The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-28
THE ELECTRIC ROAD.
The Reported Sale Of Stock is
Emphatically Denied.
CARS WILL BERUNNING IN WEEK
The Handsome Cars to be Used on the Line
The Power House and Boiler Room
Proposed Extensions.

The Tribune yesterday stated that Mr..
L. w. McCune, of the street railway COM
pany, had sold large block of his stock to
Marcus DAILY, of Butte, Montana Few
believed the report, as it is known that Mr..
McCune is SO great an enthusiast on the
electric railway enterprise that he would
not part with his stock for love nor
money, but as every lie calls for
reputation, HERALD reporter went to
the trouble to hunt up Mr. McCune yester-
day morning and get his version of the
story. ''Tnere is positively nothing in it,
said Mr.. McCune. 1T seems that some
crank had circulated reports to tine effect
that Marcus DAILY owns me body and soul,
and this story is probably the outgrowth
of those perversiOns. You can say that
the story is utterly without foundation"
Mr.. ARMSTRONG ALSO DENIES.
Before the reporter had seen Mr.. Nc
Cune he met Mr.. Armstrong, the president
of the company, and questioned him about
the reported sale That gentleman was
quite as decisive in his denial of the rumor
Il have not seen Mr.. McCune today said
he, but | can assure you that there is
nothing in the story. Mr. McCune would
not think of such thing as selling his
street car stock, and it would not be pos
oAOAS AOA ALL W Wv ~ h4IuOub MY EuON-
ing it."
THE ELECTRIC PLANT.
On invitation of Mr. Armstrong the re-
porter accompanied him to the cOmpany's
property on Second East street to see the
mammoth electric plant that is now al
most ready for use. Nearly all the ma
chinery is now in place, and it is expected
that steam will be upby the 1st Of August,
and it is hoped to have few
CARS RUNNING ON SATURDAY NEXT.
The power house is SOx4O feet. On either
side of the rear end is u 800 horse power
engine, and between the two the i'm
mense fly wheel. fourteen feet in diameter
and weighing twenty-five tons. In the
foundation alone for this machinery fifty
cords of rock were used. In the front part
OF the building, on either side of the main
doorway, are situated the two huge dy-
names, from which the various lines are
supplied. At the rear of the power house
is the big boiler room, 40X50 feet, in which
will be situated three large batteries of
boilers, two of which are now ready for
use.
TIRE CARS TO BE USED
on the line are not only the handsomest
ever seen in this part Of the country but
are as fine as any now in use in any yart of
the world. They are finished in cherry
and mahogany, with upholstered seats and
brass mOuntings Each is supplied with
tIr5c small incandes; MT lights, which will
be supplied with electricity from the
dynamo underneath the car. BY reversing
the current and applying the brakes car
running at the rate of twenty miles an
hour can be brought to a standstill by the
time it has run six feet, which is consider
ably shorter than a hOrse-car could be
stopped, when the ANIMALS are on the trot
EXTENSIONS TO THE STREET RAILWAY.
will now be made as rapidly as possible
The lines now running on the various
streets will be run to the end of the same
and then the company will begin ruTning
lines across the town from north to south.
First East Street will be one of the first to
receive attention, next to that q line will
probably be run from the Denver and Rio
Grand depot, north to the Nineteenth
ward. There will be ten-minute service
on the electric lines and all the lines where
the mules are retained will enjoy doubling
of the present service.
TIE ELECTRIC LINES
first in operation will be the First South
street line and those leading from that to
the various depots and the Twenty first
ward line. 4 force Of men will be con
stautly employed from now on and the
other lines will be equipped with electricity
from time to time until there is thirty miles
of rapid transit road in operation.