Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-08
C0NEY- ISLAND CARS.
A NUMBER OF THEM LEASED FOR Tx.
POSITION USE.
ihsy VIII Be Drawn by Locomotives and
Run from Harrison Street to.
the Ppir~Orounda

The matter of transportation to the
Expostion-Grounds is settled.
The Coney-Island trains will be run
and, II is believed, will furnish abundant
accommodations for the large crowds il
little patience is manifested and every
oody does not try to 60 at once.
There are TO be two of these trains of
nVe coaches each and two additional
coaches will be held in reserve to be pnt
INTO service in case OF an emergency.
The coaches, which are very comfortable.
are capable Of carrying about one hum
dred and twenty each, and trip will be
made every four or six minutes, so that
trains will leave each terminus every two
or three minutes. According 10 this
schedule about 1900 persons can be car
ried TO the grounds every hour.
Besides this the Marshall-Street Line.
1t completed in time, and it now looks
as If 1t viii be, viii carry a great many
people.
A CLOSED DEPOT.
Mr.. Barry, of New York, one OF the
directors of tho Union Passenger rail-
way, and General Manager Burt had a
conference yesterday morning at ExpOsi-
ton headquarters with President Starke
and others of the managers to arrange
matters with reference to the running Of
these Coney- Island trains. Colonel Cut
| shaw, City Engineer, was present by in
vitatlon. An agreement was reached
which was entirely satisfactory to all
present and which will be both accepta-
bic and safe 10 the public. 1t was decided
that the trains, instead of running into the
grounds, as formerly proposed, shall
stop just in front Of the main entrance
on Broad street, Guard fences are TO be
built here on both sides of the track and
there Is to be covering, the whole
making awell guarded depot, where pas
sengers viii be landed under shelter
from the weather and protected from the
danger Of collisions with trains.
THE WORK.
Mr.. Goolrick, OF New York, who has
the contract for building this branch
from Hancock street to tho grounds, is
in the city, and viii commence work as
soon as the weather opens. The timbers
have all been received and distributed
along the route, and the rails will reach
here Tuesday by steamer. Manager
Burt, who has had great deal of expert
ence andisgood authority in such matters,
says that the track can be gotten in
readiness and be put III operation within
fifteen days with average fall weather.
There VIII be double track from where
connection Is made with the street-cars
TO within o short distance of the closed
depot or station at the gate, and here
there will he only one track. This part
Is made single for prudential reasonsand
to take up as little Of the street at this
point as is necessary.
The track of the Electric Line on Han
cock street from Clay to Broad will be
made double. as will also that OF the city
railway on Broad from Laurel TO Harri-
son; so that there may be no delay in
the street-cars making thorough cOnnec-
ton with the Coney-Island train, which
will not come further east than Harrison
street. From this point to the grounds
is very nearly mile.
The engines to be used are regular To-
comotiyes Of small size They possess
a greater amount of power, and Will be
very little more noisy than the dummies.