Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-23
orses have been Withdrawn from old lines and

horses have been Withdrawn from old lines and
electric motors already substituted.
At Salem, Mass, the Naumkeag street railway
has been refitted with motors at a cost of $780,
carded In Brooklyn, N. T., along Thirty ninth
street, Second avenue, Fifty second street and
Fifth avenue to the New Utrecht line. an cleo
FAMED to o. the IS South Brookivn Compsny An
electric railway is in successful operation be-
tween Dorchester and the fremont House, Bos-
ton, with thirty-foot cars. At Pottsville,. Pa.
work has commenced upon an electric railway
with the Wenstrom system, and is to be In oper-
alton October list.
At Toledo, Ohio, the electric road is in sue
cessful operation. The Coney Island and
Brooklyn Railroad Company has been granted
leave to change from horse motive power to
electricity, and long section of the road is
already operated by the new motive power
AT Wichita, Kan, the electrical street railway
system has been successfully tested. The Lin
den.street Railway Company OF ST. Louis ope-
rates 175 cars by electricity. At Waco, Tex,
change has been resolved upon from horses to
electric motors on the street railways, and the
same is true at Little Rock, Ark, on line
| fifteen miles in length. At San Antonio, Tex,
| the Lily-street Railway is operated by eiec-
| tricity and two other lines are low being con-
structed.
| At Birmingham. Eng, the tramways have
| been successfully fitted with electric motors.
At Quincy, Mass, the Manet street road is to be
\ doubled in capacity because of the success of
| the system. An electric line is under construc-
| ton from Braddock, Pa, to McKeesport in the
| same State. At East Portland, Or, the Haw-
| thorne avenue Railway has changed its power
| to electric motors and a new electric lire, six
miles in length, is to be built to connect East
Portland with Sellwood and Milwaukee In
| that city. the Portland, the Woodstock street
/ Railway has rejected horsepower and substi-
| tuted electricity The Essex, Mass Passenger
Railway Company has been. granted leave to
| change from its present motive power to cleo
/ tricity. At Baker City, Or, an electric motor
| company has organized and been granted the
| right to lay its rails and erect poles. In the
first week of last month an electric car line was
| put in operation in Sedalia, Mo. At Augusta,
| Me, an electric road has been in successful
| operation nearly two years, and at Newton,
| Mass, a similar line has been run a year at a
| good profit. Appleton, Wis, has an electric
| street railway giving entire satisfaction An
| electric road is now being built between Berke-
| ley and Temescal in our own State. AT Chatta-
1 nooga, Tenn in July the st. Elmo extension of
| the electric railway was opened for regular
| service. Cambridge Mass, is now related to
| Boston by an electric railway.
The Newark, n. j., Passenger Railway Com
| pany's application for a franchise to run its
Orange aid Newark line by the overhead sys
| tenn of electrical traction when in July it came
\ before the Orange Common Council was granted.
| without the slightest opposition, by prac-
| tically unanimous vote. second electric rail-
| way has been projected and is to be built at
| Holyoke, Mass. One motor company at the
| East reports no less than n electric railways
| operating under its system, with go motor cars
| and $50 miles of track. Another reports having
equipped 81 roa Is with 100 cars for 10]8 miles
| of track. At Utica N. Y, there are 20 miles of
| electric railway and 25 cars run for IS hours
| each day. The Observer of that city certi6es to
| the complete success of the system and its great
benefits to the city.
| In Boston electric cars run from Bowdoin
Square to Arlif gton that seat CD people each and
make the distance in half the time taken by
| horse cars. The Richmond, Va, Southside
Railway is an electric system, with five miles of
| double track, and is eminently successful.
| These quoted notes might be consider
ably extended, since we have taken only
those relating to towns of some consider
able Importance. They will serve the
purpose we have in view, to show that
electricity as a motive power for street
cars is in successful operation, and that it
has the confidence of the people as a
means, and that capital considers it good
investment. The REcoRD-UNIoN APP
proves the proposition before the Trustees
because it believes it to be for the best in
terests of the city and great aid to the
development Of the place. 1t will bring
nearer in time to business centers; it will
make residence above Tenth street and on
the north and south sides more desirable !;
it will quicken the transit greatly to the
exterior bounds of the city, and thus en-
courage use of the roads it will benefit
people of small means, by enabling them
to occupy homes at points where rents are
more moderate than in the heart of the
| city; it will stimulate building, enhance
values, add to the general prosperity, re-
lieve the overworked horses of the street
cars from tasks too laborious will encour-
age street improvement, augment the
comfort and convenience of the people
bring new capital in for investment, and
in other ways materially benefit the city
and the people The RECORD UNION
cares nothing who operates electrical roads,
who buys the present lines or who reaps
the profits of transportation. 1t has neither
care for nor interest in any particular
electrical system. 1t cares only that the
grant be made, confident that capital will
not invest to its loss by adoption of faulty
methods or niggardly administration of
the roads.
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