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Joseph Stillman Badger, the Brisbane Tramway Company Limited and Queensland ?r °®S<g>8®° Journal of NUMBER 173 AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT MUSEUMS DECEMBER, 1977 » v p8* - i«? „/. • IT>^IM^9 Koi KnMI JOSEPH STILLMAN BADGER, THE BRISBANE TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED AND QUEENSLAND Registered for posting as a Publication - Category B. TROLLEY \VIRE Journal of All • correspondence concerning TROLLEY — Australian Electric Transport Museum WIRE should be addressed to: — Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society The Editor, Trolley Wire, — Brisbane Tramway Museum Society P.O. Box 103, Sutherland. N.S.W. 2322. — Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society — South Pacific Electric Railway Editor: Laurence Gordon — Steam Tram Preservation Society Production: Lynne & Paul Simpson — Tasmanian Transport Museum Society Published by: South Pacific Electric Railway — Tramway Museum Society of Victoria Printed by: Lynaul Press, Panania — Western Australian Transport Museum Publication: February, April, June, August, October and December. DECEMBER, 1977 Subscriptions & Correspondence: Norm Chinn Vol.18 No. 6 Issue No. 173 Deadline next issue - 26th January, 1978 $ 1.00 (Recommended selling price.) All copy must be in the hands of the editor on or before this date. The opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the participating Societies. fojfun&tf... CONTENTS With this issue our silver Jubilee year comes City Section 27 to a close. In the February issue we promised "Joseph Stillman Badger" 3 some major articles to mark this occasion. Un­ fortunately this program remains incomplete, Museum Directory 31 due to many reasons, but mainly that our Museum Notes & News 16 contributors have to earn a living in other fields The Sydney Scene 29 and the time necessary to research and prepare "Thirty Years Ago" 14 major articles is not always available at the required occasions. The program will be con­ tinued in forthcoming issues. SEASONS GREETINGS Trolley Wire was originally printed by Fordagraph on butcher's paper cut to size by TO ALL OUR hand. We trust that readers will consider the READERS present production somewhat better. Page 1 of the first issue is reproduced on the back cover of this issue. SUPPORT YOUR MUSEUM FRONT COVER ATTEND WORK PARTIES The crew pose for their photo with Dreadnought 145, a product of the Brisbane Tramways Co's AND PARTICIPATE ! Countess Street Workshops. BCC collection. 2 TROLLEY WIRE DECEMBER, 1977 Joseph Stillman Badger, The Brisbane Tramway Company Limited and Queensland G.R. Ford This paper is the result of research carried To commence our story I must briefly re­ out on Joseph Stillman Badger for inclusion in iterate the history of tramways in Brisbane up the Australian Dictionary of Biography. till Badger's time. For iriore details I refer you to my paper, Development of the Horse Tram­ The title of the paper, Joseph Stillman ways of Brisbane, Journal of the Royal Histori­ Badger, the Brisbane Tramway Company cal Society of Queensland, Vol.IX No.5, Pp 115 Limited and Queensland, may appear an un­ - 137, Brisbane, RHSQ, 1974. usual choice, however, after reading this paper, I am certain you will join with me in saying After several years of struggle a private com­ that Badger's Tramway Company has influ­ pany, the Metropolitan Tramway and Invest­ enced our lives today more than any other ment Company, which included Sir Thomas company. I would even dare to say that perhaps Mcllwraith, late Premier of Queensland, Charles in some ways this influence even outstrips that of the World Wars. Despite their importance, Employees of the Brisbane Tramway Co. at the Badger and the Company have had little accurate opening of the electric system on 21 June, history written about them: Badger's life was very secretive as I found out when compiling 1897. J. S. Badger is in the center of the front his biography. row. 3 TROLLEY WIRE DECEMBER. 1977 Hardie Buzacott, late Post Master General and then managing director and editor of the Bris­ bane Courier, directors of the Queensland National Bank and others as directors, opened a horse tramway in Brisbane on 12 August, 1885. The Company was always in financial difficulties and never made a profit, despite the constant State Government and Local Author­ ity help handed out by various members of the Company in a position to do so. Even the Tramways Act of 1882, written by Charles Hardie Buzacott himself, and described as being one of the most favourable tramway acts in the world, as far as the operator was con­ cerned, was not able to help. After considerable losses and delays in electrification plans caused by depression and the 1893 floods, the Com­ pany resolved to sell out the tramways. To faci­ litate this a new company, the Brisbane Tram­ way Company Limited, was incorporated in Great Britain on 14 November, 1895. The MTICo had already sold out to the BTCo on 30 September, 1895. Although a new company with capital of .£250,000 in 5 shares, many of the share holders were the same. The principal instigators of the move were Sir Thomas Mc- Illwraith, Sir Malcolm McEachern, Andrew Mclllwraith, William Cain, F.B. Clapp and Harold Clapp. The first action by the Govern­ ment was taken on 1 October, 1895 when the time for Government/Local Authority pur­ they turned it into a demonstration system. chase was extended to 20 September, 1920. One of their best engineers, JOSEPH STILLM AN The sale was approved on 3 October and on 6 BADGER, was despatched to Brisbane to install February, 1896 the purchaser was approved of the system. Thus our man arrived in Brisbane in by the Gov^^nment. The purchase price was May or June 1896 and set up headquarters at £ 105,200 for a system valued a«l 31,700/17/2d. the Gresham Hotel. I have no intention of going into great detail Badger was born in De Ruyter, New York, on the Company structure, however this much U.S.A. on 28 November, 1851 the son of Joseph I will say. The new electric tramway was built A. Badger of Cazenovia, U.S.A. and Almyra E. and equipped by the Brisbane Tramway Con­ Coon of New York, New York, U.S.A. He is re­ struction Company. On 30 June, 1900 this ported to have attended high school firstly at company went into voluntary liquidation and Whitewater Wis. and then at Woodstock 111. a new company, the Brisbane Electric Tram­ He attended Hedding College, a small liberal ways Investment Company Limited took over arts college run by the Wesley an Church, in its responsibilities plus that of insurance also. Abingdon 111. Correspondence with the above The BTCCo held all but 7 of the shares of the institutions do not substantiate these claims BTCo. Only the BTCo was registered in Bris­ however. Badger started his employment in the bane, this being done on the 29 January, 1896, "telephone business" in 1882. In 1890 he was although several local people held shares in the employed by the engineering section of the rail­ BETICo. road department of the Edison Company (now The Brisbane Tramway Company immed­ General Electric) and was stationed in New iately commenced planning the electrification York City for about four years. In 1894 he was of the horse tramways and the construction of transferred to the Edison factory at Schenectady, new routes. The General Electric Company of New York. It was from here he left to take up USA was awarded the contracts for equipment his appointment in Brisbane. of the system and as this was one of the first In 1897 he accepted the offer of the Bris­ electric systems south of the Equator, and bane Tramway Company to stay on in Brisbane General Electric's first in the South Pacific, as Chief Electrical Engineer as Mr. J. J. Walklate 4 TROLLEY WIRE DECEMBER, 1977 had had to return to England because of failing even personally pay for the hospitalisation of health. By 1899 he was General Manager, a an employee or his family for an extended position he held until 1921. By the time of the period, if it were necessary. first World War he had been appointed Manag­ In the business world he was ruthless and ing Director. He is reported to have earned a would stretch the law to its utter limits and salary of i.2,000 p.a. but I cannot verify this beyond, if necessary, for the successful opera­ unlikely amount. He retired from this position tions of the tramways. At least 10% of all in February, 1922. While employed by the trackwork laid by the Brisbane Tramway Com­ BTCo he returned to the U.S.A. on several pany was laid without the necessary Order-in- occasions, 1914, 1919 and 1922 being some. Council ever being applied for. Little is known He finally returned permanently to the U.S.A. of his private life. in 1923 althoug he and Mrs. Badger did visit While living in Brisbane Badger lived at the Brisbane again about 1929. following addresses — Badger married twice. He wed Carrie Mabel Hewitt in Elgin, Illinois, U.S.A. in 1882. They 1897-1899 Miskin Street, Toowong had two sons, one named Richard Badger and the other possibly named C.E. Badger. Carrie 1900-1905 ?"Belleview", Norwood St. Badger died in Brisbane on 7 July 1909. Toowong. On 24 June 1914 he married Marion Stirling 1905-1912/3 Sherwood Road, Toowong (at the of Toowoomba, Queensland, in the U.S.A. He Toowong Tram Terminus - steps presumably met her on the ship going over. led up from the terminus to his Marion Stirling was born in 1880 (?) and was a backyard.) daughter of James Stirling of Taylor Street, 1914-191 5 Hargreaves Road, West End.
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