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Show I AN ELECTRIC SUCCESS. : Successful Trips Made by the New ' Cable Cars In Denver It Could Be Introduced in Salt Lake. j ' The first really successful- attempt at i trial trips of the new cable car was made yesterday afternoon over a portion of the (track of the Denver Electric and Cable j Railroad on Fifteenth street,- says the Denver News of Wednesday., The car ran f. considerable distance and at the satisfactory rate of eight miles an . hour. A dynamo of 20-horse power ' furnishes the "motive power for the car. Quite a large number of prominent citizens took rides on the car yesterday. Professor S. H. Short, of the Denver "University, has worked very hard to make his invention a success, and his efforts seem to- be already al-ready reaping their reward. The. company com-pany have hoped to get their cars running in six weeks or a month. The car which is now being used in making trial trips is shaped and fitted up very much like an ordinary street car, and is fully as handsome hand-some in its style and appointments as any street car ever used in Denver. It was made by Woeber Brothers, of West Denver, The dynamo and other machinery ma-chinery which is located in a building near the corner of Fifteenth and Tremont streets.- and which is used to . nrnnel the car, was made by F. M. Davis, ot Denver, Den-ver, and all the plant and material used by the company will be of Denver manufacture. manu-facture. Ex-Governor John Evans, W. N. Byers, .Rodney Curtis, and other well known Denver gentlemen,are among the officers and directors of- the new company. com-pany. - Some further trips will be made by the car to-day, and large numbers of people will undoubtedly visit Fifteenth street just below the court house and between be-tween Tremont and Glenarm streets, and inspect the invention and its workings for themselves. |