Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-20
FOUR MORE CARS
10 BIZ PUT ON THE STREET OAR LINE
TODAY.
Hatsrs hkodaed Yesterday, With s"d
Esas-htEvisu With kr. John
n Sweeney.

Yesterday the Street Railway Company
placed q heater in one Of their cars IS an
experiment, and it worked like a'chaim'
making the interior Of the conveyance
vart1f and esmfortable, and demonstrating,
70 the perfec. satisfaction Of the PASSENGER
that it was 9 big Improvement over the
old straw-littered floor 70 which the
Wheeling public has been accustomed ior
yesrs b.ek. Heaters will be at once
placed in all the CARS, and hsDceforth rid
ing in the carr, in cold weather, will be
shorn of some of its terrors. The re-
organized companies seem to be deter
minued to improve the service in every
possible way, and the public will not be
slow to appreciate their Efforts Last even.
ing Mr.. John NJ. Sweeney was asked II
there was anything new regarding the
GRAFTON of the companies. He said:
1--WE are busily engaged in perfectiDg you
plans for the improvement of the street car
service, and are making progress in that
direction. As Q temporary means to
this end, we will put four ad'
6itionsI csrs on the line to-mor-
row. I want to show you how far the
street railway service OF Wheeling has been
behind what it ought to be. The average
of the street car companies of America Is ~
ndes per inhabitant psr year. Boston
stands at the hesd, with 225 rides per 10
habitant per year. That city hiss ths best
~,sryiee in America. Wheeling stood pretty
nearly at the foot, with, under the old
horse car service, only 25 rides per inhaoi'
tan per wear. With the advent CT the
%-Iectric service, the proportion in.
~c,sss.;I to SO rides per ~inhabitsnt, but
tb;s increass was due solely to the increas'
ID si1s IF The o.. The method Of run
nirs was the sane, n>t there couiG os IN. nS
very substantial increase, - "' mrit;''
fact that the new cars were lars>' ~.
plied some Of the evils Of the old horse -
and kept rs back. Stops were necessarily
more frequent, and when one car wss De.
layed, on the present switch system. ell
were delayed. The only way out Of the
difficulty ives O double track road,
and that Is what we propose to put
in operation. 1t is demanded alike
by the public interests and our own.
wheeling is naturally a good street
railway town, and with proper service, Its
proportion of rides per irhsbitsnt would
stand very high. Whist the management
proposes to do now, IS soon as the weather
and other circumstance, will permit, Is 10
continue the double track lines through
the southern end Of the city, put on addi-
tiopal carr, and BY iunuing them up Mar
ket and down Main street We will secuIe
results which I am sure will meet with
the hearty appreciation of the public"
SIS it true, Mr.. Sweeney, that Pittsburs
people are very largely interested in the
1eorgsbized c~ompanies?"
mo, sir. With one exception the stock
holders are Wheeling people, and that e1-
ceptiou is not a large interest There is nc
outside influences at work, despite all the
ruuors 10 the contrary. The r~eorganized
companies are made up Of Wheeling PEG.
pie, home cspital is invested, and we pro,
pose to better the condition Of the city,
while ct the same time making the street
car ~Eervice n success.D