Show iTS A BIG SUCCESS The Electric Street Railway audis aud-is Successful Operation TRIAL TRIPS MADE YESTERDAY Elegant and Luxurious CarsNo Finer In the WorldThe Conductor CheckThe first Fare PiId General The second trial of the electric street railway yesterday was much more satisfactory satis-factory than the first notwithstanding th smoothness and evenness with which the car ran on Thursday evening In the ear morning a car was started out and several trips from the power house t Thirteenth East then to the Rio Grand Western depot were made The success attained was very satisfactory not only to I Messrs Armstrong Read and others but also to the enterprising citizen who marks the advent of the electric railway as a big step forward in the march of progress There was the same intense curiosity as on the former occasion and crowds of I lEOltr LINED TiE ST1 CETS over which the car passed At 3 p m a number of invited guests took seats in No C at the power house and with Electrician Lewis at the drivers post and Mr Jones as conductor a ride over the First South street was had Excellent time was made from tho power house to Thirteenth Eat street and on the return the grade being rather steep the car fairly flew and in perfect safety Along the route the pedestrian paused lookedat the car and its occupants and smiled broadly the servant ser-vant girl drawing a bucket of water from the hydrant placed her arms akimbo and showed her teeth until un-til the car vanished from sight the mistress mis-tress of the house waved a handkerchief from the parlor window and as the newfangled new-fangled thing passed several points it was loudly cheered by knots of men who had assembled in expectation of witnessing the scene On every hand there were expressions expres-sions of congratulation and wishes for sue cess for the enterprising inaugurators of the new system THERE WEI E A FEW DITCHES it is true but these are such as might be expected to occur and there are none that cannot be easily remedied As a whole so far as present experience goes the system must be voted an entire success and i a paralj zer for the mossbacks who have pooh poohed the idea since its inception and who have had no good will towards either the road or its promoters GCars will be run out daily from not on but passengers will not be carried for several das yet it being desirable that the drivers if such they may now be terme should obtain a thorough knowledge know-ledge of the principle upon which they are manipulated This knowledge however is very easily acquired but should a car for any reason stop it will be the most natural thing in the world for the driver to reach for his switchturner ejaculate Getup up f itb there you blank blank blamed fools and make a savage swipe at the air THE cAlls ARE LtiUriOL The cars to be used on the electric line I are the best that Stephenson has ever turned out of his shop They are sixteen feet long inside and will set twentyfour persons comfortably besides giving standing room for fifty moie on a pinch That relic of barbarism please put jour fare in the box has disappeared andeach one will be provided with a conductor In each is placed an indicator connected with which is a cord passing along the car near the conductors ductors head Whenever he collects a faro ho is supposed to pull this cord and each time a degree on the dial is recorded Five incandescent lamps of candle power are placed on each car three inside and one on each platform In addition to these there are the regulation coal oil lamps The metal work on the cars is for the most part of brass and is susceptible of a nigh polish The seats are neatly up holstered and the best quality of car mating ma-ting will cover the floors The windows arc large the glass being of most excellent quality No finer cars are to be found in any city in the world and Salt Lakers generally should feel proud that they have in their midst men of energy and enter entr prise sufficient to inaugurate and carry to a successful issue such a magnificent enterprise i enter-prise TIE FIST FATE PAID During the trip someone suggested that the first fare had not jet ben collected and Mr Whitaker of the Ga nor fire alarm company was the first to put up his nickel he was quickly followed bj Theo Bruback and a Mr Ford came third THE U53UISD I UMO1 S AND IDEAS The absurd rumors and ideas that have gained currency during the past few weeks are numerous and in answer to the queries of a HERALD reporter yesterday Mr Lewis said there was really no more danger in riding on an electric car than there was in any other that the passenger in the car or on the platform was just as safe from the effects of electric shocks as he was from the heel of a mule Regarding the possibility of the car attracting lightning one is safer on the ear during a thunder storm than in the street each car being fitted with a patent lightning arrester which carries the dangerous fluid into the ground or into the rail and from thence t the ground TIE EFFECT ox THE TELEPHONE In regard t the effects on the telephono hero are various reports Some sav tho induction is so great as t materially interfere inter-fere with the use of the instrument others that tho effect is unpleasant but not ser uslj detrimental and others that but I little if any difference is noted A HollAnD representative who yesterday tested the question for himself detected a slight racklmg sound but did not consider that it had a very bad effect Railway Construction in tho South One of the most encouraging features of encourgng railroad building in the west to day is the fact that all the roads which are under con truction or which have been projected are all pointing into the southwest and there is a race among them to see which ono will reach the promised land first Within the past three or four years the mileage of railroads built in the southern states is far in excess of that of the north stts rn or western states and to show just how the wind Is blowing it is well t mention men-tion the fact that Jay Gould i quoted with saying that all the great east and west trunk lines necessary t handle the transcontinental trans-continental traffic have been built and are new in operation and consequently the only profitable field that is left for railway enterprise is in the south a vast portion of whose rich J f remains undeveloped Not Mr n alone but other leading railway men predict that within the next ten or fifteen j ear millions of capital will be invested in the south and that the railway way system of this section of the country will be as complete if not more perfect than that which has developed tho maY resources of the north and west A Run to Save a Wreck About the fastest time ever made by a train on the Southern Pacific Railroad was made says the Eagle Lake Canoe by an engine running t Ramsey on last Sunday morning Tho operator had orders for passenger tram No 20 to wait at Ramsey for a freight tram coming from Alleytown but failed to give them t the trainmen and some minutes passed before the mis take was discovered and a wreck seemed certain Engineer Savage whose engine was standing in the yard said ho could overtake the passenger tram at Ramsey deliver the orders and save the wrec t Accordingly ho set out with nothing but his engine making the six miles t the siding In four and a half minutes running at the rate of eighty five miles per hoar This was a perilous run but it was that or a wrcck and Engineer Savage is not the I man to see a smashup if he can prevent it |