Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-03-17
Palace Cars ON Street Railroads.


The Third Avenue Street Railroad
Company is building specimen palace
car, and proposes to place it upon the
line, whether the bill on the subject,
which is now before the Legislature,
passes or not. If the bill does not pass,
the car will be kept subject to charter
for excursions. The view of President
Robert Squires on the subject is as fol-
lows: "There' are great many people
who would like extra accommodations
on the street railroads. We will furnish
them. 1t will involve an expense Of
about $4,000 to build twenty or twenty
five palace cars. We propose to have
them of the same general style as those
on the Hudson River and Central Rail
roads. They will be carpeted and fitted
with revolving chairs, ice water, and
everything else that is necessary to make
them perfect. Every passenger, as q
matter of course, will have a seat to him
self, and nobody will be admitted into
the car after all the seats are occupied,
consequently there will be no crowding
and none Of the inconvenience which
unavoidably exist now on t he" ordinary
street car. Provision will be made for
thirty passengers in each car. Care will
be taken to provide against accidents.
There will be one entrance to the car
that will be at the rear, and the. step by
which to get on will be closed when the
door is shut. OF course we could not run
these palace cars from Harlem to the
City Hall for the ordinary rate Of fare,
which, with thirty passengers at SIX
h. IL, 1,o,,II 1n ny1lNy Gl Q0 40
we propose to charge ten cents in addl-
ton to the regular fare. In winter we
run lS0 cars daily, and in summer 200.
A car leaves the depot every minute.
Thus we have a car opposite every block
along the whole line simultaneously.
These palace cars will in no way inter-
fere with the Others. There will be one
of them at every ten or fifteen blocks" "
-N6D York Tribune, -sta.
FIR BREAKING GAR WHEELS AND AxLEs.---
The scientific men on the other side of
the ocean, who are investigating the
causes of railway accidents from the
breaking of car axles and wheels, have
reached results altogether contrary to
the generally received opinion. Dir.
Joule, Sir w. Fairbairn, and Mr.. Spence,
all of. whom have given a great deal OF
attention to the subject, declare tnat
cold and frost, so far from increasing
the brittleness Of iron or steel, render
them more elastic. Mr.. Spence submit
ted cast iron at sixty degrees Fahren-
heit and the same pieces at zero to a
practical trial; and found the resistance
greater at the lower temperature. Sir
W. Fairbairn finds that change OF, tenn
perature makes little or no difference
in the strength of wrought iron, and
DR.. Joule says that if there is differ
ence it. is in favor of the lower tempera-
ture. The last named investigator says
that the accidents from broken axles
arise, not by the changes OF tempera-
ture, but from the neglect of railway
companies, to submit wheels, aXles and
all other parts Of the rolling stock to
practical and sufficient test before using
them. Sir William Fairbairn believes
that the danger of broken tires arises
from the practice of heating them to a
dull red heat and shrinking them on to
the rim of the wheels, instead of turn
ing the rim of the wheel and the inside
of the tire to a standard gauge, accu-'
rately calculated to give the required
amount of tightness with large margin
of strength. The error seems to have
arisen from the fact that several accl-
dents of this nature have occurred dur
ing uery cold weather. t
ADRIAN's VILLA For SALE.-A droll
advertisement has appeared lately.
Adrians villa has been offered for sale,
not as a ruin of worldwide fame, but as
an ordinary olive orchard and vineyerd;
and the price asked is simply the prln1-
cipal of the interest which the products,
wine and oil, bring. 1t is divided into
two parts; the first comprises the farm
and casino; on this are the beautiful
expresses, contemporaneous with Had
rian. Under their shade may have
walked that beautiful, naughty but
clever woman, his empress and wife, Sa-
bina, to whom he owed his. greatness,
and who, like Adrian's favorite Anti
nous, sought death at her own hands, so
bored were they with the pedant empe-
ror. These famous old expresses are
counted as nothing in the sale. Four
teen thousand scudi is asked for the
| first division The second part com
prises the ruins of the toy antiquities of
| the dull. conceited monarch-the vale
of Tempe, &c.-and Duke Braschi, the
owner of the famous place, in which
were found the most celebrated bits OF
sculpture known to us moderns, asks
| the price of 1000 scudi for the second
| part-lS,0O0 scudi only in all.--Rome
| Letter IN tie Boston 1dUertiSer.