No. 0000 Round Trolley Wires. P. Allen, Elmore S. Truitt and Willard E. Winner, of Kansas City, and Bourbon No. 2 Strain Insulators. Buy the Best. Maurice A. Wogan, of St. Joseph, Mo. LINE MATERIAL POLE FITTINGS CAMDEN, N. —The General Traction Company, which filed J. has articles Complete Equipment for Overhead Construction of incorporation in the County Clerk's office, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, WRITE FOR CATALOGUE of which $26,000 is said to be paid in, is formed for the purpose of building and operating trolley lines between this city and seashore resorts. One of CREAGHEAD ENGINEERING CO. the lines, it is said, will run to Atlantic City, and another to Cape May, tap- ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS ping other resorts along the South Jersey Coast. The president of the Gen- 315 Walnut Street CINCINNATI, OHIO eral Traction Company is W. W. Benson, of Philadelphia. President Benson is a director of the Palmer Concrete Block Company, of Washington, D. C, and the representative of the company in Philadelphia. He has been con- September 12, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxix

nected with various trolley enterprises in the South and in New Jersey. He said recently: "We are not yet prepared to announce our plans fully. We shall build about 85 miles of lines in South Jersey and connect many important places with seaside resorts. The capital to build the lines is assured, and our engineers have been at work many weeks on the plans." TRENTON, N. J.—The Burlington & Mount Holly Traction Company has filed a map in the office of the Secretary of State showing that it is the intention to use the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge. Crossing the Delaware River on the new trolley bridge, the tracks are to connect with the Camden & Trenton Railroad to allow passengers to be landed in the center of this city. The Pennsylvania route from Burlington has been filed with the Secretary of State at Harrisburg.

TRENTON, N. /. —The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has commenced its efforts to prevent the Camden & Trenton Company frim crossing its Cass Street crossing at grade on the branch which extends the trolley to the center of the city. The railroad company has ordered a freight train to stand on the track at the crossing to prevent the laying of the trolley tracks. On Saturday, Sept. 5, the Camden & Trenton Company successfully strung an ufacturers wires, a M its feed using sewer under the canal for the purpose. Counsel for the Camden & Trenton Company will apply to the courts for designation

of the method of crossing if the railroad company persists in its opposition.

TRENTON, N. T. —After a delay of nearly three months the Delaware Valley Traction Company has obtained a franchise in Ewing Township. Iron and The ordinance empowers the company to construct a road, beginning at the city line, near the State Hospital, and proceeding out the Birmingham road through Trenton Junction to Birmingham. Near this point the line will take the Somerset road and run to the township line. This franchise, TUBULAR POLES together with the Hopewell franchise, gives the company a continuous line through Mercer to the Hunterdon County line. The company already has a franchise in Lambertville, and the only break in the route is about a mile r Electric Railway* and a quarter in West Amwell Township, in Hunterdon County. It is probable that a petition will soon be sent to Common Council for permission to extend the road into the city from the State Hospital to the entrance of Lighting and Cadwalader Park. As soon as all the franchises are obtained, work of construction will be begun.

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEX.—The City Council has granted an electric street railway franchise to a company headed by Col. W. H. Greer, manager of the Victoria Land & Cattle Company, with headquarters in Deming. It is a fifty-year franchise, with a purchase clause inserted, enabling Albu- querque to secure control of the line within twenty-five years.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company plans soon to begin the construction of new car barns and sheds, some of which are to IE TRIMMINGS replace old ones destroyed by fire and others of which are to furnish additional storage room for extra cars recently acquired by the company. The largest of the new barns will be built at Thirty-ninth Street and Second

Avenue, where it is intended to furnish coverings for at least 200 cars. The building is to be constructed of a patent fireproof material approved by the fire underwriters. At Ridgewood the old sheds are to be rebuilt and new POLE BRACKETS ones added. At Flatbush and Vernon Avenue the building which was par- tially destroyed by fire some time ago will be reconstructed and extensions will be made which will admit of the proper storage and care of all cars Plain and Flexible that are housed there.

NEWBURGH, N. Y.—The Common Council has granted a franchise to the Intervale Traction Company to construct, maintain and operate an electric street railway along Lake Street from South William Street to Robinson Avenue, thence along Robinson Avenue to Washington Street, thence along Washington Street 10 Johnston Street, thence along Johnston Street to Ann Street, thence along Ann Street to Washington Place, along Washington .vV: Place to Colden Street, thence northerly on Colden Street to the tracks of the ;Y: Orange County Traction Company at Broadway, thence northerly along OVERHEAD LI/NE Colden and Water Streets over the tracks of the Orange County Traction Company from Broadway to Third Street, thence easterly along Third Street to Front Street, thence southerly along Front Street to Second Street, thence easterly along Second Street and through private propery to the ferry house MATERIAL and the docks of the Central Hudson Steamboat Company. NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Board of Aldermen has granted the Union Rail- every description way a .franchise to extend its line across McComb's Dam Bridge. The fran- of chise dees not give the Union Railway a monopoly in the use of the bridge tracks. It will enable the Union Railway to give residents of the Bronx a direct connection with the Eighth Avenue line of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. NEW YORK, N. Y.—The franchise granted by the Board of Aldermen to BHaSi' Main Officer the Ocean Electric Railway Company, which gives it permission to operate cars over the Boulevard and Park Avenue, Rockaway Beach, has been fpneinnati, Ohio, U. 5. A. signed by the Mayor. For a long time the Ocean Electric Railway Com- '

Works: , pany, which is controlled by the Long Island Railroad Company, has sought » : a franchise giving it the right of way over the route, beginning at the termi- ™incinriati^O,;^ *y'ReadittgK Pa;' • '"Etna, Pa. nation of its present tracks at Washington and Eastern Avenues, Rockaway Park, and thence along the Boulevard, through Sea Side, Hollands, Ham- mels, to Park Avenue, the eastern limits of Rockaway Beach, and thence along Park Avenue northerly to the present right of way and tracks of the company. ASK FOR NEW YORK, N. Y. — Excavations were started on Thursday night, Sept. 3, on the lower Broadway spur of the Rapid Transit Subway. Before daylight Friday morning the hole made was boarded over with a platform of 6-in. QUOTATIONS planking, and the daily traffic went on unobstructed. The work was started on the northerly end of the west side of the block facing St. Paul's Chapel, ON ABOVE MATERIAL where the overhead structure of the contractors stood ready to bear the cranes and other loading apparatus. Unless all the plans fail, the entire block will be tunneled and the subway completed with no further obstruction XXX STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. n.

of traffic conditions than exists now. The contract approved by the Rapid Transit Commissioners forbids the opening of one section of the street until the preceding section is completed.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The Rochester & Easton Railway, which is being THE EQUITABLE built between Rochester, Canandaigua and Geneva, N. Y., is expected to be completed and ready for operation about Sept. 15. Forty-one miles of track have been laid, the poles and brackets have been placed, and the remainder TRUST COMPANY of the work is confined to stringing wires. The road connects with the Rochester Railway at the end of the Monroe Avenue line, and cars will run 152 Monroe Street, CHICAGO over the Monroe Avenue route to Main Street, and will turn through State, Church and Sophia Streets in the same manner as the cars of the Rochester Capital paid up ------& Sodus Bay Company are now operated into the city. The cars for the line $900,000 Surplus ------275,000 are in process of construction in the Jewett Car Works in Newark, Ohio. They are of the regular interurban type, equipped with double trucks. They will be equipped with cross-seats, finished in rattan, and will be equipped with air brakes. A few combined freight and passenger cars, eventually, are to be operated. There are two power houses, one at Canandaigua and the Acts as Trustee for Corpora- other at Geneva. A large car house has also been built at Canandaigua, where the offices of the company will be located. tions, Firms and Individuals and for SALAMANCA, N. Y.—The Berney Traction Company, which has re- as Agent the registration cently obtained a franchise to build an electric railway in Salamanca, has and transfer of bonds and stocks opened an office, and the preliminary work for the commencement of the of Corporations and the pay- work of construction is well under way. Much of the material for the road will be placed on the grounds without delay, but it is doubtful if the road ment of coupons, interest and will be ready to be operated before another spring. dividends. Interest paid on de- CINCINNATI, OHIO.—There has been constructed, by interests indenti- posits fied with the Cincinnati Traction Company, a fourteen-story office building, in which will be located the general offices of the company. The building is at the southeast corner, of Fifth and Walnut Streets, and towers above all the fine buildings in that immediate vicinity. The walls are of what is DIRECTORS known as raindrop brick, which has the advantage of never losing its color. The first two floors are of solid stone, and above them to the fourteenth is William Best Andrew McNally structural iron. There is nothing that can burn, and the building is, in every Maurice Rosenfeld John ML Smyth way, fireproof. There are five elevators. They open and close automatically, F. M. Blount J. R. Walsh and complete signal system is provided. The' finish is beautiful. Each a L. A. Walton floor is different in finish and design. The officers of the traction company are on the ninth floor. The private office of President Schoepf is finished OFFICERS in magnificent style, and shows the splendid taste of the company's president. Henry Shenk, of Pittsburg, was the general contractor for the build- J. R. WALSH, President ing. L. A. WALTON, Vice-President CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Town Trustees of Liberty, Ind., have passed C. D. ORGAN, Sec. and Treas. an ordinance granting the Ohio & Indiana Railway Company a franchise to C. HUNTOON, Ass't Sec'y and Ass't Treas. operate over the streets of Liberty, provided the road is completed by Jan.

1, 1905. The company was organized six months ago to build an electric railway from Hamilton to Indianapolis. Its office is in the Union Trust Build ing, Cincinnati. COLUMBUS, OHIO.—The Southeastern Ohio Railway, Light & Power Company, of Zanesville has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $10,000, by M. W. Hissey, E. R. Meyer, W. W. Harris, N. P. Shurtz and F. M. Ransbottom. The company proposes to build an electric railway from Zanes- ville through Roseville, Crooksville and Sayre to New Lexington, and to DO HEATING PLANTS PAY? develop and sell electricity for light and power. Dr. Hissey, the leading promoter of the enterprise, is a close friend of Senator Hanna, and it is presumed that the Senator is intersted in it.

NEWARK, OHIO.—Officers elected on Aug. 27 by the Newark, Martins- burg & Mount Vernon Traction Company are: Edward H. Everett, presi- WHAT CONSTITUTES A dent; Dr. J. F. Sprontz, vice-president; John ' Chilcote, treasurer; Frank Elliott, secretary; Edward Kibler, counsel. The company intends to build immediately. This line will complete the Cincinnati-Cleveland line. HEATING SITUATION? YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—Local interests are talking over the advisability of building an electric railway from Youngstown to Niles.

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—The Youngstown, Park & Falls Street Railway For Particulars Address Company has amended its charter so .is to be permitted to construct and operate an electric railway from Central Square in Youngstown to Idora Park, in Youngstown Township, with lineal or lateral extensions, as the W. H. SCHOTT owners see fit. Engineer Contractor DARBY, PA.—The Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Trolley Company and is making rapid progress with its extension into Darby. The work of build- 1219-21 Marquette Building, - CHICAGO ing the bridge over Darby Creek has been commenced, and tracks have been laid across Springfield Avenue in the borough. WEST CHESTER, PA.—The West Chester Street Railway Company has Designer and Builder completed negotiations for a much-desired right of way on the Coatesville extension. Thus the several links in the chain of opposition to the construction Scbott's Balance Column fiot Klater System, of the new line to Coatesville are gradually wearing away, and if everything in prospect is carried out, as expected, there will soon be no rights unse- cured between Downingtown and Coatesville. Scbotrs Regulated Steam System.

WESTERLY, R. I.—The directors of the Groton-Westerly Street Railway Company have decided to offer $200,000 of preferred stock to the public and to engage counsel to present the matter of public convenience and necessity SYSTEMS BUILT LAST YEAR . before a judge of the Superior Court. Senator Plamilton, of Groton, president of the company, states that the company is not yet ready to consider Mt. Vernon, HI. contracts for the construction of the road. A committee consisting of Presi- Indianapolis, - Ind. Peru, - - - Ind. dent Hamilton, A. H. Chappell, Charles B. Noyes and B. F. Williams has been appointed to secure locations for a power plant and obtain the right of Lafayette, - " New Castle, - " way where needed. Conditions are reported as progressing satisfactorily for the new company. Elwood, - - " Connorsville, - " MEMPHIS, TENN.—The railroad committee of the City Council has decided to recommend that a franchise for a street railway be granted Fletcher

R. Harris and associates, of St. Louis, for $150,000, one-third of which- is September 12, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxxi

payable on the day the contract is signed. In addition, Mr. Harris must deposit $5,000 as a guarantee that 10 miles of the road will be completed within twelve months. CLEAN YOUR CARS BEAUMONT, TEX.—The County Commissioners' Court has granted the with " " the dirt, and right of way to the Beaumont Traction Company for a railway along the while in service BEACON which removes improves and preserves the varnish, thus promoting beauty. more side of the county road to Spindle Top. durable surfaces and economy in repainting or revarnishing. NEWPORT NEWS, VA.—The route of the projected Jamestown, Youngs- Easy to apply. Write for Booklet, town & Old Point Electric Railway has been determined upon. The line will BEACON PAINT & VARNISH PRESERVATIVE CO., Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. have terminals at Newport News and Old Point. The route will be from 1313 Vine Jamestown Island to Williamsburg, to Yorktown, to Little Bethel, branching out there to Newport News and also to Old Point. The statement is made that the first car will run into Newport News from Jamestown before Jan. 1. This line is regarded as the first step toward a peninsular electric line to Rich- mond. Double tracks will be laid and modern suburban cars will be used. Rights of way have been secured for most of the route. RICHMOND, VA.—A charter has been granted to the Nelson & Albemarle Railway Company to build and operate an electric railway from the soapstone Advertising I in Your g ars quarry to the Southern Railway, a distance of 6 miles to 8 miles. The capital to the company best qualified to handle it successfully. .:: stock is $250,000. The incorporators are: J. W. Foster, H. L. Lane, D. J. Bldg., Carroll, F. V. Elsom, D. H. Pitts, J. G. Hopkins and George W. Bostwick. Eastern Offices, St. Paul Bids.. NEW YORK Executive Offices, SteTeas DETROIT SPOKANE, WASH.—A 60-mile electric railway to run from Spokane via THE MULFORD & PETRY COMPANY Newman Lake to Rathdrum, then looping back to Cceur d'Alene City and Liberty Lake, with a spur to Steamboat Landing, on the Fend d'Oreille River, and a branch to Harrison, is proposed. Eastern capital is behind the enterprise. James Edwards, a civil engineer, formerly with the Northern Pacific, is preparing data to be submitted to the promoters. IMolsiet: Systems JANESVILLE, WIS.—The Janesville Traction Company announces that it Advise us of your wants in the ticket line and let us give will not build the proposed $1,000,000 line from Janesville to Madison, owing you the benefit of our experience. to the clause in the franchise which makes its life thirty-five years instead of We will submit a complete system covering your par- fifty years. ticular needs together with all necessary books and records. LA CROSSE, WIS.—The proposed electric railway between Sparta and Ask for our illustrated catalog. Melrose may be begun this fall. An Eastern bonding firm is expected to THE FARR «3 FOSTER CO. Chicago, 111. finance the road. W. Sarles and J. Kemp, of Sparta, who have been in the East, have succeeded in interesting Eastern capitalists, and as a result several men representing Simonds & Aldnch, bond brokers of New York, and Mr. Sawin, chief engineer for the McGrath Construction Company, of Pennsylvania, are in La Crosse examining the proposed route. Mr. Sawin M. P. HILLYER & COMPANY will base his estimate on a better roadbed, better rails and a more substantial line in every respect than was formerly pioposed, as he thinks the possi- 49 WALL ST., NEW YORK bilities of the road warrant it. If the electric road to Melrose is built it ATLANTIC BUILDING will be completed next summer. La Crosse has voted $25,000, Melrose $15,000, Little Falls $10,000, and Lafayette $5,000. Steam and Electric Railroads Financed MADISON, WIS.—The Chicago & Northwestern Lakes Electric Railway Railroad and Gas Bonds a Specialty Company, which proposes to build an electric railway from Chicago to We Invite Correspondence Kilburn City, has filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. The route in Wisconsin is from a point on the State line in Kenosha County, through Kenosha, Walworth, Jefferson, Dane and Columbia Counties. The capital stock is $50,000, in 500 shares of $100 each. The incorporators are:, Alexander Clark, Charles S. Mcllvain, Samuel M. Hamilton, of Chicago; Fred Kull, E. P. Wheeler, of Lake Geneva.

WHEELING, W. VA.—It is stated that in the near future the Wheeling & Elm Grove Traction Company will build another power house. The new building will be situated in Elm Grove, although the exact location has not yet been selected.

CANADIAN NOTES

STRATFORD, ONT.—The Council is prepared to negotiate with parties who would be willing to establish an electric railway here.

PRESTON, ONT.—The Berlin & Preston Railway Company is excavating for a power house at this place.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT.—At the meeting of the City Council, the franchise to the Peterborough & Ashburnham Radical Electric Railway Company, which is practically the American Cereal Company, was agreed upon. The principal clauses of the franchise provide that 5 miles of railway within the town are to be equipped and in operation not later than July 1, 1904. The plans of the company include extensions to Ashburnham, Lakefield, Young's Point and Chemong. ST. BONIFACE, MAN.—The by-law for an electric railway has been passed, and the Winnipeg Street Railway Company has signified its willingness to run its cars into St. Boniface over the Norwood Bridge and along Rue Marion, north of Avenue Tache to Rue Provencher, and thence to Avenue Thisault, where the end of the line would be opposite St. Boniface College. The is company also prepared to furnish the town with electric light.

NEWS NOTES

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.-The State Board of Equalization has assessed for the first time the United Railways, of San Francisco. No such assessment has ever before been made, but the decision in the San Mateo electric road case settled the matter, and, as lines running into two or more counties may now be merged for assessment purposes, the new rule gives the State Board jurisdiction over the whole system of street railways. The Board has valued the franchises, rails, rolling stock, etc., of the United Railways at $20,150,000. CHICAGO, ILL.—The city has called on the Union Traction Company to factory and N pay $200,000 as license rtrr-r-r-»/ WT' fees on the grin -ars used by the company since the MAIN OFFICE DETROIT, installation of the grip-car system. The Traction Company has been calling the grip car and the first trailer as one car for license purposes, while the XXX11 STREET RAIEWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. n.

Chicago City Railway, it is said, has paid for each grip car making trips, th" same as the trailers. The city now insists the Traction Company shall pay ihe $50 license for each grip car, in addition to that for the trailer. TO PREVENT the Boston OR BOSTON, MASS.—The explosion of a gasolene torch in East Tunnel under Court Street, Saturday afternoon, Sept. 5, set fire to the planking which covered the hole, seriously injured one workman and imperilled REPAIR AN ACCIDENT scores of others. With the exception of the one workman burned, all the crowded the others escaped with little more than fright, the pedestrians, who instantaneous telephone communication is often essential. You the time, escaping likewise. The accident was the second of the street at can obtain such communication with the different parts of your kind within a week, three men being badly burned in the first. It was neces- system by installing the telephone illustrated below. It is sary to fill in the trench with sand to smother the flames. especially constructed to meet the requirements of traction WORCESTER, MASS.—The Boston & Worcester Street Railroad Com- companies. pany is held to be "seriously at fault" by the Railroad Commissioners for the collision in Shrewsbury on July 25, 1903, in which one person was killed and several received serious injuries. The Board, in its report, which was filed fault to Sept. 3, says: "Inquiry shows the company seriously at in respect the management of its railway. It had adopted a method of car despatching by telephones. This system, when properly used, is a safe one. The mistake, as far as the public safety was concerned, was in the failure to provide for its proper use. In brief, investigation of this accident disclosed ineffective management. The remedies for evils of careless management have been found in the civil liabilities to which it exposes the stockholders of the company and in the criminal prosecution of those personally responsible for care- lessness, whether they be officials or employees. It is questionable whether accidents that arise from a failure to manage properly a railway can be pre- vented by any other means than the enforcement of laws of this kind." NEWARK, N. J.— Chief Justice Gummere, in the Essex County Court ot Oyer and Terminer, has granted the motion for dismissal of the indictments for manslaughter against eleven officials of the North Jersey Street Railway Company, who were accused of having caused the death of Ernestina Miller, the high school pupil, killed with eight others in the Clifton Avenue, New- ark, crossing accident of Feb. 19. It was alleged that their neglect of duty was responsible for the fatality. The motion to dismiss the indictment was made at the trial by Richard V. Lindabury, of counsel for the defendants, after the State had presented all its evidence and had rested its case.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.^On Sunday evening, Sept. 6, a car of the Myrtle Ave- nue line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was in collision with a MAY WE SUB/IIT A PROPOSITION AND SEND SAflPLE FOR car of the Seventh Avenue line of the same company at Myrtle Avenue and COMPETITIVE TEST ? Adams Street. Twenty persons were injured. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—H. Milton Kennedy, of Brooklyn, has secured the American Electric Telephone Co. contract for the removal of ashes in Brooklyn. It is announced that he had transferred the contract to the American Railway Traffic Company, and that CHICAGO, ILLINOIS will ashes will hereafter be taken away in trolley cars. Carts be used in Largest Telephone Manufacturers in the World gathering the ashes, which will be carried to the stations, where the cars will be loaded. Mr. Kennedy formerly was connected with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, and his system of handling ashes and refuse was described in the Street Railway Journal some time ago. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal and President Winter, of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, have turned down the application of Nels Poulson for a thirty-minute test of his plan of running cars on the Brooklyn Bridge. Mr. Poulson recently applied to President Winter for a special thirty-minute test to be held some time during the day, just to show COLUMBIA STEEL how his plan would work. Mr. Winter referred the request to Commissioner Lindenthal. Mr. Poulson tried to persuade the Commissioner that a little test would be a good thing. Commissioner Lindenthal could not see it that way and so informed Mr. Poulson. He also wrote to President Winter that TROLLEY POLES he thought a thirty-minute test would be useless. NEWBURGH, N. Y.—A head-on collision on the Orange County Traction RATCHET BRAKE HANDLES QV Saturday afternoon, Sept. 5, severely injured five ^f^ line, near the city boundary, persons. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Opposition on the part of the Broadway merchants to the construction of a subway spur on that thoroughfare from Forty-Second Street to Union Square by the "open-ditch" method has formally been made Millen Illuminated Car Signs, known to Mayor Low. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Announcement was made Aug. 31 by General Man- that the Gear Cases, Fields and Coils, ager T. J. Nicholl, of the Rochester Railway Company, company had granted an increase in the wages of its motormen and conductors of 1 cent an hour over the present scale of wages. The increase went into effect Armature and Axle Bearings Sept. 1. ihe present scale of wages is 17 cents an hour for the first six 1 months; lH /? cents for the second six months, nnd 20 cents after the first year. With the advance the men will receive 18 cents for the first six months; 19% cents for the second six months, and 21 cents an hour after the first year. Commutators, Car Trim- EASTON, PA.—A score of persons were hurt Monday afternoon, Sept. 7, in a head-on collision on the Easton and Bethlehem branch of the Lehigh Valley Traction Company, 2 miles west of this city. mings, Brass, Gray Iron and HARRISBURG, PA.—The control of the West Fairview & Marysville Electric Railway has passed into the hands of the Harrisburg & Mechanics- Malleable Iron Foundries burg Railway, the trolley company operating the lines into Harrisburg from various towns over the Susquehanna. George R. Alleman, the largest share- holder, is said to have admitted that control had passed, but declined to give figures. It is said that the Harrisburg & Mechanicsburg Railway has taken over almost three-fourths of the stock, paying $20 for the majority shares and $15 for the others. The stock amounts to $110,000 all told, and COLUMBIA MACHINE WORKS there is an equal amount of bonds. The acquisition of this line gives the Harrisburg & Mechanicsburg Railway control of the roads between Mechan- icsburg, Camp Hill, White Hill, New Cumberland, Marysville and Harris- burg. AND MALLEABLE IRON CO. HOUSTON, TEX.—The City Council has adopted an ordinance which has for its object the regulating of the street car hog. It makes it an offense BROOKLYN, N. Y., U. S. A. punishable by heavy fine for a passenger to occupy the end seat of a street car and refuse to move to make room for other passengers. : —

September 12, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxxm

FINANCIAL NOTES

SAN BERNARDINO, CAL.—The stockholders of the San Bernardino Valley Traction Company have authorized the issuance of $1,000,000 in bonds. While the Traction Company will have power to issue the entire amount of bonds called for, it is probable that only about $400,000 of the total will be placed at present. This amount will be sufficient to pay off outstanding bonds and the floating indebtedness of the corporation, and as this was the purpose which the company had in view, just now they do not deem it advisable to sell the entire $1,000,000 of securities. CHICAGO, ILL. —The Chicago City Railway Company has declared a quarterly dividend of 1% per cent, payable Sept. 30. SAVANNAH, GA.—The Savannah Electric Company reports earnings as follows Year ending July 1903 1902 Gross earnings $50,311 $46,550 Operating expenses 27,193 24,449

Net earnings $23,118 $22,101

Fixed charges • 9,831 9,583

Net profit $13,286 $12,518 June Gross earnings $503,230 $461,009 Operating expenses 297,611 275,243

Net earnings $205,618 $185,766 Fixed charges 115,500

Net profit $90,118 ......

CHICAGO, ILL. — Receiver Edwin J. Zimmer, of the Chicago General Railway Company, has petitioned the Circuit Court at Chicago to compel Erskine M. Phelps, Orson Smith, E. F. Bryant, Frank O. Leroy and A. Goddard Lowden, John S. Runnells, D. B. Scully, E. M. Fowler and Leroy A. Goddard to pay to the company $400,000 on account of $1,000,000 bonds I am Sterling No. 5's which it is alleged they purchased prior to April 17, 1900, for $600 per bond. The receiver understands the constitution of Illinois to forbid that bonds shall be issued except for their par value in money, labor or property. younger brother, LOUISVILLE, KY.—The directors of the Louisville Traction Company have extended the time limit for depositing the stock of the Louisville Rail- way Company for exchange for the stock of the Louisville Traction Com- pany until Sept. 10. No. 7. BOSTON, MASS.—Mason, Lewis & Company offer for subscription at 98% and interest $3,000,000 first mortgage thirty-year 5 per cent gold bonds of the Puget Sound Power Company. The total authorized issue is $4,000,000, of which the amount issued to complete present developments is $3,000,000. The principal and semi-annual interest are payable at the office of the Old Colony Trust Company, Boston, which is trustee under the mortgage. The property I'm lower priced, but on which the bonds are a first lien is a water-power plant situated on the Puyallup River, 45 miles from Seattle and 30 miles from Tacoma. The initial installation is 20,000 hp, with provision for additional power that will double pretty "husky," thank you. the capacity of the station. The company owns the land on both sides of the river for over 11 miles, power station, reservoir site and transmission lines following right of way owned in fee for some 13 miles to where the lifie of the Interurbnn Railroad is met, and the lines are carried into Seattle and Tacoma over the property of that company under perpetual lease. The I'm equal to anything bonds are guaranteed, principal, interest and sinking fund payments, by the Seattle Electric Company, which acquires the entire property, rights and franchises of the Power Company, making the security an obligation of the going (except No. 5) and I Seattle Electric Company, and a first lien on a most important part of the property. The entire issue may be called at 110 and interest upon sixty days' notice, and may be called by lot at 110 and interest through the operation of have some tricks the other the sinking fund, which provides for the retirement of 1 per cent of the total issue annually, beginning in 1906. The deed of trust covers also a thirty-five- year contract made with the Tacoma Railway & Power Company and the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway Company, operating as the Puget Sound boys never saw. Electric Railway, for 6333 hp at $20 per horse-power per annum. This amount of power is practically the surplus available above the needs of the Seattle Electric Company for its own uses. DETROIT, MICH.—The directors of Detroit United Railway have de- Remove my jacket, ex- clared the regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on the capital stock of the company, payable Oct. 1. LANSING, MICH.—The Lansing Street Railway has been sold by the amine my "works," and Hawks-Angus syndicate to Nelson Mills, of St. Marys, and his associates, who are interested in the Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Railway Company. It is said that the Hawks-Angus syndicate has arranged for the entrance of then try me in service. My its Lansing-Battle Creek line in the city over the Lansing Company's lines. HACKENSACK, N. J.—The Newark & Hackensack Traction Company, which operates from Hackensack to Arlington, a distance of about 12 miles, price is is now owned by the New York & New Jersey Railroad & Ferry Company, whose tracks run from Fort Lee through Hackensack to Paterson, with a branch to Englewood. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad Company reports earnings as follows: Quarter ended June 30 1903 1902 Gross receipts $438,253 $423,276 Sterling- Meaker Operating expenses 255,685 229,210 Co.,

Net earnings $182,568 $194,066 Receipts from other sources 621 2,847 NEWARK, N. J., U. S. A. Fixed charges 67,934 53,638

Surplus $115,254 $143,273 :

XXXIV STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. :i.

JAMAICA, N. Y.—Justice Albert H. Sewell, of the Supreme Court, and the New York State Railroad Commissioners have granted the petition of the New York & North Shore Railroad Company to change its name to the Long Island Electric Railway Company, the change to take effect Oct. 1. The latter title was the name of the company previous to its consolidation with the New York & North Shore Railroad under the name of the New York & North Shore Railroad. Subsequently the property and assets of the original New York & North Shore Railroad, the line connecting Flushing were sold under foreclosure of a mortgage, and they were and Jamaica, THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OF STEAM bought by the New York & Queens County Railroad Company. MINEOLA, N. Y.—A mortgage for $1,000,000 has been entered to the AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS Savings & Trust Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, by the Mineola, Hempstead AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS. & Freeport Traction Company, now the New York & Long Island Traction PRELIMINARY Company. The loan is for the purpose of extending the company's lines. ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES. The company now operates from Mineola to Freeport, and will soon have the REPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN OPERATION. extension from Rockville Centre to the New York city line finished. It also operates a line to Queens and contemplates lines to Babylon from Free- port; also routes on the north, central and southerly sections of the island into the city of New York, through traffic agreement with other lines or its own. HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The Rochester Railway Company reports earnings as follows: Year ended June 30 1903 1902 Gross receipts $1,291,369 $1,044,006 Operating expenses 692,931 572,983

Net earnings $59S,438 $471,023 Receipts from other sources 32,983 24,216 J. G. WHITE 'iotal income $631,421 $495,239 & COMPANY Fixed charges 392,882 313,540 INCORPORATED,

Surplus $238,539 $181,699 156,250 54,110 Dividends , Engineers, Contractors,

Surplus $82,289 $127,589 29 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The regular semi-annual dividend of $4 per share declared on Philadelphia Traction stock, payable regis- has been Oct. 1, as LONDON CORRESPONDENT: tered Sept. 11. J. C. White Sl CHATTANOOGA, TENN.—The Rapid Transit Company, of Chattanooga, Company, Limited operated by the United Railways, Light & Water Company, of Philadelphia, 22a College Hill, Cannon St. for the last fiscal year ending June 30, showed an increase in gross earnings of 36% per cent over the previous year. July and August, 1903, show an increase in earnings over July and August, 1902, of about 40 per cent, and the gross receipts of August, 1903, show an increase of 112 per cent over August, 1901. The growth of the electric railway business in Chattanooga is wonderful, and with the new army post at Chickamauga Park, upon which the government is expending $1,000,000, and which will be ready for use next spring, and the national encampment of militia at Chickamauga Park next year should make the receipts in Chattanooga very heavy in the future, and especially so Sanderson & Porter to the lines operated by the Rapid Transit Company, which is the only company that operates to Chickamauga Park and that has an incline up ENGINEERS AND Lookout Mountain. CONTRACTORS KNOXVILLE, TENN.—The Knoxville Traction Company and the Knox- Electric Railways, ville Electric Light & Power Company report jointly as follows: 52 WILLIAM STREET Light, Power and Six months ending May 31 1903 1902 Hydraulic Plants. NEW YORK Gross earnings $125,072 $100,455 Operating expenses 68,761 65,588

Net earnings $56,311 $34,867 W. EC. BAKER H. R. BISHOP Interest and taxes 37,132 36,409

Surplus $19,179 "$1,542 W. E. BAKER & CO. * Deficit. ENGINEERS The balance sheet as of May 30, 1903, shows: ASSETS 170 BROADWAY NEW YORK Property and franchises $1 553 Construction and betterment 311,942 Stock interest in other companies 54 732 Accounts receivable jg g24 Supplies iS^gg WILLIAfl A. ROSENBAUM Cash • 53,168 electrical expert and patent Solicitor Reserve for insurance 4 74O Nassau Beekman Building NEW YORK CITY Tota * $2,012,257 LIABILITIES Capital stock $750,000 THOMAS B. WHITTED First mortgage 5 per cent bonds 850 000 Consulting Engineer Debenture 6 per cent certificates 300 000 Accounts 221-334 Equitable Building - DENVER, COLORADO and vouchers payable 18 537 Interest accrued on bonds 7 083 Taxes accrued g 44^ Surplus and undivided profits 80196

Total $2,012,257 Tennis Brothers Company HOUSTON, TEX.—The Houston Electric Company reports earnings as follows ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, BUILT AND EQUIPPED une J 1903 1902 Gross earnings $37,237 «1.89° 22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, Operating expenses 21,976 16,679 1 Cincinnati, Ohio Pittsburg, Pa. Net earnings $ i 5;261 QSJStk September 12, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXXV

Fixed charges 6,712 6,250

Net profit $8,548 $8,970 Year ending June Gross earnings $398,219 $322,560 Operating expenses 246,216 187,730

Net earnings $152,003 $134,829 Fixed charges 77,240

Net profit $74,763

SALT LAKE, UTAH.—A. W. McCune, of Salt Lake, has transferred all of his interest in the Consolidated Railway & Power Company, which owns LIGHTI/NG—POWER—RAILWAYS and operates the entire street railway system of the city, to the Utah Light & Power Company. The deal includes a transfer of $6,000,000, Mr. McCune receiving $3,000,000 and the other $3,000,000 being represented by the bonded v * * indebtedness of the company, which is assumed by the purchasers. This is really a transfer of the property to the Mormon Church, and is the second largest deal ever consummated in Utah. IS04-I506-I808-1SI0-1SI2 Flstier Building, = CHICAGO NORFOLK, VA.— Proceedings have been instituted before Federal Judge YVaddill in the form of an application for a co-receiver for the Hampton Roads Railway & Light Company, recently placed in the hands of R. I. Mason, third vice-president of the Hampton Roads Company, as receiver. In the absence of Attorney R. G. Bickford, of Newport News, who asked for the appointment of Mr. Mason as receiver, Judge Waddill declined to hear. W.

J. Nelms, whom the court is asked to name as co-receiver, is president of the Hampton Roads Company. Arnold Electric Power Station Co. AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS STONE & WEBSTER, of Boston, Mass., have moved their offices to the ninth, tenth and eleventh floors of the newly-constructed India Building, Designers and Builders of Complete State Street, corner of Merchants' Row. Their address now is No. 84 State Street. Electric Railway, Lighting and Power Installations.

THE JOHN A. STEWART ELECTRIC COMPANY, of Cincinnati, is now handling an excellent line of second-hand electric railway apparatus. Marquette Building, John A. Stewart, president of the company, is very widely known in the Transit Building, electrical field, and has been conducting an extensive repair shop in Cincin- NEW YORK Chicago. nati for some time past. Mr. Stewart will continue to handle repair work, in addition to managing the company which he has recently organized for the sale of second-hand electrical and steam apparatus.

THE WALTER A. ZELNICKER SUPPLY COMPANY, of St. Louis, with branches at Chicago, Seattle, Mobile, New Orleans and Houston, issue a daily bulletin showing rails, railroad equipment, machinery, etc., which it has at various points in the United States. This company operates a rail and equipment department second to none, and is in a position to furnish rails, either for cash or time, new or second-hand. At the present time it H. M. BYLLESBY & CO. has a large quantity of 50-lb. and 60-lb. relayer rails for prompt shipment. INCORPORATED J. P. PROVOST, for the past twelve years prominently connected with the R. D. Nuttall Company, will hereafter be associated with George W. Provost in the management of the General Railway Supply Company, Park Building, while with the R. Nuttall made Pittsburg. J. P. Provost, D. Company, Engineers many friends in the electrical field, and his knowledge of the trade in general and his pleasing personality will without doubt be an important factor in handling successfully and promptly the increasing business his company is Design, Construct and Operate Raillfray enjoying. It is the intention to add many new lines, and when this is accomplished orders will be accepted for anything pertaining to the electrical Light, Power and Hydraulic Plants trade. THE ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION COMPANY, of Chicago, has EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS closed a contract for a 12-mile electric railway for Trinidad, Col., and the adjacent towns of Starkville and Sopris. The contract provides for the com- construction and equipment of the railway, including buildings for power plete New York Life Building CHICAGO, ILL. house and car house, complete steam and electric plant, track, overhead work, cars, trucks and motors. The power plant will be a combined electric railway and lighting plant of about 900-kw capacity, two-thirds of which will be for the railway and one-third for lighting. The specifications provide for water-tube boilers, direct-connected steam and electrical machinery, and the entire installation will be of the highest class throughout. Work has already been started, and it is expected the entire plant will be ready for operation

Feb. 1. 1904.

P. & F. CORBIN, of New Britain, Conn., are distributing to their friends a beautiful colored litho of the lower and older portion of New York as it is apprcachc-d from Jersey City. In this section the greater portion of the business is done that has made New York the commercial and financial Archbold-Brady Company, center of the world. It is here that the great corporations, with factories in various parts of the country, have their offices. Since the photograph was Engineers and Contractors taken from which the engraving was made several very tall buildings have been erected, upon which Corbin hardware has been used. Corbin hardware, by the way, has been used upon New York's highest buildings, and this is Electric Railways Electric Light Plants also true of the highest buildings in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Cleveland, Pittsburg and other large cities. The most pleasing thing about High Tension Power Transmission the picture is that it is not stamped with the name of the givers and gentle reminders of their "fifty-seven varieties." Friends who are fortunate enough Structural Iron and Steel to receive one of these pictures will have no trouble in remembering who their kind benefactors were. 918-920 University Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y. THE NEW BUILDINGS of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, at Pittsburg, are now rapidly approaching completion. The main building is 1650 ft. long, and, like all the other buildings to which it is xxxvi STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. ii.

parallel, is composed of three bays. The two side bays are 80 ft. wide, having gallery floors, and the center bay is 70 ft. wide with clerestory and is traversed by several traveling cranes of thirty tons' capacity, all operated by alternating current furnished by two 1000-kw turbo-generators. The addition of this building to the older group allows of a complete change of method in manufacture. While at present a certain class of generator or motor is begun and completed in its individual department, in the future the manufacture of the detail parts of these appliances will be specialized, and each department will be devoted to the manufacture of one class of detail only, from its largest to its smallest size. This change is in conformity with the tendency toward the factory system of manufacturing even very large and complicated products, which, during the past few years, has made this country pre-eminently the leader in the industrial world.

THE WESTERN ELECTRICAL SUPPLY COMPANY, of St. Louis, announces that owing to the constant growth of its business during the past ten years, it has found it advisable to increase its cash capital and divide the business into two parts. That portion relating to electrical supplies, good will and stock of goods, the company has sold to The Wesco Supply Com- pany, a new company just organized, with ample capital to continue that business, under the personal management of R. V. Scudder. The Wesco Supply Company has a large cash capital, and pays the Western Electrical Supply Company cash for all merchandise and a bonus for good will. The other part of the business, the building of electric light plants and electric railroads, will be retained by the Western Electrical Supply Company. It will hereafter restrict itself to this branch, and now has on hand contracts calling for orders for nearly a million dollars. All liabilities of the company will be liquidated by the Western Electrical Supply Company, which expects shortly to increase its capital to $300,000, and will discount all future pur- chases. The company will continue to be personally managed by H. K. The Njwtion&J Elevating Grader, Gilman, with offices at Chemical Building, St. Louis, Mo. H. K. Gilman, of Ditcher and Waggon Loader the Western Electrical Supply Company, will retain an interest in The Wesco will excavate and place in embankment r.ooo II' Supply Company, and will serve as one of its directors. Both companies will cubic yards of earth in ten hours or will load 500 be officered by old employees of the Western Electrical Supply Company, and, or 600 wagons per day. with ample cash and better facilities than ever before, will undoubtedly con-

til '-':/ tinue the record of success made by the old concern. -v. The above illustration shows direct draft chain, plow - regulating bar, elevator adjustment, and WatertouryButton trussed frame. Oo. Waterbury Conn.

4=8 Howard St., 3NT. Y.

Do you want a book on any Engineering Subject ? WE CAN FURNISH IT.

McQraw Publishing Co. BOOK DEPARTMENT, 114 Liberty Street, New York. l7"2 A ow ROBINS CONVEYING BELT CO., ,iE& % RE

BARRETT JACKS IWeet Every Lifting FOREARSALL SIZES TROLLEY WIRE. WRITE FOR ESTIMATES Acquirement

THEY ARE . . . EASILY HANDLED. AMERICAN BRASS FOUNDRY GO,, Hyde Park, Mass. QUICK. DURABLE and POWERFUL.

The "Cleveland" Motor Lift Send for Catalog and Prices A Hydraulic Pit Jack used by many prominent roads. Has revolving table THE with side adjustment. Easy to operate. Strong and durable. DUFFMF6.G0. CITY MACHINE CO. PITTSBURG, PA. Works: Allegheny, Pa. 25-31 Michigan St. CLEVELAND, 0. September iy, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxi

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA.— R. A. Wallace, A. T. Averill, John T. Hamilton the company is to rebuild the Seventh Street Viaduct. This viaduct is and John M. Redmond, well-known capitalists of this city, have made appli- across the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific tracks, a concession which the cation to the City Council for a franchise permitting them to build and Metropolitan has been endeavoring to secure for some time. operate an entirely new street railway system for Cedar Rapids. If the ST. LOUIS, MO.—Fifteen new cars, fifty more of which are to be de- Council passes the ordinance, work will he commenced next spring. livered this week, and with which the St. Louis & Suburban Railway Com- WASHINGTON, IA. Articles of incorporation of the City, Kalone — Iowa pany will make up its quota of 200 additional cars for the World's Fair, were Washington Railway have filed Recorder of & been with the County Wash- delivered to the company last week. The new coaches are similar to those ington County. of constructing" The company is organized for the purpose recently placed in service on the suburban lines. They have olive-green interurban an electric railway from Iowa City, the county seat of Johnson bodies, ample platforms, lights and seating capacity. Superintendent Jenkins County, via Kalona to Washington, the county seat of Washington County, says there are many details of construction which might not appeal to the a distance of about 24 miles. -capital is and Washington The stock $50,000, public, but will add to the utility of the cars. There is more space beneath is named as the principal place business. are: of The officers George Rod- the seats to permit of readier and more thorough cleaning. All attempts at man, of Washington, president; P. Coast, of City, vice-president; W. Iowa ornamentation have been avoided. There is no nickel-plating. The ma- Willard Welch, of Iowa City, secretary; G. M. Kacvk, of Washington, J. hogany finish is in the Pullman light construction style. treasurer. The board of directors is composed of above-named officers and G. W. Wagner and E. G. Smith, of Kalona; G. S. Carson, of Iowa City; DECATUR, NEB.—The survey of the first section of the Omaha, Decatur Amos Alberson and S. W. Brookhart, of Washington. & Northern Electric Railway Company from Decatur to Tekamah has been completed. LOUISVILLE, KY.—The Kentucky Traction Company has filed amended articles of incorporation. The capital stock is increased to $5,000,000 and the NEWARK, N. J. —The Public Service Corporation has ordered derailing installed all the bonded indebtedness to the same amount. The company is given the righi switches to be at the points in Essex to where the tracks of to build a line from Rock Haven to Owensboro and one from Hopkinsville Erie and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad cross the trolley lines to Bowling Green. at grade. LOUISVILLE, KY—The Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Com- TRENTON, N. J.—A map has been filed with the Secretary of State by pany has decided lo authorize a bond issue of $1,000,000, the proceeds ol the Burlington & Mount Holly Railroad Company, covering the route of a which are to be used in extending and equipping the company's lines in proposed line from Morrisville into Trenton, to connect with the line of the New Albany and Jeffersonville and its interurban imes, and in acquiring and Camden & Trenton Company, the connection to be made at Bridge and purchasing other lines. The company has already projected an interurban Union Streets, and from that point over Union and South Warren Streets to line from New Albany to Corydon, Wyandotte Cave and Leavenworth, and the center of town. No papers were filed with the map, but it is generally another from New Albany to French Lick and West Baden Springs. Still understood that the company is the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was another interurban line that the company has in contemplation will extend formed two years ago to equip with electricity the Pennsylvania's branch from Jeffersonville to Madison, along the Indiana side of the Ohio River. lines in Burlington County. These lines the company expects ultimately to build. In addition to the BINGHAMTON, N. Y. —The Common Council has granted a franchise new lines the company has in contemplation, it will make vast improvements to the Binghamton Railway Company to run its cars over the Tompkins in the lines it already has in operation betweeen New Albany and Jeffersonville. Street Bridge and through Tompkins Street. The company expects to double track a good portion of this line, and the ITHACA, N. Y.—The Ithaca-Horseheads Electric Railway Company will Big Four Bridge will have to be equipped when the line is extended to soon file letters of incorporation at Albany. The capitalists interested in the Louisville. Improvements will also be made in the New Albany Street Rail- road are: W. H. McFarland, of Toledo, and M. D. Baly, of the Standard way system, a portion of which will be double tracked. There will also be Oil Company, of Cleveland. The company has been able to extend the some extensions to the New Albany Street Railway lines. originally proposed line from Horseheads over Grand Central Avenue to NEW ORLEANS, LA.—A large contract has been closed by Knox, George Elmira Heights, and thence over private right of way into Elmira. The road & Company, with offices at 602 Tulane-Newcomb Building. The contract will extend to Enfield Glen, through Newfield, Pony Hollow and Alpine, comprises the construction of an interurban railway line at Birmingham where the power house is to be built, to Odessa and to Horseheads. It is which will cost when completed about $800,000. The new company, which will proposed to lay a double-track system from Ithaca to Newfield. The entire be known as the Birmingham & Steel Cities Railway & Power Company, will length of the line will be 59 miles. The Chemung River will be crossed at construct 40 miles of road, which, while operated in the same general district Big Flats by a 350-ft. span. as that covered by the older company, will open up entirely new territory. SYRACUSE, N. Y.— It is stated that the Auburn & Syracuse Electric The line will run from Birmingham to such outlying cities as Ensley, Pratt Railroad Company has decided to proceed at once with the work of double City, Bessemer and surrounding towns and factory districts. The territory tracking its road as far as Mauellers. covered has a population of 113,000 people, and the monthly pay-roll of the ASHEVILLE, N. C.—W. A. Smith, attorney at Hendersonville, has re- 45,000 workmen, who are mainly engaged in the mines and furnaces that ceived from Charles B. Thompson, Hotel Marlborough, New York City, a line the city of Birmingham, is about 000,000 per month. In addition to Z2. proposition to build a trolley line from Asheville to Hendersonville and being the largest contract of the kind ever let to a New Orleans firm, the line, Rutherford. Mr. Thompson proposes to build by way of. West Asheville, when completed, will be the longest interurban line in the South. Work will Mills River, Reedy Pt'tch Gap, Bat Cave and Chimney Rock, and states that begin next week, when the preparation of plans and the surveys will be his engineers and attorneys have in the past four months carefully investi- inaugurated. Construction will begin "he latter part of this year or the be- gated the matter. He asks that Henderson County issue $100,000 bonds, for ginning of next, as soon as the details can be arranged. which preferred stock shall be issued to the county, and that his company NORTH ADAMS, MASS.—The Hoosac Valley Street Railway Company will grade the road and lay rails hetween Hendersonville and Rutherford has begun excavation on its new line to Adams. before the bonds are required to be delivered to the company. NORTH ADAMS, MASS.—The Hoosac Valley Street Railway Company AKRON, OHIO.—The Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company has has asked the Railroad Commission for the approval of new locations which placed contracts for the installation of a 2500-hp engine and generator to be will permit the improvement of curves and grades. delivered about Jan. 1. The company has placed a contract for ten new Pittsfield Board of Aldermen PITTSFIELD, MASS.—The has under con- cars. It is the intention to install limited service on the line between Cleve- sideration petitions of the Pittsfield Street Kailway Company for franchises in land and Akron. Morningside and other sections of the city, and for a double-track location CINCINNATI, OHIO.—At a recent stockholders' meeting of the Traction on Waconah Street to Pontoosuc Lake. Terminal Company, of Cincinnati, George B. Cox and George Warrington Springfield SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Street Railway Company has were elected directors to succeed N. S. Keith, of Cincinnati, and H. B. received petitions from the towns of Hampden, Mass., and Stafford Springs, McGraw, of Cleveland. Mr. Keith retains his position as secretary. J. B. Conn., for an extension of its lines to those places. The petitions have the Foraker was elected president; F. N. Wilcox, vice-president, and Dana the Springfield of Trade. support of Board Stevens, treasurer. This is the company which was formed to build a stan- interurban lines. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Springfield Suburban Street Railway Com- dard-gage entrance into Cincinnati for pany has been given a hearing by the Railroad Commission on its petition CINCINNATI, OHIO.—Construction has been started on the west end of for the approval of locations granted by the Aldermen of Springfield. The the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Railway between Rushville and Indianapolis. Springfield Street Railway Company, which asked for similar locations, has The survey from Rushville to Connersville is completed, and the line from appeared in opposition. The Suburban Company asks for the approval of Hamilton through Oxford to Connersville is well under way. The line will be certain private-way locations also. built for high speed, and it will aim to compete with the steam roads for WORCESTER, MASS.—A case under the "missing-link" law has been through traffic. Charles L. Henry is president and general manager of the brought before the Railroad Commission by the petition of the Hartford company. Street Railway Company for a location in the town of Oxford. Oxford CINCINNATI, OHIO.— It is announced that the Interurban Railway & Selectmen have refused to act on the company's petition, and the Commission Terminal Company ; s planning to extend its Rapid Railway from Lebanon is asked to grant a location that will connect locations in adjoining towns. to Xenia. In connection with the Springfield & Xenia Railway, already in a new through system between Cincinnati and CADILLAC, MICH.—W. J. Cornwell, ol Cadillac; F. N. Gaffney, of Lake operation, this would form

City, and J. N. Orr, of Warren, Ohio, have presented a petition to the Springfield. Council for franchises over twelve streets in this city. It is proposed to CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The Eastern Ohio Traction Company is planning build summer resorts at Lake Mitchell and Lake Cadillac, and connect them extensive improvements for its Garrettsville Division. It is probable that the with electric lines. power equipment will be improved and that new rolling stock will be added. DULUTH, MINN.— It is said that the Duluth-Superior Traction Company George L. Bishop, the newly elected president, is formulating the plans. will spend $40,000 on new machinery to be installed in the power house in CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Com- Duluth. pany has commenced the erection at the Elyria power station of the Cleve- KANSAS CITY, MO.—The City Council of Kansas City, Kan., has passed land & Southwestern Traction Company of the two 1000-kw alternating-cur- an ordinance granting the Metropolitan Street Railway Company the right rent Parsons turbine sets ordered some time ago. Three 5D0-hp Heine boilers, of way across the James Street Viaduct for the stock yards line, for which a new switchboard and static transformers are also to be installed. xxii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 12.

CLEVELAND, OHIO.—Property owners on West Madison Avenue, in Lakewood, have signed a petition which will be presented to the Lakewood Council, requesting them to give a franchise to the Cleveland Electric Rail- way to run to Rocky River out West Madison Avenue. R. IS. Martinetz, who is one of those interested in getting signatures to the petition, stated The Climax stock Guard that the railroad committee had promised, if a twenty-five-year franchise is E. obtained from the Lakewood Council, to extend the road out that way inside H. OVERSTREET, General Manager of two years. 714 Marquette Bldg. Chicago, III. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—A meeting of the stockholders of the Muncie, Hartford & Fort Wayne Traction Company has been called for Sept. 25 for the purpose of financing the company. It is announced that an outside bank- ing house has agreed to take the entire issue of bonds providing some of the issue is retired. The bonds are now held to secure a loan over and above that paid on the original underwriting for the construction of the road. It is understood that after the bonds are placed and the debt paid there will be something like 35 per cent of the original amount subscribed for distribution among the underwriters, in addition to which they will receive an allotment of preferred and common stock. It is generally believed that under the new financing plan the control of the road will pass into the hands of interests closely allied with those which control the Indiana Union Traction Com- pany's system.

COLUMBUS, OHIO.—W. H. Luchtenberg, contractor for the Columbus, Marysville & Bellefontaine Railway, states that actual construction work on the line will start within thirty days. Practically all the right of way has been secured.

DELAWARE, OHIO.—The Delaware & Magnetic Springs Railway Com- pany has commenced the erection of a power house on the Scioto River, near here. The plant will be completed shortly after the first of the year.

DELAWARE, OHIO.—The Columbus, Delaware & Marion Railway is building a spur line from Prospect to Richwood. The farmers along the Climax Stock Guards on the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley route are so anxious to secure the line that they are doing much of the Railway between Pitts' on and Scranton, Pa. grading free of charge.

LIMA, OHIO.—The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Western Ohio Railway was held recently, and the following officers were re-elected: Over 3,000 Guards sold last season A. E. Aikens, L. J. Wolf, M. J. Mandelbaum, H. C. Lang, J. R. Nutt, Will Christy, F. T. Pomeroy, F. D. Carpenter and L. M. Coe, directors; A. E. SALES IN MARCH AND APRIL, THIS YEAR :

Akins, president; L. J. Wolf and J. R. Nutt, vice-presidents; M. J. Mandel- Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Ry., Elgin Branch 120 Guards " baum, treasurer; H. C. Lang, secretary, and F. D. Carpenter, Stark Electric Ry. Alliance, ( hio 120 general " Canton & New Philadelphia R R., Ohio 90 manager. " Rochester & Hastern Rapid Ry 70 Long Island Railroad Co 4c " MARION, OHIO.—The Columbus, Delaware & Marion Railway Company " Vandegrift Construction Co., Kennett Square, Pa 25 " has completed its line into Marion, and cars are now running in regular Rock Island System 50 service between Columbus and Marion. 515 NEWARK, OHIO.—The Newark, Martinsburg & Mount Vernon Traction Company has organized with the following officers: Edward H. Everett, president; J. W. Shromtz, vice-president; J. A. Chilcote, treasurer; J. E. Elliott, secretary; Edward Kibler, counsel. The company has secured practically all the right of way from Newark to Martinsburg and from Gambier to Mount Vernon.

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.—Grading for the Springfield, Troy & Piqua Railway, the Bushnell line, has been completed, and track laying and overhead work will start at once. General Manager Green states that the line will be in operation in January. Work on the power house at Springfield muskets is progressing rapidly. m-mmm Owing to the inability to secure the prompt delivery of the Curtis turbo-generators, with which it was originally proposed to equip the station, the company has ordered and will install other types of units. m ARE STANDARD WASHINGTON C. H., OHIO.—The Ohio River & Columbus Railway Company has filed a mortgage for $1,000,000 in favor of the Union Savings Bank & Trust Company, of Cincinnati. The mortgage secures bonds for the construction of a steam and electric road through Franklin, Madison, Fayette, Pickaway, Highland and Brown Counties, Ohio. The line will extend from Maysville, Ky., to Washington C. H.. where connection will be made for Columbus. Over a portion of the route the road will follow an abandoned grade which was laid out fifty years ago. Plans have been perfected for coal elevators at Maysville and Aberdeen. The road will be constructed for handling freight trains by steam. The officers of the company are: G. Baumbach, president; E. E. Galbreath, vice-president; W. G. Wagen- thals, general manager. W. G. Wagenthais Company, of Cincinnati, are the contractors for the road.

ZANESVILLE, OHIO.—The Southern Ohio Railway, Light & Power Company has been incorporated by M. H. Hissey and others. Temporary capital stock is $10,000. It is proposed to build an electric line from Zanes- ville to Roseville, Crooksville, Sayre and New Lexington.

ALLENTOWN, PA.—The Lehigh Valley Traction Company began running cars through from this city to Bangor Sept. 6. The present hourly service between Easton and Bangor has been discontinued and a half-hourly service between Easton and Nazareth established, reducing the running time between the last-named points to forty minutes. No. 190 Bracket, 10 ft long. No. 439 Double Wire, Double CANONSBURG, PA.—The Washington & Canonsburg Electric Railway, Curve Insulators. Two No. 0000 Round Trolley Wires. Buy the Best. connecting these towns, was placed in operation Sept. 7. Cars will run every Bourbon No. 2 Strain Insulators. hour. The road is 7 miles in length and cost about $600,000. It is to be ex- LINE MATERIAL POLE FITTINGS tended to East Canonsburg, about a mile east of its present terminus. Complete Equipment for Overhead Construction CHAMBERSBURG, PA.—The Town Council has granted the Chambers- WRITB FOR CATALOGUE burg & Gettysburg Electric Railway Company a franchise to build a line on CO. East Queen Street between Main and Second Streets, thus reducing the run- CREAGHEAD ENGINEERING MANUFACTURERS ning time between Chambersburg and Fayetteville when the line is completed. ENGINEERS AND 315 Walnut Street CINCINNATI, OHIO CONNELLSVILLE, PA.—The Pittsburg, McKeesport & Connellsville Railway Company has closed the last gap in the coke region trolley system between Alverton and Hunker. Fairchance and Irwin are now connected by September 19, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxiii

trolley. The main portion of the system runs parallel with the southwest branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and with the exception of the Redstone Railroad branch, touches every town along that road. In addition to the main line, branches run out from the mosr important towns along the trolley system. The system connects at Hunker with the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Greensburg Railway.

DANVILLE, PA. —Two petitions have been presented to the Commission- :lcclric Railway ers of Montour and Northumberland Counties, one asking that the right to use the river bridge be granted to the Danville & Riverside Street Railway Company, and another opposing this request. Burgess Shepperson, of River- side, favors the petition of the trolley company, and the Riverside Town Council has passed on first reading an ordinance granting the company a franchise. The Commissioners will await an opinion from their County Solicitors before taking any action on the petitions.

DARBY, PA.—Cars of the Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Electric Railway are running into this place. Springfield Avenue is the temporary terminus, but the line will be extended to Main Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets. A connection will then be made with the line now in oper- Manufacturers ation to Lansdowne, which is intended to extend to Angora. The work now being completed was delayed for nearly three years by adverse litigation in the Delaware County courts by another company, which sought to prevent the Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore line from entering this town over the Chester Pike.

DOYLESTOWN, PA.— Plans are progressing for the extension of the New Jersey & Pennsylvania Traction Company's lines now running from Newtown to Trenton, from Newtown to Willow Grove. It is thought the TUBULAR POLES road will be in operation within a year. President Charles M. Bates, of the company, said: "It is the intention to extend the road from Newtown to Willow Grove, and it is planned to run from Newtown to Richboro, Southamp- ne Kauway, ton, Davisville, Hatboro and thence to Willow Grove, where connections will be made with the Rapid Transit Company's system. The proposed road will open up a section that is without adequate transportation facilities."

ERIE, PA.—The Erie Motor Company has petitioned for a franchise to extend the double line of track laid from State to Peach Streets on West Twelfth Street westwardly to the city limits. JOHNSTOWN, PA.—The Johnstown, Woodvale Heights & Conemaugh Street Railway Company has been incorporated to build a 4-mile electric railway here. The company is capitalized at $30,000, and the president is Joseph H. Berlin, of Johnstown.

JOHNSTOWN, PA.— Surveys have been completed for the new Johnstown, Woodvale Heights & East Conemaugh Street Railway, which was chartered Aug. 31. The new line will be about 4 miles long, crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad by means of an overhead bridge. MECHANICSBURG, PA.— Burgess Underwood has signed the ordinance granting the White Hill & Mechanicsburg Trolley Company the right of way on York Street. pLe-:' Brackets PALMYRA, PA.—Surveys have been made for a 4-mile electric railway between this place and Valley Glen Park, in which Philadelphia capitalists V are interested.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The Northern Street Railway Company has been incorporated to build 5 miles of electric railway in Beaver County. William Redwood Wright, of Philadelphia, Pa., is president of the company.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The Germantown & Chestnut Hill Belt Line Railway has been incorporated to build an electric railway at Germantown. F. C. Eberhardt, John McConley and W. B. Eltonhead, 131 Washington Lane, Germantown, are interested. WASHINGTON, PA.—The 7-mile Washington & Canonsburg Electric Rail- RiEAIMJ/VE way connecting these two towns was put in operation Sept. 7. The line will soon be extended about 2 miles east of its present terminus to East Canons- burg. ATERIAL WILKESBARRE, PA.—The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Electric Rail- way Company began operating cars between Hancock Station (Plains) and Scranton on Sept. 15. The current was turned into the third rail Sept. 12. every description Hancock Station is but a mile north of this city's limits, but considerable work it remains to be done before the line will be finally completed between Scranton and this city. A cut 1000 ft. long, 40 ft. deep at the highest point, and 30 ft. wide the entire distance, has been started below Plains, while there will be a smaller cut at Midvale, and near this point a large concrete wall is being built to protect some of the workings of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company. The roadbed is graded from Midvale to the bridge crossing the roadway and Lehigh Valley tracks near North Wilkesbarre. The new bridge near North Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S> A. Wilkesbarre is almost completed. It is not expected that the line will be in operation to the proposed terminal in this city before Jan. 1, 1904. The company has erected a brick and concrete power and passenger station at incinnati, O. Reading, Pa. « * Etna, Pa. Hancock.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.—At a meeting of the stockholders of the Chat- tanooga Electric Railwany Company to be held in the latter part of September or early in October definite decisions will be reached on the construction of an electric railway up Lookout Mountain and a line to Chickamauga Park. ASK FOR For the past several months the company has been giving its entire attention to the 'perfection of the lines now in preparation, but it proposes to look to the extension of its system, and will probably undertake ventures representing the expenditure of several hundred thousand dollars. QUOTATIONS

CLARKSVILLE, TENN.—The Clarksvi'le Street Railway Company will, ON ABOVE MATERIAL it is reported, build ar, extension to Dunbar's Cave, 3 miles, and possibly other extensions will be built to New Providence and through South Clarks- ville. XXIV STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 12.

BEAUMONT, TEX.—Track laying on the Beaumont, Sour Lake & Port Arthur Traction Company's proposed line was begun Sept. 1. The line will run from Beaumont to Sour Lake and Saratoga, and from Beaumont to Port Arthur, in all about 55 miles. The general contractors are the Beaumont & THE EQUITABLE Sour Lake Construction Company. The rails have been purchased from the Carnegie Company, but the rolling stock and the motors have not yet been contracted for. TRUST COMPANY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.—T. P. Steffey, Milando Pratt and F. M. Lyman, Jr., have applied for a franchise to build an electric railway through the county. It is proposed by them to build an electric railway from Spring- 152 Monroe Street, CHICAGO ville to Logan via Provo, Salt Lake and Brigham. The promoters have already secured a franchise in Utah County, and will apply for the same Capital paid up ----- $900,000 rights in Davis and Weber Counties at once. They have petitioned the City Surplus - - - 273,000 Council of Salt Lake City for a similar grant through the metropolis, but no action has yet been taken on the matter by that body. It is understood that United States Senator Smoot, State Senator C. E. Loose and others, with the Telluride Power Company, are behind the project. Acts as Trustee for Corpora- RICHMOND, VA.—It has been definitely decided to extend the Seven tions, Firms and Individuals and Pines line of the Virginia Passenger & I'ower Company to Mechanicsville, which is 10 miles beyond the present terminus of the line. Work is to be as Agent for the registration started as soon as the work of rebuilding the Seven Pines line is completed. and transfer of bonds and stocks The latter has already been begun. The company contemplates the building of a line from Richmond to Ashland also. Authorization for the commence- of Corporations and the payment of this line has not been made, but it is said to be practically certain ment of coupons, interest and that the line will be built and that shortly. dividends. Interest paid on de- MILTON JUNCTION, WIS.—Three hundred citizens have petitioned the Rockford, Beloit & Janesville Railroad Company to extend its road to Milton posits Junction.

NEWS NOTES DIRECTORS William Best Andrew McNally Rosenfeld John M. Smyth LOS ANGELES, CAL.—On Aug. 28, about 9 o'clock, three highwaymen Maurice boarded a San Pedro car of the California-Pacific Railway Company at a F. M. Blount J. R. Walsh point about a mile arid a half south of the city limits and robbed trainmen L. A. Walton and passengers of several watches and over $100 in cash. The desperadoes have not yet been captured, and the company offers $500 for them taken dead OFFICERS or alive. J. R. WALSH, President NEW HAVEN, CONN.—H. M. Kochcrsperger, of New Haven, has been L. A. WALTON, Vice-President elected president of the Meriden Electric Railroad Company; J. G. Parker, secretary, and A. S. May, treasurer. Mr. Kochersperger is the controller of C. D. ORGAN, Sec. and Treas. the Consolidated Railroad. Mr. Parker is private secetary to President Hall, C. HUNTOON, Ass't Sec'y and Ass't Treas. and Mr. May is the new treasurer of the Consolidated.

TAMPA, FLA.—Stone & Webster report that the damage from the cyclone to the property of the Tampa Electric Company was limited to the prostra- tion of wires, which shut off car service for twenty-four hours. There was no damage to buildings. Service was crippled only a few hours.

EVANSVILLE, IND.—At the annual meeting, Sept. 2. of the stockholders of the Evansville & Princeton Traction Company the following directors were elected: J. S. Heston, S. T. Heston, Jonah Legrange, E. J. Baldwin and W. DO HEATING PLANTS PAY? L. Sontag. Their directors thereupon elected the following officers: Joseph

S. Heston, president; E. J. Baldwin, secretary; S. T. Heston, treasurer; W. L. Sontag, general manager.

MARLBORO, MASS.—A voluntary increase in wages has been granted the motormen and conductors of the Marlboro Street Railway Company, which WHAT CONSTITUTES A is controlled by the Boston & Worcester Electric Company. The increase is 2 cents an hour for continuous service of four years or less; 3 cents an hour for over four and less than seven; 4 cents an hour for over seven and less than ten, and 5 cents an hour for over ten years' service. HEATING SITUATION?

WESTBORO, MASS.—A hearing has been given by the Railroad Com- mission on the petition of the Selectmen and other citizens of Hopkinton for an order compelling the Westboro & Hopkinton Street Railway Company For Particulars Address to issue workingmen's tickets, making a reduction in fare of from 20 cents to 15 cents. WORCESTER, MASS.—As an additional safeguard against accidents the W. H. 5CH0TT Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company has installed in the office of Engineer and Contractor the despatcher at South Framingham a device by which the despatcher can shut off the power instantly on the section of the road between Worcester 1219-21 Marquette Building, - CHICAGO and South Framingham, where there is a single-track line. By means of the telephone service the despatcher keeps track of the cars, and he is now able, if a car runs by a meeting point, to avoid a collision by cutting off the Designer and Builder power. , CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The new express station of the Electric Package Company was formally opened for business last weeek. The building is 267 Scbott $ Balance Column Rot mater System,

ft. long and 30 ft. wide, ihe opening ceremony was in the form of a banquet to officers and employees of .ne company. Covers were laid for ninety. Presi- Scbott's Regulated Steam System. dent Barney Mahler, of the Electric Package Company, acted as toastmaster. A. Lewenthal, attorney for the company, made a speech on the "Benefits to Be Derived by Cities and Urban Towns from Electric Traction." F. T. Pomeroy, president of the Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Company, SYSTEMS BUILT LAST YEAR , spoke on "The Necessity of the Electric Package Company's Employees Co- Mt. Vernon, III. operating with the Employees of the Traction Company.' C. A. Kenworthy, superintendent of the Electric Package Company, responded toast, to the Indianapolis, - Ind. Peru, - - - Ind. "The Necessity of Traction Company Employees Co-operating with the Em- ployees of the Electric Package Company." Lafayette, - " New Castle, - "

COLUMBUS, OHIO.—There was a two-hour strike on the system of the Elwood, - " Connorsville, - «< Central Market Street Railway recently. Both the motormen and conductors left their work because of an order requiring the motormen to stand while operating cars. The matter was compromised, and the men went back to work with the understanding that they would be supplied with stools, which .

September 19, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXV

might be used in the residence portions, but not in the crowded business sections of the city.

TOLEDO, OHIO.—The City Solicitor has informed the Mayor that he must veto the entire ordinance of the Toledo Railways & Light Company for franchise extensions if he objects to any clause of the new grant. Section AUTOMATIC SCALES 1667, of the Ohio laws, denning the Mayor's duty as to ordinances, etc., provides among other things "that the Mayor may approve the whole, or any item, or any part of any such ordinance, resolution, order, or contract, presented to him for his signature." Richardson YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—The employees of the Pennsylvania & Mahoning Valley Railway Company have effected a compromise with the company on the wage question. The men demanded 22 cents, 23 cents and 24 cents an hour Scale Co. in place of the present scale of 18 cents, 19 cents and 20 cents. The compromise was on a basis of 20 cents an hour for the first six months, 21 cents an hour for the next six months and 22 cents for more than one year of service. The runs will be divided so that each shall not exceed nine and •18 Park Row one-half hours.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.—The Chattanooga Electric Railway Company ) New York has issued to its employees a circular of recognition for faithful and efficient

service, especially on 4 and Labor Day, Sept. 7. This circular says in July City part: "Never before in the history of this company or this city have such

large numbers ridden upon the street cars, and seldom, if ever, have such large masses of people been carried from point to point so successfully, so expeditiously and so safely as was done on these two occasions by the careful and zealous work of our employees. It is safe to say that many accidents PROFITABLE* ahd PLEASING entailing death and injury were avoided, and if the number of people so to your company, your passengers, and the advertisers repre- saved was known and realized by the general public it would be something sented. This would be the result ofawarding the contract for startling. The management, therefore, takes this method of expressing its warmest thanks and commendation to the officers and especially to the A DVERT I SING I IM YO UR GA RS motormen, conductor's and other employees for the noble and satisfactory

to the company best qualified to handle it successfully. : ; work done upon these two occasions. The management is proud of such men, and the public, the management knows, are bound to have for you a Eastern Offices, St. Paul Bids., NEW YORK Executive Offices, Steven* Bktg., DETROIT latent regard and appreciation. The position held by the conscientious motor- THE MULFORD G PETRY COMPANY men and conductors in charge of electric cars, who incidentally have in their keeping the comfort and safety of thousands, is one of honor and trust. It is even more than that in an abstract sense, for the public expect and receive at your hands many attentions that effect their interest and happiness." HOUSTON, TEX.—The Houston Electric Company has announced that M. P. HILLYER & COMPANY

it will carry all students under seventeen jears old and all children, whether students in the public schools or not, on half-fare tickets, said tickets 49 WALL ST., NEW YORK purchasable at the headquarters of the company in books of twenty tickets ATLANTIC BUILDING each. This reduction in fares results from the passage of the State law by the last Legislature requiring all persons or corporations owning or operating Steam and Electric Railroads' Financed street railway systems in the State of Texas in cities of more than 40,000 Railroad and Gas Bonds a Specialty carry all persons under twelve years of age at half the regular inhabitants to We Invite Correspondence charge, and all students under seventeen years of age in the same cities for the same fare. LYNCHBURG, VA.—The Lynchburg Tiaction & Electric Company is one of the most enterprising railways of the South, and is doing a great deal to. attract manufacturing enterprises to Lynchburg. The company is advertising the railway facilities of Lynchburg and its advantages for manufacturing purposes, including good, level building land and unlimited power, hydraulic and electric, at low rate. BERRY FINANCIAL NOTES BROTHERS

JACKSONVILLE, FLA.—The Jacksonville Electric Company reports earnings as follows: Year ending June 1903 Gross earnings $223,464 Operating expenses 153,850

Net earnings $39,614 Fixed charges 34,746

Net profit T. $34,868 SAVANNAH, GA.—The Savannah Electric Company has declared a regular semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent on the preferred stock, payable Oct. 1, to stockholders of record Sept. 17. CHICAGO, ILL.—Metropolitan Elevated gross receipts for the six months ended Aug. 31 were $1,006,981, an increase of $56,022. DIXON, ILL.—The board of directors of the Northern Illinois Electric Railway Company has decided to increase the capital stock of the company from $700,000 to $1,250,000. TERRE HAUTE, IND.—The Terre Haute Electric Company reports earnings as follows: July 1903 1902 Gross earnings $42,044 $27,802 RAILWAY Operating expenses 25,257 21,268

Net earnings $16,787 $6,534 Fixed charges 6,558 6,429 VARNISHES Net profit $10,228 $105 Year ending July 31 Gross earnings $424,587 $306,821 NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA Operating expenses 283,877 265„771 BALTIMORE. CINCINNATI. CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, SAN FRANCISCO. Net earnings $140,710 $41,050 factory and nr-rn/M-r Fixed charges 78,187 70,400 MAIN OFFICE DETROIT.

Net profit $62,523 $29,350 xxvi STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 12.

MARION, IND.—By the sale of the Indiana Northern Traction Company to the Trenton Savings & Trust Company, of Trenton, N. J., the bit of interurban track which connects the Union Traction Company with the Fort Wayne, Logansport & Lafayette Interurban line passes into the hands of a The Importance of Telephones in company which is known to be friendly to the Indiana Union Traction Company. By the completion of this link interurban travel may be established between Logansport and Indianapolis through Fort Wayne, Marion Electric Railway Operation and Anderson. has the need of a practical and reliable BOSTON, MASS.—The Boston & Northern Street Railway Company has emphasized petitioned the Railroad Commissioners for authority to issue 4000 additional self-contained telephone. We are prepared to fur= shares of stock at $95 per share to reduce its floating debt incurred for con- nish you such a device. All parts are mounted on struction purposes. the iron plate as shown. The windings are all BOSTON, MASS.—The Boston News Bureau says that earnings of the boiled in paraffine, preventing the absorption of Boston & Worcester Street Railway Labor Day were $2,825, an average of moisture. $157 for each of the eighteen cars used. "Officials of the road," says the News Bureau, "figure that about 65 per cent of the road's traffic is through business between Boston and Worcester, that 20 per cent is business between Boston and South Framingham, and 15 per cent local." BOSTON, MASS.—The Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company has applied to the Railroad Commissioners for authority to issue $250,000 of bonds. President Butler stated that the money was needed to take up indebtedness, and that the company held chat its property, according to the appraisal of Sept. 1, was sufficient to cover the stock and bonds already outstanding, and also the proposed new issue. It was desired to leave out the double tracking involved in the extension of the long turnouts now in progress, in order to come before the board for a new issue of stock later. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Springfield Street Railway Company has filed a mortgage to the Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Company, as trustee, $294,391 to secure $1,700,000 of 4 per cent gold bonds of $1,000 each, dated April 1.

1903, due April 1, 1923, without option of earlier redemption. Only $1,500,000 have been authorized to be issued by the Massachusetts Railroad Commis- sion; the remainder will be reserved for future requirements. $18,980 WORCESTER, MASS.—Receivers of the Worcester & Southbridge Street Railway Company have issued a call for all stockholders to report their holdings immediately. There is believed to be an overissue of stock. This action may delay the report of the receivers, which they say will contain all the information on the point of fraudulent notes as well as all matters connected HAY WE'SUBnil^A PROPOSITION AND SEND SAflPLE FOR with the failure. COMPETITIVE TEST ? DETROIT, MICH.—The Hawks-Angus syndicate has sold the Lansing 173,531 Street Railway to Nelson Mills, of St. Marys, and his associates. The con- AMERICAN ELECTRIC TELEPHONE CO sideration is said to have been $200,000. They will merge it with the Lansing, J St. Johns & St. Louis Railway, running 20 miles north from Lansing. The CHICACO, ILL INOIS sale agreement gives the Hawks-Angus syndicate entry over the Lansing Largest Telephone rianufacturers in the World system for the Lansing-Battle Creek line.

HANCOCK, MICH.—The Houghton County Street Railway Company reports earnings as follows: Year ending June Gross earnings 182,576 $168,5S0 Operating expenses 121,202 90,394

Net earnings $61,374 $68,185 COLUMBIA STEEL Fixed charges 33,200 28,310

Net profit $28,174 $39,876

DULUTH, MINN. The Duluth-Superior Traction earn- TROLLEY — Company reports POLES ings as follows: a R June 1903 1902 RATCHET BRAKE HANDLES %»S* Total gross earnings $59,012 $48,496 Operating expenses 29,512 26,361

Net earnings 29,499 26,361 Deductions from income 10,518 9,655 Millcn Illuminated Car Si^ns,

Net income $16,706 Six months enaing June 30 Gear Cases, Fields and Coils, Total gross earnings $245,406 Operating expenses 132,414 Armature and Axle Bearings

Net earnings 120,859 112,992 Deductions from income 61,512 57,844

Net income $59,347 $55,148 - Commutators, Car T r i m ST. LOUIS, MO.—According to the statement issued by Auditor Frank R. Henry, of the St. Louis Transit Company, the gross earnings of that corporation for the month of August were $659,535, as against $579,575 for the mings, Brass, Gray Iron and same month last year. This is a gain for the month of $79,959. The gross receipts of the company for the first eight months of this year were $4,759,417, Malleable Iron Foundries while for the same period last year the receipts were $4,169,433. These ngures show a gain of $615,186 in the operations of the company up to Sept. 1, this year, over the same period last year.

JERSEY CITY, N. J.—The directors of the United Traction & Electric Company, of New Jersey, have declared the regular quarterly dividend of IVi per cent on the capital stock, payable Oct. 1. COLUMBIA MACHINE WORKS

NEWARK, N. J. — It is announced that the Public Service Corporation has leased the South Orange & Maplewood Street Railway. The terms of the lease have not been made public, nor has any announcement been made as AND MALLEABLE IRON CO. to how long the lease will run. It is said, however, that $250,000 was paid for the line. The deal has been under consideration for some time. The South BROOKLYN, N. Y„ U. S. A. Orange & Maplewood Road runs from Main Street, Orange, to South Orange. September 19, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxvii

$390,414 BUFFALO, N. Y. —The International Traction Company reports earnings as follows: July 1903 1902 Gross earnings $328,628 Operating expenses (excluding taxes) 190,490 162,179

Net earnings $199,924$64,934 $166,449 Fixed charges (interest, taxes, rentals, etc.) 134,990 127,393

Net income $39,056 Net income, July 1 to date 64,934 39,056 Operating cost, per cent of earnings (exclusive of taxes) 503 .497

MINEOLA, N. Y.—The New York & Lcng Island Traction Company reports earnings as follows for August: Gross earnings, $5,462; operating expenses, $4,085; net earnings, $1,378. The road has 8 miles in operation and uses four cars. It will open 5 miles more track and put on two more cars this month. Next year it will have 20 miles in operation, and will reach Belmont Park, the new suburban racing park owned by Aug. Belmont.

NEW YORK, N. Y.—The directors of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company have declared the usual quarterly dividend of 1% per cent, payable Oct. 15; books close Sept. 24 and reopen Oct. 16.

SYRACUSE, N. Y.—The stockholders of the Auburn & Syracuse Electric Railway have increased their capital stock from $800,000 to $1,000,000, and there is an authorized bond issue of $2,000,000, of which $1,050,000 is outstanding.

CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The $3,000,000 6 per cent bonds of the South Side Street Railway Company and the $600,000 6 per cent first-mortgage bonds of the Brooklyn Street Railway Company, which matured Sept. 1, have been The Sterling retired by the Cleveland Electric Railway Company. Of the $900,000 Cleve- land Electric Consolidated 5s held to retire these underlying bonds $342,000 were exchanged therefor at par, and $300,000 were sold to Denison, Prior & Company, of Cleveland, leaving $252,000 on hand to provide for the floating Feeds sifted sand or debt, which was increased to pay the remainder of the maturing 6 per cents. The refunding will save the company $9,000 yearly. half-inch gravel LIMA, OHIO.—The Western Ohio Railway Company has announced the following statement for August: Gross earnings, $25,941; operating expenses, $10,947; net earnings, $14,994. Sand cannot clog* TOLEDO, OHIO.—The Toledo Railways & Light Company reports earnings as follows: July 1903 1902 Simple construction* Gross earnings $153,224 $131,492 Operating expenses end taxes 75,500 62,315 Built of most durable Net earnings $77,724 $69,177 Charges 41,790 37,854 materials* Surplus $35,934 $31,323 Jan. 1 to July 31 Gross earnings $925,402 $802,776 In service 7 years* Operating expenses and taxes 476,707 414,698

Net earnings $448,695 $388,078 Charges 283,861 264,887 More than 3,000 pairs Surplus $164,834 $123,191 on one road* ALLENTOWN, PA.—The receivers of the Lehigh Valley Traction Com- pany have paid all fixed charges maturing in September, amounting to $70,000. During August the passenger receipts amounted to $113,182, an increase of Ask for references* $9,084 over the same month last year.

HARRISBURG, PA.— Walter Stewart, secretary and treasurer of the Car- lisle Trust Company and interested in the Harrisburg & Mechanicsburg Electric Railway Company and Cumberland Valley Traction Company, has made an offer to buy all the stock of the People's Bridge Company, this city, at $52.50 per share, 51 per cent to be delivered, with interest at the

rate of 6 per cent from Sept. 1, 1903, not later than Jan. 1, 1904. This is taken by many to foreshadow the early consolidation of the Harrisburg & Mechan- icsburg Electric Railway with the new Central Pennsylvania Traction Com- pany, of this city, although President Frank Musser, of the latter company, denies that there is anything in this story. The Harrisburg & Mechanics- burg Company, which recently acquired ihe West Fairview & Marysville Electric Railway, with which it connects at West Fairview, has a lease on the bridge for its tracks, which will not expire for some years to come. Two propositions have been issued to the bridge company stockholders by the directors. One is the acceptance of Mr. Stewart's offer. The other is that the stockholders take a sixty-day option on the purchase of their stock at $53 per share, with interest dating from Sept. 1, 1903. The People's Bridge Company is capitalized at $200,000, and the stock has been selling slightly above par value, which is $50. HARRISBURG, PA.—Another local trolley merger has been accomplished, the necessary papers being granted at the State Department, by which the Star Street Railway Company and the Harrisburg & Lewisberry Railway Company are consolidated under the name of the Steelton, New Cumberland & Me- chanicsburg Street Railway Company. The first meeting of the new company was held at Mechanicsburg Sept. 11, when the following officers were chosen: Sterling-Meaker M. P. Hillyer, of New York City, president; E. Philips, Co. J. of York, Pa., vice-

president; H. W. Smith, of Mechanicsburg, general manager; J. H. Foreman, treasurer; Hertzler, of Carlisle, Henry of Carlisle, secretary; Col. J. W. Andrews, of New York City, chief engineer; C. B. Miller, of Harrisburg, NEWARK, N. J., U S. A. general solicitor. The above-mentioned officers and Samuel Hertzler, of Carlisle, and E. P. Stonesifer, of Lewisbeiry, directors. It is the intention :

xxviii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 12.

of this company to begin at once the construction of a system connecting the towns of Steelton, 3 miles south of Harrisburg, with New Cumberland, Bow mansdale, Dillsburg, Lisbon, Lewisberry -md Mechanicsburg. The company's

charter gives it the right to build a bridge over the Susquehanna River between Steelton and New Cumberland. This will be a steel structure and will JOHN BLAIR MacAFEE likely be built by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. Col. Andrews has been engaged in making up his estimates of the cost of the road, which he places at $20,000 per mile. A considerable sum will be expended on crystal Lake Park and Bishop's Park. This company's lines will connect with those of THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OF STEAM the Central Pennsylvania Traction Company at Steelton. The City Council has reconsidered and unanimously passed the ordinances granting extensions AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS and double tracks to the Central Pennsylvania Traction Company, and pro- AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS. viding for payment to the city of 3 per cent of the annual earnings of the company. These ordinances are satisfactory to the company, and will be PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES. promptly signed by Meyor McCormick. REPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN OPERATION. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—A dividend of So a share has been declared on

Ridge Avenue Passenger stock, payable Oct. 1. Books will close Sept. 9, and

reopen Oct. 2.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The Interstate Railways Company reports an in- HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA crease in gross passenger earnings for the month of August of $47,141.

HOUSTON, TEX.—The Houston Electric Company reports earnings as follows July 1903 1902 Gross earnings $40,132 $30 835 Operating expenses 22,669 17,333

Net earnings $17,463 $13,502 Fixed charges 6,773 6,250 J. G. WHITE &, COMPANY

Net profit $10,690 $7,252 INCORPORATED, Year ending July 31 Gross earnings $107,516 $327,896 Engineers, Operating expenses 251,551 190,200 Contractors,

Net earnings $155,965 $137,696 29 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. Fixed charges 77,764 LONDON correspondent: Net profit $7S.201 J. C. White & Company, Limited RICHMOND, VA.—Arrangements have been made for the arbitration of 22a College Hill, Cannon St. the claims and counter-claims, aggregating about $1,000,000, between the new interests in the Virginia Passenger & Power Company and George E. Fisher, one of the former owners of the road. Winslow S. Pierce is the arbitrator for the Goulds and their associates, the new owners, but Mr. Fisher has not as yet named his arbitrator. Both the new interests and Mr. Fisher will agree upon a third arbitrator.

SEATTLE, WASH.—The Seattle Electric Company has declared a regular semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent on the preferred stock to stockholders of Sanderson & Porter record Sept. 17. ENGINEERS AND SEATTLE, WASH.—The Seattle Electric Company reports earnings as CONTRACTORS follows Year ending July .11 1903 1902 Electric Railways, 52 WILLIAM STREET Light, and Gross earnings $2,046,000 $1,684,274 Power Hyoraulic Plaints. NEW YORK Operating expenses 1,445,273 1,162,916

Net earnings $600,727 $521,358 Fixed charges 285,838 250,490 . W. EC. BAKKR H. R. BISHOP Net profit $314,889 $270,868 July Gross earnings $184,931 $157,838 W. E. BAKER & CO. Operating expenses 123,781 108,245 ENGINEERS Net earnings $61,150 $49,593 Fixed charges 23,064 19,699 170 BROADWAY NEW YORK

Net profit $62,669$38,086 $29,894

EAU CLAIRE, WIS.—The Chippewa Valley Electric Railway Company WILLIAH A. ROSENBAUM has filed with the Secretary of State an amendment increasing the capital stock from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 and enabling the company to furnish elec- 6lectncal Gxpert and patent Solicitor tric power for manufacturing and commercial purposes. Nassau- Beekman Building NEW YORK CITY MILWAUKEE, WIS.—The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company reports earnings as fellows: August 1903 1902 THOMAS B. WHITTED Total gross earnings $265,914 $243,345 Consulting Engineer Operating expenses 128,805 112,540 221-234 Equitable Building • DENVER, COLORADO

Net earnings $137,109993,021 $130,805 Deductions from income 74,440 68,676

Net income $62,128 For the eight months ending Aug. 31 Tennis Brothers Company Total gross earnings $1,973,090 $1,755,350 Operating expenses 835,772 ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, BUILT AND EQUIPPED

Net earnings $980,069 $919,578 .22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, Deductions from income 574,270 526 219 Cincinnati, Ohio Pittsburg, Pa. Net income , $405,799 $393,359 September 19, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL xxix

SHEBOYGAN, WIS—The Sheboygan Light, Power & Railway Company has made a new mortgage to the Mercantile Trust Company, of New York, as trustee, to secure $2,500,000 of $1,000 consolidated 5 per cent first-mortgage thirty-year gold bonds maturing July 1, 1933, but subject to call in whole or in part at 105 on any interest day. Interest is payable January and July at the office of the trustee. Of the bonds, $400,000 are reserved to retire a like amount of outstanding 5s dated April 1, 1896. The remaining $2,100,000 are issuable for improvements and extensions, including a line under construction from Sheboygan Falls to Plymouth, a distance of 10 miles.

LIGHTING—POWER—RAILWAYS AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS v * * THE FALL RIVER ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY, of Fall River, Mass., has placed a contract for a large Green Economizer for immediate delivery with the Green Fuel Economizer Company, the sole makers in the I504-M06-I50S-1510-IM2 Usher Building, = CHICAGO United States.

THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY is installing at a number of downtown corners automatic electric switches manufactured by the Cheatham Electric Switching Device Company, of Louisville, Ky. Sev- eral of these switches have been in use for some weeks and have proved very satisfactory.

THIS WEEK'S ISSUE of the daily bulletin issued by the Walter A. Zelnicker Supply Company, of St. Louis, contains many items of interst to street railway managers and contractors, among which is an extensive line Arnold Electric Power Station Co. of steam shovels, motor cars and Charter Oak car stoves, all said to be in excellent condition, and to be had at very low prices. ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CORRESPONDENCE, with headquarters at Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, 111., publishes an interesting catalogue giving detailed information of the courses taught. The work which Designers and Builders of Complete this school carries on is pioductive of much good to those who have not been Electric Railway, Lighting and Power Installations. fortunate enough to enjoy a college education, but are obliged to seek tech- nical knowledge while earning their daily bread. Marquette Building, "MICHIGAN WHITE CEDAR—A STORY IN TWO CHAPTERS"—is Transit Building, the title of a booklet that the Maltby Lumber Company, of Bay City, Mich., new "york. Chicago. cedar dealers, is sending out to all its customers. Considerable information and some rather instructive pictures are contained in the folder. The company will be glad to send a copy of the folder to anyone interested in the purchase of cedar ties or poles.

THE MILLER MACHINE COMPANY, of Norwalk, has been incorporated under the laws of Delaware, with ^20,000 capital stock. The incorporators are: J. B. Miller, George H. Miller, N. D. Miller, A. E. Rowley and H. F. Jackson. The company will manufacture anchors and chains used in anchoring telephone and electric railway poles. The devices were exhibited H. M. BYLLESBY & CO. at the recent Saratoga Convention. INCORPORATED

THE MANY ADVANTAGES of the Hart convertible car are concisely set forth in a little pamphlet which has been prepared by the Rodger Ballast Car Company, of Chicago, 111. The particular feature of this type is that Engineers it can be used as a construction, ballast, gondola or freight car, the conversion from one style to another being effected in a few minutes with no tools other than monkey wrenches. An extended description of this car, Design, Construct and Operate Railway with illustrations, was published m the Street Railway Journal of Aug. 29. Light, Power and Hydraulic Plants

THE J. G. BRILL COMPANY, of Philadelphia, Pa., has recently issued an interesting publication devoted to its famous convertible cars. A brief history of the development of this type is given, together with descriptions EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS and illustrations of cars built for the Butler Passenger Railway Company, Butler, Pa., and the Washington Water Power Company, of Spokane, Wash. The Brill convertible cars, which were introduced to the street railway New York Life Building CHICAGO, ILL. world but five years ago, are now extensively used and giving excellent service in all kinds of weather.

THE MOMENTUM BRAKE COMPANY, LTD., of Toronto, reports that its momentum brake is giving very satisfactory service, as evidenced by the numerous testimonials which the company has received from users of this Save valuable time every day by carrying the brake. The principal features of this brake were described in the Street Railway Journal of June 13, 1903. The following orders have recently been Practical Electric Railway Hand Booh received by the company: Toronto Street Railway Company. 34; South Chi- cago Street Railway Company, 32; Trans- St. Mary's Traction Company, 3. in your pocket. Trial equipments have also been ordered by the Montreal Street Railway, PRICE $3.00 and several railways in the United States, including the International Trac- tion Company, of Buffalo. McGRAW PUBLISHING COMPANY, 114 Liberty street, New York

THE WILKINSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of New York, reports through John A. Caldwell, general sales manager, the following recent sales of automatic stokers: Two 200-hp, Ridgway (Pa.) Machine Tool Com- pany; four 175-hp, Reading (Pa.) Waterworks; ten 375-hp, Pittsburg Plate ISSUES OF Glass Company; three 350-hp, Chamber of Commerce Building, Rochester, N. Y.; two 200-hp, New Willard's Hotel, Washington, D. C. All of above ELECTRIC RAILWAY BONDS for use with soft coal. The Reading is the third order. contract Thirteen BOUGHT AND SOLD 300-hp, Federal Sugar Refining Company, Yonkers, N. Y. ; two 300-hp, Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, New York; four 300-hp, the Bellevue & Strat- ford Hotel, Phi'adelphia, Pa.; fen 200-hp, the American Tube & Stamping BENJAMIN FISHER Company, Bridgeport, Conn. All of the latter for use with anthracite buck- 20 Exchange Place - - - BOSTON, MASS. wheat coal. XXX STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 12.

CATALOGUE NO. 10, which has just been published by William Whar- ton, Jr., & Company, of Philadelphia, hardly deserves that title. It is really an epitome of many of the latest advances in street railway and steam railroad track work. Hundreds of excellent engravings serve to illustrate not only most of the standard forms of rails, curves, frogs, turn-tables, crossings, etc., now in use, but also a great deal of special work devised to meet unusual and severe conditions. The text explains the advantages of this company's integral work and the use of manganese steel in track construction. An extremely valuable feature of this publication is the portion devoted to engineering data for street railways, including numerous diagrams of typical track layouts, cross-overs, turn-outs, dimensions and weights of switches, mates and frogs, and tables of special value in street railway work. IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MECHANICVILLE HYDRAULIC PLANT of the Hudson River Power Transmission Company, published in the issue of this paper for Aug. 28, the statement should have been made that the station is equipped with fourteen pairs of 51-in. McCormick turbines, built by the S. Morgan Smith Company, of York, Pa., instead of machines of another manufacture. The McCormick turbines were installed last year. Each turbine consists of two pairs of wheels, each of which at the normal speed of 114 revolutions is rated at 250 hp. The total power of each set of turbines is, therefore, rated at 1000 hp. The S. Morgan Smith Company is also installing at Spier's Falls for the same company five pairs of wheels, three of which will develop 5300 hp per pair, while the other two will develop 4000 hp. At this plant two turbines will also be furnished to drive exciters, each of which will develop 400 hp.

THE STANDARD POLE & TIE COMPANY, of New York, is still pushing out. When the company began business it handled simply octagonal pine poles and a few cross-arms bought from the mill men in North Carolina. The Nzaionewl Elevating Grader, About four years ago it introduced in the Northern market the juniper pole. Ditcher and Waggon Loader This is technically as Southern white cedar; is a swamp growth, en- known will excavate and place in embankment 1,000 tirely free from butt rot, and has a remarkably small percentage of sap wood. cubic yards of earth in ten hours or will load 500 The company advertised this pole extensively, and as a result it now claims or 600 wagons per day. the largest pole trade in the East. The company's best customers are the street railway companies, as the juniper pole is so tough and strong, besides The above cut illustrates our special plow-tilting being almost absolutely straight, that it is in great demand. The cypress device which adjusts the mould board to varying is another tree which grows in the Southern swamps, and is very much like conditions of soil. the juniper. In appearance the two are very nearly identical; in fact, after the bark has been removed it takes an expert to tell the difference. The cypress is superior to the juniper in one respect, for after seasoning the heart of the cypress gets very hard and tough. To offset this is its greater weight, which up to a short time ago caused the company to look upon the pole as unmarketable in the North on account of the very high freight rate. Not willing to give up, the company employed skilled foresters, and made many careful tests. It has found that by girdling the tree some three or four weeks before it is cut and then keeping it entirely out of the water and allowing it to season thoroughly, it loses one-third of its original weight. This enables the company to place the cypress pole in Northern New York, Ohio or New England at practically the same price as the juniper. The Standard Pole & Tie Company conducts its business very energetically, and sale of the cypress pole during 1904. expects a large By MASON D. PRATT The Street .....and C. A. ALDEN QUICKEST AND BEST Railway RoaclbecL** An essential feature of a well-equipped street railway is a good Some railroads ran fast trains, sacrificing comfort, others run comfortable track, and in this book are brought together and illustrated the trains, sacrificing speed, but the trains of the Lake Shore & Michigan South- various modern types of track material and methods of construction, are ern Railway are both speedy and comfortable. Its daily Twentieth Century with their good and bad features indicated. The authors engineers of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, one of the largest manu- Limited between America's premier cities. New York and Chicago, has set facturers of rails and "special work" in America, and are therefore a standard which has been neither surpassed nor equaled. Day after day, particularly well equipped to treat of the subjects of which they in fair weather or foul, this marvelous combination of American ingenuity write. All tiie various features of street railway roadbed construction are carefully described, with illustrations where necessary, the latter and mechanical skill performs its appointed task in only twenty hours. Not including sections of rail, of roadbed, views of special joints, dia- only is the Lake Shore's roadbed the finest in the world, but its operating grams, etc. Rules and tables are also given for running curves, lay- equipment, sleeping, parlor and dining cars are the best of their respective ing out crossings, turnouts, etc. kinds. Its connections with the Boston & Albany and New York Central 135 Pages, 157 Illustrations. Price, $2.00. offer excellent facilities for passengers from England New and the Middle -PUBLISHED BY THE- States who desire to travel over its lines. That the Lake Shore's service BOOK DEPARTMENT, is the best is amply verified by the fact that the greater portion of the pas- IflcGraw Publishing Company, 114 Liberty Street, New York. senger traffic between New York and Chicngo is carried on its lines.***

DIRECT AND ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATORS FOR

Railway Lighting and Power Service

Special attention has been given to the Insulation and Ventilation of our Apparatus

NATIONAL 150 K. W. Alternator D. C. Generator, Belted ELECTRIC CO.

Chicago : OLD COLONY BUILDING KILBOURNE & CLARK CO. Pittsburg: GELLATLY & CO. M ILWAUKEB iSa"r ™ci.co f September 26, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXI NEWS OF THE WEEK

CONSTRUCTION NOTES BOGGSTOWN, IND.—The citizens of this town and of Greenwood are trying to revive the project of building an electric railway from Shelbyville to Greenwood, via Boggstown. Stock to the extent of $25,000 was subscribed. It is believed the road can be built on home capital. This road was begun BERKELEY, CAL.—Franchises have been applied for in Contra Costa over a year ago and several miles graded, after which the project was County for an electric railway to connect with Point Richmond and this city. abandoned. The principal owners and backers of the new railway are John C. Black, superintendent of construction of the Richmond refineries of the Pacific Coast Oil GREENSBURG, IND.—The City Council is to be asked to grant a franchise Company; E. A. Gowe, of the same company; C. Kinney, an electrical con- to the Columbus, Greensburg, Connersville & Richmond Traction Company, tractor, and L. D. Dimm, a lubricating oil manufacturer. backed by the A. E. Appleyard syndicate. "£he proposed line will connect with the French Lick & West Baden line and the Indianapolis & Columbus line at LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The contract for erecting the switching tower to be Columbus, and with the Indianapolis, Shelbyville & Southeastern and the pro- built by the Los Angeles Railway Company at the corner of First Street and posed Madison Greensburg line at Greensburg, with the Indianapolis, Rush- Spring Street has been awarded to the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco. & ville & Cincinnati line at Connersville, and with the Dayton & Western and LOS ANGELES, CAL.— Bids are asked by the Los Angeles Railway Com the Indianapolis & Eastern at Richmond. pany for the reconstruction of the long viaduct on the Downey Avenue line. GREENWOOD, IND.—Polk & Robinson, owners of a cannery at Green- On this viaduct still remains about half a mile of old-style track, which will wood, are endeavoring to revive the project of building the Indianapolis, be removed when the structure is strengthened and rebuilt. Greenwood & Shelbyville Traction line, and a meeting has been held at LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The Los Angeles Railway Company has just begun Boggstown to that effect. A number of citizens in that vicinity have signified

' rebuilding 4% miles of track on its Maple Avenue line and 1 mile on Central their intention of taking stock. It is understood that residents near Green- Avenue. When these two little jobs are finished, General Manager Muir states, wood will take in the neighborhood of $25,000 in stock and that Indianapolis that all the trackage in the system at the time it was purchased by Mr. men are ready to assist in the venture. This is the road that was begun about Huntington, less than two years ago, will have been replaced by new 60-lb. a year ago and several miles of grade were built, after which the project was T-rails, instead of the old combination rails that used to lie all over the city. abandoned. Moreover, every joint in all this trackage (comprising about 100 miles) has spirited meeting of the City Council of Hammond been cast-welded. In a total number of almost 300 cars there are only four HAMMOND, IND.—A held Sept. at Russell B. Harrison, representing the Chicagu, single-truck combination cars, which are used only for emergency. was 15, which Indiana & Michigan Traction Company, appeared in behalf of the franchise LOS ANGELES, CAL—A part of the far-famed $110,000 franchise on Sixth which his company is seeking in Hammond. This company is one in which Street is being utilized. Work has been begun by the Los Angeles Railway President Hugh J. McGowan, of the Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Com- Company to extend its West Second Street line from Alvarado Street to pany, is interested. It proposes to build a line connecting Chicago with South Rampart Street. The ownership of this expensive franchise is yet withheld, Bend and Michigan City. A number of companies are working in this terri- but it is suggestive that the Los Angeles Railway Company is meeting no tory and have done considerable work upon their rights of way. The Chicago opposition in its present movements. General Manager Muir says he has & Indiana Air Line Railroad Company is also seeking franchises in Ham- simply been hired by the real owners to do enough work to keep the franchise mond, and proposes to cover much the same route as the Chicago, Indiana &

from lapsing. Michigan Traction Company. J. A. Hanna, of Cleveland, is one of those interested in the Air Line Company. The Indiana Union Traction Company, LOS ANGELES, Cal. —The first definite announcement as to the time of which proposes to build into Hammond from Logansport and the southeast, building the Pacific Electric Railway Company's proposed road between Santa ultimately connecting Indianapolis and Chicago, has already secured fran- Ana and Los Angeles was made at a meeting of the Santa Ana Chamber of chises in Hommond. Commerce on the evening of Sept. 8, when one of the engineers stated that his company stood ready to start active construction within thirty days after INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The work of grading the Indianapolis, Danville & the right of way had been secured, and also that the entire double-track road Rockville Electric Railway began on Sept. 10, and the work will be pushed would be completed within a year. Citizens are now busy assisting in a right- rapidly. The company announces that it will extend the line from Rockville of-way fight. to Terre Haute.

POINT RICHMOND, CAL.—The Supervisors of Contra Costa County INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The laying of the last rail at Carter Hill on the have passed an ordinance granting H. B. Kinney a franchise to construct an Indianapolis & Northwestern, joining this city with Lebanon and Frankfort, electric road from San Pablo, by way of Point Richmond, to West Berkeley. has been completed. Work on the big cut at White River has been going on the track laying REDWOOD CITY, CAL.—Charles U. Clark and Henry P. Bowie have been for months, and in meantime to Frankfort had been completed. at is the granted a franchise by the Supervisors to build electric and steam roads from The power house Lebanon completed and machinery has installed. overhead is completed, grading is finished track San Mateo to Half Moon Bay and Pescadero. been The work and laid from this city to 5 miles beyond Frankfort. This is a distance of 47 COLORADO SPRINGS, COL—An ordinance has been introduced in the miles. City Council extending the life of the franchise granted the Colorado Springs & Interurban Railway for twenty-five years, and giving the company until MUNCTE, IND. —The long contention between the Council and the Indiana Union Traction Company ended with the granting to the latter of a fifty-year Sept. 6, 1906, to construct certain lines of street railway which are covered in entrance the franchise, but which have not yet been built. franchise for a double-track over Howard Street and Seymour Street and the streets surrounding the site at Charles Street and Mulberry Street, LEWISTON, IDA.—The Idaho Water-Power Company has filed articles of on which the company will build a $100,000 terminal station. The franchise capitalization of $1,000,000. will incorporation at Lewiston, with a The company carries the right to furnish electric heat, light and power in the city. build an electric railway system from Orofino to Pierce City, a distance of

30 miles, and one from Orofino to Nezperce. The company will also operate MUNCIE, IND.—L. J. Schlessinger, superintendent of the Muncie, Hart- telephone and telegraph lines. The officers and directors are: William L. ford City & Fort Wayne Railway Company, says the company may have its Cook, president; Elmer Waldrip, secretary; Frank A. Farrish, William T. line extended from Montpelier to Bluffton and cars running into the Wells Farrish and Simon P. Fitzgerald. The power plant of this company will be County seat by Jan. 1. No cars will be operated north of Montpelier until installed on Orofino Creek, a purchase at that point having been made of the the large power station at Bluffton is completed. Large car houses will be holdings of the Cascade Lumber & Power Company. When the surveys are built near the power house. The steel rails have been laid from Montpelier to completed the company will solicit bids for the construction of a flume and the corporation line at Bluffton. The poles have not all been set and the the installation of a power plant. The flume will be 1100 ft. in length. trolley wires are yet to be strung.

KEWANEE, ILL.—The Kewanee Short Line Electric Railway Company NEW CASTLE, IND.—The Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company cele- will probably begin the construction of its line this winter, as one link will brated the opening of its line to this city on the 11th inst. run to the company's new mine betw-een Kewanee and Annawan. Power to operate the road will be secured from the Kewanee Mining & Manufacturing RICHMOND, IND.— It is announced that the Richmond Street & Inter- Company. None of the other details have been worked out. The officers of urban Railway Company has procured an option on the old steam road from the company are: F. H. Davis, president; H. S. White, secretary; W. V. Cambridge City to Connersville, and that the line will be purchased and con- Eddy, treasurer and electrician. verted into an electric railway.

O'FALLON, ILL.—The new East St. Louis, O'Fallon & Lebanon Electric SHOALS, IND.—The Indiana Hydraulic Power Company has incorporated, Railway has been completed to this place. The initial trip was taken Sept. 15, with a capital stock of $150,000, to erect a dam in White River, at Hindostan and regular service was begun Sunday, Sept. 20. The work of completing the Falls, near this city. The company proposes to construct and install a power

line to Lebanon will now be pushed, and it is expected that complete service plant to furnish electric power for a new electric railway from Vincennes

on the road will be inaugurated by Nov. 1. to Shoals.

ANDERSON, IND.—Wallace B. Campbell, of Anderson, has secured a SULLIVAN, IND.—The Commissioners of Sullivan County have granted the franchise through the town of Lapel. Mr. Campbell states that he has been Western Indiana Traction Company, of Vincennes, the right of way over assured franchises in Noblesville and Lebanon and in the towns between the public highways and crossings north of this city to the Vigo County line. two cities. His road will parallel the Central Indiana steam railroad and The line will be built from Vincennes to Sullivan, and then extended to connect the Indiana Union Traction Company's Gas Belt system and the Terre Haute. system of the Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Company at Lebanon. SOUTH McALESTER, I. T.—The Indian Territory Traction Company has COLUMBUS, IND.—Charles W. Wilson, representing the Appleyard syndi- been placed in operation between South McAlcster and Alderson. The line cate in Ohio, is in Indiana negotiating for franchises and right of way for will be extended to Hartshore, I. T. It is the first electric railway in Indian an electric railway from Columbus to Richmond via Greensburg. Territory, and the first interurban electric railway in the Territories. xxii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 13.

DES MOINES, IA.—The Burlington Interurban Railway Company has filed articles for the construction and operation of a line running west from Burlington through Des Moines, Lee, Henry, Van Buren and adjacent counties. It is capitalized at $200,000. Its officers are: President, Carl Leopold; THE CLIMAX FENCE POST CO. first vice-president, W. W. Copeland; second vice-president, Charles Blaul; Topping. treasurer, Charles Armknecht; secretary, J. W. THE BEST THING IN FENCE POSTS CONWAY, MASS.—The Conway Street Railway Company has presented a petition to the Selectmen asking for bn extension of its franchise from

that it may have time to market its securities Sept. 1, 1903, to Jan. 1, 1905, " and build the line. The Selectmen have taken no action on the matter. " CLIMAX

1 BOSTON, MASS.—There is much local interest in the hearing before the Railroad Commissioners on the petition of the Springfield Suburban Electric Farm Line Fence Posts Railroad Company for a right to build from Ludlow to Springfield. The proposed line will be an extension of the Palmer & Springfield line, and will

section are very in favor of it. give a through service. People in this much It It ninhl a f 11/ a ii R. R. Riyni oi way LOWELL, MASS.—The Boston & Northern Street Railway Company has begun preparations for a double track between Lowell and Lawrence. Sur- Fence Posts veys have been made and German rails have been ordered. It is expected that with the double track the trip between the two cities will be made in 45 minutes. Railroad Signal Posts MAYNARD, MASS.—The Lowell, Acton & Maynard Street Railway Com- pany has completed its line from Maynard to South Acton, and is operating cars over this portion of the line. viiy oiyii r voi<> PITTSFIELD, MASS.—At a conference between Manager Dolan, of the Pittsfield Electric Street Railway Company, and the Board of Aldermen detailed plans for the double tracking of North Street from the car house to Corner, End and Pontoosuc Lake, and for the new trolley extension location asked for through Peck's Road were considered. The company's intention, in case it is granted VIOpnampntalIIUIHUIIUI rWWDft^K a location, is to build a line from North Street down Linden Street to Onota Street, thence through Peck's Road to Onota Lake. In case this extension is built the one via New West Street will not be constructed. In the event of BASE made of Vitrified Shale Clay the location being granted, it is said that the line will be built within a year. Mm POST, any height, made of steel angle WORCESTER, MASS.—T he Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Com- cemented In the base pany has completed an extension of its line in Leominster, which was built PUNCHED FOR ANY KIND OF FENCE to accommodate local traffic in the town. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.— Charles O. Straub and his associates, who 715 Marquette Building secured the proposition from the County Commissioners to build electric lines to Shakopee and Anoka from Minneapolis, have secured the required bond of $5,000, and the franchise will be accepted. Land has been purchased on I CHICAGO both sides of the Elk River, which will be dammed for securing water-power. * # • Hp JOPLIN, MO.—An Eastern syndicate, headed by Major William Vincent, H. E. OVERSTREET, Gen. Mgr. of the United States Guarantee Loan & Trust Company, of New York city, End Post Line Post proposes to electric City. build an railway between Joplin and Kansas The Steel Post, Clay Base (Patented) line must parallel the Joplin-Kansas City line of the 'Frisco, and take in Galena, Columbus, Weir City, Scammon, Pittsburg and Fort Scott. The road will be 170 miles long. It is the intention of the company to do a general freight as well as passenger business.

ST. JOSEPH, MO.—The St. Joseph, Savannah & Northern Street Railway Company has filed articles of incorporation, with a capital stock of $10,000. The stockholders and directors are: Charles F. Booher, Isaac Williams, Collins F. Newton and Willis G. Hine. All live in Savannah and each has twenty shares of stock in the enterprise. OMAHA, NEB.—The Omaha Street Railway Company has announced the FLEXIBLE BRACKETS construction of a new line between Omaha and South Omaha along Thirteenth mi Street. About 2 miles of new track will be built, connecting the present ter- ARE STANDARD minals on Thirteenth Street with the Missouri Avenue line in South Omaha. BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEW— Articles of incorporation of the Reno

Suburban Railway Company have been filed. The incorporators are T. I".

Dunaway, W. J. Westerfield, H. J. Gosse, A. J. Clark and John Wagner. The capital stock is placed at $100,000, divided into 100,000 shares of the par value of $1 each. HAMILTON SQUARE. N. J.—The Hamilton Township authorities have again postponed consideration of the ordinance giving the Camden & Trenton Railway the right to build and operate a line from the Trenton city line, at Olden Avenue, to a point where connections will be made with the Trenton & New Brunswick Railroad.

JERSEY CITY, N. J. —The Public Service Corporation of New Jersey has bought a tract of land on the Hackensack River, at Jersey City, for which it paid $12,500. The river frontage is 300 ft., the plot being 1140 ft. deep at the north end and 935 ft. deep at the south end. It will be used for a new power house in connection with an extension of lines on the west side of Jersey City Heights contemplated by the company. PHILLIPSBURG, N. J.— The Easton & Washington Traction Company has now decided definitely that it will go through Greenwich Township, Warren County, by means of a steam railway charter/ The township authorities refuse to grant the company the privilege of even crossing a highway unless it will carry its line through Stewartsville, which would necessitate crossing the Lackawanna Railroad twice and make the line 2 miles longer than the No. iqo Bracket, to ft long. No. 43q Double Wire, Double proposed route. With a steam charter no permission is necessary to cross a Curve Insulators. Two No. oooo Round Trolley Wires. highway. Bourbon No. -j Strain Insulators. Buy the Best.

TRENTON, N. —The Trenton Street Railway Company now has its new J. LINE MATERIAL POLE FITTINGS 1500-kw generator in operation, and can take care of all the load in the city Complete Equipment for Overhead Construction at one time, and have sufficient power left to to over operate additional cars WRITE FOR CATALOGUE the extent of 25 per cent of the number regularly in use. CREAGHEAD ENGINEERING CO. TRENTON, N. J. —The Trenton Street Railway Company has moved its ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS offices from Clinton Avenue and Greenwood Avenue, 1 mile from the center OHIO of the city, to the Fischer Building, corner State Street and Broaa Street, 315 Walnut Street CINCINNATI, opposite the City Hall. All men will be changed and transferred at this point in the future, instead of at two points—Clinton Avenue and Greenwood Avenue and Broad Street and Center Street, as in the past. "

September 26, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxiii

YARDVTIXE, N. J.—The Trenton Street Railway (or Mercer County Traction Company) has again taken steps looking to the crossing of the Camden & Amboy division of the Pennsylvania Railroad at this point. The matter has been fought through the courts for four years, the electric railway company winning in the lower courts and the steam railroad in the higher courts. Every victory for the Pennsylvania Company has been won on a technicality.

CENTERPORT, N. V.—An agent representing a syndicate of capitalists is canvassing the property holders along the highway with a view to obtaining their consent to a right of way for the purpose of building an electric railway from Oyster l!ay along the shore front through Centerport to Northport. Ultimately the road will be extended in both directions, starting at Flushing and reaching eastward as far as Orient, it is claimed. Papers of incorporation, it is said, are to be filed within a short time. The men back of the under- taking are, according to the agent, in no way allied with the Long Island Railroad. GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y.—The Mountain Lake Electric Railroad Com- pany, of Gloversville, which was reorganized after the wreck last year, is about to increase its capital stock in order to secure iunds for extending the line into the city of Gloversville. The cost of the extension will be about Manufacturers $40,000. New cars and additional equipment for the power house will be purchased. NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Board of Estimate and Apportionment has approved the granting of a franchise to the Union Radway Company for the extension of its lines in the upper part of New York. Under the ordinance, Iron and Steel the proposed extension may begin from the intersection of Jerome and Sedg- villi wick Avenues at the termination of the company's Jerome Avenue line. NEW YORK, N. Y.—William Barclay Parsons was asked last Saturday as IJUBULAR POLES to when a definite agreement would be reached on a method of tunneling lower Broadway. He answered: "That agreement was decided when the contract was given out; it called for a method that would disturb traffic least; Railway just how the work was to be done was left entirely to the contractor." When ^tric • asked how long before the question of ditching upper Broadway from Union mm Square to Forty-Second Street would be decided, Mr. Parsons was emphatic m in saying: "There will be no ditching at all. Soundings are being made at Lighting and present in two or three different directions to determine the quality of the earth to be removed. Until that question is settled there can be nothing said, except to repeat that whichever route is finally decided upon the work telephone Service will be carried on without interference to traffic."

NEW YORK, N.Y.— It is reported that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is behind the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company and the two tunnels it proposes to build from Cortland Street and Fulton Street to Jersey City. This is indicated by the announcement that Albert C. Wall has been elected president and Marshall Van Winkle vice-president of the last-named company. They are members of the firm of Vredenburgh, Wall & Van Winkle, and Mr. Vredenburgh, the senior member, is counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The new officers admitted that the Jersey City terminal of the tunnels would be on the Pennsylvania Railroad property at Hudson Street and Montgomery Street, south of and adjoining the company's train shed.

They would make no further statement, but it is currently reported that trans- verse tunnels will be built to the Central and Erie Railroad stations. The i^^^-'^RAGKpTS tunnel as planned starts from Exchange Place, Jersey City, and its route in •>.v < Manhattan is in the shape of a loop, a single steel tube containing one rail- 1 -.i way track to enter the city proper at Fulton Street, running thence up to Plain and Flexible Church Street, southward two blocks to Cortland Street, and back to the river.

The tubes under the river will be distant from each other about 390 ft. The terminal station on this side will be so far underground as to not interfere m types with the proposed subway under Church Street, and will cover all the space Hi under Church Street from Fulton to Cortland. The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company was organized under the New York laws with a capital stock mm of $3,000,000, and William G. McAdoo as president. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The promoters of the Muncie, Hartford & Fort Wayne Traction Company have placed the contracts for the construction of OVERHEAD LI/NE the Bluffton branch. It is the intention to have the branch in operation this l winter. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The Eastern Construction Company, of New York, ft-; which has the contract for building the new line of the Cleveland & Sharon Traction Company, has sub-let the work of grading to Joyce, Heasley & Kawcett, of Youngstown, who are placing a large force of men at work. every description The line will extend from Middlefield, Ohio, to Sharon, Pa., and cars will of enter Cleveland over the tracks of the Eastern Ohio Company.

DAYTON, OHIO.—The Oakwood Street Railway Company will lay new heavy rails on Main Street to accommodate the heavy interurban cars. MARIETTA, OHIO.—The Parkersburg & Marietta Interurban Railway recently operated its first car over the new Ohio River Bridge into Marietta.

The opening was attended with some difficulty. The bridge is practically completed, but the Ohio River Bridge & Ferry Company, owner of the Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S. A. ' structure, has refused to make the last payment on it pending the settlement ' W«rks: of some difficulty with the American Bridge Company. The builders, there- fc ?i:^incinnati, O. * Reading, Pa. • Etna, Pa. fore, attempted, to prevent the use of the bridge until settlement had been made. The car displayed the sign "United States mail,'' but a chain blocked the way and a watchman endeavored to prevent the passage of the car. He Jam was overpowered and the car continued to run throughout the day. Regular operation will probably start immediately. TOLEDO, OHIO.—Track laying on the Toledo, Port Clinton & Lakeside is „ ASK FOR being pushed, and it is expected that a portion of the road will be placed in r operation this fall. The power house at Genoa is almost completed. TOLEDO, OHIO.—The Toledo Railways & Light Company has placed con- J&UOTATION§l tracts for the erection of a large brick car house and repair shop. The building will be located in East Toledo on the Starr Avenue line, and will be ON ABOVE MATERIAL SO ft. x 240 ft. The structure will be erected on the same general plan as the ? new car houses on Central Avenue, which were recently illustrated in the Street Railway Journal. xxiv STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 13.

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.— i'he Pennsylvania & Mahoning Valley Railway Company is installing a new unit of 300-kw capacity with which to take care of the increased load added through the building of the new Mahoning g g Avenue line and the new line to Struthers. COATESVILLE, PA.—The trolley tangle in this borough thickens rather [I For Sale or Exchange than clears. The Brandywine Street Railway Company apparently has the |] upper hand over the West Chester Street Railway, yet the latter is continuing u a its work between here and Downington. The Common Council passed the a n ordinance over the Mayor's veto in favor of the Brandywine Company, and u a the town has been in an uproar ever since. Probably no other place of the u n size in the country is so vitally interested in trolley matters as Coatesville. u Entire capital stock and second The Borough Council has been fighting the West Chester Company for some u g months, and the people of the town have been fighting the Council. The a mortgage bonds of an Electric Lancaster & Coatesville Street Railway Company is the latest to appear upon a g the scene, and as to what the company will want from Coatesville is a u favorite topic on the streets. The West Chester Company has talked of a Street Railroad, in a city of 20,000 n transferring passengers over the break existing in one place between here and Downington by an automobile bus line, but nothing definite has been done. miles of track, [j population; 14 g BANGOR, PA.—The Northampton Traction Company is installing a 200-cell battery near this place to help the cars on this end of the Easton line. The r| Equipment and power house all battery will be housed in a building 30 ft. x 70 ft., and the whole equipment g will cost about $10,00(1. The power house is located along the Bushkill, below a Tatamy, 12 miles away, and the additional current is needed on the long and u in good physical condition. An g heavy grades in this section. It is expected that the 18 miles between this place u and Easton will be covered in 1 hour (instead of 1 hour 15 minutes as at a excellent opportunity to acquire n present), which will be very rapid time considering the number of heavy u grades encountered. u a fine property at a bargain g FREEDOM, PA.—The ordinance granting the Beaver Valley Traction u a Company the right to lay additional tracks on Third Avenue has been n amended to require the payment by the company to the town of $1,200 cash a Present owners not practical men indemnity, and the double-track system to be completed to the borough line in Rochester Township in two years. g and have other interests demand- g HARRISBURG, PA.—The ordinances for the extension of the traction com- a pany's system and for the payment of 3 per cent of the gross receipts from u in their entire time. n traffic originating and ending in the city have been signed by the Mayor. The u g n ordinances were passed Friday, Sept. 11. u n HARRISBURG, PA.—Judge Weiss, of the Dauphin County Court, has a a filed two opinions in the injunction cases of the Cumberland Valley Railroad u N Company vs. the Chambersburg & Gettysburg Electric Railway Company. N n n The steam road sought to restrain the electric railway from crossing its U A. LINDEMANN, tracks at grade on Queen and King Streets in Chambersburg, and also from fj 11 crossing its tracks in West Fayetteville either at grade or cverhead. the In 622 York Life Building, CHICAGO, latter case the electric railway company asked permission to cross at a point g New g south of the turnpike by a private right of way. Judge Weiss grants the a n first application for an injunction, but refuses an injunction in the Fayette- ville case, taking the ground that the electric railway company's contemplated crossing overhead at a distance of 22 ft. is sufficient to assure the necessary property rights to the steam roads.

JOHNSTOWN, PA. —City Council's highway committee has recommended the passage of the ordinance granting a local franchise to the Johnstown and Scalp Level Street Railway. DO HEATING PLANTS PAY? MONONGAHELA, PA.—Donora capitalists have organized a new company, to be called the Monongahela & Clairton Street Railway Company. At Clairton the route will connect with the Frick line and make a complete service from Pittsburg to Donora. At Monongahela the line will make connections to Monessen, Bellevernon and Fayette City. The directors and WHAT CONSTITUTES A officers are: President, J. M. Mullen; secretary, Oliver S. Scott; treasurer, Herbert Ailes; directors, William H. Burns, B. W. Castner, John Ailes, Paul McCully, John G. Parke, Jr. HEATING SITUATION ? WAYNESBORO, PA—The Chambersburg, Greencastle & Waynesboro Electric Railway Company has decided upon the route of the low-grade line circling a large elevation west of town. This will necessitate the use of about iy2 miles of private right of way 20 ft. wide. Fifteen more carloads of' For Particulars Address T-rails for the new line have been received, and it is expected that the line will be completed to Greencastle by Tranksgiving Day. The new car house is almost finished. The new cars have arrived from the Jackson & Sharpe W. H. SCHOTT works, Wilmington, Del. Engineer and Contractor WEST CHESTER, PA.-The West Chester Street Railway Company has purchased a lot at the corner of Market Street and Warren Street, this 1219-21 Marquette Building, . CHICAGO borough, on which it will build a brick car house and storage building. The lot is 145 ft. x 194 ft. in size, and the price paid was $1,500. At present the cars are housed in the rear of the main depot, on another street, hut the amount of room is limited. Designer ana Builder

WEST CHESTER, rA.-The Philadelphia & West Chester Street Railway Scfootf s Balance Column Rot mater System, has completed the building of additional long sidings and will soon be able to cut from 15 minutes to 20 minutes off the running time between this place and Sixty-Third Street. Philadelphia. Under the new schedule it will be Scbott's Regulated Steam System. possible to make it in from 1 hour 30 minutes to 1 hour 40 minutes, which is but from 5 minutes to 15 minutes longer than the accommodation trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad make the run in. SYSTEMS BUILT LAST YEAR DALLAS, TEX.—The Metropolitan Street Railway Company will erect a large brick car house here. It will be 300 ft. by 457 ft. The land necessary Mt. Vernon, 111. for the structure has been purchased. It is stated that in addition to being Indianapolis, - Ind. Peru, - - - Ind. used as a street car house shops would be fitted up in the building where all necessary repair work of the company's car houses would be done. Lafayette, - " New Castle, - " FORT WORTH, TEX.—The Northern Texas Traction Company has pur- Elwood, - " Connorsville, - " chased a site on Front Street, where the company's new car houses will be erected. General Manager Haines says that the building will be 150 ft. x 320 ft., will be built of brick and that the improvements would cost something like $35,000. Work, he says, will be commenced within the next two weeks. — . G

September 26, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL XXV

HOUSTON, TEX.—The City Council has granted a franchise for twenty- one years for the interurban electric railway between Houston and Galveston. PRO r I TA ahd PbEAS I N This was about the last obstacle in the way of the project, and it is expected to your company, your passengers, and the advertisers repre- that actual work will begin in a short time. sented. This would be the result of awarding the contract for SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.—The Salt Lake City & Suburban Railroad Company has notified the City Council that it has accepted the terms by Advertising In Your Gar« which it was granted a year extension to its franchises. The new lease carries to the company best qualified to handle it successfully. :: with it the compulsion of performing a certain amount of construction work Eastern Offices, St. Paul Bids., NEW YORK Executive Offices, StereB* BMg., DETROIT in the next twelve months or forfeiting the franchise. SNOHOMISH, WASH.—The City Council has passed an ordinance grant- THE MULFORD O PETRY COMPANY ing a franchise to VV. M. Snyder for an electric railway through the city. Mr. Snyder represents the company of Snohomish citizens formed some time ago to build a trolley line from Snohomish to Cherry Valley, taking in the city of Monroe en route. M. P. HILLYER & COMPANY SPOKANE, WASH.—It is the intention of the Spokane Traction Company to build car houses and machine shops this fall and winter, but it has not been 49 WALL ST., NEW YORK definitely decided as to the location. A proposal is now being considered for ATLANTIC BUILDING the location of these shops and car houses, and decision will probably be reached in the course of the next ten days. Steam and Electric Railroads Financed WHATCOM, WASH.—Good progress has already been made upon the Railroad and Gas Bonds a Specialty projected new line through "York Addition," a rapidly growing residence We Invite Correspondence district of the city of Whatcom. Actual building is now under way, and it is stated that the cars will be running not long after Oct. 1. Besides this work of construction, a great deal of double tracking is being put in at points of the Whatcom County Railway & Light Company's system, under ST0MBAUGH GUY ANCHORS the management of Stcne & Webster, Boston, Mass. In fact, the lines be- The S x Inch tween the cities of Whatcom and Fairhaven are double tracked for the greater are generally used by street railway com- part of the distance. panies for guying poles with medium heavy FOND DU LAC, WIS.—Forty grants for right of way through the city strains. of Waupun have been filed in the office of Register of Deeds by the Madison The outs six inch style and wrench for same & Northeastern Railroad Company. The company proposes to build an electric W. N. MATTHEWS & BRQ. railway from Madison to Fond du Lac. It will be almost an air line, and will 606 CARLET0N BUILDING ST. LOUIS pass through the cities of Columbus, Beaver Dam and Waupun.

CIENFUEGOS, CUBA.—The Cienfuegos, Palmira & duces Electric Rail- way & Power Company has been organized to construct about 43 miles of electric electric at Watertoury electric railway, to sell power and engage in lighting Cien- fuegos, and also' at Caonao, Palmira, Cruces, Los Guaos and Cumanayagua, in * Button Cuba. The company will develop a large water power on Hanabanilla River. Oo. F. W. Bennett, lately of the Guayaquil & Quito Railroad, in Ecuador, has been engaged as resident engineer, and will begin the final location and con- Watertoury struction this fall. C. C. Vermeule, of 203 Broadway, New York, is consulting Conn. engineer. 48 Howard St., 1ST. Y. NEWS NOTES

LOS ANGELES, CAL.—Another attempt has been discovered to unionize the trainmen of the Los Angeles Railway Company. There was a grand fiasco last spring when only 12 men walked out and almost 700 remained faithful, so that the agitators just now are having a hard time of it. President Mahon, of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America, is expected in Los Angeles some time in October, coming here from BERRY BROTHERS San Francisco.

WORCESTER, MASS.— Nineteen suits, with total ad damnum approxi- mating $100,000, have been entered in the Superior Court against the Worces- ter & Southbridge Street Railway Company. All are to recover for alleged personal injuries, and most of them grow out of a collision at Charlton, May 30.

BOSTON, MASS.—Under the law passed by the last Legislature, by which officials of Massachusetts cities and towns are allowed to make speed regulations for street railways, subject to the approval of the Railroad Commis- sioners, many petitions for approval of such regulations have been filed. The first of these on which hearing is scheduled is that of the Selectmen of tilt town of Wellesley, and there is every prospect of an interesting contest, a> the high rate of speed formerly allowed the cars of the Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company has been very materially reduced.

MANCHESTER, N. H.—All the directors of the Manchester Traction, Light & Power Company and the Manchester Street Railway Company were re-elected at meetings of these corporations held at the Manchester office Sept. 16. They are as follows: Traction, Light & Power Company—William A. Tucker, of Boston; George H. Hood, of Boston; Walter M. Parker, George

B. Chandler, R. G. Sullivan, Harry E. Parker, J. Brodie Smith, of this city; S. Reed Anthony, of Boston; Stillman F. Kelley, of Boston; Billings P. Learned, of Boston; R. H. Hallowell, of Boston, and Charles M. Floyd, of Manchester. Manchester Street Railway Company—Philip L. Saltonstall, of Boston; Walter M. Parker, of Manchester; S. Reed Anthony, of Boston, RAILWAY and David A. Taggart, of Manchester.

NEWARK, N. J.—The Public Service Corporation, which controls all the electric railways in Essex, Hudson, Union and Passaic Counties, has entered into an agreement with the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway VARNISHES Employees of America providing for a uniform wage rate of 22 cents per hour for motormen and conductors, an increase of 3 cents. NEW YORK, N. Y.—The power house of the Union Railway Company NEW YORK, BOSTON. PHILADELPHIA. BALTIMORE, CINCINNATI, in New Rochelle was completely destroyed by fire Friday, Sept. 18. The CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS. fire broke out shortly after midnight, and spread with such rapidity that the SAN FRANCISCO. building was completely enveloped in a sheet of flame by the time the fire- factory and r\ c mr\ t-r* men arrived. It is said that the fire drove the engineers from the building MAIN OFFICE DETROIT. before they had time to shut off steam and stop the machinery. The origin of the fire is unknown. XXVI STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIT. No. 13.

NEW YORK, N. Y.— Corporation Counsel Rives has made public a memo- randum of unpaid taxes due under the franchise tax law which was enacted in 1900. The law has been sustained by the Court of Appeals, and is now pending a final decision on its constitutionality in the United States Supreme Court. The local authorities have nothing to do with the assessment for special franchises, and are not parties to the litigation. The first class of unpaid taxes is said to amount to $9,727,528. The unpaid taxes of street railroad corporations due the city are said to amount to $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 for real estate and over $2,000,000 for personalty. "Since Jan. 1, 1902," says Mr. Rives, "I have collected very large sums from the street railroad companies for taxes imposed prior to 1900. In the case of the Manhattan Railway I collected the sum of $752,524, making, with the sum of $1,443,533 heretofore collected in litigated assessments between 1S95 and 1899, considerably over $2,000,000 from that one corporation. The long-pending controversies between the company and the city in regard to its taxes are now adjusted*" This statement of Mr. Rives, it is offered in explanation, does not mean that the Manhattan Company has paid its franchise taxes, which are a State tax. The company claims exemption from the latter on the ground of certain special considerations.

CLEVELAND, OHIO —As the result of the change of control of the Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo Traction Company the general offices of that company have been removed from Cleveland to Cincinnati. The executive committee of the company held a meeting recently and decided to enter into negotiations with the Interurban & Terminal Company for the use of that company's terminal station on Sycamore Street for the freight and express department of the Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo, it was also decided to bring the Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo cars directly into the city either by building a new line on a street not now occupied by the Cincinnati Traction The N-xtionewl Elevating Grader, Company or by laying a third rail on one of the city lines. Ditcher and Waggon Loader si CLEVELAND, OHIO.—On Sept. 15 sleeping cars were placed in commis- will excavate and place in embankment 1,000 sion on the interurban line between Indianapilis, ind., and Columbus, Ohio. cubic yards of earth in ten hours or will load 500 Orders have been placed for twenty-four cars, sleeper and combination sleeper to 600 wagons per day. and diners, and within eighteen months the routes covering Ohio, Pennsyl- vania, New York, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and West Virginia Above rear view shows simplified hand wheel will be equipped with the cars. Buffalo is at present the Eastern terminus of arrangement for controlling operation. Write for Ihe Appleyard interurban electric roads; Milwaukee, the northwest complete catalog. terminus; St. Louis, the southwest, and Chicago, Terre Haute, Indianapolis. Cincinnati, Dayton. Springfield, Zanesville, Wheeling, Pittsburg, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Port Huron are the principal cities to be reached by the syndicate.

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.—Judge Weiss, of Dauphin, who heard the injunction suits brought against the Chambersburg & Gettysburg Electric Railway Company, which was trying to cross the Cumberland Valley Railroad at grade, sent in his opinion recently. He allows the electric railway to cross on an overhead trestle, at West Fayetteville, as it proposed, but makes permanent the injunction against crossing at grade at Queen and King Streets, Chambersburg.

HARRISBURG, PA.—Attorney-General Carson, on Sept. 10, held a private hearing on the application of the Pittsburg Railways Company for writs of quo warranto against the Bankers Street Railway Company and the Iron City Street Railway Company, of Pittsburg, to compel them to show by what COLUMBIA STEEL authority they exercise a corporate existence. This application was argued oefore the Attorney-General several weeks ago, and subsequently he awarded the writs asked for by the Pittsburg Railways Company. Three days later Mr. Carson recalled his action and directed an argument solely on the TROLLEY POLES question as to whether or not the Pittsburg Railways Company could secure the same remedy by a proceeding under the act of June 19, 1871, in the courts q n f0R e rs of Allegheny County, without the necessity of making the commonwealth RATCHET BRAKE HANDLES X e^ a party to the proceeding. The argument on Sept. 10 was directed solely to that question, and it continued for several hours. William C. Farnsworth, of' Harrisburg, attorney for the Pittsburg Railways Company, contended that quo warranto was absolutely the only remedy sought by his client. John Millcn Illuminated Signs, S. W'endt, of Pittsburg, attorney for the Bankers and the Iron City com- Car panies, maintained that the act of June, 19, 1871, was remedy enough to cover a case of this kind. The Attorney-General reserved his decision. Gear Cases, Fields and Coils,

HOUSTON, TEX.—The City Council has postponed until Sept. 23 further Armature and Axle Bearings consideration of the ordinance compelling the local street railway companies to place compartments separating the races in its cars.

Commutators, Car Trim- FINANCIAL NOTES mings, Brass, Gray Iron and BRISTOL, CONN.—The stockholders of the Bristol & Plainville Tramway Company have voted to authorize the directors to increase the capital stock Malleable Iron Foundries from $100,000 to $150,000.

CHICAGO, ILL.—The Union Elevated Railroad Company has made the usual semi-annual statement of gross earnings by months, on which its bonus to the is city computed. The following is the report, with a comparison for 1902: 1903 1902 COLUMBIA MACHINE WORKS January $48,279 $43,828 February 44«639 40.193 March 49.663 45,580 A P riI AND MALLEABLE IRON CO. 48 442 Ma 44,89! y 46,990 44,554 Tune • 46.245 42,198 BROOKLYN, N. Y., U. S. A.:

Six months $284,258 $261,245 :

September 26, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxvii

CHICAGO, ILL.—The reorganization crmmittee of the Lake Street Ele- vated Railway Company has extended the time for the deposit of securities to

Oct. 1. The committee is holding daily sessions working on a reorganization plan, but it is pointed out that each day the task becomes greater, instead of threshing itself down to a working basis. It is pointed out that the success of a 4 per cent bond is questioned now that the money situation has changed so. Again, the fact presents itself that no gain in traffic is being made, notwithstanding important improvements. This is said to be due to increased The Inexpert surface competition. The Chicago Economist even goes so far as to say that "but for the Northwestern guarantee of the interest the obvious plan would involve default and foreclosure, and as the case stands it may be necessary to resort to a receivership, which would, perhaps, involve a foreclosure in spite of the guaranty.' Public ROCKFORD, ILL.—The Rockford, Beloit & Janesville Electric Railway Company has filed for record in the Winnebago County Circuit Court a trust deed for all its property running to the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, to cover an issue of $1,000,000 first mortgage 5 per cent gold bonds. Of this amount $000,000 is to take up an issue of the Beloit, Delaben Lake & Janesville Company, now owned by the mortgagor, and the remainder is for sometimes demand power extension and improvements. It is believed this means the immediate extension of the road to Madison, Wis. ROCKFORD, ILL.—The report has just been issued for the Rockford, brakes, but many mana- Beloit & Janesville Traction Company lor the month of August. It shows gross receipts of $15,084; operating expenses, $6,401; net earnings, $8,683; interest charges, $2,500, leaving surplus .'or stock of $6,183. This shows that despite the fact that proper charges were made against operating expenses gers who adopt them for improvements, the road'was still able to operate on 42.4 per cent of gross receipts.

MARION, IND.—Arrangements have been made for the merging of the Marion Light & Heat Company with the Indiana Northern Traction Com- couple Sterling Safety pany; that it is building an electric railway from this city to Wabash and other points south of Chicago. According to plans agreed upon, a mammoth power house will be erected in North Marion sufficient to furnish power for furnish to present future patrons light, with traction lines also to and Brakes them. the and heat and electric power. A contract has been let for the building of the road, work to commence Oct. 1. LOUISVILLE, KY.—The Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Com- Power brakes, whatever pany has leased the New Albany Street Railway Company for twenty-five years. The consideration is that the Louisvillle & Southern Indiana Traction

Company shall pay an annual rental of $500 a year, commencing Aug. 1, 1903; that the company is to assume the payment of $250,000 bonded indebtedness their merits, are subject to or the Street Railway Company guaranteed by the United Gas & Electric Com- pany, of New Albany and Jeffersonville, together with the 5 per cent interest on such bonds which were issued Aug. 1, 1902, and that the company is to pay all taxes and fixed charges on the street railway system. It is further many mishaps, as all rail- stipulated that the traction company shall pay to the holders of preferred stock issued by the New Albany Street Railway Company dividends accruing on such stock, and that such dividends shall be paid according to the terms of a certain contract entered into by the United Gas & Electric Company, the road men know* Safety New Albany Street Railway Company and R. S. Veech, of Louisville. A deed has been filed conveying from the Southern Indiana Interurban Railway Company to the Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Company the property of the first-named company, which includes the interurban line between demands a brake of un- New Albany and Jeffersonville. The consideration named is $2,000,000. This is only a formal matter made necessary by the change in the name of the company. The lease of the street railway is regarded as a step in the direction of consolidating the business of the companies and the operation of the lines failing certainty* The of the New Albany Street Railway system, the interurban line between New Albany and Jeffersonville, and the Jeffersonville Street railway lines under one system, which will be extended over the Big Four Bridge at Jeffersonville to Louisville. 2-chain Sterling is the

BOSTON, MASS.—The Boston & Northern Street Railway Company has petitioned the Railroad Commissioners for authority to issue additional capital stock to the amount of $380,CCO for the payment of floating indebtedness and only sure reliance* Can the purchase of additional equipment.

DETROIT, MICH.—The Detroit United Railways Company has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent, payable Oct. 1. you expend its price DETROIT, MICH.—The Detroit United Railway Company reports earnings as follows

August 1903 1902 $398,535 otherwise to equal advan- 245,180 212,112

$186,423 tage ? 3.50S

$189,931 79,583

$110,34S Jan. 1 to Aug. 31 Sterling- Meaker Co., $2,582,163 1,463,754

$1,118,409 30,857 NEWARK, N. J., U. S. A.

$1,149,266 621,960

$527,306 xxviii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 13.

NEW YORK, N. Y.—Last week the story was circulated in financial circles that the Rockefeller interests were buying Brooklyn Rapid Transit stock to secure control of the property. At first those implicated as being connected with tne deal refused to discuss the question, but later Henry Rogers authorized an official denial of the ftory.

ALBANY, N. Y.—The annual report of the United Traction Company shows the ' following statistics: Gross earnings from operations, $1,606,090; operating expenses, $1,076,847; net earnings from operations, $529,242; fixed EQUIPMENT OF STEAM charges, $299,138; 5 per cent dividend distributing, $249,997; deficit for the THE BUILDING AND year, $1,678; surplus for next preceding year, $67,321; total surplus, $65,643. AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS Number of passengers carried, including transfers, 31,680,601; number of LIGHTING SYSTEMS. transfers, 2,703,339. The operation of the Cohoes City Railway shows a deficit AND for the year of $36,149, or a total deficit of $40,929. PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The Rochester Railway Company reports earnings REPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN OPERATION. as follows: For the months ending Aug. 31 1903 1902 Gross earnings $117,182 $102,095 Operating expenses 57,107 52,168 HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA Net earnings $60,075 $49,927 Income from other sources 425 325

Gross income from all sources $60,500 $50,252 Fixed charges 25,942 25,063

$34,558 Net income or deficit $25,189 Fixed charges, August, 1903: Interest $19,743 Rentals 1,088 J. G. WHITE & COMPANY Taxes 5,111 INCORPORATED,

Total $25,942

CLEVELAND, OHIO.—Directors of Cleveland Electric Railway have de- Engineers, Contractors, clared a quarterly dividend of 1 per cent, payable Oct. 5. This is the first dividend since the merger with the Cleveland City Railway, and establishes a 29 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. rate of 4 per cent. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The leading Cleveland and Cincinnati holders of LONDON CORRESPONDENT: the bonds of the Miami & Erie Canal Transportation Company, which is now J. C. White Sl Company, Limited in the Hands of a receiver, have appointed committees from their respective cities with a view to securing a reconciliation between the warring factions in 22a College Hill, Cannon St. these security holders. It is arranged that all bonds shall be deposited with these committees before Oct. 1, and when this work is completed a line of action will be mapped out. The court in charge of the property is desirous of securing the best possible information as to what the bondholders desire, and, therefore, these committees have been appointed with a view to securing concerted action. The bondholders, of course, have the first lien on the property, and after their claims have been satisfied the other creditors will come in for their share of what is left. Sanderson Porter COLUMBUS, OHIO.—An attempt is being made to throw the Toledo, & Columbus, Springfield & Cincinnati Railway Company into the hands of a ENGINEERS AND receiver. The petition is in the name of Walter Toy, a stockholder, but it is CONTRACTORS reported that the move is backed by the Columbus & Lake Michigan Rail- a steam road, which is desirous of securing the right of way of the road, Electric Railways, 52 WILLIAM STREET electric line to gain entrance to Columbus. The franchises of the road were Light, Power ano taken out for an electric line, but the private rights read for either steam Hydraulic Plants. NEW YORK or electric. The application for receiver will be heard before the courts within a few days.

PROSPECT, OHIO.—The plant of the Prospect Electric Light Company has passed into the hands of the Columbus, Delaware & Marion Railway Com- W. B>. BAKER H. R. BISHOP pany. The new owners are planning to enlarge the plant, with a view to providing power temporarily for the northern division of its railway system. W. E. BAKER & CO. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The $100,000 7 per cent bonds of the Thirteenth & Fifteenth Street Passenger Railway Company, maturing Oct. 1, 1903, will be ENGINEERS paid on that date at the Fidelity Trust Company, of Philadelphia, but the holders are given the privilege until Oct. 10, 1903, of exchanging the same for 3% per cent first mortgage bonds (part of an authorized issue of $500,000, 170 BROADWAY NEW YORK due Jan. 1, 1934, of which $400,000 are 5 per cents), with coupon due Jan. 1, 1904, attached. A payment of $8.75 per $1,000 bond must be made at the time of exchange to adjust accrued interest. WILLIAfl A. ROSENBAUM NEWPORT NEWS, VA.—D. G. Porter, a sub-contractor on the Hampton Roads Railway, has filed a mechanics' lien against the property of that com- electrical expert and patent Solicitor pany for $11,785. NassauBeekman Building NEW YORK C1TV STAUNTON, VA.—The City Street Car Company has been placed in the hands of a receiver by Judge H. W. Holt, of the Corporation Court, on petition of E. H. Funkhouser. The company has outstanding bonds of $30,000, and defaulted July 1 on interest. The receiver is empowered to run the THOMAS B. WHITTED cars or stop them at his discretion. Consulting Engineer 221-224 Equitable Building - - DENVER, COLORADO CANADIAN NOTES

LONDON, ONT—A mortgage deed for $1,250,000 has been filed with the Tennis Brothers Company Secretary of State at Albany, N. Y., by the London. Aylmer & North Shore Electric Railway Company. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, BUILT AND EQUIPPED

MONTREAL, QUE.—By a vote which represented more than $5,000,000 out of a total capitalization of $6,000,000. the Montreal Street Railway Com- 22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, pany has decided to increase its capital stock to $7,000,000, an increase of Cincinnati. Ohio Pittsburg, Pa. $1,000,000. The increase is to carry out a plan of extension of the lines and also to provide additional rolling stock. —

September 26, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. XXIX AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS

THE CROCKER-WHEELER COMPANY, of Ampere, N. J., has recently issued an interesting pamphlet in which the salient features of the company's generators for railway service are briefly summarized. This publication was distributed at the Saratoga Convention of the American Street Railway Association, where it attracted considerable attention.

THE SOUTHERN CAR COMPANY, of High Point, N. C, recently organized, will succeed the Briggs Car Company, of Amesburg, Mass. The capital stock of the new company is $250,000, and it is now completing a plant which will have a capacity of 300 car-bodies per year. This plant will be thoroughly equipped, and it is expected to have it in full operation this fall. Electric caft LIGHTING—POWER—RAILWAYS of all descriptions will be built, and both Northern and Southern trade will be sought. The officers of the company are: J. Elwood Cox, president; E. A. Snow, vice-president; E. R. Briggs, secretary and treasurer. v * * THE W. R. CARTON COMPANY, of Chicago, is calling especial attention the wonderful results obtained from its Ereco insulation. While this to 1864-1806-1805-1510-1812 Fisher Building, = CHICAGO material has been on the market for tcme three years, the manufacturers have devoted considerable time and attention to constantly improving the tenacious and insulating qualities of ihe material, until they feel that they have reached the point where Ereco insulation has no equal. They are also mailing to the trade a very helpful catalogue illustrating material for armature building and insulation. These are sent to those making application.

THE UNITED STATES LIGHT TRACTION COMPANY, H. L. Still- man, treasurer, West Acton, Mass., will send to readers of the Street Rail- way Journal, on receipt of request, a circular describing Stillman's combination tire wheel. The greatest efficiency claimed for this wheel is in its adhesion to steel rails, and also that this and other features make it very Arnold Electric Power Station Co. suitable for railway companies by enabling them to greatly cheapen construction costs, permitting the installation of railways in places where they would not pay if built i.n accordance with ordinary methods. ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS

THE COAL-HANDLING MACHINERY installed by the C. W. Hunt Company, West New Brighton, N. Y., at the Lincoln Wharf Power Station Designers and Builders of Complete of the Boston Elevated Railroad Company, recently lowered the world's record Electric Railway, Lighting and Power Installations. for rapid unloading. The coal was raised £0 ft. above tide-water and delivered to the storage pockets at the rate of 320 tons per hour. The installation follows in general design the standard Hunt steeple tower rig, the moving gear Marquette Building, and coal cracker being electrically driven, and the hoisting engine direct Transit Building, connected. The overhang of the folding boom is 40 ft., and the capacity of new vork, Chicago. the shovel 2 tons.

GEORGE W. KNOX, A. M. A. I. E. E., and James Z. George, A. M. A.

I. E. E., J. M. A. S. M. E., consulting engineers, Chicago and New Orleans, announce the incorporation of the Knox, George & Company, New- Orleans, for the purpose of carrying on their engineering work in the Southern and Southwestern States, Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. Mr. Knox, the president of the company, will retain his offices in Chicago, while the principal offices of the company will be in New Orleans, under the direction of Mr. Geprge, the vice-president and general manager. H. M. BYLLESBY & CO. Knox, George & Company's work will be as consulting, constructing and operating engineers. INCORPORATED

THE GOULD STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY announces the following recent contracts: Lexington Street Railway, Lexington, Ky., 256 cells, S-613 elements in S-17 tanks, with a capacity of 480 amps, and 640 amps., re- Engineers spectively. An automatic regulating booster of the Gould type will be installed with this battery. Easton Power Company, Easton, Pa., 255 cells of type S-617 in S-25 tanks, with a capacity of 640 amps, and 960 amps., re- Design, Construct and Operate Rattlfoay spectively; also switchboard and regulating booster of the Gould type. This plant is the second installation for this company, after an extended use of the Light, Power and Hydraulic Plants Gould battery and booster. Northampton Power Company, Easton, Pa., floating battery with a maximum discharge of 360 amps, and 600 volts. EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS A CURIOUS SPECIMEN OF ART IN ADVERTISING is that sent out recently by the Wheel Truing Brake-Shoe Company, of Detroit, Mich. The front page of this circular is covered with what appears to be a combination New York Life Building CHICAGO, ILL. of Chinese laundry tickets, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions. The publishers spared no expense, however, to have the writings translated, and the joyous reader thus finds himself in receipt of a truly Oriental greeting from certain famed rulers of the East. The back of the publication exhibits three great camels stalking across a desert at top speed probably to get another shipment of the company's noted brake-shoes—while two species of birds well known for their wisdom and gravity look on approvingly. The THE SPEER CARBON COMPANY AT THE CONVENTION.—In the report of the exhibits at the Saratoga Convention published in the issue of CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY Sept. 12 an error was made in referring to the souvenirs issued by the Speer of Carbon Company. The souvenirs were of two kinds, one consisting of a pack of cards contained in a handsome leather card-case, while the other was a Manufacturers, Dealers, set of sleeve-buttons. Both of these souvenirs attracted wide attention, and were greatly sought after. By a combination of errors also, the name of Contractors, Etc. one of the representatives of the company at the convention was printed G. P. Tryling, instead of G. P. Fryling. Mr. Fryling is well known to all of Published each week in the- the customers of the Speer Carbon Company, and he and Mr. Speer were greatly complimented upon the attractiveness of the exhibit, as well as upon STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL the success which the company is meeting in the sale of its self-lubricating | | motor and generator brushes for railway work. I Is the most valuable index available for STONE & WEBSTER, of Boston, Mass., electrical engineers and managers = the purchasers of electric railway appa- of lighting, power and railway plants in the West, South and New England, have moved their offices to the India Building, at 84 State Street, Boston. ll ratus and equipment. Their former address was 93 Federal Street, which place was occupied by the firm after the disastrous fire which overtook them at 4 Postoffice Square. The XXX STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 13. new offices occupy the ninth and tenth and half of the eleventh floors of the building, and command a superb view of Boston harbor. The entrance is on Electric the tenth floor, which contains the private office of the firm, members of the executive committee, securities, corporation and accounting departments, Machinery office boys, etc. The ninth floor contains the engineering and drafting de- BULLOCK partments, auditing, purchasing, insurance and department of investigation and statistics. On the eleventh floor are found the Fort Hill Chemical Com- pany, the Columbia Improvement Company and the office library.

THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, of Philadelphia, has recently closed contracts for the installation of batteries of the "Chloride Accumulator" for the Indianapolis & Northern Railway at Sulphur Springs, Ind., making seven batteries operated by this company and an increase in the battery already installed for it at Broad Ripple, Ind.; an increase in the two Latteries recently installed for the Los Angeles Railway, Los Angeles, Cal., and an installation for the Northwestern Elevated Railway, of Chicago, 111. Four new batteries have been contracted for by the Chicago Edison Com- pany, making thirteen batteries operated by this company; an installation for the Paterson Edison Company, Paterson, N. J.; the second battery for the Los Angeles Edison Company, Los Angeles, Cal., and an additional ba!tery for the New York Edison Company, which makes twenty-two batteries operated by the last company. Isolated lighting and power plants are being installed for the Murphy Building, and for Wm. P. Stevenson, at Detroit. Mich.; Alexander Wmton, Cleveland, Ohio; F. T. F. Lovejoy, Pittsburg. Pa.; the House of the Good Shepherd, Roxbury, Mass., and for the Irving Building, Louisville, Ky.

SUIT WON BY JOHN A. BRILL.—In the suit brought by John A. Brill against the North Jersey Street Railway Company in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, for an injunction to prevent the use of trucks built by the Peckham Motor Truck & ' Wheel Company, which were claimed to infringe patents owned by Mr. Brill, a decision was handed down on Aug. 28 fully sustaining the patents. The defense of the case was assumed and carried on throughout by the Peckham Company through its own counsel, Duell, McGrath & Warfield. Mr. Brill was represented by Francis Rawle, Edmund Wetmore and Joseph L. Levy. The patents involved were No. 627,898 (thirty-nine claims) and No. 627,900 (four claims), both dated June 27, 1899, which patents cover the system of spring- suspended semi-elliptic spring equalizers of the Brill center-pivotal truck, No. 27-G. The Peckham trucks in controversy were those known as No. 14-B-3 A 1 ypical Bullock Alternating Current Generator, Water Wheel Driven and No. 1(1. The case was tried before Judge Bradford, district judge for the District of Delaware, to wnom it was especially assigned. The argument Complete Direct and Alternating Current Plants lasted four days, and the case was thoroughly fought out. The court fully SINGLE, TWO AND THREE PHASE sustained all the claims of both patents that were urged on behalf of the com- MOTORS, DIRECT CURRENT MOTORS plainant, and awarded a preliminary injunction enjoining the railway company from the use of the trucks, and directing an account of profits to be Electric Co., Cindnnati'^g^ taken. Bullock Mfg.

Do you want a book on any Engineering Subject ? WE CAN FURNISH IT.

McGraw Publishing Co. BOOK DEPARTMENT, 114 Liberty Street, New York. ROBINS CONVEYING BELT CO., ^ew^yorE *

DIRECT AND ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATORS FOR

Railway Lighting and Power Service

Special attention has been given to the Insulation and Ventilation of our Apparatus

NATIONAL ELECTRIC CO. 150 K. W. Alternator D. C. Generator, Belted

Chicago : COLONY OLD BUILDING KILBOURNE & CLARK CO. Pittsburg: OELLATLY & CO. M ILWAUKBB iSnF?«"d.co [ October io, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxi NEWS OF THE WEEK

CONSTRUCTION NOTES Saratoga is finished, and the graders have reached a point 2 miles beyond in the direction of Los Gatos. All the material for construction is here ready for use. ANNISTON, ALA.— It is understood here that plans are forming for the PUEBLO, construction of an electric railway from Pyriton to Lineville, a distance of COLO.—The Rapid Transit Company has let a contract to the Beulah 7 miles. Construction & Realty Company for the construction of an electric railway to Beulah, 30 miles west of Pueblo. The survey for the road has been MOBILE, ALA.—It is stated that the special committee which has for completed to within a few miles of Beulah. The road will be standard gage, so some time had under consideration the application of W. K. P. Wilson and that the cars will be interchangeable with the other roads entering the city. associates for a franchise for the construction and operation of an electric It is expected that the work of construction will begin at an early date. railway had drafted and adopted by unanimous vote an ordinance granting ANSONIA, said franchise to the best bidder. CONN.—The contract for extending the double-track of the Naugatuck Road from Ansonia northward has been awarded to the J. J. franchise for the electric railway has LAKEPORT, CAL.—A proposed O'Brien Contracting Company. The tracks are to run north 3 miles from been ordered granted to L. Boggs. ordinances will be submitted at H. The Ansonia, and the work will be started in about a month. It will be six or the October meeting of the Supervisors. eight months, it is expected, before the work is completed. NORWICH, LOS ANGELES, CAL.—Bids are to be asked for the sale oi a franchise CONN.—At an important meeting of the directors of the Groton-Stonington for an electric railway beginning at the corner of Main and Jefferson Streets Street Railway Company, held in Norwich, a committee was selected to engage and running south on Main Street to Moneta Avenue, and thence along an engineer to begin the construction of the road, and another committee was Moneta Avenue to the south city limits. Property owners have asked that appointed to secure the necessary rights of way. The subscription books were closed, the franchise be offered for sale. as it was decided that all the stock had been taken up, with the exception of a few individual shares. The working plans LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The Los Angeles & Glendale Electric Railway ard specifications will be prepared immediately when it is expected there will Company has petitioned the City Council to offer for sale an electric railway be no further obstruction in the way of beginning the road. The street rail- franchise on Los Angeles Street, from Sixth to Ninth Streets. Such a fran- way company has secured the Randall wharf property at Mystic, owned by chise would tap the heart of the wholesale district. the Standard Machine Company, as a site for the new power house. It con-

sists of a tract of land 225 ft. in length, and 150 ft. in width. LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The property recently acquired by the Hunting- DOVER. DEL.—A contract has been awarded to the Tennis Construction ton syndicate from the Los Angeles Traction Company is to be completely Company for building the electric railway from Chesapeake City to Elkton, rehabilitated. An idea of the thoroughness of the work to be done is shown Md. The ultimate aim of the parties who control the line is to build a con- by the fact that an authoritative estimate of the changes places the cost at nection at the State line, with an extension via Newport, Del., Stanton and $1,000,000. Work has already begun. Newark, Del., and from Chesapeake City to Fredericktown, across the LOS ANGELES, CAL.—From Ventura comes the information that Mr. Sassafras River, to Chestertown, Md., with a branch probably f.'om Chesa- Huntington's electric railway surveyors are in that vicinity. It is reported peake City to Middletown, Del., thus completing a circuit via Delaware that Huntington interests have acquired all the property of Ventura's little City and New Castle to Wilmington, Del. If this last arrangement is carried horse car line, with 1% miles of track, from its long-time owner, George out, the line will undoubtedly be continued down the State to Smyrna, and C. Power. This line runs through the main street of Ventura. It is also thence on through to Rehoboth, giving the entire peninsula a complete elec- known that the Power people have within the past year secured most of the tric railway for freight and passenger business. race track property on the ocean front near town, comprising over 20 acres, CARNESVILLE, GA.—John S. Dortch, of this city, is interested in the and ideally adapted to shop and power-house uses. construction of the proposed electric railway from Athens to Carnesville. LOS ANGELES, CAL.—Contracts for grading and other conr-iruction have The people of Carnesville have already raised $15,000 for this read, and been let by L. C. Brand for the Los Angeles & Glendale Electric Railway Athens is expected to raise $10,000. Company, and the completion of the line is promised within five months. BUFORD, GA.—The Winding Shoals Electric Power Company was recently The contractors are Robert Sherer & Company, who have been doing work incorporated at Buford, to install a 6000-hp hydro-electric plant on the Chatta- of a similar character for the Pacific Electric Railway Company. The con- hoochee River, 4 miles west of Buford. A portion of the power will be utilied tract price is said to be about §47,000. The road will be double track, stan- by the local factories in Buford, which is the center of the largest leather dard gage, and about 10 miles long. About 3 miles of the road will lie outside manufacturing district in the South. The Atlanta, Buford & Gainsville Rail- the city. Power will be supplied by the Kern River Power Company. The way, for which a survey is now being made, may take some of the power; road traverses a great berry district, and its franchise allows it to carry the balance of the power, it is intended to transmit to Atlanta and surround- freight. H. E. Huntington is reported to have his watchful eye on the ing towns. J. W. Peterson, president of the Electric Equipment Company, project, inasmuch as it reaches off toward Santa Barbara. Work on the 939 Monadnock Block, Chicago, is one of the officers of the company, and line is now under way. has personal charge of the engineering details in connection with the work. LOS ANGELES, CAL.—Los Angeles capitalists are heavily interested in The Electric Equipment Company is preparing the plant, and specifications, the Fresno Traction Company, which has just been organized and incor- and will soon be ready to receive bids for the machinery, equipment and con- porated in Fresno County, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. The incorpo- struction work. rators are: W. G. Kerckhoff, A. C. Balch, H. P. Baumgartner, W. E. CHARLESTON, ILL.—Articles of incorporation have been filed at Durfee, of Los Angeles; A. G. Wilson, of Fresno. From this lii t of or- Springfield by the Charleston, Champaign & Northern Interurban Railway ganizers it may be presumed that H. E. Huntington is vitally i ested in Company. The principal offices will be at Charleston, and the capital is the venture. Mr. Kerckhoff is the president of the Huntington-Hellman $10,000. The road is to be constructed from Charleston, Coles County, to Pacific Light & Power Company, of Los Angeles, and Mr. Balch is his Homer, Champaign County. The incorporators and first board of directors principal lieutenant, while Mr. Wilson is manager of the syndicate's Fresno are: W. R. Patten, W. F. Jenkins, B. Mitchell, J. C. L. Lee and J. L. street railway properties, recenlly acquired. When completed it is said that Shisand, of Charleston. the new lines will be part of *he Huntington Electric Railway system from Los Angeles to San Francisco. According to the charter, the promoters EAST ST. LOLUS, ILL.— Articles of incorporation have been issued in Springfield, 111., for the East propose to build 196 miles of electric railway. Besides several extensions to St. Louis & Columbia Electric Railway Company, of East St. Louis. The capital stock is $25,000. The the present city lines of Fresno, there are planned interurban lines as fol- incorporators are : Thomas M. Chase, P. and lows: From Fresno to Wawona, 79 miles long, via Clovis and Crane Valley J. Meyer John Pickham. It is said to be the intention of the incorporators to increase the capital stock to (it is in this latter place that the San Joaquin Power Company has its storage $2,800,000, and to build a railway from East St. Louis to Columbia and later reservoirs); from Fresno to Selma, via Reedley, Sanger and Dinuba, and to extend it to Chester, 111. to Fresno; from Fresno to Trimmer's Springs, near the back mouth of MARSEILLES, ILL.—The Streator Manufacturers' Railway has been in- from Fresno, out Cherry King's River Canyon; Avenue, through Fresno, corporated to build a railroad from Ottawa, 111., to Marseilles and to Streator. Colonies. Central and Washington The capital stock is $25,000, and the incorporators are: Frank R. Davidson, John F. Clark, Charles H. Adams and others. PASADENA, CAL.—The Pacific Electric Railway Company wants to build an extension on Illinois Street between Los Robles and Avenues, Lake and MOLINE, ILL.—The Mississippi Valley Traction Company has been in- petition begs the City Council to grant a franchise. a citizens' corporated, with a capital stock of $600,000; the line is to be constructed from Moline to and around Campbell's Island, Rock Island SANTA BARBARA, CAL.—The Santa Barbara Consolidated Railway County, and to Sterling. Whiteside County, and Genesco, Henry County. Incorporators Company has been granted a franchise to operate an electric railway between and directors: William P. Kopf, E. Scott, H. W. Nichols, Jr., Frederick Hill Santa Barbara and Ortega. The line to Summerland will be but a W. and Albert Claussen, Chicago. small part of a system which the company intends to place in operation in J. Santa Barbara County. Within a short time an application will be made for BLOOMINGTON, IND.—The Bloomington & Bedford Traction Company a franchise for a road from Santa Barbara to the Hope Ranch, it being the is surveying a line through the Oolitie stone belt to connect Bloomington intention of the company to run its line along the foothills in the western and Bedford. The company has secured franchises and rights of way for limits of the city and connect with the old Southern Pacific right of way, nearly the entire route. along the Modoc Road, to the ranch. The company, it is announced, will CAMBRIDGE CITY, IND. -The Richmond Street & Interurban shortly make application to the City Council for a franchise along the East Railway Company will in the spring convert the Red Whitewater Boulevard to the eastern limits of the city. Division ot the Big Four from Hagerstown to Connersville into a traction line. The officials of The contractors are SAN JOSE, CAL.— making rapid progress in con- the interurban company, with several of the stockholders, took a trip over electric railway from structing the San Jose to Saratoga and Los Gatos. the line recently in a motor car, examining the bridges and roadbed and Ballasting to Saratoga has been completed; the big cut through the hill near were pleased with the condition of the road. xxii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 15.

ELKHART, IND.— It is said that the work of grading for the St. Joseph Valley Traction Company's line from Lagrange to Elkhart will be begun about Oct. 1 at the Lagrange end.

INDIANAPOLIS, I N D. —The Hoosier Tower & Traction Company, of Vin- The Climax Slock Guard cennes, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000, to construct an electric railway through Knox County, Daviess County, Martin County, and H. E. OVERSTREET, General Manager Orange County. Directors: O. N. Greist, H. H. Crooke, VV. L. Stoy and others. 714 Marquette Bldg. Chicago, III.

KOKOMO, IND.— It is stated that the City and the Union Traction Com- panies are having plans prepared, and will soon ask bids for constructing a bridge at Union Street. Probable cost $17,000.

LAFAYETTE, IND.—The building of the Northwestern Traction between this city and Frankfort is progressing rapidly. The ties are down and track laid from Lafayette to Dayton and a mile beyond. Only 6 miles of uncompleted track remain between Dayton and Frankfort. Ballasting and the stringing of wires are being kept right up with track laying. Mr. Reids

says it is his intention to have cars running on this line by Dec. 1.

MUNCTE, IND.—A site has been purchased on South Mulberry Street by the Indiana Union Traction Company for a large union terminal station for the seven interurban roads centering in this city. The building will be a stone structure five stories nigh. The contract for construction has been let to Fred Illingsworth & Company and work is to begin at once.

NOBLESVILLE, IND.— Cars on the Indianapolis Northern Traction Com- pany's lines are now running between Noblesville and Tipton. A gang of more than inie hundred men are now engaged in putting up the trolley wire be-

tween . Joblesville and Indianapolis, and the work is being done at the rate of 2 miles a day. With favorable weather connection will be made with Broad Ripple within ten days, and the officials of the company say the entire system will Ik- in operation between Indianapolis and Kokoma before the end of October. One of 8oo Climax Stock Guards, sold to Aurora, Elgin & PRINCETON, IND.—The Evansville & Princeton Interurban Company Chicago Railway, last year. is securing the right of way for an extension of its line northward toward Terre Haute via Vincennes, Bicknell, Freelandsville and Oaktown, paralleling Over Guards sold last season the E,, T. & H. Railroad through Sullivan and Vigo Counties. 3,000

RL'SIIVILLE, IND. —The J. A. Schumacher Company, of Indianapolis, The following are some of our sales this season: has begun work on the excavation for the power plant, car houses and repair GUARDS GUARDS shops (if the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company. Work on the Aurora, E'gin & Chicago Ry. - - 120 South Bend and South Mich. Ry. - - 27 grading of the line is progressing rapidly, and will probably be completed by Stark Co. Electric Ry. - - 100 Cleveland & South-western Traction Co. 50 Dec. 1. Long Island R. R. - 50 The Falk Co. 25 Rochester Si Eastern Rapid Ry. - - 70 Southwest Missouri Electric Ry. - - 25 SOUTH BEND, IND.— Representatives of the Indiana Union Traction Canton & New Philadelphia Ry. - - 90 Chicago, Bluffton & Cincinnati R. R. - 200 Rock Island System - - - 50 Rockford and Freeport Electric Ry. - 50 Company are negotiating for the Niles extension of the Indiana Railway Vandergrift Construction Co - - 25 W. R. Grace & Co., FOR LIMA. PERU - 56 Company and the franchises and right of way of the Indiana Western, an- 0:.eida Construction Co. - - - 30 C. M. & St. P. R. R, - - - - 50 other branch. It is said that the company also seeks to acquire all the interests of the Indiana Railway Company from South Bend to Goshen, to form an important connecting link for a line from Cleveland to Chicago.

TERRE HAUTE, IND. —The County Commissioners have granted a franchise to the Western Traction Company to build m electric railway from the south line of the county to Terre Haute. Samuel Williams, of Vincennes, is president of the company.

CEDAR RAPIDS, lA.-Col. VV. G. Dows and Isaac B. Smith, of Cedar Rapids, who are now engaged in constructing the Cedar Rapids, Iowa City & Southern Interurban Railway, are considering plans for the construction of another interurban line. This new line will be built in a northwesterly direction from Cedar Rapids, through Linn, the objective point being Water- loo, the county seat of Black Hawk County. The line will be constructed about half way between the Decorah and the Minneapolis & St. Paul Di- visions of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, through Linn, Benton, Buchanan and Black Hawk Counties, and will be about 54 miles in length. It is stated that financial arrangements have already been made, and that the work of constructing the line will commence in the spring.

DAVENPORT, IA.—The Tri-City Railway Company has purchased a strip of land 804 ft. by 300 ft. on the south side of East River Street, just east of the White yards. The new car houses are to be constructed on this tract. The work (if building them will commence within the next few weeks.

KEOKUK, IA.—The new interurban electric railway from Keokuk to Ham- ilton and Warsaw, 111., has been completed by the Keokuk Electric Railway Company, and is now in regular operation. The line is about 7 miles in length. Power is furnished from the power house of the company at Keokuk. Freight, baggage, express and mail will be handled by the company.

LE MARS, IA.—Arrangements have been completed for the construction of the Le Mars-Sioux City Interurban Railway, and the greater part of the necessary capital has been raised. The promoters are considering the plan of using gasolene engines for motive power in place of electricity. Each car will be equipped with a gasolene engine. Franchise elections will be held in Le Mars, Merrill and Sioux City within the next few weeks. The people "f all three cities ire in favor of the line, and there is no doubt but that the franchises will meet with success at the polls.

SIOUX CITY, IA.—The Sioux City Traction Company has completed its new stone and brick car house at Third Street and Water Street. The new car house extends over the alley which formerly separated the old barn from the power house. Forty-five cars may be housed in the new car house, making the total car house capacity seventy-five. The company is rushing the completion of its special track from the Water Street intersection to the new West Third Street bridge. So soon as the deck of the new steel bridge shall be erected the company will lay its track and run its cars across without waiting for the bridge to be finished. The old Jackson Street cars, which are built upon standard-gage trucks, will be used on the West Third Street line until new cars can be built. October io, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxi 11

SIOUX CITY, IA.— Negotiations have been pending for the purchase by the Sioux City, Homer & Southern Railway Company of a right of way across the Winnebago and Omaha Indian reservations. This seems to point to the certainty of the extension of the line from Homer to Omaha. The Omaha Northern Railway Company owns a right of way over these reservations, but has never done anything as yet to construct the line from Omaha to Sioux City. It is stated that Mr. Talbot, president and promoter of the Sioux City, Homer & Southern Railway Company, has offered the officials of the Omaha Northern a good price for the right of way. The work on this electric railway from South Sioux City to Homer is progressing slowly. The company has been handicapped by lack of material. Several car loads of steel rails and ties have been received by the company at Sioux City, and it is hoped that the work of construction can be rushed.

KANSAS CITY, KAN.—There is a project forming of building an electric line from Kansas City to Jefferson City and thence to the lead and zinc fields of Missouri. This information has been given out by P. H. Coney, an attorney, of Topeka, Kan., who has been working on the plan for some time. He says that St. Louis capital is back of the scheme. The road will handle freight and passengers. LOUISVILLE, KY.—The Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Company has leased 10 acres of land adjoining Glenwood Park on the north and will make extensive improvements to that popular pleasure resort. A lake will be provided for boating and fishing parties by damming Silver Creek, additional buildings will be erected, and numerous flower beds will be planted. Iron" and Stee LOUISVILLE, KY.— It is said that at the next meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, in New Albany, the Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Company will petition for a right of way through the county for HBULAR - POLES an electric railway from New Albany to Paoli and French Lick and West i i Baden Springs. The company, it is understood, will take up the franchise that has just been abandoned by the New Albany, Paoli & French Lick Val- tlcctric Railway, ley Traction Company, and construct the road to Paoli, where it will connect with the proposed line of the Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Company, from Corydon to the Springs by way of Wyandotte Cave and White Sulphur Wells, in Crawford County. The franchise of the New Albany Street Railway Company, which recently passed into the hands of the Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Company, gives that company a right of way into the city of New Albany, and all that will be required for the construction of the proposed line will be a right of way through Floyd and Orange Counties. BALTIMORE, MD.—William P. Lyons, of Baltimore, has been appointed co-receiver of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Railway Company. BURLINGTON, MASS.—The town of Burlington has instructed the Board of Selectmen to grant a location to the Middlesex Street Railway Company, MMINGS which proposes to construct a line between Arlington and Lowell, with rails in Arlington, Bedford, Burlington and Billerica. The route, so far as possible, "will be over private land and a double track will be laid. The petition, with regard to Burlington, asks for a franchise along the easterly side of the old turnpike, so-called on private land.

NAHANT, MASS.—The voters have decided in favor of an electric railway at a special election held to give them an opportunity to show their preference on the question whether or not the Selectmen should grant a franchise for an electric railway. With this decision of the voters it is now said i the Selectmen will meet and consider the propositions of the two rival com- pft Mil panies, with the indications that a railway will be built very soon. PLYMOUTH, MASS.—At a meeting of the directors of the Plymouth, Carver & Wareham Street Railway Company, held in Middleboro, it was voted to call for a 10 per cent assessment of the capital stock, this being the

next step toward incorporation of the company, it being necessary under Massachusetts statutes to have 10 per cent of the capital stock paid into the treasury before a charter is granted. The company is moving right along, and construction should be completed in time for the busy season next year. ^OVERHEAD LIME SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Springfield Suburban Street Railway Com- pany has asked the Railroad Commission to approve locations over private way in Springfield, Wilbraham and Ludlow. MATERIAL WORCESTER, MASS.—The Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company is to build an addition to its car house at Westboro, doubling the capacity. The car house now has a capacity of twenty cars. \ every description BENTON HARBOR, MICH.—Right of way is being secured for an electric railway from Benton Harbor to South Haven via Riverside, Pottawatamie Park and Colma. Mr. Mueller, a Chicago lumberman, owns a large part

of the property necessary for the right of way, and it is reported that he offers to donate land for the power house, besides a liberal cash donation when the road is completed. This will make a short line between the points mentioned, and will also tap all of the numerous summer resorts along the lake shore. , Ohio, U. 3. A.

LANSING, MICH.—Maps have been submitted to the Commissioner of Railroads showing the route of the proposed line of the Ohio & Michigan Etna, Pa. fl&lhdnnati, O, * Reading, Pa. • ; Electric Railway, which will be built from Toledo to Ann Arbor.

TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.—The Common Council, of Traverse City, has granted a franchise for an electric railway to L. K. Gibbs and his associates. They will proceed immediately to organize the Traverse City Peninsular Rail- way Company, and will build a line from Traverse City to Old Mission resort, ask and it is stated that the road will be completed and ready for operation on or mm before July 1, 1904.

JEFFERSON CITY, MO.—Articles of incorporation have been issued to the QUOTATIONS St. Louis & Valley Park Railroad Company, of St. Louis. It is capitalied at $150,000, with W. II. Langsdale, Jr., S. L. Langsdale, H. S. Doyle, John E. ; ON ABOVE MATERIAL Bishop and Thomas H. Cobb, all of St. Louis, as the incorporators. An electric railway is to be built from St. Louis to the Jefferson County line and from Fenton to Valley Park, all in St. Louis County. The length of the proposed v line is 15 miles. xxiv STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 15.

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. J.—The New Jersey Central Traction Com- pany, which has an application before the Atlantic Highlands Council for a franchise, is rapidly pushing the work of building the line between Key- port and Red Bank. DO HEATING PLANTS PAY? TRENTON, N. J—The fight between the Camden & Trenton Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company over the Cass Street crossing is still on. For weeks the railroad company has had one or more locomotives and a gang of men near the spot night and day for the purpose of heading off any attempt upon the part of the trolley company to cross. The Camden & Trenton Company has offered to put in block signals and derailing switches, WHAT CONSTITUTES A to be operated from a tower, but the Pennsylvania wants it to put up a $20,000 bond besides.

LOWVILLE, N. Y.—It is expected that the Lowville & Beaver River HEATING SITUATION? Railroad Compaq' will organize permanently within a few days. At a recent meeting of the company more than 10 per cent of the capital of $150,000 was

subscribed, and it is expected to raise the entire capital stock before construction work is begun. The company has already filed articles of incor- For Particulars Address poration with the Secretary of State. Ten and one-half miles of line will be constructed. F. S. Easton, who is interested in the company, is of the opinion that construction work will be begun next spring. W. H. SCHOTT

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.—It is understood that negotiations are on for the Engineer and Contractor extension of the power lines of the Honk Falls Power Company from Ellen- ville to Middletown, a distance of more than 20 miles, so as to supply power to 1219-21 Marquette Building, - CHICAGO both the Middletown-Goshen Electric Railway Company and the Consumers'

Light & Power Company. Honk Falls is situated on the Rondout Creek, about 2 miles from Ellenvile. Nothing is said of any plans to increase the capacity Designer and Builder of the plant.

NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Pennsylvania Railroad has called for bids for the Scbott s Balance Column Rot Water System, work on the construction of tunnels under Manhattan and the North River. The contractor's bond will be 10 per cent of the amount of his bid. The rail- Scbott s Regulated Steam System. road reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Bids are also asked for construction of tunnels under Bergen Hill and North River, and for the construction of tunnels under Manhattan, East River and Long Island City under the same conditions. SYSTEMS BUILT LAST YEAR

I Suburban Railroad has SYRACUSE, N. Y.—The Syracuse & Company Mt. Vernon, 111. been placed in operation to Jamesville. Indianapolis, - Ind. Peru, - - - Ind. SYRACUSE, N. Y.—General Manager Connett, of the Syracuse Rapid Transit Company, announces that the difficulties between it and the Syracuse Lafayette, - " New Castle, - " & Ontario Railway Company over the franchise for a line to Oswego have been settled, and that the company will soon be ready to take up the work Elwood, " Connorsville, . «« aggressively. The company has recently been granted an extension of time until June 1, 1904, in which to begin the construction of its lines in Oswego. BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO.—The Columbus, Marysville & Bellefontainc Railway has secured right of way to a point within 6 miles of this place. W. H. Luchtenberg, of Columbus, the chief promotor, states that work on the line will start in the near future.

GREENVILLE, OHIO.—The People's Rapid Transit has Company ™e secured a franchise in this place. The company will build a line from Truss & Cable Fence Co. Toledo to Greenville.

CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo Traction Com- pany will install a new generating unit at its Spring Grove Avenue power CLEVELAND, OHIO house, and it is probable that a new power house will be erected at Hamilton to improve the condition of the city service. The Southern Ohio Express Will use this space for the purpose of telling those Company, which operates over the Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo, is negotiating for a store :n the downtown section of the city, which will be used interested in good things something about their for an express terminal. The company made a proposition to utilize the new sMtion of the Interurban Railway & Terminal Conrpan a'ter , but the company decided its station was too small to do double service.

CLEVELAND, OHIO. Owing to an error it was FENCING — reported in the Street WIRE BOARD Railway Journal of Sept. 26 that sleeping cars had been placed in service Sept. 15 on the interurban line between Indianapolis, Ind., and Columbus, Ohio. Later advices state that the sleepers have not yet been placed in service on account of certain bridges, but probably will be as soon as this difficulty is overcome.

MARTI NSBURG, OHIO.—Frank Elliott and Dr. F. Shrontz, of Martins- burg, are securing the right of way for a proposed electric railway from Mount Vernon to Mansfield.

NEWARK, OHIO.—The Newark, Martinsburg & Mount Vernon Traction Company has amended its articles of incorporation to authorize the construction of branch lines through Martinsburg, Gambier and Wooster.

TOLEDO, OHIO.—The franchise ordinance granting a twenty-five-year 4-Strand 4-Inch Wire franchise to the Toledo Railways & Light Company, which has been vetoed by the Mayor, was tabled at the last Council meeting, after the most sensational session in the history of the city. An immense crowd of citizens Which is built and maintained just like the good filled the chamber, I he corridors and overflowed into the streets. Red fire fence. was burned freely in the streets and several glass doors in the chamber were old board broken. The ordinance was finally tabled, as the Council, which is in favor of passing the grant, feared the crowd. The company's solicitor made an BETTER LOOK EACH WEEK addresB, in which he announced that the company wold not accept the ordi- YOU MAY BE INTERESTED in its nance present form, even if the Council succeeded in passing it.

GUTHRIE, OKLA.—Construction work on the Oklahoma City-Guthrie Your inquiries will be appreciated and given our Interurban Railway, being built by the Oklahoma Traction Company, has best attention. commenced. The road will be 33 miles in length, and will cost $1,000,000; $12,000 has already been expended for a right of way, and $28,000 in grading terminals. A street railway system 6 miles in length will be built in Guthrie FREE SAHPLE BY HAIL pnd a connection made with the interurban between Oklahoma City and Guthrie. :

October io, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxv

PORTLAND, ORE.— President Furth, of the Seattle-Tacoma Electric Railway Company, admits that the ultimate purpose of the company is to extend its lines to Portland, but says that the building of the line depends somewhat on the completion of the company's power plant at Electra. The Audit Company of Illinois BEAVER, PA.—The Beaver Valley Traction Company will extend the Morado line to Homewood, and may extend the Monaca line to Aliquippa NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING Park. Surveys for both extensions have been made. Work has been started CHICAGO on the Vanport extension. There are some heavy grades along the proposed Aliquippa extension. It is reported that the company will build an extension PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS to Ellwood City. OFFICERS: CHAMBERSBURG, PA.—Residents of Chambersburg, St. Thomas and L. A. Walton, Ph«sio«nt F. W- Little. Vio«-Prisident Fort Loudon have organized the Chambersburg, St. Thomas & Fort Loudon C. D. ORGAN, Secretary and Treasurer Electric Railway Company, with John R. Eberly, president; Frisby Miller, C. W. KnISELY, Manager secretary, and F. G. Strock, treasurer, all of St. Thomas. S. S. Emery, in DIRECTORS : addition to being a director, will be constructor of the road and sole pur- A. G. Becker &, Co., Chicago chasing agent. An application for a charter has been filed at Harrisburg. A. C. BECKER, LITTLE, Vice-Prest. Peoria Gas &. Electrio Co., Peoria The capital stock will be $300,000. The road will run from Chambersburg to F. W. A. RYTHER. Cashier National Live Stock Bank. Chicaoo St. Thomas and thence to Fort Loudon, with probably a spur to Mount G. President Chicago National Bank, Chicago Parnell. J. R. WALSH. L. A. WALTON, Vice-Prest. The Equitable Trust Co.. Chicago CONNELSVILLE, PA.—A charter has been granted the Monongahela & TELEPHONE CENTRAL 3544. Clairton Street Railway Company. The incorporators of the new company are: Paul W. McCully, W. P. Whitledge, John G. Parke, Jr., Cullin Arm- strong, Wm, H. Lewis, B. W. Castner, John W. Ailes, Wm. H. Binns, J. N. Mullin and Oliver S. Scott. The capital stock of the company is $75,000. The route begins at Black Diamond Hollow, and will run through Mononga- M. P. HILLYER & COMPANY hela upon some route yet to be agreed upon, and will connect at Clairton with the street railway system in course of construction by Pittsburg capitalists, 49 WALL ST., NEW YORK making a continuous line from Donora to Pittsburg. The headquarters of the ATLANTIC BUILDINd new line will be in Monongahela. The directors are as follows: B. W. Castner, John Ailes, Paul McCully, John G. Parke, Jr., and William H. Binns. N. J. and Electric Railroads Financed Mullin will be president of the new company, Oliver S. Scott is secretary, Steam and Herbert Ailes is treasurer. An ordinance will shortly be presented to Railroad and Gas Bonds a Specialty the Monongahela Councils asking a right of way through the city. We Invite Correspondence DOYLESTOWN, FA.—The Doylestown Borough Council has been notified that it violated the law in repealing the franchise granted to the Doyles- town & Newhope Street Railway Company last year. For some months the road has been laying quiet, but it seems that the company had complied PROFITABLE and PLEASING with the legal terms of the ordinance, a,nd as a consequence it holds good to your company, your passengers, and the advertisers repre- for another year. It is not probable that the line will be built this year, as sented. This would be the result of awarding the contract for President Boroughs Michener was one of the directors in the defunct Doylestown National Bank, and this may have disarranged the financial end ADVERTISING IN YOUR GARS for the time being. to the company best qualified to handle it successfully : EASTON, PA.—The Philadelphia & Easton Railway will soon have 3000 Eastern Office*, St. Pail BIdg. , NEW YORK Executive Offices, Stems BUf., DETROIT tons of coal at the Raubsville power house, 6 miles below this city, and cars will be started to that point. There is a break of 1 mile in the line THE MULFORD & PETRY COMPANY below Raubsville, but this will soon be closed, so that cars can be run to Durham Furnace, about 12 miles down the Delaware River. The 10-mile break between Durham and Tohickon will be closed before next summer. A force of men will be put to work this month, and if the weather does not become too severe will be kept busy grading and putting down track all winter. There are no great obstacles to overcome between Durham and Tohickon. Between Durham and Easton the road is carried high along the COLUMBIA STEEL face of the cliffs for miles, and it was necessary to blast out rock for miles to secure a foothold.

GILBERTON, PA.—The Town Council has filed a bill in equity to restrain the Schuylkill Traction Company from laying its tracks above the established TROLLEY POLES grade of the streets, and from constructing any additional turnouts. The T 0R rule is made returnable Oct. 4. RATCHET BRAKE HANDLES %^E Ks HARRISBURG, PA.—Under the ordinance just passed by Council the Cen- tral Pennsylvania Traction Company will shortly begin the following new work: Double tracks, Derry Street, from Thirteenth Street to Eighteenth Street; Second Street, from Chestnut Street to Maclay Street; Sixth Street, from Reily Street to the northern limits of the city. Extensions, on Market Millen Illuminated Car Signs, Street, from Thirteenth Street to the eastern limits of the city; on Camerai Street, from State Street to the northern city limits; on Thirteenth Street, Cases, Fields and Coils, from Derry Street to Berryhill Street; on Eighth Street, from Market Street Gear to Walnut Street; on Reily Street, from Sixth Street to Seventh Street; on Maclay Street, from Second Street to Fourth Street. The company has ac- Armature and Axle Bearings cepted the provisions of the ordinance providing for the payment to the city by the company annually of 3 per cent of its gross receipts.

KENNETT SQUARE, PA.—According to present plans, and at the rate work is being pushed, the West Chester Street Railway Company will have its cars running to this borough before Christmas. Rails are expected within - Commutators, Car T r i m a few days, 20,000 ties have been purchased, and the grading is completed, the last work having been done near Pocopson. Brass, Iron and OXFORD, PA.—The Town Council has granted the right to lay tracks to mings, Gray the West Chester, Kennett & Wilmington Electric Street Railway Company. The projectors promise to have the road in operation by the new year. Malleable Iron Foundries PITTSBURG, PA.— Officials of the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Connells- ville Street Railway Company and the Pittsburg Railways Company have come to terms whereby the Connellsville Company secures possession of Walnut Street from Fifth Avenue to Sixteenth Avenue in McKeesport. The ordinance granting the Connellsville Company a right of way on Shaw Ave- nue, between Walnut and Locust Streets, at McKeesport, to complete its COLUMBIA MACHINE WORKS lines from the Youghiogheny Valley towns direct into the heart of McKees- port, has been passed by the McKeesport Councils, and Mayor Falkenstein has declared his intention of signing the bill. MALLEABLE IRON CO. POMEROY, PA.—The Brandywine Electric Railway, in which E. A. Ten- AND nis, of Philadelphia, is interested, has graded 2 miles of roadbed at this place. President A. H. Swing says that work will be started in Coatesville within ==BROOKLYN, N. Y., U. S. A. another week. The company has filed extensions through Parkesburg and westward to Atglen and the Chester County line. Just what action the xxvi STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 15.

Philadelphia & Western or the Coatesville & Lancaster Companies, which propose to build lines through this same territory, will do remains to be seen.

SUNBURY, PA.— Officials of the Shamokin Extension Rail way Company conferred last week with Irish Valley property owners regarding a trolley line between Shamokin and Sunbury. Many offers of free rights of way through Irish Valley were made. Two other routes are under consideration, via, Trevarton, and via Paxinos and Snydertown. The route will be finally decided upon in the near future. WEST CHESTER, PA.—The West Chester Street Railway Company, through Thomas E. O'Connell, contractor, has opened a stone quarry near Alton Station, in East Bradford Tow,nship, and from this quarry will be taken the stone to ballast the road between Downingtown and Coatesville, 6 miles. The line between West Chester and Downingtown, S miles, is well ballasted and in first-class condition.

WILKESBARRE, PA.—It is stated that engineers have been surveying a route for the Wilkesbarre & Hazleton Electric Railway from Ashley to the Market Street terminal of the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Electric Rail- way. This would mean a continuous third-rail electric railway from Hazelton to Scranton and Carbondale. The line surveyed would enable the Hazelton- Wilkesbarre system to enter this city over its own tracks, avoid grade crossings, and to protect its tracks the entire distance. The route has been twice surveyed, and found to be entirely feasible. It is expected to connect the two systems by April 1.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.—The Chattanooga Electric Railway Company has a large corps of men at work investigating and securing estimates on the amount of improvements to be made on the different lines of the company. 1 It is said that during the next six months the road is to be entirely rebuilt in The Na^tionad Elev&iingjGra>.der, many places. Ditcher and Waggon Loader MEMPHIS, TENN.—The Memphis Street Railway Company will extend will excavate and place in embankment 1,000 its line from Buntyn, a suburb of Memphis, to Colliersville, Tenn., a distance cubic yards of earth in ten hours or will load 500 of 18 miles. to 600 wagons per day. MEMPHIS, TENN.—The Legislative Council has received two reports on the new franchise application, one a majority and one a minority. From the The above cut illustrates our special plow-tilting standpoint of the applicants for a franchise, neither report is satisfactory, device which adjusts the mould board to varying the and outlook for the new company is gloomy. Neither report was adopted conditions of soil. by the Council, but the whole matter was referred to some future session, in order, as was stated, that there might be time for deliberation and that the opinion of the public upon the questions presented by the reports might be learned.

TRENTON, TENN.—The Gibson County Construction Company has been organized for the purpose of constructing an electric railway from Trenton to Eaten, Brazil and Gibson Wells. The projected route is about 17 miles long. A survey is to be made at once. FORT WORTH, TEX.—The Northern Texas Traction Company has completed its new line to Polytechnic College Heights.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS.—At a special meeting of the Council of North Fort Worth Sam Rosen was granted a franchise for a 2-mile street railway, to commence at the corner of Twenty-Fifth Street and North Main Street, and run up Twenty-Fifth Street in a westerly direction to the city limits of North Fort Worth. It provides that the construction of the line is to be commenced within ninety days, and is to be completed within six months. The territory covered is between Rosen Heights and North Fort Worth. Mr. Rosen announced that work would be commenced as soon as the material could be se- RAILWAY cured. Gordon & Haperistein, of Beaumont, will be interested with Mr. Rosen in the enterprise. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.—The Consolidated Railway & Power Com- c0 pany has decided to extend its lines south as far as Sandy, a distance of f^L SPRING about 12 miles. The work, however, will not be commenced until early next

year. , .. u , j ;

PETERSBURG. VA.—The Virginia Passenger & Power Company will build its dam across Appomattox River at Petersburg, all bids having been rejected. Elliptical a Helical The dam will be 40 ft. high, 43 ft. thick and nearly a mile long. More than 40,000 barrels of cement and 2000 carloads of sand will be necessary in its ji^ Springs construction. It is estimated that the building will consume about three years. Steel The power house at the locks near the city will develop about 5000 hp, and a Tired Wheels still larger plant at the dam, 7 miles beyond the city, will develop more than FOR 7000 hp, giving in all about 12,000 hp.

SEATTLE, WASH.—Donald Fletcher, a local real estate dealer, has asked for a franchise to build some elevated and underground roads for furnishing RAILWAY Queen Ann Hill and the interbay district with additional street car facilities. SPOKANE, WASH.— T. H. Holden, of Chelan, locator of the famous Holden Mines, says that if the Great Northern Railroad does not build a road into the Okanogan Valley, in Washington, an electric line will built. be QUALITY • SPOKANE. WASH.—H erman J. Rossi, of Wallace, is reported to have DURABILITY interested Eastern capital in a scheme to connect the important points in the Cceur WORKMAN- d'Alenes by an electric railway. The proposition is said to have beeu so well developed that active work may be started early in the spring. The SHIP. new line as proposed, it is understood, will run from the town of Harrison to Wardner and Wallace and later may be extended farther on up the gulch, taking in several other towns. Connections with Cceur d'Alene City are to be GENERAL OFFICE made by the new lake steamer "Idaho," where the boat will meet the lines of the Cceur 71 BROADWAY d'Alene & Spokane Railway Company, which is now con- NEW YORK structing an electric railway between Spokane and Cceur d'Alene City. BRANCH OFFICES WHATCOM, WASH.—The Whatcom & Skagit County Interurban Rail- road Company, of which E. M. Day, of Whatcom, is promoter, has applied CHICAGO FISHER BLDG for a franchise in Burlington. The proposed route is over the old line of ST. LOU IS LINCOLN TRUST BLDG the Great Northern from Whatcom to Belleville, then over an old abandoned RICHriOND VA CHAT1DER OFCOfWERCE 6LDG railroad bed to Sedro-Woolley, thence through Burlington, Avon and La Conner, returning via Bay View and connecting again with the main line at Belleville, with a power plant located at Burlington. MACHINERY SPRIM05- OF- EVERYDCSCRIPTIOM* October io, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxvii

WHEELING, W. VA.—The new power house of the City Railway Company, the construction of which will soon commence on Wood Street, between Twenty-Seventh Street and Twenty-Eighth Street, will be one of the finest STOMUGH GUY 1) NGH0H s plants along the Ohio Valley. 9 8, 10 and 12 Inch The MADISON, WIS.—The Chicago & Northwestern Lakes Electric Railway Are used by Street Railways for Extra Heavy Company has filed an amendment to its charter, with the Secretary of State, Pole-Guying, such as curves, deadendinp, providing for the construction of a branch line from the south State line, in etc., and for guying smokestacks. Kenosha County, into the city of Milwaukee, 45 miles. W. N. MATTHEWS & BRO., OSHKOSH, WIS.—The Eastern Wisconsin Railway & Light Company, 4- 606 CARLETON BUILDING, ST. LOUIS which has in contemplation the construction of an electric railway between 8, 10 & 12 in. 8, 10 & 12 in. Oshkosh and Fond du Lac and through contiguous territory, has just filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State of Wisconsin. The capital of the company is $500, OCX), and the directors of the company are: Watertoury Frank B. Hoskins, Benjamin Wild, Sr., and Leander Choate. Button CANADIAN NOTES "Watertoury Conn. WINNIPEG, MAN.—The Winnipeg Electric Street Railway Company's system will be extended through St. James, from the city limits, ZV2 miles 4=8 Howard St., 3XT. ~V. westward to a point near St. Charles postoffice. GUELPH, ONT.—The by-law for taking over the Guelph Radial Railway Company by the city of Guelph has been voted on and passed. The cost will be $78,000.

" NEWS NOTES SPRINGS) CHICAGO, ILL.—Passenger train No. 103 on the Wisconsin Central Rail- road, known as the "Cannon-Ball Express," and running at a high rate of FOR EVERY" PUR-POSE speed, crashed into a crowded Fifty-Second Avenue electric car at Haw- thorne .sept. 30, killing five persons instantly and resulting in the injury of ELLIPTIC AND COIL SPRINGS nearly two score of passengers. The electric car was completely demolished. for Locomotive, Car and Traction Service. ST. LOUIS, MO.—Superintendent John Grant, of the St. Louis Transit Company, has been fined in the police court for failing to run a car through the full length of the line. The Court ruled that all the company's cars Correspondence and Orders Solicited. must carry passengers the entire distance of the route for one fare.

ST. LOUIS, MO.— It is suggested that a new ordinance be introouced in the Municipal Assembly, compelling cars to stop on the near side of the PITTSBURGH SPRING & STEEL GO. street, instead of crossing over before allowing passengers to leave and enter the cars. Superintendent John Grant, of the Transit Company, is I4l6-t6a«17 Farmers Ba<*k Bldg., this, declares that it will be impracticable, and that the loss of fighting and PITTSBURGH, - - PA, life from accidents would be increased rather than diminished if such an ordinance were passed.

NEW YORK, N. Y —The statement is made by Thomas F. Ryan, of the Interurban Street Railway Company, that that company is willing to sell to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company the bulk of its surplus power, so ARCHIBALD M. McCREA, Pres. L. G. WOODS, Vlce-Pres. A. PANCOAST, Sec> and Treas that the first section of the subway can be placed in operation as soon as it is completed. The construction of the power house for the subway has been delayed many months through strikes. In making this announcement, Mr. Ryan said: "The Interurban owes a duty to the people to help in every way to add to their comfort and facility while in transit about the city, and last, but not least, the improved facilities of the elevated, by reason of its equipment with electricity and the opening of the subway, which we hope for at the earliest date, will relieve us of many long-haul passengers who are now obliged to use the surface cars, and thereby enable us to carry with more comfort and greater dispatch our natural patrons and the millions of people who during the year are forced to walk because of the overcrowded condition of the surface cars."

NEW YORK, N. Y.—The annual meeting of the Manhattan Railway Com- pany will be held at the company's office here on Wednesday, Nov. tl. A board of directors for the ensuing year is to be elected and three Inspectors of election. The transfer books will be closed on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 12 o'clock noon, and will be reopened on Nov. 12, at 10 o'clock a. m. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Five masked men armed with revolvers,, knives and clubs made a daring attempt to hold up a car of the Eighth Avenue line of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company at 158th Street, New York, Satur- day, Oct. 3, at 2 a. m. The men boarded the car as the motorman was making a switch, two entering by the rear platform and three entering by the front platform. They at once attempted to subdue the motorman and the conductor. Both employees gave fight, and the conductor, after a desperate struggle, succeeded in routing his assailants. The motorman, although set upon, stuck to his post until he ran his car into the glare of an electric light. Then he shouted for help, and the police responded. All three of the For Locomotives, Tenders, men who attacked the motorman were captured, but only after a long chase. The motorman was so severely cut up in his encounter with the would-be Coach, Freight Car highwaymen that he had to be taken to the hospital.

NEW YORK, N. Y.—A letter written by August Belmont to the Rapid Transit Commission has been made public, in which Mr. Belmont begs to be And Street Car Service relieved of the construction of the Broadway subway. The reason he assigns for this is the agitation of the Broadway business men and property owners against an open ditch during the process of construction. He says that the subway cannot be built at a reasonable cost unless the streets are torn up. CAPACITY OF PLANT, 60 TONS PER DAY Mr. Belmont says, however, if the business men and property holders in Broadway between Union Square and Forty-Second Street desire to finance the construction of that branch themselves, building it according to the method they desire, and if they can satisfy him that the operation of the line can be made profitable, considering the expense, he will enter into a contract for the operation of that portion of the line. General Offices arid Works, at New Kensington, Pa. NEW YORK, N. Y.—The local branch of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers claims that it has a grievance against the Interborough Rapid xxviii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 15.

Transit Company, which operates the elevated lines here. The claim, it seems, is made that wholesale discharges of men are being made on unsatis- factory claims of unfitness for service. The connection of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers with the case is accounted for by the fact that when the road was electrified the engineers on the locomotives were given positions JOHN BLAIR MacAFEE as motormen at the scale of wages formerly paid when the men ran the engines.

UTICA, N. Y.—The directors of the Utica & Mohawk Valley Street Rail- way Company re-elected officers at the annual meeting, held here a few days THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OF STEAM ago. . AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS EASTON, PA.—The Blue Ridge Traction Company has asked the Attorney- General for a writ of quo warranto on the Bethlehem & Nazareth Street Rail- AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS. way Company, the Bethlehem & Siegfried Street Railway, the Nazareth & PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES. Bath Street Railway Company, the Easton & Belvidere Street Railway Com- pany, and the Alliance, Bath & Nazareth. Street Railway Company, requiring REPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN OPERATION. them to show cause why their charter rights should not be declared forfeited. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The stockholders of the Railways Company General, at their annual meeting, elected the following directors: Evans R.

Dick, J. Andrew Harris, Jr., David M. Minzesheimer, George S. Graham, J. Ogden Hoffman, F. J. Lisman, Gerald Holsman, D. A. Hagarty, J. Horace HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA Harding, B. M. Ewing and Thomas R. Patton, Jr. PITTSBURG, PA.— Several arrests have been made here of men who were planning to dispose of stolen transfers of the Pittsburg Railways Company. Of the cases that have already been tried in court one man has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, and another has been fined heavily. SCRANTON, PA.—The Central Labor Union's executive committee has decided to head off all communication with the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Electric Railway officials tending toward a withdrawal of the present J. G. WHITE & line. COMPANY boycott placed on the new

UNIONTOWN, PA.—A fire at the plant of the United Light Company, INCORPORATED controlled by the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Connellsville Street Railway Company, early Sept. 27, did considerable damage to the dynamos and machinery. Engineers, Contractors, DALLAS, TEX.—The Rapid Transit Railway Company has refused the request of its employees for new conditions of service. A general reduction 43-49 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y. of the working day and a substantial increase in wages are said to have been among conditions of the new agreement. LONDON CORRESPONDENT: SAN ANTONIO, TEX.—The Southern Light & Traction Company and its employees have not yet been nble to reach an agreement on which to base J. C. White & Company, Limited a new contract. The demands made by the men are very exacting. They 22a College Hill, Cannon St. call for a scale of wages graduated from $1.75 to $2.25 per day, which the company has so far refused to grant. Another feature in the demands is that the company shall discharge any men that the union demands for "non- payment of union dues or for violation of any union rules," such as buying anything from an "unfair dealer." Another demand is that no man shall be discharged by the company until his case has been passed on by a board of arbitration. In short, the union will not consent to the discharge of any

men unless it is agreeable to the union. FOND DU LAC, WIS.—The Eastern Wisconsin Railway & Light Com- Sanderson & Porter pany, which recently filed articles of incorporation at Madison, was organized for the purpose of taking over the Fond du Lac & Oshkosh Electric Railway ENGINEERS AND Company and the Fond du Lac Street Railway & Electric Light Company, CONTRACTORS combining the lines under one system. No new line between Fond du Lac Electric Railways, and Oshkosh will be built by 'he new corporation. The officers of the new 52 WILLIAM STREET Light, Power and are as follows: President, F. B. Hoskins; vice-president, F. Grover; company Hydraulic Plants. NEW YORK treasurer, W. E. Cole; secretary, B. Wild, Jr. Major E. R. Herren, Leander Choate and Elmer Leach, of Oshkosh, with the above-named officers, constitute the board of directors.

W. EC. BAKER H. R. BISHOP FINANCIAL NOTES W. K. BAKER & CO. CHICAGO, ILL.—The Merchants Loan and Trust Company, receivers for the second-mortgage bonds of the Chicago General Railway Company, has ENGINEERS been requested by the Chicago Midland Transit Company to discontinue foreclosure proceedings, on the grounds that the Midland Transit Company now 170 BROADWAY NKW YORK holds a majority of these bonds. The Chicago Midland Transit Company is the name under which a number of bondholders have organized, with the plan of recovering control of the road.

CHICAGO, ILL.— President Knight, of the Lake Street Elevated, says: WILHAfl A. ROSEMBAUM "I am pleased to state that our conference indicates progress toward a re- 6lectrical Gxpert and patent Solicitor habilitation of the Lake Street property. We have discussed many plans, some of which will not work out. As a result of this meeting of the reor- Nassau Heekman Building NEW YORK CITY ganization committee figures, plans and details will be prepared for a special meeting some time this week, at which James B. Dennis will be present. We have discussed the matter exhaustively, but have not agreed on anything THOMAS B. WHITTED definite, so that i is not possible to say that there will or will not be an Consulting Engineer assessment. It can be said, however, that we have made much progress." 221-224 Equitable Building - - DENVER, COLORADO MICHIGAN CITY, IND.—Judge Baker, of the Federal Court, has ordered the Lake Cities Electric Railway property to be sold under a decree of foreclosure in favor of the Metropolitan Trust Company, of New York. The decree directs that the road be sold at public auction at Laporte, and that no bid under $40,000 be accepted. Alexander A. Boyd, of Terre Haute, is receiver. Tennis Brothers Company GREENFIELD, MASS.—The Greenfield & Turner's Falls Street Railway ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, BUILT AND EQUIPPED Company has asked the Railroad Commission for authority to issue $130,000 in bonds. The road is appraised at $251,869, but several expenses have not been included in this account. The financial statement filed shows assets of 22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, $303,000, capital stock of $130,000, bonded indebtedness of $86,000, and bills Cincinnati, Ohio Pittsburg, Pa. payable, $55,000. For the eleven months ending Aug. 31 the net surplus, in addition to a dividend in April, was $13,700. October io, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxix

WORCESTER, MASS.—The Railroad Commissioners have approved the petition of the Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company for authority to issue registered or coupon bonds amounting to $250,000, payable in twenty years, and to bear interest at the rate of 4% per cent. The bonds are issued for the purpose of paying certain floating indebtedness incurred in the construction and equipment of the railway.

BOSTON, MASS.—The Marlboro & Framingham Street Railway Com- pany has entered a petition with the Railroad Commissioners, asking permission to issue capital stock to the amount of $105,000, to be used in the payment of floating indebtedness and for the purchase of real and personal property and additional equipment. The Board will give a hearing on the petition very shortly.

BAY CITY, MICH.—The Bay City Consolidated Street Railway Company, LIGHTI/NG—POWER—RAILWAYS which has been in the hands of a receiver for about three years, has been sold to H. D. Walbridge, of Detroit, representing the Bay City United Traction Company, a corporation recently organized to take over the prop- * * * erty. There was but. one bid, the price offered being $500,000. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Brooklyn Eagle gives the earnings of the iso4-is06-isos-isio-isi2 Fisher Building, CHICAGO Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the first twenty-nine days of September as follows: Gross, $1,208,367, against $1,042,944 last year, an average increase of $6,000 a day. From July 1, gross $3,837,074, against $3,003,434 in 1902. On Sunday, Sept. 27, gross were $34,195, against $25,586 in 1902.

CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Zanesville Railway, Lighting & Power Com- pany has increased its capital stock from $1,000,000 to $1,250,000.

NORFOLK, VA.—The Norfolk Railway & Light Company reports earnings as follows for the eight months ending Aug. 31, 1903: Gross, $411,139; net, $156,570; company's proportion of the earnings of the City Gas Company, $17,230; total net income, $173,800; interest and taxes, $131,888; balance, sur- Arnold Electric Power Station Co. plus, $41,912. The company owns 4011 shares out of the 5000 of the capital stock of the City Gas Company, o£ Norfolk.

OGDENSBURG, N. Y.—The long fight of the creditors of the Brockville, ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS Westport & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad has been ended, and the title of the New York syndicate who purchased the road confirmed by an act incorporating Designers and Builders of Complete the Brockville, Westport & Northwestern Railway Company to operate a road from the Thousand Islands to the upper lake, with a bridge over the Electric Railway, Lighting and Power Installations. St. Lawrence River at Brockville. Construction and labor creditors of the old company, whose claims amount to about $200,000, will receive 25 per cent of their original claims, when the unearned subsidy is revoted and Marquette Building, Transit Building, earned by the new company. All actions to set aside the sale are dismissed. new york. Chicago, PHILADELPHIA, PA.—A special to the Wall Street Journal, of New York, says: "It is stated officially that the gross earnings of the Philadel- phia Rapid Transit Company for September will show an increase of nearly $140,000 over those of September, 1902, and that the business for the three months ending Sept. 30 show the same proportion of gain over the same period last year as the annual report indicated for the preceding months." YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—The Youngstown & Southern Railway Company and the Youngstown & Salem Railway Company have been consolidated into one corporation to be known as the Youngstown & Southern Railway Com- H. M. BYLLESBY CO. capital, & pany; $1,800,000. A. W. Jones, John Ruhmann, W. H. Ruhmann, J. R. Long, W. S. Andrews and R. L. Andrews are the directors. INCORPORATED

CANADIAN NOTE Engineers

VANCOUVER, B. C. —The Dominion Securities Corporation, of Toronto Design, Construct ana Operate Raitfoay and Montreal, owns and offers at par and interest $300,000 of the 4% per cent joint mortgage gold bonds issued by the British Columbia Electric Railway Hydraulic Plants Company, Ltd., and the Vancouver Power Company for the construction and Light, Power ana equipment of a water-power plant. These bonds are dated Jan. 15, 1903, and are due Jan. 15, 1953; denomination, $486.66 currency, or £100 sterling; interest payable Jan. 15 and July 15 at the office of the National Trust Com- EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS pany, of Toronto; the Chartered Commercial Company, of Vancouver, or Sperling & Company, of London. New York Life Building CHICAGO, ILL. AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS

JEFFREY POWER AND HAND DRILLS for rock and coal are described and illustrated in the latest catalogue issued by the Jeffrey Manu- facturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. The J. G. WHITE & COMPANY have removed to the twenty-second floor of the newly constructed Wall Street Exchange Building, 41 and 43 Wall Street, and 43 to 49 Exchange Place, New York. CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY

THE BROWN CORLISS ENGINE COMPANY, of Corliss, Wis., is in of receipt of an order from the Lorain Steel Company, of Lorain, Ohio, for a Manufacturers, Dealers, 30-in. and 60-in. x 60-in. cross-compound Corliss engine. THE PITTSBURG BRANCH of the H. W. Johns-Manville Company, on Contractors, Etc. account of increased business, has secured larger quarters by taking the adjoining property, and now occupies the entire building at 218-220 First Published each week in the Avenue. THE MICA INSULATION COMPANY, of New York and Chicago, an- STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL nounces that it will send on application samples of its high-grade insulating | | compound for armatures, field coils, magnets, etc., together with a descrip- Is the most valuable index available for tive booklet. s the purchasers of electric appa- INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT TRANSFORMER INSULATION are railway fj revealed in a concisely written pamphlet, No. 9121, recently issued by the j| ratus and equipment. General Electric Company. This booklet deserves the attention of all who are interested in the safest tnd most economical use of transformers. XXX STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 15.

THE STANLEY ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of Pitts- field, Mass., announces the opening of two new sales offices, one at Cincin- nati, with headquarters in the Perin Building, in charge of O. H. P. Fant, and the other in the Century Building, St. Louis, Mo., in charge of F. John- son.

THE H. W. JOHNS-MANVILLE COMPANY, of New York, is sending National to the trade a handsome folder depicting "Uncle Sam" before and after the recent investigations of roofing for use on the army buildings in the Philip-

pines. As stated in the Street Railway Journal of Oct. 3, this company has closed a contract with the government for an immense quantity of asbestos "Army" brand roofing. Generators

THE MASSACHUSETTS CHEMICAL COMPANY, 170 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., announces that it still has on hand some of the souvenir FOR cuspidor mats for which there was a great demand at the Saratoga Conven- tion. It will be pleased to send these out as long as the supply lasts to any RAILWAY street railway official or electric manufacturing company if such requests are accompanied by name, address and position held. , LIGHTING

THE ECLIPSE CAR FENDER COMPANY, of Cleveland, has secured AND an order from the New York & Long Island Traction Company, of New York, to equip its cars with the new Eclipse fender. Since its remarkable POWER series of demonstrations at the Saratoga Convention the Eclipse Car Fender Company has secured trial orders from a large number of leading railways, SERVICE not only in this country, but in several foreign countries. in capacities up to ABOUT THIRTY MEMBERS of the Engineers' Club, of Philadelphia, 1500 Kw. visited the works of the J. G. Brill Company on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 3. The visitors were received by William H. Heulings, Jr., of the Brill Com- pany, who conducted them through the large establishment and explained to Our apparatus represents the latest them the methods of construction of the cars and trucks. In the evening of the same day Mr. Heulings read a paper before the club, on "The De- Improvements in Design and velopment of the Brill System of Trucks for Electric-Motor Cars," which proved of considerable interest to the members of the club, and brought Construction forth some discussion.

THE W. R. GARTON COMPANY, of Chicago, 111., are not only manufacturers' agents, but are also manufacturers, and are carrying out the policy of "Not how cheap, but how good," the material which they furnish can be made. They say that they are putting the best of material into everything, National Electric Company consistent with the requirements of the article, the place in which it is to be used and the conditions governing its use. Practically does this hold niLWAUKEE true of a special brand of tinned steel armature banding wire, of which they CHICAGO: Old Colony Bldg. are selling large quantities, and, as evidence of its high grade, they state they SEATTLE and SAN FRANCISCO: PITTSBURG: Gellatly & Co. are getting duplicate orders from large customers for large amounts, proving Kilbourne & Clark Co. conclusively the satisfaction that this wire is giving to the trade.

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY has just issued the following publications of special interest to electric railways: Bulletin No. 4335, "En- gine-Driven Revolving Field Alternators;" bulletin No. 4337, "Blower Sets for Air-Blast Transformers;" supply catalogue No. 7583, "Parts of U. S. Trol- Is the only paper de- leys;" flyer No. 2117, "Combined Switch and Enclosed Fuse Cut-out for Car STREET Lighting;" publication No. 9123, "Core-Type Transformers." Other recent voted to street rail- publications are: Bulletin No. 4334, "Direct-Driven Continuous-Current RAILWAY Generators for Lighting and Power;" bulletin No. 4336, "Isolated-Plant way interests pub- Switchboards, Continuous-Current Two-Wire Type;" bulletin No. 4338, JOURNAL... lished "Power-Factor Indicator for Balanced Systems;" flyer No. 2114, "Diffusion of every week. Light by Concentric Diffusers;" flyer No. 2116, "Meter Jewels."

THE BUSINESS OF THE STAR BRASS WORKS, of Kalamazoo, Mich., manufacturers of the famous Kalamazoo trolley wheels and harps, has assumed such large proportions, and its trade now covers so large a Is Properly territory, that the company has found it necessary to place some one in Made. charge of its sales department, and for the position has secured the services Is Made for Service. of Geo. E. Pratt, who nas been personally identified with the interests of The very b< si roofing: for Power the company during the past three years, in connection with his other Houses, Car Barns, and all kind of Railroad Buildines, also for Street business interests. Mr. Pratt will give his entire time to the business of Car. Passenger Car and Caboose the sales department and represent the company among the trade, with head- Roofs. Manufactured by quarters at Kalamazoo. To keep pace with its rapidly increasing trade, the company will continue to carry a large quantity of wheels and harps in THE WESTERN ELATERITE ROOFING CO., stock to insure prompt shipment of orders. Offices, Suite No. 841 Equitable Building, DENVER, COLO.

Do you want a book on any Engineering X Subject ? I I WE CAN FURNISH IT.

I Mcfiraw Publishing Co. BOOK DEPARTMENT, 114 Liberty Street, New York. ROBINS 17 - 2 a, 0W CONVEYING BELT CO., nE& M October 17, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxiii NEWS OF THE WEEK

CONSTRUCTION NOTES BOISE, IDAHO.—The Council has granted a new franchise to the Boise Rapid Transit Company. Many new lines are planned by the company.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.—The new Glen Iris line of the Birmingham Rail- CHARLESTON, ILL.—The Charleston, Champaign & Northern Interurban way, Light & Power Company has been placed in operation. Some 3 miles Railroad Company, with a capital stock of $10,000, for the purpose of con- of new track were required. This reaches one of the newest and most fashion- structing an interurban line from Charleston to Homer, has been incorporated able suburbs in the city. at Springfield. The line which the company proposes to build will run from ENSLEY, ALA.—A franchise has been granted to the Birmingham & Steel Charleston to Champaign, through Homer. Organization has been effected Cities Railway Company to operate a street railway practically throughout the by the election of eighteen directors and officers for one year. The officers city. are: President, Dr. W. R. Patton; vice-president, W. F. Jenkins; secretary, S. S. Anderson; treasurer, George Gray. preliminary survey will be MOBILE, ALA.—The Mobile Light & Railway Company has asked fran- W. A made at once and right of way secured. The stockholders number one chises over eleven blocks of new streets. hundred of the leading business men of Charleston. LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The Los Angeles Railway Company is extending its Boyle Heights line to the eastern city limits, a distance of over a mile. DANVILLE, ILL.—Articles of incorporation of the Hoopeston Street Rail- way Light have filed. directors company and LOS ANGELES, CAL.—The mysterious franchise granted by the Board & Company been The of the sole owners are James H. Dyer, John L. Hamilton, Alfred H. Trego, Charles of Supervisors last spring to the Campbell-Johnston Brothers, has been ex- S. Crary, S. McFerren and Charles A. Allen, all well-known residents of plained. The Pacific Electric Railway Company has been granted an extension J. Hoopeston. The charter entitles the company to operate an electric street of three months to complete the work. The franchise is through Garoanza. railway system in the city of Hoopeston and to manufacture gas, coke, tar, LOS ANGELES, CAL.—Car No. 110 of the Los Angeles Traction Company electricity or steam for the use of fuel, light or motive power. It is stated has been taken to the shops of the Pacific Electric Railway Company for that work will begin shortly on the construction of a street railway in experimental purposes. The car will be rebuilt and studied as a possible Hoopeston. model for the reconstruction of the remaining rolling stock of the entire system. Vestibules will be built at the ends; the body will be reconstructed, EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.—Articles of incorporation have been issued in and possibly an air-brake equipment added. Springfield for the East St. Louis & Columbia Electric Railway Company. The capital is OAKLAND, CAL.—Work has been commenced on the electric railway for stock $25,000. The incorporators are Thomas N. Chase, P. J. Meyers, John Kickham and others. which J. H. Macdonald recently obtained a franchise. The franchise grants Mountain permission to construct a railway from the foot of Broadway to JERSEYVILLE, ILL.—The Central Traction Company will petition the View Cemetery. Town Board on Nov. 6 for a franchise to operate an electric railway over cer- SAN JOSE, CAL.—At a recent meeting of the Council, F. M. Lockwood tain streets. The company proposes to build an electric line from Jerseyville and John A. Mehling, of Harrisburg, Pa., asked for a franchise for an electric to Hardin, crossing the Illinois River. It is the opinion that the franchise railway over First, Taylor, Second and St. James Streets to Market Street, will be granted. from the city limits on the north, construction to begin within three months. ANGOLA, IND.—T. E. Smith, of Angola, is authority for the statement Los Gatos Saratoga SAN JOSE, CAL.—Manager Granger, of the San Jose, & that he has interested with him a number of capitalists from Pittsburg, Pa., is with construction Interurban Railway Company, which busy already much and that they will build an electric railway during the next year from will in extending inter- work, says that St. Louis capitalists expend $2,000,000 Angola to Battle Creek and Marshall, Mich., via Coldwater, Twin Lakes, urban lines in this county. Tekonsha and Osborne. SANTA ANA, CAL.—To protect its franchise rights in this city the New- INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Work has been begun on the Indianapolis & port Beach Electric Railway Company, which proposes to build an electric Southwestern Traction Company's line between Indianapolis and Waverley. railway from Santa Ana to Newport Beach, has laid a few feet of track on East Fifth Street, near the eastern terminus of the line. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The Kokomo, Marion & Western Traction Com- SANTA BARBARA, CAL.—The Santa Barbara Consolidated Electric Rail- pany's line between Kokomo and Greentown and the Indianapolis & North- western line between Indianapolis, Lebanon and Frankfort have way Company has avoided any possible opposition to its application for a Company's been placed in operation. franchise along the Ocean Boulevard by securing 6000 ft. of private right of way parallel with and adjoining the boulevard. NEW ALBANY, IND.—The Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Com- SANTA BARBARA, CAL.—The Santa Barbara Consolidated Electric pany has asked the County Commissioners for a right of way through the Company has been granted a franchise by the Supervisors for a single-track county for an electric railway from New Albany to Paoli and French Lick trolley line from Santa Barbara to Ortega Hill, 6 miles east of the city. The and West Baden Springs. The company proposes to take up the franchise petition was signed by H. H. Sinclair, of the Edison Electric Company, of that has just been abandoned by the New Albany & Paoli & French Lick Valley Los Angeles, which controls the entire local system. Traction Company, and will construct the road to Paoli, where it will connect SEBASTOPOL, CAL.—The Board of Trustees has granted a franchise to with the proposed line of the Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Com- of and build and operate an electric railway within the city limits. The railroad is pany, from Corydon to the Springs, by way Wyandotte Cave White in The franchise of the Albany to traverse Green Valley and the famous Gold Ridge fruit country, giving Sulphur Wells, Crawford County. New direct communication through Sebastopol, with tide-water at Petaluma, thus Street Railway Company, which recently passed into the hands of the insuring a quick delivery of fresh fruits to the San Francisco markets. petitioner, gives that company a right of way into the city of New Albany, and all that is now required is a right of way through Floyd County and TUSCAN, CAL.—Bids are wanted for the construction and equipment of Orange County. The Tennis Construction Company has been awarded the an electric railway from Red Bluff to Tuscan, a distance of about 9 miles. contract to construct the company's line from this city to Corydon, work to Address, Tuscan Mineral Springs Corps. begin immediately. VALLEJO, CAL.—The petition of George A. Lamont as an interested tax- payer, to the Board of Supervisors to have declared forfeited the electric RUSHVILLE, IND.—John A. Schumacher & Company, who secured the contract for the building of the grade for the new line of the Indianapolis & railway franchise granted to J. W. and H. F. Hartzell, has been denied. Attorney Lamont appeared for himself and the Vallejo, Benicia & Napa Val- Cincinnati Traction Company, have begun construction. ley Railroad Company, assigns of Hartzells, was represented by President SOUTH BEND, IND.—The Indiana & Southern Michigan Electric Rail- Cross, Manager W. Hartzell and Attorney L. G. Harrier. The company J. way secured a franchise for an electric railway some time ago from the asked the board for extension of one year on the building of the road be- Common Council of St. Joseph, and furnished a surety company bond to have tween Vallejo and Benicia, and the extension was granted. the road completed and in operation on or before Sept. 30, 1903. As the time VENTURA, CAL.—The Town Trustees have granted, to John Burson, of has expired, the bond is declared forfeited by the Council. It is thought that the Ventura-Bakersfield Railroad Company, a franchise to build an electric a new franchise will be granted, and that the road will be built from St. railway through Ventura by way of Clara Street. The first work on the Joseph to South Bend within a lew months. Burson system will be done .it Hucneme where 10,000 railroad ties have TERRE HAUTE, IND.—The Terre Haute Electric Company has leased for already been landed. It is believed that the company desires a right of way thirty years the interurban lines entering Terre Haute owned by the Terre through Ventura to get to Santa Barbara. It has some very valuable fran- Haute Electric Traction Company. Both companies are controlled by Stone chises throughout Ventura County, covering over 75 miles and touching every & Webster, of Boston. A mortgage of $600,000 has been filed by the officials important locality. of the latter company, which is building, new lines to Paris, 111., and Clinton ATLANTA, GA. At a recent meeting of the Board of County Commis- — coal fields. The new lines are included in the lease. sioners the Atlanta and Marietta Electric Railway Company was granted a franchise to operate a railway from Atlanta to Marietta. The Atlanta In- VINCENNES, IND.—The Vincennes-Jasper Traction line is to be built terurban Railway Company has already been given 3 franchise for a similar within a year, John A. Davis, treasurer of the First National Bank; Sol purpose, so it appears that the county seat of Cobb and the city of Atlanta Frank, merchant; F. E. Chappell, attorney; E. F. Cox, engineer of the pro- are to be connected by two trolley lines. The Atlanta & Marietta Electric posed line, all of Petersburg, and Smiley N. Chambers, of Indianapolis, Railway Company agrees to furnish bond in the sum of $15,000 as an evidence principal promoter of the line, are interested in the project. A. Norvale, of good faith and to liquidate any possible damages that may accrue as a first vice-president of the Municipal Bond and Securities Company, of Cin- consequence of the erection of the road. The new line will be built along the cinnati, has agreed to take all the securities of the road. His company will Howell Mill Road for a distance of 5 miles from the city limits. The company let the contract for the construction of the road to a Cincinnati firm, and will be allowed to operate a schedule for the hauling of freight during agrees to have 500 men at work on the roadbed within sixty or ninety days. certain hours of the day, and, in addition, a through express service will be The line will be 54 miles long, and the estimated cost of construction is maintained. $1,000,000. xxiv STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 16.

BIDDEFORD, MAINE.—Work will be started in the early spring on the construction of the proposed new electric railway from Biddeford to Kenne- bunk, via York, Wells and Ogunquit, a distance of 29 miles, for the Atlantic Shore Line Railroad. The grading will be done this winter. Power will be THE CLIMAX FENCE POST CO. taken from the present plant. BOSTON, MASS.—The Waltham Street Railway Company has opened its THE BEST THINQ IN FENCE POSTS new line between Waltham and Belrr.cnt. The new line starts from Main Street in Waltham, and passes through Linden Street and over Quince Street extension to Trapelo Road. " BOSTON, MASS.—The three-year limit fixed by the Lynn and Salem City " CLIMAX Councils for the Boston & Northern Street Railway to complete its new line from Salem to Lynn over Highland Avenue, Salem, across Floating Bridge in Lynn and along Western Avenue, the links in the Salem-Boston Rapid Farm Line Fence Posts Transit line, expires in November, but another year will pass before the line is in operation. The Salem Aldermen have extended the time eighteen months on request of the. road, and Lynn has granted six months' extension, R. P. Right ot Way and is likely to grant additional days of grace if the road asks the favor. Unexpected annoyance has been encountered in acquiring title to the right Fence Posts of way in Salem over private property, where the tracks are to be laid in accordance with the engineers' plans. Railroad Signal Posts MELROSE, MASS.—Upon petition of the Maplewood & Danvers Street Railway Company for locations in Mehose, the Board of Aldermen has voted to give a hearing Monday evening, Oct. 26. City Sign Posts PITTSFIELD, MASS.—The Berkshire Street Railway Company, among recent provisions for the safe operation of cars, has adopted a rule that all orders received over the telephone at turnouts shall be receivd both by the motorman and the conductor, in order to avoid a misunderstanding of the Corner, End and orders. Ornamental Posts SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—The Railroad Commission is giving careful consideration to the matter of approving locations granted the Springfield Suburban Street Railway by the Springfield Board of Aldermen. The Spring- BASE made of Vitrified Shale Clay field Street Railway objects to ihe locations being granted, and it has con- POST, any height, made of steel angle siderable local support. The Commission a of the has taken view proposed cemented in the base locations. PUNCHED FOR ANY KIND OF FENCE W AKE, MASS.—The Hampshire & Worcester Street Railway Company is making a survey for an extension of its line from Lakeside Park, in West 715 Marquette Building 1'rookfield, to Warren. WOBURN, MASS.—The Woburn City Council has received a petition from the Lowell & Boston Street Railway Company for a location on Arlington CHICAGO Road and Lake Avenue to the Winchester line, and on Bedford and Willow Streets. A hearing was ordered for Oct. 21. H. E. OVERSTREET, Gen. Mgr. WORCESTER, MASS.—To incorporate and construct an electric railway to End be known as the Worcester & Providence Street Railway Company, the Post Line Post Steel Post, Clay Base (Patented) president, vice-president and treasurer of the Worcester & Hartford Street Railway Company, with fifteen other men living in Sutton, West Sutton, Douglas, East Douglas and Millbury, have formed a company to be capitalized at $200,000. The plan is a revival of the old scheme to build a road from Providence to Worcester. The proposed road will come into Worcester through Greenwood Street, over the tracks of the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Company, and will run through Uxbridge, Millbury, Sutton and Douglas to the Massachusetts State line. pgr °* * Ma>pl The men who are interested in the scheme are: Fred C. Hinds, of Newton, president; Thomas C. Perkins, of Hartford, Conn., vice-president, and Charles II. Wilson, of Brookline, treasurer <,f the Hartford & Worcester Road, to- FLEXIBLE BRACKETS gether with Henry Rice, James W. Stockwell, Henry S. Stockwell, John E. Gifford, Mollis A. Richardson and T. Burt Stevenson, of Sutton; Henry B. ARE STANDARD Bullard, of West Sutton; William E. Home and Warner A. Harris, of Mill- bury; Silas P. Holbrook, E. N. Jenckes, George Abbott, C. J. Batchellor,

J. II. Sweet and A. F. Jones, of Douglas.

WORCESTER, MASS.—The Railroad Commission has issued a certificate approving the construction of an addition of CS30 ft. to the line of the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway in Leominster.

BATTLE CREEK, MICH.— From the present outlook it seems almost certain that Battle Creek will, before a year elapses, have another interurban line. This line has not been named, but it is proposed to start from Angola, lnd., and come to this city via Marshall, or vice versa. T. E. Smith, of Angola, is one of the prime movers of the road, and he has expressed himself as confident that the new line will be in operation by next summer. Mr. Smith stated that the company would purchase a private right of way the entire distance. The interurban will start from the center of Angola and run to Twin Lakes, a few miles north, where it will go over a channel that connects the two bodies of water, and continue its way to Coldwater, covering all intermediate points; then to Tekonsha, Osborne, Marshall and Battle Creek. The capitalization of the new company is said to be $2,000,000.

FLUSHING, MICH.— Steps are being taken to secure franchises for a ftreet railway between Flushing and Fenton. The franchises are in the name of C. Tinker, of Fenton; E. O. Wood and F. P. Sayre, of Flushing. When Ihe entire right of way has been secured the company will be organized. It is proposed to build the line with capital from Flint and the two villages named. No. 190 Bracket, 10 ft long. No. 439 Double Wire, Double MONROE, MICH.—The Circuit' Court in Monroe County has decided Curve Insulators. Two No. 0000 Round Trolley Wires. against the Toledo A: Monroe Railway Company in the long-contested case Bourbon No. 2 Strain Insulators. Buy the Best. regarding the right of that company to occupy Elm Avenue, Monroe, with FITTINGS its line. The LINE MATERIAL POLE company claims that this small portion of right of way is all that has not Complete Equipment (or Overhead Construction been secured for its continuous line from Port Huron to Toledo, WRITE FOR CATALOGUE and it will now probably proceed to secure private right of way, although the city of Monroe expresses itself as willing to give the company its choice CREAGHEAD ENGINEERING CO. of two other streets to make a connection of its line in the city. ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS MONROE, MICH.-Peter N. Jacobscn, who promoted the Toledo & Mon- 315 Walnut Street CINCINNATI, OHIO roe Electric Railway, now known is the Toledo, Monroe & Detroit Short Line, has been in Monroe to obtain the right of way for an electric railway to XXV October 17, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. be constructed from Monroe to Adrian via Dundee and .Tecumseh. Mr. Jaeobson states that Detroit capital is back of the scheme, and that it will undoubtedly go through. It is the intention to run the line on the north side of the Raisin, with a tunnel under the Pere Marquette and one under the Toledo & Ann Arbor, at Dundee. SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH.—John Seymour, of Hudson, has started work on an electric railway to connect Adrian and Portland by way of Cold- water, Marshall and Olivet. The contractor announces that there will be a branch line to Lansing.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—The impression here is that Dr. Straub and his associates, who recently secured a franchise for the construction of an electric railway to Anoka, will soon apply to the Council for a franchise to operate within the city limits. LA GRANGE, MO.—The survey for the proposed electric railway from La Grange to Williamstown by way of Monticello has been completed by Z. T. Daniels, who was employed by the citizens along the proposed line and in three towns. Three different routes to enter Monticello were laid out, and after leaving Monticello a few miles the old railroad grade was followed up to Williamstown. Mr. Daniels states that there is a splendid location for a road. It can be built with but little grading, and the country traversed by it is rich and well populated. OMAHA, NEB.—The survey for the Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice Electric Railway has been completed, and it is thought that much of the grading, bridging and track laying will be done this fall, enabling electrical construction work to proceed without delay next spring. Plans and specifications for buildings, machinery and rolling stock are being prepared as rapidly as possible. It is rumored that a passenger rate of 55 cents will be established between Omaha and Lincoln. The present rate on the steam roads is $1.65. RENO, NEVADA.—An application has been received from the Reno Suburban Street Railway Company for a franchise over the following streets: Plaza, Lake, Fourth and Alameda.

TRENTON, N. J. —The New Jersey & Pennsylvania Traction Company has placed a crossing over a side track of the Pennsylvania Railroad on North Willow Street. The New Jersey & Pennsylvania Traction Company's line competes with the railroad to Princeton

TRENTON, N. J. —The Camden & Trenton Railway Company is now operating a car on its Liberty Street line, running about 1% miles across the lower part of the city. Trenton & New Brunswick Railroad cars will be run over it as soon as the connection is completed in Hamilton Township, just east of this city.

TRENTON, N. J. —The Camden & Trenton Railway Company has won its fight for a crossing at Cass Street, where the Pennsylvania Railroad Company sought to hold it up. The railroad company asked the electric company for a $20,000 bond before the crossing was placed over the railroad tracks and canal (which belongs to the Pennsylvania Company) bridge, but this the electric railway company refused to accede to. The city had granted the Camden

& Trenton Company the franchise, and the company held that it had the right to go across, despite the railroad's opposition. A few days ago the Camden & Trenton Company served notice upon the Pennsylvania Railroad Company that it would cross the tracks and the bridge by the use of force, and at once. Then the Pennsylvania came to terms, and the crossing was placed. It contains the regular frogs for the Camden Company's 5-ft. gage and special frogs for the Trenton & New Brunswick Railroad's 4-ft.. 8%-in. gage. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company kept a locomotive on a nearby siding under steam for weeks to prevent the Camden & Trenton from placing the crossing, and at times three locomotives were located there, so that they could be run upon the crossing at a moment's notice.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The new extension of the Court Street line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company from Kensington Junction to Fifty-Eighth Street through Sixteenth Avenue has been placed in operation. The line was constructed during the summer months. It is especially designed to give better service to the Borough Park section during the winter.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has made application to Public Works Commissioner Redfield for permission to lay tracks through Saratoga Avenue, between Broadway and Sutter Avenue, a distance of nearly 2 miles, to form a direct line of rapid transit to the Williamsburgh Bridge. The application has been referred to Corporation Counsel Rives by Commissioner Redfield for an investigation of the franchise of the company.

BUFFALO, N. \.—After months of negotiation the Hamburg Railway Com- pany has obtained the necessary consents for the construction of its proposed line from Bay View on the lake shore along the Hamburg Turnpike to Buffalo and the work of construction will be proceeded with at once. The proposed line of the Hamburg Railway Company will be about 6 miles long, and will run by the Lackawanna plant, the Rogers-Goodyear plant and other industrial concerns in the locality, and. will also afford transportation to the people of the industrial village which is growing up in that region. It will also run by Woodlawn Beach. The northern terminus of the road will be at the city line, south of Tifft Street. The right to lay tracks in the Hamburg Turnpike within the city line is in litigation and will soon be tried out. Both the Hamburg Railway Company and the International Railway Company have applied for franchises in this rtreet. The former claims to own the fee of the road. Contracts for the line have been let and it will be completed before snow flies.

NEW YORK, N. Y.—The application of the New York City Interborough Railway Company for permission to construct tracks and operate a railroad in the Bronx was again before the State Railroad Commission on Tuesday.

(Jet. 13. The Union Railway Company opposed the application, and at it^ request an adjournment was taken until Nov. 10. ;

XXVI STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 16.

NEW YORK, N. Y. —A hearing was held by the Board of Aldermen, on Monday, Oct. 12, on the application of the New York & Port Chester Railway Company, to cross over and under certain streets in the Borough of the Bronx. Decision was reserved. The New York & Port Chester Railway, it will be remembered, planned to build a four-track third-rail electric railway DO HEATING PLANTS PAY? from a connection with the subway in New York to Port Chester, a distance of about 25 miles. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The People's Street Railway Company, better known as the "3-cent fare company," has applied for a franchise on Rhodes Avenue. This is the street on which the company attempted to build last WHAT CONSTITUTES A year when it was stopped by the change in the city government. CLEVELAND, OHIO.—The Wooster branch of the Cleveland & South- western Traction Company has been completed and cars are now operating HEATING SITUATION? under regular headway between Cleveland and Wooster. There is no direct steam route to Cleveland, and the business of the district has heretofore been diverted to Pittsburg over the Pennsylvania main line. The completion of this branch gives a total of 135 miles to the Cleveland & Southwestern For Particulars Address system. |

CLEVELAND, OHIO.—An electric railway expert is engaged in inspecting the properties of the Eastern Ohio Traction Company, with a view to W. H. SCHOTT ascertaining just what is needed to place the property in first-class condition, and it is understood that the largest stockholders have agreed to furnish the Engineer and Contractor money necessary to carry out the work. Owing to the poor physical condition of one branch of the system, the earnings of the road are not on a 1219-21 Marquette Building, - CHICAGO satisfactory basis at the present time. CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Interurban Railway & Terminal Company has completed its Rapid Transit Railway to Lebanon, and within a few days Designer and Builder cars will be placed in regular service. This completes this system as originally projected, but it is understood that the syndicate has plans for Scbott's Balance Column Rot Water System, other extensions. j CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo Traction Com- Scbott $ Regulated Steam System. pany has opened an executive office in the new Traction Building. Auditor

Boyer will make his headquarters there, and F. J. J. Sloat, general manager of the company, will in the future spend Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week in Cincinnati, spending the remainder of his time in Hamilton, < SYSTEMS BUILT LAST YEAR where the operating offices will be maintained. CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway has Mt. Vernon, III. started to convert its branch between Findlay and Delphos into an electric Indianapolis, - Ind. Peru, - - - Ind. line. Since the acquisition of the Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western the branch has become practically useless for service out of Findlay, as the latter line Lafayette, - «« New Castle, - " connects that city with the main north and south system at Ottawa. The officials decided to experiment and make the Deshler branch an electric Elwood, " ', Connorsville, . " system. If the plan is a success it is understood the conversion of other lines subordinate to this system will be made. This will be the first steam road in Northern Ohio to resort to the trolley. COLUMBUS, OHIO.—The directors of the Scioto Valley Traction Com- pany have decided not to place 'he stocks and bonds of the company on the market at the present time, but will supply the money necessary to complete the road among themselves. Plans have been approved for the erection of a car house and three sub-stations, and work on these will start at once. COLUMBUS, OHIO.—The Union Savings Bank & Trust Company has filed a mortgage for $1,000.1X10 given by the Ohio River & Columbus Railway TRUSS CABLE Company. Headquarters of the company are at Ripley, and S. is m Bambach president, and D. Campbell, secretary. The company is building a line from Ripley to Hillsboro, and about 10 miles of grading have already been completed. At present it is being built for handling freight by steam locomo- Wire Board Fencing . tives, but later it will be equipped with electricity for passenger traffic. DAYTON, OHIO.—The City Railway Company is preparing to extend its , West Dayton car houses. The foundations of one of the proposed new build- !XXXXXXXXX„mXX.XXXXXX XX'XXX. ings are already constructed and plans are being made for another structure to be located on the east side of Western Avenue next to the brick car house. X'XX'XXX.XXXX.J «wwx X XX.X X.X XXX XXX XXX XXX X FREMONT, OHIO.—W. J. Pero, J. W. Thomson and others have been inspecting old Kerlin Road from Fremont to Port Clinton with a view to completing it to form a connection with the Toledo, Lakeside & Port Clinton a : xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxx xxxx Railway, which is now well under way. The Kerlin roadbed has been graded and poles and ties are scattered along the line, but work has been sus- _- . n..._ Commissioners for a franchise for an electric railway through Ashtabula 5 Strands 2 in. Wire County, from Geneva to Jefferson, and thence through to Meadville. The right of way for this line has all been secured and engineers have made a survey of the same. THE STRONGEST LISBON, OHIO.—Max P. Goodwin, T. W. Hill, Ernst Mueller and other promoters of the Youngstown & Ohio River Railway recently made an in- HANDSOMEST — MOST spection trip over the route of the proposed road. It is announced that work will start between Salem and Lisbon in the near future. The road will be DURABLE A/ND built by the Cleveland Construction Company, of Akron. ECONOMICAL FENCING NEWARK, OHIO.—The Newark, Martinsburg & Mount Vernon Traction Company intends to build an extension to Wooster, which, according to the Easiest and Cheapest to Erect and Maintain survey, will come from Mount Vernon through Jelloway to Loudonville, and thence east through Lakeville, Big Prairie and Shreve to Wooster. TOLEDO, OHIO.—Riggs & Sherman, contractors for the Ohio & Michigan WATCH THIS SPACE OR WRITE US Traction Company, will commence work at once on the line which will ex- AND WE WILL TELL YOU WHY.-. tend from Toledo to Ann Arbor. Laige forces of men and teams are being collected near Petersburg, where the work will start. TOLEDO, OHIO.—The Toledo Urban & Interurban Railway Company has Sample by M&il secured a franchise in Perrysburg, and will complete its line through that town. The new line will form an independent entrance to Toledo for the Fence Toledo, Bowling Green & Southern Traction Company's road, which now The Truss and Cable Company enters over the tracks of the Toledo Railways & Light Company. CLEVELAND, OHIO. TOLEDO, OHIO.—The Toledo & Indiana Railway will not extend its line to Bryan this year. The company has failed to dispose of its bonds on a CAN SHIP FROM satisfactory basis, and the matter will be held up until financial conditions San Francisco New York Chicago Boston Atlanta are better. The road is in operation between Toledo and Wauseon. :

xxvii October 17, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—The Salem & East Railway Company has been incorporated, with a capital of $5,000. The incorporators are: E. S. Cook,

F. S. McGowan, A. S. Banner, J. W. Tyler and M. L. Fowler. The company proposes to build an electric iine from Sebring to Salem and East Palen- The Audit Company of Illinois tine, with a branch to Salem. The capital stock will be increased as soon as the preliminary survey has been made NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING PORTLAND, ORE.—The last rail of the Springwater branch of the Oregon CHICAGO Water-Power & Railway Company's new electric railway to the Clackamas River has been laid. The major porf'on of the line is now operated by PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS steam, but will be electrified as fast as the equipment arrives. The new road OFFICERS: is 38 miles long. L. A. Walton, Pr«s>o«nt F. W- Little. Vioe-Phisident PORTLAND, ORE.— It is said that the University Land Company has C. Di ORGAN, Secretary and Treasurer offered to build a portion of the track between North Albina and St. Johns C. W. KNISELY, Manager if the Portland Railway Company will put on cars and operate them. During DIRECTORS : the past few months the Portland Railway Company has graded and laid one Becker <&. Go., Chicago track to Maryland Avenue and Shaver Street. The grading for the second A. G. BECKER, A. G. LITTLE, Vice-Prest. Peoria Gas &. Electric Co., Peoria track is almost completed. This line is to be extended to North Albina, and F. W. A. RYTHER. Cashier National Live Stock Bank. Chicago may be pushed on to St. Johns. The City & Suburban Company is said to G. WALSH, President Chicago National Bank, Chicago be planning to connect its Mississippi Avenue branch with the St. Johns J. R. L. A. WALTON, Vice-Prest. The Equitable Trust Co.. Chicago line. The West Avenue branch of the Hawthorne Avenue line of the Oregon CENTRAL 3544. Water-Power & Railway Company is almost completed. The Broadway Street TELEPHONE branch of the Portland Railway Company is completed to the end of East Twenty-Fifth Street. BANGOR, PA.—The Bangor, East Bangor & Portland Street Railway Company has purchased the large plant of the Bangor Electric Light, Heat & COMPANY & Power Company. The trolley company intends making some alterations, M. P. HILLYER after which it will extend the line from the present terminus at Portland to ST., NEW YORK the Delaware Water Gap and Stroudsburg. 49 WALL ATLANTIC BUILDING BELLEFONTE, PA.—E. C. Poorman, of Tyrone, and F. W. Bedford, of Wilmington, Del., drove over the proposed route of the projected electric rail- Electric Railroads Financed way from this town to Axe Mann, Pleasant Gap, Tyrone an dMill Hull, via Steam and Bellefonte. The company will ask the Town Council for a franchise at an Railroad and Gas Bonds a Specialty early date. Work on the new line is to begin next March, provided a franchise We Invite Correspondence is secured. BIRDSBORO, PA.—The Reading Traction Company has presented an ordinance to the Council of Birdsboro for permission to use First Street. The trolley company has settled with all the property owners from Reading to PROFITABLE and PbEASING Birdsboro, a distance of 9 miles, and will run over private property. At to your company, your passengers, and the advertisers repre- Seyfert it will build a bridge across the Schuylkill River. sented. This would be the result of awarding the contract for CHAMBERSBURG, PA.—The Chambersburg, St. Thomas & Fort Loudon Electric Railway Company has been organized to build an electric railway Advertising In your gars from Chambersburg to St. Thomas and Fort Loudon. The officers of the to the company best qualified to handle it successfully : company are: John R. Eberly, president; Frisby Miller, secretary; Dr. F. G. Cistern Offices, St. Paul BMg., NEW YORK Executive OMIces, SteveM BIdg., DETROIT Strock, treasurer. LANCASTER, PA.—The charter of the Lancaster & Eastern Street Rail- THE MULFORP & PETRY COMPANY way Company has been filed. The proposed road will run from Witmer's Bridge to Christiana, over the Philadelphia Pike, and will pass through Soudersburg, Paradise, Leaman Place, Williamstown, Kinzer's Gap and Christiana. The capital stock is $48,000, and this will be increased as soon as the right of way is secured. The directors of the company are: Samuel

R. Slaymaker, J. D. Ranck, Joseph E. Esbenshade, Warren E. Broome and Milo B. Herr. The officers are: President, Samuel R. Slaymaker; STEEL secre- COLUMBIA tary, Milo B. Herr; treasurer, Joseph H. Esbenshade. It is expected that the rights of way will soon be secured, after which, the incorporators say, work will be begun before winter. POLES PA.— Chester, TROLLEY OXFORD, The West Kennett & Wilmington Electric Rail- way Company has an ordinance before the Common Council of this borough, QV 0R and it is believed that it will be passed at an early date. RATCHET BRAKE HANDLES ^fJs YARDLEY, PA.—The New Jersey 6V Pennsylvania Traction Company has

opened a stone quarry just above this borough, reaching it by a half-mile switch. The line between Trenton and Newton is now being ballasted, and when the job is completed 22,000 tons o T crushed stone will have been used. YORK, PA.—Negotiations have been concluded between the York County Millen Illuminated Car Signs, Traction Company, and the Wrightsville Turnpike Company, by which the former will build its line between this place and Wrightsville on the turnpike. Gear Cases, Fields and Coils, At Stony Brook the line will diverge from the pike, in order to cross the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks above grade. Work on this line will be rushed. Armature and Axle Bearings The East Market Street extension is about ready for operation. The grading on the new trolley line between Millersville and York Furnace is about completed, and at least two-thirds of the track laid. Cars will be running in about a month.

PROVIDENCE, R. I.—The Providence & Burrillville Street Railway Com- - pany, which is planning to build a double-track electric railway for passenger Commutators, Car T r i m and freight service between Woonsocket and Providence, connecting with the Rhode Island Company's system to the south and the Woonsocket Street Rail- mings, Brass, Gray Iron and way Company to the north, has organized and elected as directors: Edgar K. Ray, of Franklin, Mass.; Edward H. Rathbun and Frank E. Holden, of Woonsocket; F. E. Bartlett and Francis Fagan, of Burrillville; E. B. A. Malleable Iron Foundries Thayer, of Frankli n, and Thomas Martin, of Chelsea. The following-named officers have been elected: President, E. H. Rathbun; general manager and treasurer, E. K. Ray; secretary, Frank E. Holden. The company has an authorized capital of $200,000, will apply for franchises in Lincoln and North Smithfield, and proposes to commence construction in the spring. Surveys and estimates of cost, construction and equipment have already been made. COLUMBIA MACHINE WORKS DYERSBURG, TENN.—The Tennessee Western Railroad Company, which proposes to build and operate an electric railway from Dyersburg to Hunj- boldt, has organized by the election of W. H. Skivington, president; James S. Brown, vice-president; AND MALLEABLE IRON CO. H. E. Nichols, secretary. The company was formed in July and authorized to issue $10,000 capital stock. It has been agreed to make IN. Y., S. A. application for an amendment to the charter so as to authorize an increase BROOKLYN, U.

of capital stock of $2,000,000. The routes have been surveyed, and it is estimated that it will cost $1,500,000 to construct and equip the road. xxviii STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 16.

TRENTON, TENN.—The Gibson County Construction Company has been organized to construct an electric railway from Trenton to Eaton, Brazil and Gibson Wells. The projected route is about 17 miles long. In the next few days parties will survey the route. FORT WORTH, TEX.—The Northern Texas Traction Company has com- JOHN BLAIR MacAFEE pleted its new line to Polytechnic College Heights. MORGANTOWN, W. VA.—A trolley line between Morgantown and Fair- mont had its beginning recently in the purchase of the West Side line of the Union Utility Company by the Fairmont, Morgantown & Cheat River Com- THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OF STEAM pany. The line is now 2 miles ^ng, and Senator Elkins says it will be ex- AND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS, POWER PLANTS tended at once. AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS. PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING WITH ESTIMATES. NEWS NOTES REPORTS ON PROPERTIES IN OPERATION.

CHICAGO, ILL. —Corporation Counsel Tolman has rendered an opinion that the city should receive compensation for the advertising which is done on elevated railroad platforms located over city streets; but he did not recommend a suit to recover such compensation for advertising done in the past, HARRISON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA because the city has no reco nized legal right to allow the elevated roads to advertise on platforms over streets and alleys. Several ordinances are now before the City Council to give the various elevated roads this privilege. ANDERSON, IND.—The Indiana Union Traction Company will establish at its stations in Indianapolis, Anderson, Muncie, Marion, Alexandria, El- wood and Tipton package and parcel departments, in which articles can be checked by passejigers. The plan will be similar to that in effect at the Union Station of the steam roads at Indianapolis. KOKOMO, IND.—The first car over the Kokomo, Marion & Western In- J. G. WHITE & COMPANY terurban Railway was run on Oct. 2 from Kokomo to Greentown. It was INCORPORATED occupied by President O. V. Darby, General Manager T. C. McReynolds and other officials of the company. The line will be in operation between Kokomo and Greentown in ten days. KEOKUK, IA.—The new electric railway between Keokuk and Hamilton Engineers, Contractors, and Warsaw, 111., has been completed. The line is 7 miles long, and is owned 43-49 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y. by the Keokuk Electric Railway Company. LOWELL, MASS.—Four persons were killed practically outright and one is dying, while from fifteen to twenty are more or less injured, as the result LONDON CORRESPONDENT: of a head-on collision of cars on the Lowell & Pelham Electric Railway about J. C. White & Company, Limited a quarter of a mile north of Pelham Centre, on Sunday morning, Sept. 6. 22a College Hill, Cannon St. MARLBORO, MASS.—Permission has been asked of the Railroad Com- mission to issue articles of association for the Marlboro & Framingham Street Railway Company. It is proposed to form a new corporation to take over the property of the Marlboro Street Railway Company and the Framing- ham. Southboro & Marlboro Street Railway Company, both of which are controlled by the Boston & Worceser Street Railway interests. WORCESTER, MASS.—The receivers of the Worcester & Southbridge and the Worcester, Rockdale & Charlton Depot Street Railways are continuing their investigation into the condition of the two properties, upon which they Sanderson & Porter have made a preliminary report. The operation of the roads since they took hold of them have shown a profit. No definite plan of reorganization has ENGINEERS AND been announced. CONTRACTORS NASHUA, N. H. —The inquiry by the New Hampshire Railroad Commis- Electric Railways, sioners into the disaster on the Hudson, Pelham & Salem Electric Railway, 52 WILLIAM STREET Light, Power and result which six Sept. 6, as a of people lost their lives and more than a score Hydraulic Plants. NEW YORK were seriously injured, has been concluded. The testimony of the employees was contradictory in the extreme. The Commissioners reserved their decision. ST. LOUIS, MO.—The directors of the United Railways Company have declared the usual quarterly $1.25 on the preferred stock, payable Oct. 10, W. EC. BAKER H. R. BISHOP to the shareholders of record Sept. 25. Stock transfer books close Oct. 11. CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Cincinnati, Milford & Loveland Traction Company has elected officers as follows: B. H. Kroger, C. W. Baker, H. L. W. E. BAKER & CO. Gordon, J. M. Wilson, J. N. Roberts, L. J. Van Lahr and Thorne Baker,

directors; B. H. Kroger, president; Thorne Baker, vice-president; J. N. ENGINEERS Roberts, secretary; L. J. Van Lahr, treasurer. The company has about completed the construction of the first S miles of its road from Hyde Park to 170 BROADWAY NEW YORK Milford, and it is expected that cars will be placed in operation in the near future. Power will be furnished temporarily by the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railway from its station at Olive Branch. MIDDLEFIELD, Joyce, Heasley OHIO.— & Fawcet, of Youngstown, who WILLIAH A. ROSENBAUM have the contract for grading and track laying for the Cleveland & Sharon Traction Company's line, have a large force at work near Middlefield. The electrical expert and patent Solicitor work will be pushed until the weather prevents. Nassau Beekman Building NEW YORK CITY +++ FINANCIAL NOTES THOMAS B. WHITTED Consulting Engineer

CHICAGO, ILL.—It is understood that the plan of the Lake Street Ele- 221-224 Equitable Building - - DENVER, COLORADO vated reorganization committee thus far formulated for rehabilitation of the property, and that which will very likely be ultimately agreed upon, calls for an assessment of $2 per share on the stock. This would realize $200,000 on the 100,000 shares of stock outstanding. The sum is seemingly small, but by other plans of refunding the bonds and taking up the income issues it is said Tennis Brothers Company the committee sees a way to pull the road out of its present straits. CHICAGO, ILL.—The statement of the Chicago Electric Traction Com- ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FINANCED, BUILT AND EQUIPPED pany for April shows a deficit of $274; for May a gain of $4,525, and for June a gain of $3,252, or a net gain of $7,503 for the quarter. 22-23 Swift Building, 513 Times Building, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Suit has been filed in the Federal Court by Dewitt Cincinnati, Ohio Pittsburg, Pa. Delworth, of Pittsburg, Pa., asking for a restraining order and injunction against the officers and stockholders of the Indiana Electric Rail- October 17, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxix way Company to enjoin them from making a lease of the defendant company's property, franchises and assets to the Indiana Western Railway Com- pany, or to any other corporation, for the benefit of the Indiana Western Railway Company, and from holding a stockholders' meeting on Oct. 30 for the making of the lease. The proposed lease is for a term of ninety-nine years. Mr. Delworth holds 1833 shares of the capital stock. Judge Anderson issued a temporary restraining order, -ind cited all parties to appear before him on Oct. 12 to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent. LAPORTE, IND.—Judge Baker, of the Federal Court, has set Nov. 5 as the date at which the master in chancery will sell at auction the plant and franchises of the Lake Cities Electric Company to satisfy foreclosure proceedings brought by the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York, which holds bonds against the company to the value of $75,000. The bidding for the LIGHTING-POWER—RAILWAYS property promises to be lively. Russell B. Harrison was one of the principal stockholders in the Lake Cities Company, and organized another company for the purpose of again securing control of the plant. * * X NEW ALBANY, IND.—The Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Com- to the American pany has filed with the County Recorder a deed of trust 1504-1506-1805-1510-1512 Fisber Building, = CHICAGO Trust & Savings Bank and Frank H. Jones, of Chicago, and the United States Trust Company, of Louisville, trustees, to secure the payment of $1,000,000 5 per cent twenty-year bonds, issued jept. 15, 1903. VINCENNES, IND.—The Vincennes Street Railway has been sold to the E. M. Dean syndicate, of Grand Rapids, Mich., for $100,000. WABASH, IND.—The consolidation of the Fort Wayne & Southwestern Railway, operating between this city and Fort Wayne, and the Logansport Wabash Valley Company, operating between this city and Logansport, has been consummated by the organization of a new company to take over the two properties, and stock and securities of the consolidated company will be issued Arnold Electric Power Station Co. for the stock of the old corporation. Six large new vestibule cars have been ordered. The roster of the officials of the consolidated company has not been made public, but it is understood that the McCulloch interests will name the ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS new officers. BALTIMORE, MD.-A proposition will be presented to the Cleveland owners of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Railway Company whereby Designers and Builders of Complete the affairs of the company will be straightened out. Under the original syndi- Electric Railway, Lighting and Power cate agreement there v/ere subscribed $1,500,000 bonds at par. Of this amount Installations. $690,000 has been called for, and $500,000 of this amount has been paid, leaving $190,000 still due. About $200,000 is required to pay the debts of the company, Marquette Building, including material bills, receivership expenses, etc. It is proposed to ask Transit Building, the underwriters to pay this amount at once. The unpaid assessments will new york. Chicago. then be collected and a call for the additional 40 per cent on the original underwriting will be made. It is figuied it will take about $800,000 to complete the road and place it in operation. It will be remembered that this is the road which will use Westinghouse single-phase motors.

MARLBORO, MASS.—The Marlboro & Framingham Street Railway Com- pany has asked the Railroad Commission for authority 10 issue original capital stock of $105,000. William M. Butler, James F. Shaw and George R. Butman, of the Boston & Worcester Street Railway, are interested in the Marlboro & Framingham road. H. M. BYLLESBY & CO. PITTSFIELD, MASS.—The Pittsfield Electric Company has been authorized to issue $50,000 new capital to repay promissory notes and for the cost INCORPORATED of plant construction. The new stock will be issued at $135 per share.

WORCESTER, MASS.—The Railroad Commission has approved an issue of $250,000 in 4% per cent twenty-year bonds by the Boston & Worcester Street Engineers Railway Company, to be used for the payment of floating indebtedness and purchase of real estate and personal property. for the Destgn, Construct ana Operate Railway WORCESTER, MASS.—The receivers of the Worcester & Southbridge and the Worcester, Rochdale & Charlton Depot Street Railway Companies have Light, Power ana Hydraulic Plants been granted authority by the Superior Court to issue receivers' certificates on the latter company, not to exceed $10,000, to pay for the completion of improvements on Stafford Street, Worcester. EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS DETROIT, MICH.—J. D. Hawks, one of the owners of the Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jackson Electric Railway, is quoted as authority for the statement that a consolidation of all the electric railways between Detroit New York Life Building CHICAGO, ILL. and Kalamazoo, a total of about 270 miles, has been practically effected. S. F. Angus, Mr. Hawks' partner, has just returned from New York, where he went on business connected with the merger.

ST. LOUIS, MO.—The report of the St. Louis Transit Company shows that the gross earnings for September were $635,110, as against $561,921 for Septem- ber, 1902, a gain of $73,189.

ALBANY, N. Y.—The net earnings of the United Traction Company 'of Albany and Troy for the quarter ended Sept. 30, after deducting for bond interest and other fixed charges, amount to $93,431. The quarterly dividend of the stock of per cent, is payable out AUTOMATIC IVi which of these earnings, call for SCALES $62,500, and after the dividend payment there is left a surplus of $30,931. The directors have voted to pay the regular dividend on Nov. 2. Books will be closed on Oct. 21 and reopen Nov. 3. BUFFALO, N. Y.—The International Traction Company reports earnings Richardson as follows: Quarter ending June 30 1903 1902 Scale Co. Gross receipts $929,749 $772,384 Operating expenses 519,062 436,915

Net earnings $410,687 $335,469 18 Park Row Other income 15,807 13,896 New York Total income $426,494 $349,365 Fixed charges 236,116 289,062 City Surplus $190,378 $60,303 XXX STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 16.

SYRACUSE, N. Y.—The Syracuse Eapid Transit Company reports earnings as follows: August Watertoury 1903 1902 Total gross earnings $68,568 $60,579 Button Operating expenses 38,002 33,314 Oo. Net earnings $30,566 $27,265 Watertoury Deductions from income 20,286 19,024 Conn.

Net income $10,280 $8,241 UNT. For three months ending Aug. SI 48 ioward St., TT. Total gross earnings $140,514 $123,150 Operating expenses 77,493 67,679

Net earnings $63,021 $55,471 Deductions from income 40,553 38,050 PITTSBURG WHITE METAL CO. 160 Leroy St, N. Y. 1739 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. Net income $22,467 $17,421 Linotype, Stereotype, Monotype, lilTl I OHIO.—It is announced that the controlling interests the niDDITT lUn CINCINNATI, of BABBITT AND ANTI- and Electrotype. Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo Traction Company have practically agreed upon Prices consistent with quality and market a plan whereby the property is to be leased to the Widener-Elkins syndicate ERIPTIflN MFTAI Q ' - References-Westinghouse Interests on a graduated scale of dividends, and it is stated that the plan will probably be carried into effect before the first of the year. Since the recent change in the control of the property the road management has been under the supervision of Mr. Schoepf, president of the Cincinnati Traction Company. IS YOUR CATALOGUE AS GOOD AS YOUR GOODS? CINCINNATI, OHIO.—The Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo Traction Com- ^[ pany reports earnings as follows: let MANZ-HOLLISTER make it and it will August— 1903 1902 DO BUSINESS FOR YOU WHEREVER IT GOES. GOOD Gross receipts $56,544 $49,301 CUTS TALK—SO DOES GOOD PRINTING. Operating expenses 26,277 24,482 200 MANZ BLDG., CHICAGO Write for Specimens 20 LUPTON BLDG., NEW YORK Net earnings $30,267 $24,819 ii Interest and taxes 16,137 16,280 —

Surplus for stock $14,130 $8,538

CLEVELAND, OHIO.—President Charles Wason, of the Cleveland, {flben (Anting to Hdvertisers Painesville & Eastern Railway Company, states that there is no truth in the report that a consolidation of that company with the Cleveland, Painesville in the STREET RAILWAY JOUR- & Ashtabula Railway is contemplated for the immediate future. He says all elec- NAL you will confer a favor on both it is quite logical that some day there will be a consolidation of the tric lines paralleling the Lake Shore (steam), but there will be no consolida- publisher and advertiser by mentioning tion between the two roads mentioned until the new Cleveland, Painesville this paper. & Ashtabula has demonstrated its earnings powers.

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.—The report of the Springfield & Xenia Traction Company for the first nine months of the year has been made. This indicates that the gross receipts have been very satisfactory, but just what they have done in operating does not appear. The earnings by months follow: January, $2,591; February, $2,650; March, $3,781; April, $3,569; May, $5,799; June, $5,321; July, $6,416; August, $6,824; September, $5,216; total, $42,167.'

TOLEDO, OHIO.—The gross earnings of the Toledo & Western Railway from Jan. 1 to Sept. 1, are: January, $11,095; February, $9,286; March, $12,930; April, $12,315; May, $13,975; June, $13,986; July, $17,153; August, $18,501. The company is now operating for about 53 per cent, on which basis they should It would be hard to place too high earn about 1%, per cent on its stock. an estimate on the value of...

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—A certificate of consolidation has been filed for the Youngstown & Southern Railway Company and the Youngstown & Salem Railway under the name of the first-mentioned company. The \oungstown & STEEL WOOL Southern had a capital stock of $1,500,000, while the Youngstown & Salem had $300,000 capital stock. The new company has $1,800,000. The line is now under construction from Youngstown to East Liverpool, and there will be a jtjmi branch from Leetonia to Salem. PACKING

ZANESVILLE, OHIO.—The earnings of the Zanesville Railway, Light & For Street Railways Power Company, which is owned by Cincinnati capitalists, for the six months ending Aug. 31, were: Gross, $74,706; operating expenses, $36,733; net earn- ItjWill save 50% of the amount former- ings, $37,973; bond interest for six months, $19,625; leaving a surplus of ly expended for packing. $18,348. It will save ZZ]4% in oil. BEAVER, PA.—The Beaver Valley Traction Company reports earnings It will save labor and wear. as follows: It will positively prevent hot boxes. Year ending Sept. 30— 1903 1902 Gross earnings $227,409 $177,213 It has been and is doing this on some Operating expenses 126,206 96,399 49 roads on which it is a standard product. Net earnings $101,202 $80,815 Taxes, interest on bonds 70,414 62,573 Let us send you booklet, or a trial sample

Net income $30,788 $18,241 Surplus account $46,090 $15,240 Federal Supply Co. COATESVILLE, PA.—The personal property of the Brandywine Traction Company, which has 2 miles of its line to coatesville graded, has been levied 1209-1213 Stock Exchange Bldg. upon at the instance of a New York firm. The West Chester Street Railway Company and the Coatesville Traction Company have also brought suit against CHICAGO, ILL. the company to restrain it from building the Coatesville line, claiming that the Coatesville Traction Company has a prior right. The Brandywine Company had listed $8,000 with the town authorities, $3,000 for the franchise and $5,000 as a forfeit, and this money was seized by the sheriff. The ordinance granting the Brandywine Company a franchise had been vetcd by the Burgess, but was subsequently passed over his head. :

October 17, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxxi

FORT WORTH, TEX.—The Northern Texas Traction Company reports earnings as follows: September— 1903 Gross receipts $41,949 Operating expenses 22,033

Net earnings. $91,916 Fixed charges 9,673 Why Risk Life

Surplus $10,243 For the nine months ending Sept. 2— 1903 Gross earnings $335,296 And Rolling Stock on Operating expenses 178,167

Net earnings $157,129 Fixed charges 82,490

Surplus $74,639 RICHMOND, VA.—The Virginia Passenger & Power Company makes the A Single Chain? following report to the State Railroad Commissioner of the result of the operations for the year ending June 30, 1903: Amount received from sale of tickets $576,981 Amount received from cash fares 311,166 Amount received from freight transported 4,368 Amount received from chartered cars, etc 2,115 1,456,652 The one chain of the

Total gross transportation receipts $894,630 Amount received from other sources 473,780 one-chain brakes fre- Total gross receipts $1,368,410 Cost of operation and repairs $825,672 Amount of interest on indebtedness, and all other fixed charges 770,294 quently breaks.

Total expenses $1,595,967

$42,455 Leaving net deficit for the year of $227,556 This occurs where SEATTLE, WASH.—The Seattle Electric Company reports earnings as follows August 1903 1902 Gross earnings $188,541 $179,116 the strain is greatest- Operating expenses 123,829 112,450 Net earnings $64,712 $66,666 hill grades. Fixed charges 22,257 21,158 on

Net profit $45,508 For year ending August $1,736,070 The fatalities, injuries Gross earnings $2,055,425 Operating expenses 1,191,657 Net earnings $598,773 $544,413 and losses so caused Fixed charges 286,936 252,209

Net profit $311,836 $292,203 CLARKSBURG, W. VA.—The Clarksburg & Fairmont Traction Company, every year are serious, operating in Clarksburg and Fairmont has given a deed of trust to the | Guarantee Trust Company, of New York, for $2,500,000, and will issue 5 per cent first mortgage bonds. The money is to be used for improvements, ex- tentions and additions. not to say appalling. AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS The TWO-CHAIN THE WALTER A. ZELNICKER SUPPLY COMPANY, of St. Louis, Mo., is making a specialty of galvanized strand for electric street railways. TWO 90-HP DIESEL ENGINES have been ordered for installation in the Sterling Safety Brake new power house of the Roslyn Tram Company, Dunedin, New Zealand. THE AULTMAN COMPANY, of Canton, Ohio, has recently equipped the power station of the Camden Interborough Railway at Kenoba, W. Va., with a complete installation of coal and ash-handling machinery. 1 is a sure reliance, THE MOTOR DEPARTMENT of the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company, of Pittsfield, Mass., will henceforth be in charge of A. W. Hen- shaw, formerly of the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. proven for seven EVERY ISSUE OF RIDLON'S REPRESENTATIVE contains some- so thing of value to street railway men. ihe October number is devoted to describing some railway specialties sold by the Frank Ridlon Company, of Boston, Mass., which company will be pleased to send this publication regu- years. larly to those interested.

A TIMELY PUBLICATION is the pamphlet "About Track-Cleaning De- vices," distributed by the Ohio Brass Company, of Mansfield, Ohio. It refers mainly to the well-known Monarch track cteaner for heavy snow, ice, sleet, mud or gravel. Adjustable track brush holders, track brooms and hand brooms are also given attention. Sterling-Meaker Co. THE ECLIPSE CAR FENDER COMPANY, of Cleveland, Ohio, has recently installed its life guards on the following roads: New York & Long Island Traction Company, 28; Springfield, Troy & Piqua Railway Company, 10; Morgan Electric Traction Company, Morgantown, W. Va., 10. In addi- Newark, N. J., U. S. A. tion to these, some fifty or more trial orders have been filled. In order to

accommodate its growing business, the company has found it necessary to increase the size of its quarters. ! %r//////////////////////////////s///^^^ XXX11 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 16.

THE AMERICAN BUREAU OF INSPECTION AND TESTS, 930 Mon- adnock Block, Chicago, 111., has been established for the purpose of conducting a bureau of inspection and tests of everything entering into the construction of a railroad, including rails and angle-bars, cars and locomotives, bridge material, plates and cast-iron pipes, etc., and is prepared to guarantee that nothing but first-class work will be submitted. The corps of inspectors is stated to be composed of most efficient and experienced men. National The bureau will furnish full reports of all its work, giving chemical analyses and physical tests whenever required. It will be pleased to correspond regarding terms for different classes of inspection. Generators THE STANDARD UNDERGROUND CABLE COMPANY, of New York, has secured the contract for trolley wire—heavy 0000—to be used in the construction of the Wellington, New Zealand Municipal Electric Trac- FOR tion system. The contract for the construction of the road, which will be 30 miles long, was recently awarded to the British electrical engineering RAILWAY and contracting firm of Macartney, McElroy & Company, Ltd., with offices in New* York. The Standard Company, the G. Brill Company J. LIGHTING (trucks), and the General Electric Company (motors), are the only American concerns that have been awarded contracts, the major portion of the ma- AND terial having been purchased in England. The value of Macartney, McElroy & Company's contract is about $570,000. The power-house equipment will POWER British manufacture. be entirely of SERVICE THE CANADIAN WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY, LTD., has been or- ganzed with a capital of $2,500,000. The new company is a consolidation of in capacities up to all the Westinghouse interests in Canada, which heretofore have been con- 1500 Kw. ducted individually. It will take over all the property patents and other interests of the succeeded companies, including the sales organization and business of Ahearn & Soper, of Ottawa. The organization committee elected the Our apparatus represents the latest following board of directors: George Westinghouse, of Pittsburg; C. F. Size, of Montreal; H. H. Westinghouse, George C. Smith, Frank H. Taylor, Improvements in Design and

L. A. Osborne, all of Pittsburg; Thomas Ahearn, of Ottawa; J. M. Gibson, of Hamilton; W. Y. Soper, of Ottawa, and Paul J. Mylor, of Hamilton. The Construction executive, as formed, will consist of the following gentlemen: H. H. West- inghouse, F. H. Taylor, L. A. Osborne, George C. Smith and W. Y. Soper. The officers, as elected, are: President, George Westinghouse; vice-presidents, H. H. Westinghouse and F. H. Taylor; general manager and treasurer, Paul J. Myler; secretary, John H. Kerr. While only the ten directors named were National Electric Company elected, the board, when complete, will consist of fifteen members, the remaining five to be named from the Canadian gentlemen interested. Ground is to be broken for the new works in Hamilton within the next two months, and MILWAUKEE erection will follow as fast as possible. It is expected that at least 1000 CHICAGO: Old Colony Bldg. SEATTLE and SAN FRANCISCO: employees will be serving the company within a year, as soon as the plant PITTSBURG: Qellatly & Co. Kilbourne & Clark Co. is completed.

Electric J- BULLOCK Machinery

The N&.tion&J Elevating Grander, Ditcher and Waggon Loader will excavate and place in embankment 1,000 cubic yards of earth in ten hours or will load 500 to 600 wagons per day.

Above rear view shows simplified hand wheel arrangement for controlling operation. Write for complete catalog.

A Typical Bullock Alternating Current Generator, Water Wheel Driven Complete Direct and Alternating Current Plants SINGLE, TWO AND THREE PHASE MOTORS, DIRECT CURRENT MOTORS Bullock Electric Mfg. Cn^inch^u^