The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-11-25
tphi,ade,pn,s Times,

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able difference In their appearance. This
Ia the removal OF the back platform. In an
experience OF one week, all but day, In
running the coaches, the company has been
impressed with the necessity OF making sew.
eral changes. not In the principle but In the
details OF the patent, and, like the Chinese
In san Francisco, the platforms must 20.
II Il proper 10 state that they are not part
OF tie Herdic patent. neither Peter Herdic
nor the coach company having anything TO
do with originating The idea, that credit be-
longing 10 The contractor. who, after bali
dozen Of the coaches bad been constructed
withou; platforms, in accordance with the
original plan, suggested this appeudage In
the rear as making II easier for people to
get 10 and out. But the company are now
satisfied that they are not only an incum-
brance, but cause OF annoyance 10 the
company In their efforts TO restrict the num-
Der OF passengers TO eight in each coach.
"The objection TO this back PLATFORM"
said an officer 81 The company yesterday,
"iS that IL Temps persons 10 get on after
the car Il full, end, furthermore, 1t adds
greatly 10 the weight OF the coach. 1t
makes n difference OF at least three hun
dred pounds % the weight"
The work OF removing The platforms has
already been begun and is being pushed
vigorously. Another Improvement Is being
made also, which is worthy Of mention.
The Eureka steel aXles Of the coaches are
being replaced by axles Of forged iron,
which are regarded as ten times more dura-
bic.
| SUCCESS BEYOND EXPECTATION.
The company, by all accounts, are greatly
elated over the success their enterprise has
met With at the hands of the public thus far.
cit has exceeded all our expectations"
said the aforementioned officer Yesterday.
"Tbe future contracts Of the company will
be for coaches 10 seat sixteen persons, and
TO be drawn by two horses instead Of one.
j. e.. Brill & Co.. the car-builders, have per-
fected the plan for such 4 coach, and will
begin the work OF construction immediate
ly. They will be put Oh the streets as fast
as they can be made. Our idea is 10 have at
least l20 coaches on North and South Broad
street ana East and West Market street.
OF the single-horse coaches we have now
about 60, though only half that number Is
running, the others being not quite
ready yet. With these sixty single
horse coaches and sixty double.horse ones
we will have enough to thoroughly equip
Marke, ard Broad streets. The others will
be put on other streets wherever there NAV
be demand for them. Fulton. Walker a.
a plan for a two-horse coach for u, but they
are engaged Just now in substituting new
aXles for the original ones on our single
coaches. and cam It at once proceed to The
work Of building. John Server Is prepar-
ing running.ge tr for the bodies OF the vehl-
cles 10 be butt by Brill q Co., who decline
to interfere with that portion OF the con-
structiou, which belongs legIlimately 10 the
builders OF ordinary coaches"
COACH LINE PROSPECTS.
These coaches are all 10 be constructed
under the patent OF Mr.. Herdc, who has
licensed the above firms 10 build Tor the
PHILADELPHIA company. in the next TWO
weeks il is expected the additional thirty
coaches will baVe been put on the streets,
which will double the present accommoda-
lions. After that the twOhOr>e coaches
will be put on p fast as they can be con-
strucied. AS to the rumorS that other COM
plnies are about TO start similar enter
prise, nothing tgngible seems 10 have been
realized in that direction up TO the present
time. Chief Baldwin say no licenses nave
been applied for outside the present compa-
nv, though inquiries have been made OF MN
"a to whether he would interpose any OBJ
lection in the event OF such application.
The inquirers, ii is believed, entertained an
Eleventh streets. but so far there is nothing
definite. The Ilerdic company laugh at the
idea. They say such reports are fostered
and sent forth BY the street-car companies
! and their opponents generally with view
of soaring them, but that they do not scare
The company explains why they have not
been more fully able TO meet the pubic
demand in the matter OF the supply OF
coaches by stating that the action OF
CHER Baldwin IN refusing them licenses
stopped all their plans for over six weeks:
In the workshops where they had
contracted for large numbers OF single
and double. horse coaches they were obn9ed
TO countermand their orders and boid Gil
until the result of the litigation consequent
upon Commissioner Blldwin's acti0n was
lasceriained. Now they are doing all they
can TO make up for lost time. The way IN
which the public has received the new en-
terprise has surprised its projectors ana de-
lighted them greatly. The common cry
among them now is. "Wby didn't we think
of tins before?" They have leased the old
North Broad. Street Theatre, formerly Cros-
sey's, directly opposite their stables, ana
will use it as a repar-sbop, having already
taken possession and begun the wsrk OF NJ
ting il up preparatory to equipping IL with
machinery and forges
Four men returning In wagon from
funeral on saturday evening near Ewing,
Ind, were struck by train on The ONO
and Mississippi railroad and every one OF
then killed. They attempted to cross tue
track, though the train was approaching at
: the rate Of forty miles an hour. The horse
became frightened, and, baking on the
crossing, the wagon was struck and shat
tered TO atoms. One OF the men lived seve-
raj hours, and was able to tell how the ca
lamity occurred.
The Delaware beei-sugar factory is now
working up about fifty tons OF beets per
day. The beets produce from TO IA per
cent. of saccbarlne matter, ana are paid Tor
at tie rate Of SO so to 81 per ton. II Is ex-
peel ed that The factory will yield this season
$50 900 pounds Of raw sugar, 2ov,o0O
pounds OF molasses, and 100 tons OF pup,
which is now selling at 81 per ion.