The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-03


blame. and place The consequences Of the
present condition of the above company to
who they properly belong. Yours truly.
signed T. j. FARRELL.
Superintendent.
=. S.-A copy Of this has been sent 90 the
local press.
Mr. GREENE 5 LETTER.
The letter Of Lieutenant Greene. to
which the above communication Of Mr..
Farrell refers, is here given:
RICHMOND. Va. september Sd, ESQ.
.Ddrcr Pi.siai, Dr.. cuy:
Dear Replying 10 your favor as the
3Oth. have 10 say that ! was not correctly
quoted ih Yesterday. state IN 80 far a~ the
sentence about cc,--po0l had any relation co.
the management of the road The
Gentleman who talked with me OBJ
my return from Judge IiXhugh
has got my sentences mixed. A.
f. the management of the Richmond Union
Passenger Railway Company. / did mos
qiiote any individual. obviously. as Ind no
means of knowing personally the c0mpr-
tency or incompetency of amy one in0i-
yidull The management as "a Wt0if. how
ever. can readily Doe judged by am outsider.
and il was of this spoke.
A. far rs Won personally are concerned.
the only criticism that my company oi my
self have made (and have heard the same
criticism nfv times since / have bood here
this ~meD has been that YOU did not have
competent men under You superintendent.
&c.) vino could carry oui orders properly.
Yours truly.
signed =. u. GREENE.
A MONKEY AND PARROT TIME.
Speakiug about the Sprague motor
system yesterday Captain Pizzini said:
Il can tell this much: That the record,
will show that the service on the Rich
mond Union Passenger Railway was
nearly as bad one year ago as 1t is 10.
day." He then read the following ex
tract from a letter written July 2Jth.
1885. by Mr.. W. j. Burt. the general
manager, to Mr.. SPrague;
" M Dear Npr0gUe.
I'VE are having. ms lie parrot -aid'
HI of time. From ten to fifteen ears a
dav being hung up. brushes turning over.
arinaturc- giving out. etc.. etc. \ long
story if had paperto extend H..
II is no GOOD thing 20 get ont that so many
cars are being hung up. and pal-roli- in-
creasing from SlJO per week 10 $50 Tor mop
work
wRAT MR.. sPRAGUE SAID.
Here is an extract from remarks made
by Mr.. f. J. Sprague at the American
Street Railway Association. October
II. 1888. sand Captain PizzlnI:
The motors which are in use in
Richmond were never designed for the
work they do. They were designed 20
operate up TO seven or seven-and-a hail
horse power normal capacity. They
have been worked up TO eleven hof.e
p0wer-an outrageous OveriOadiug
No machine will stand this
sort of usage.
IL have told you the Richmond ma
chimes are overloaded. Nobody knows
this better than | do. The machines
which were built for seven horse power
are obliged to operate up 10 ten or
twelve-horse power. The Richmond
motor IS ouly one type Of machine 10
meet one condition Of travel. We have
new machines whose capacity. working
steadily. is thirteen or fourteen hofse
power, and may be worked up 70 eigh-
teen or twenty. and viii not only carry
the ordinary load IN Richmond OF
twelve or fifteen thousand ponds
weight. but we take twenty or thirty
thousand pounds up ten Ter cent.
grade"
WHAT CAPTAIN PIZzINI SAYS.
In an interview published in yester
DAYS state. Captain Pizzui says: 10
will be seen that the Union road was
not giving satisfactory service III July.
1883. nor in September. 1888. and Dir.
Sprague admits that the Richmond
motor was not designed to meet q
conditions il had to meet. But he had
now October, 1851 machine which !
would do the work, and says that work
would take IS to 2O-hOfse power. EX-
perience has demonstrated that II
sometimes takes 30 to 55.horse power
to take a loaded Car up the
Franklin street grade, which Is /
from Il to 10 horse power more
than the new machine was built
t. meet. and yet his renresentative
calmly informs the Richmond public |
that "the whole trouble resulted from |
grossest acknowledgement" which he |
finally qualities by casting the blame F..
on the superintendent &c hard |
working. faithful and efficient en-
plOyes. placed in position BIZ the very |
men Joining with his company in the |
attempt TO throw the roads in the hands /
of receiver. But l will say no more at
present.