| Show STREET CAR CAK SERVICE THE streetcar street car question is one of the local issues of the present A better system than that now in use to is a public demand we do not think any one diA disputes this it is very easy to find fault no doubt there are reasons tor for complaint against the street railroad its limited extent the indifference of r some ottiss drive drivers rathe the lack of elegance in its rolling stock etc but that a great deal of unnecessary growling is indulged in is evident to every impartial observer and it is further apparent that much of the grumbling crumbling to is worked up by certain parties tor for an interested purpose however this city needs an improved and more extended service and the supply is sure to come came to meet the demand but this is not a gr great t metropolis A city of thirty thou thousand inhabitants even with as goo good a pro speet for steady increase as this is will not yield a very satisfactory rey denue from a streetcar street car service unless it to is conducted on economical principles we do not wish the term economy to be coa confounded founded with parsimony A stingy policy is a very pyor 0 O r policy whether lit la private or pable public la affairs ui P an individual or to in a corporation but but there to is no vast fortune to be made out of street railroading here last just now and those who imagine there is will find out their mistake it if they have all tue lue opportunity they want for invest ment aud aad take advantage of it several systems have been talked of in place or 01 the bobtailed bob tailed mule car now in vogue among then them is the electric car it has been stated seated that this has proved a failure wh wherever irever it has teen been tried we think thick that is 13 a mistake it c id giving satisfaction iu in S sey V eral places sacramento is about kive give it a trial and a company is laying tracks lucre and rushing the work as last as the ibb warm tier will permit A large company is about to build works in san francisco for the manufacture of electric cars which it is believed will be adopted tri in all ali the principal places on the pacific coss iu tue the electric system huo had beau bueu introduced apperea apparently t y with entire here is an account aunt ol 01 if a trial trip winch which ap appeared io in the PoUa dylphia enquirer ot of the lach lust trial trip ot of car noa of the electric car Coka company pany of america was cluade yesterday over the lombard and soula sou til street ii ill way toe depot af 11 p ui and aad thir ty ly neveu miu cites in making the trip from tile the depot at twenty fifth and south streets back to the point ol of starting the car is twenty two feet t long elega elegantly upholstered and lighted wita incandescent lamps it I 1 la propelled oy two Reck enzina electric motors of eight horse power each capsule ca paule it need be to work at 4 fifteen horac power the car cau can be runa run a W if sixty three miles with but one enaney of the stora storage sto raae e cello one of willed which are placed under the chri seat of the cars card but in daily service it ib it ts oetter not to exact more than forty called while we tae best way Is to make a coage ge df ettlie which can be done iu two taree almea time saday a day roe rae inetor is wt wl at is known as a screw motion working into COK cog turns the wheels aud and moves the abe car tae weight of all the electrical apparatus and is aklo um pounds and that of the cr 9 pounds a total of A peed of twenty miles an hour is pos anle but the car will give the most service at about eight miles an hur hour A clity cabile power dincau incandescent light abo rays of which are intensified by a reflector is in as a headlight tue braked brake which is a powerful and efficient one operates opErate 8 on all 11 eleba wheels of the cur at once checking its mo mofid tiD in n the event of an accident to the drake there it id an dec clec arran gemeni uy dy which the car can be brought to an almost instant standstill the liae electrical gong which u warning the turow ig 1 off of t the tie brake and the manipulation of the sandbox sand box are ar all worked by the pressure of 0 the toot foot of the driver upon different levers which acre within easy teach reach on a the platform thus doing away with with the necessity hecei sity of his taking taking his eyes from off the road in front of him tte the cells to which the electric current 19 stored are of the type known as ais a 3 C 11 of the electrical accumulator companas Comp Compa anys pys make 11 the philadelphia press of the same date gives a long account of tile same system as applied to the northern part ot the town and says it has been in successful operation lor for some time in the southern part As to the c cost et the press says it is said it costs 14 to run a street car eighteen motive power the horab costing nearly 53 3 the electric car will only costs cost a little over ta 2 it is claimed by its advocates advona 0 and will thus thas be cheaper the theddis is of tue the same type run sometime some time ago on the spruce and pine streets railway but much larger on the first trip yesterday the car made the trip in thirty seven minutes to front street and back it runs very smoothly and easily and band starts without the slightest jerk As it bowled along sou sounding tiding its musical gong it was a source of much wonderment to the natives of lombard street As it passed ninth street the engineer sounded a derisive rat a tat at the car 61 yes remarked an enthusiastic passenger this begins bagias where the cable leaves off you can run rua either forward or backward and collisions are easily avoided the car obeys the slightest wish wash of its engineer and there to is no jolting or jarring lar ring the gong gone is rung by an electrical knob managed by the foot leaving the hands bands of the engineer free we do not pretend to say that this is the best beat system farahe needs of this city but if a radical change is to be effet effected ed it to is surely worth while for those wao who are specially interested to thoroughly investigate the electric system before the tae cnance takes place we believe cost has hag been the chief impediment in the way of the electric car system until quite recently that teat this objection will be if it has not already been overcome we are f folly al persuaded and we have no BO doubt as was expressed frequently in these columns ten years ago that electricity to is not only the cue light but the motive faiver of toe the future |
