Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-10
QUITE A BIG AFFAIR.
That New Williamsburg Railroad May
be Traction or Electric.
1T WILL COME CLEAR DOWN TOWN,
Either by an Independent Line or Hitched
to Citizens Cars.
THE SOUTHSIDE TRACTION SCHEME

1t is as good as settled that Williamsburg
is to have direct connection with Pittsburg
by street railway. The route is about
completed, and those connected with the en-
terprise Sd y work will be commenced on the
road as soon as the charter is obtained. The
corporators of "The Pittsburg and Wilkins
burg Railway Company" are w. w. Young,
President of the Lawrence Bank; 2.
S. Urling. James Fitzsimmons, lawyer;
Erasmus Hoeveler East Liberty stock
dealer; W. G. Hastings, real estate dealer of
the East End, and John Perring. Ths capital
stock is So O.Gc0 divided into 10 shares 1t is
not expected that this sum will build the road
and equip It, but this Is merely nucleus, and
it is expected the remaining stock will be easily
obtained.
The route named in the application for the
charter starts at the intersection of Matilda
street with Penn avenue, just above the new
Allegheny cemetery gates, and extends from
Matilda street to the Morningside road, thence
to Stanton avenue, to Meadow street. to Fin
ley street, to Frankstown avenue, to Wood
street, Williamsburg, to Main street or Penn
avenue, to Water street, the Williamsburg
terminus.
ONE VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
is not vet OeClueu "0oLH0I bHo VIII
connect with the Penn avenue line at Matilda
street, or come to the city by separate route.
Those seen on the matter yesterday would not
talk on this part of the plan. They have not
approached the Penn avenue traction folk in
regard to connections but are waiting to get
their charter and routes under control. They
are considering running over the lines of the
Citizens Company TO Pittsburg; again, trans
ferirng passengers, and if no arrangements of
l,,,No haxra
advisement three different routes from Matilda
street into the city. They would divulge
nothing in regard to these rontes.
The section the road will run through has
not yet been tapped by any road, is some dis
tance from the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad. and
will open up large tract The route is a cir
cuitous one not touching the territory OF the
road and Stanton avenue have large tracts of
land now given up to farming, yet well suited
for residences. W. W. Young and Mr.. Has
tlncs own real estate along the line of the road,
and Mr. Fitzsimmons also owns property there.
AN ELECTRIC STORAGE SYSTEM.
The motive power has not been decided on,
but it will probably be the new electric storage
system now being perfected by New Workers,
and if this should not be a success the road
will adopt the cable system, or possibly some
other electric scheme. The road will be about
five miles long to its intersection with the Penn
avenue line, and about seven miles long, should
it be extended to the city.
The men having hold of the enterprise have
enough capital among them TO complete the
road without soliciting stock elsewhere. Mr..
Young will PROBABLY be Secretary and Treas
urer. but the other officers have not been de-
cided Mr.. Hastings has taken very
active part in the preparations so far. The
route and plan of the road have only been
under consideration two months, and nothing
was said of it in public until it was necessary
TO advertise the application for charter.
ON THE soUTHsIDE.
Recently THE DESPATCH printed the plans
of a company which will build a bridge over
the Monongahela river from Ross street. 1t
was then stated that it was for new traction
railroad. This road was chartered yesterday.
The company is called the Southside Traction
Railway Company and has a capital stock of
100000 The stockholders are James A. Nc
Dewitt, of Lancaster. who holds 1,S00 of the 1000
shares; Joshua Rhodes, A. NJ. Neeper, A f.
Keating, John F. Steel and T. P. Given, of
Pittsburg. The line will be single track, eight
miles long, beginning on Water street, at
the Southwestern terminus of the Trans
verse Passenger Railway; thence along
Water to Ross street, to South First street,
across the Monongahela river: thence to Nc
Kean street TO South Third street. to Bing-
ham, to South Seventeenth street, to Sidney,
to South Eighteenth, 20 Jane to South Twenty
ninth street, and return to the place of begin
ming by the same route. The branches are as
follows: First, leaving the main line at South
Eighteenth and Sidney streets, thence by Sid
ney to South Twenty-second, to main line at
Jane; second. leaving main line at Ross and
Water streets, thence TO First avenue, thence
TO Wood street, using 200 feet of the tracks of
the Transverse Passenger Railway Company to
form circuit to Second avenue, thence by
Second avenue to Grant street, to First ave
nue. to Ross street, to Water street, at the
main line.
OAKLAND AND SQUIRREL HILL,
The directors of the Pittsburg Traction Rail-
way held a meeting yesterday and accepted the
ordinance giving them the right to construct
an electric railway feeder along Atwood, Bo-
quet and Ward streets. in Oakland. The con-
tracts for the grading and paving will be let
next week,
Yesterday Messrs. P. A B. widener and w.
l. Elkins, of Philadelphia, accompanied by the
local officers of the Traction company and some
of the directors of the Squirrel Hill Railway
started from the power house in Oakland and
went over the line of the Squirrel Hill Rail-
way. Much satisfaction was expressed at the
manner in which the work has already been
done, and the various gentlemen of the traction
company were much pleased with their excur-
sion.
calls for its completion by the middle of Oc-
tober, but the contractors say the work will be
finished by the middle of September. One of
the directors of the road to-day said: THE
tention to put in switch and run our cars
right into the city by means of the traction
road. The cars will be run on our road by
means of an electric motor, until the traction
line is reached, when the cars will be coupled
on to the cable cars. This will be an excellent
arrangement both for the traction road and our
own. We will have five cars and the trips will
be made every ten minutes over the three
miles of our road from Fifth avenue to the
cemetery On each car will be placed two Is
horse power motors, which will develop enough
power to haul an extra car not equipped with a
motor; this last car will be run as trail car on
the traction road. 1t is the intention TO ex-
tend the Squirrel Hill road down to the Wilk-
Insburg Valley in the near future"