St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-05-30
THE UNION
Electric Car Co.
Capital, Sl,OOO,OOO. Par, 1926

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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
Hon, LINUS NJ. CHILD, pres; of law firm of
Child & Powers, ~ fremont Row, Boston.
ANDREW robson, Sec. and Treasurer.
E. II. HEWINS, Gen. mgr, No. Is p. o. So.
A. L. RICHARDS, formerly Gen. mgr Cam
,,b 6T1d df HoTse R r. Watertown, Mass
G. H DREW, No fremont ST., Boston.
j. E RUGG, late Supt. Highland Horse r. r.,
Boston Highlands.
This Company has just been incorporated
tenn of propelling street cars by STORAGE
BATTERIES; it can be used with both the
covering these points. Everybody admits
that the COMING system for propelling street
This the Union Electric Car company now
controls. 1t is no experiment, but abso-
lutte certainty, and it is believed that theirs
viii take the place of all other systems of
Electric Street Railroads now in use.
When electric cars are brought to stop on
heavy grades, great amount of power is
required and is lost. By our method all that
power is held, and used over again, conse
quent1y saving is made in this direction
1t is said that so far there is system of
storage battery of sufficient power to propel
Electric Cars successfully, which is a fact,
when used by those cars now in use, but by
our system, so much less power is required to
propel that the storage battery will do
the business successfully. The reason is this:
That by all other systems in the
ch1nery required to prOpel a car is exposed to
the dust, dirt and weather and the cogs be-
come gritty account of the adhesion of
fine dust and dirt, which causes continued
grinding, and hard wear, and to grind this
iron or steel requires an immense amount of
power, which of course is much unnecessa-
ry waste and expense, it is not only taking
more power to run the car, but it is also
wearing ont the machinery very fast Our
system overcOmeS all this, the cOgS
fitted together with the utmost care, and
enclosed 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, r. l., and in Newton
and Danvers, Mass. The company furnish
and fully equip cars for any Street Railway
line, and any R. r. Co. with a fair roadbed
can at once put the cars in service their
road.
1t has been seen by many prominent and
practical Street Railway men and is endorsed
a block of only 5000 shares in the Union
Electric Car Co, is offered at $15.OOpe
share.
All orders for Maine, New Hampshire and
Vermont should be sent to the undersigned,
who has control of these states.
Among the purchasers of the Union Electric
j. w. Ellis, Banker, Montpelier, VT.
w. A Stowell, Supt. NJ. & w. r. R. r., Mont
pelier, Vt.
Montpelier, VT.
Jas: T. Sabin, Sec. VT. Mutual Fire ms. Co.
Montpelier. VT.
J. w. F. Washburn. Asst Treas Mutual Fire
ms. Co, NJ ontpelier Vt.
]. G. Reed, Wholesale TobacconiSt Burling-
ton, VT.
Col Geo. o. Tyler, Wholesale Lumber. Bur
lington, VT.
Geo. P. Dewey, Genr ms, Portland. Me.
Frank A. Mexican, Cashier, Nashua, N. H.
Rev. H. F. Hill, Rector Christ Church, Mont
peler, VT.
Hiram Atkins, Montpelier VT.
Geo. w. Wing, Attorney and Treasurer Farm
ers Trust Co. Montpelier, VT.
Chas. H. Heaton, Merchant, Montpelier, VT.
F. L. Eaton, Cashier First National Bank.
F. A. Dwinell, President Farmers Trust Co,
Montpelier, Vt, and several others
Make checks or drafts payable to
aug Montpelier, VT.