St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-05-09
OFFICERS :


Hon. LINUS NJ. CHILD, President.
]. H. ALLEY, Vice-President.
ANDREW robson, Sec. and Treasurer.
This Company has just been incorporated.
1t controls the best and most improved SyS-
tenn of propelling street cars by STORAGE
BATTERIES; it can be used with both the
overhead or conduit, and will control patents
that the COMING system for propeling street
cars is that of the STORAGE BATTERY.
This the Union Electric Car company
controls. 1t is no experiment, but an abso-
lutte certainty, and it is believed that theirs
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, a great amount of power is
power is held, and used over again, conSe-
quently 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
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 the ma
chinerv required to propel a car is exposed to
the dust, dirt and weather and the cogs be
come gritty on 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 so much unnecessa-
ry waste and expense, as 1t is not only taking
more power to 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 utmost care, and are
enclosed very securely in oil chambers, in
which they revolve, and the consequence is all
the wear and tear is avoided and but a small
proportion of power is required to run the
machinery
Arrangements are being made for putting
this system in Newport, X. l., and in Newton
and Danvers, Mass. The company furnish
line, and any r. r. Co. with fair roadbed
at once put the cars in service on 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 now offered at $500 per
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
Car Co. Stock at my agency are:
]. w. Ellis Banker, NJ Montpelier, Vt
w. A. Stowell, Supt- NJ. * w r. r. r., M ont
]. G Houghton, Treas. Natl Life Ins. Co.,
Montpelier, Vt;
Jas. T. Sabin, Sec. VT Mutual Fire Ins. Co.,
Montpelier, VT.
T. w. F. Washburn Asst. Treas Mutual Fire
ms. Co, Montpelier, VT.
j. G. Reed, Wholesale Tobacconist, BurIing-
Col. Geo. o. Tyler, Wholesale Lumber, Bur
E! G. Ridcout, No. 40 Broadway, Ny.
Walter NJ. Fleming, NJ. D., No. &c Madison
Ave, New York
Frank A. Mexican, Cashier, Nashua, n H.
Rev. H. F. Hill, Rector Christ Church Mont
pe1ier, VT.
Rev. I. f. Wright, Pastor Church of the Mes
siah, Montpelier, VT.
Rev. s. A. Parker, Bethel, VT.
Geo. w. Wing, Attorney and Treasurer Farm
ers' Trust Co, Montpelier, Vt
Chas. H. Heaton, Merchant, Montpelier, VI
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
FRANK Hill. RAsCOM, stock Broker,
aug1 Montpelier, VT.