The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-07
ELECTRICRAILWAYLINES
TIE UNITED STATES HAS THE
LIONS SHARE OF THEM.

Railways With Mileage OF 200 Miles
Operated by Electric Power-Ad-
vantages OF the Motor Car-The Pro
Gress.ve Cities Of the Country
Adopting the Modern Power-Forty
Electric Railways in the eouth-The
Savannah Street Railways Soon TO
Run Cars by Electricity.
The introduction Of electric power for
operating the Belt Line street railway Of
Savannah will revolutionize street railway
traffic in this city, and the other lines will
have 10 let the mule and the horse go back,
to the truck patch and the plantation for
the modern power is fast taking the place
Of animal power in this country because
there are SO many advantages in the use Of
electric power.
There Is the advantage Of economy, as it
costs nearly 80 per cent. less per passenger
70 operate steel railways by electrical power.
There ia the advantage Of speed,
and OF varying speed for the maxi
mum speed Of the horse car can never
reach the fifteen-mile maximum of the
motor car. The motor car may range all
the way from four 70 fifteen miles an hour,
and each car on a line can have its own
speed regulated, and can be stopped at will.
There is the advantage Of comfort not pos
sessed 10 such high degree in the horse
car.
Large crowds can be moved rapidly; and
this is effected by attaching a car known as
the trailer to a motor car.
As evidencing the superiority Of the cleo
trio street railways, it is said that OH the
first Sunday in last month the four electric
cars in use in Buffalo, n. Y, with "trailers"
carried 1900 passengers.
TIE UNITED STATES IN THE VAN.
Old lines all over the country are putting
in plants to operate street railroads by
electric power, and new Iines are starting
with electric power. The United States Is
far in advance of Europe in fact, it NAV be
said that electric railways have not got
footing yet in the effete countries Of the old
world.
OF the zoos. 81 miles of railway operated
by electrical power 2.050.62 miles are in
the United States, and but 1926 miles in
the rest of the world.
OF the 2l1 electrical railways in the
United States, Ill are operated in the
northern, western and northwestern states
and forty in the states Of the south.
There are 220 electric railroads in the
world, with a mileage of 2,06j 81, and oper-
ated with 1850 motor cars.
EXTENSIVE LINES OPERATED.
The longest line is that of the Minneapo-
lis Mimi Street Railway Company, which
Will be 200 miles long when COMPLETED, and
will be operated with 100 cars The West End
Street Railway Company of Boston, Mass,
comes next with line | u miles long, and
they are constructing line TO be 1l8 miles
long, the two requiring 230 cars to operate
it. The Rochester Railroad Company
is constructing line SO miles
long, to be operated with 200
cars. The st. Paul, Mimi Electric
Company has line 30 miles long, operated
with so motor cars. The East Cleveland,
(O.l street railroad has "a miles and % motor
cars Many other lines throughout the
country range from mile up to 20 miles.
The MoREING NEWS has consolidated
from the best authority Of electrical papers
for July the data which follows:
HALF DOZEN SYSTEMS.
The principal systems are the Sprague,
Thomson-Houston, Daft, National, Short
and Van Depoele, and the compilation be-
low will show the number of railways
operated by each system, with the mileage
and number Of motors cars in each.
The Sprague leads in the num-
Der of railways and motor cars,
but is second to the Thomson Houston
in mileage. The Van Depoele does not show
up so we'll, because Van Depoele some time
ago went into the Thomson Houston, which
bought his patent.