The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22
OFFICERS.

ANDREW ROBESON. .Sec'y and Treas.
This Company has just been Incorporated
1t controls the best and most improved sys-
TEN of propeling street cars by STORAGE
BATTERIES; it can be used with both the
overhead or conduit, and will control pat
ents covering these points. Everybody adj
mits that the COMING system for pro-
polling street cars is that OF the STORAGE
BATTERY. This the Union Electric Car
Company now controls. 1t is no expert
ment, but an absolute certainty, and it is
believed that it will take the place of all
other systems of Electric Street Railroads
now in use.
When electric cars are brought to a stop
on heavy grades great amount of power
is required and is lost. By our method all
the power is held and used over again, con-
sequently saving is made in this direction.
1t is said that so far there is no system of
storage battery of sufficient power to propel
electric cars successfully, which is fact,
when used by those cars now in use, but by
our system so much less power is required
to propel car that the storage battery will
do the business successfully. The reason
is this:
| That by all other systems in use the ma
chinery required 10 propel car is exposed
| to the dust, dirt and weather, and the cogs
| become gritty on account of the adhesion
of fine dust and dirt which causes con-
tinued grinding and hard wear, and to
| grind this iron or steel requires an immense
| amount of power which, of course, is so
much unnecessary waste and expense, as it
| is not only taking more power to run the
car, but it is also wearing out the machinery
very fast. Our system overcomes all this,
as the cogs are fitted together with the ut
most care and are inClosed very securely in
oil chambers, in which they revolve, and
the consequence is all the wear and tear is
avoided and but small proportion of power
! is required to run the machinery.
| ARRANGEMENTS are being made for putting
this system in Newport, K l., and in New
ton and Danvers, Mass. The Company fur
nish and fully equip cars for any street rail-
way line, and any railroad company with
a fair road-bed can at once put the cars in
service on their road.
1t has been seen by many prominent and
practical street railway men, and is in
dorsed by them.
A block of only 5000 shares in the Union
Electric Car Company is now offered at
$500 per share.
All orders for Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont should be sent to the under
signed, who has control of these states.
Among the purchasers of Union Electric
Car Company stock at my agency are j.
w. Ellis Banker, Montpelier, Vt. W. A
Stowell, Superintendent NJ. & w. r. r. R..
Montpelier, VT; f. w. Morse, Cashier NJ.
& w. r. X. R., Montpelier, Vt. James I.
Sabin, Secretary Vermont Mutual Fire In
surance Company, Montpelier, VT; j. w.
f. Washburn, Assistant Treasurer Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Mont
pelier, VT; j. G. Reed, Wholesale Tobac-
conist, Burlington. Vt; Colonel George o..
Tyler, Wholesale Lumber, Burlington, Vt.
George P. Dewey, General Insurance, Port
land, Me-. Frank A. Mexican, Cashier,
Nashua, n. H.; Rev. Howard F. Hill,
Rector Christ Church, Montpelier, VT;
George w Wing Attorney, and Treasurer
Farmers Trust Company, Montpelier, VI;
Charles II. Heaton, Merchant, Montpelier,
Vt; f. l.. Eaton, Cashier First National
Bank, Montpelier, VT; f. A. Dwinell, Presi-
dent Farmers Trust Company, Montpelier,
VT. and several Others
Make checks or drafts payable to
FRANK H. BASCOM,