Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-25
AN EASTERN FEEDER
Formed by the Friends of the Vest
inghouse Electric Company.
NEW ENGLANDERs INVESTING.
Subscribers to the Guarantee Fund Could
End the Trouble
BY TAKING THE FULL AMOUNT IN STOCK

Messrs. r. u. Brown and W. R., Brown,
of New York. were in the city yesterday on
business connected with the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company.
The latter gentleman is of the banking
firm of Brown Bros, and is also President
of the United States Electric Company Of
Springfield, Mass, which has just been
formed to cooperate with the Westinghouse
Company in the construction of electric rail-
ways in New England. E. L. Brown is
the New England representative of the
Westinghouse Company. The gentlemen
say that there is great confidence manifested
by Eastern capitalists in the ability OF the
company to get out of the present difficulties
and seem to think that the trouble is really
over.
Everybody in New England considers
Westinghouse Electric stock i good invest
mept," said r. L. Brown. There are a
good many holders of common stock there
and they are willing to take a good hulk of
preferred stock in addition. They consider
Mr.. Westing ghouse fully able to come around
all right and are backing their confidence
with subscriptions for preferred stock.
New Englanders After the Stock.
"Some of the stockholders are exchanging
the common stock for preferred and adding
good bunch of shares to the lot Our end
OF the country is coming up noblv and no
| one there has anv idea that there will be
any further trouble. A prominent gentle
mau of Bridgeport, Conn.,, will be'here in a
| few davs to take large block of stock. We
| are taking orders right along. Just as soon
| as the Connecticut Legislature gives the
company the franchise we will put in 30
car road at New Haven. The laws are a
| little different there, and it requires more
| time to secure franchise, as it must so
through the State Legislature.
"We now have a road in operation in
| Springfield. Considerable trouble was had
ingetting the franchise through on: account
of the poles and wires being objected to.
| The Springfield Republican was very much
| opposed to the franchise being granted, but
said editorlally that if the road must go in
the city authorities should stipulate for the
use of the more noiseless electric motor,
local trial of which was had.
1--WE had trial of speed in Springfield
| not long ago. The trip was ~ miles, and
IN one of the miles there was u 120-fo rise.
The trip was made in z. minutes with three
trip OF half mile with 9 per cent grade
was made in 1 minute and 20 seconds.
Business Prospering in the East.
"There is certainly no more cause for
financial trouble if business in other parts
of the country is as good as in my. district
aud 1 understand that it is. In New
England we shall put in at least 100 cars
| during the canning summer, and that is a
very low estimate People there are greatly
| taken with electricity as means of locono-
| ton. .'..
"a very novel contest occurred in one of
the cities in which two kinds of cars are
used on one line. There is always rivalry
| among the morormen as TO who runs the best
car, and discussion brought ON a chal-
lenge. So a Westinghouse car was hitched
| onto one of the others and they were
! started in opposite directions. Our car
hauled the other right along for 40 yards.
OF course, that was done by the motormen
on their own authority, as such a thing is
liable to rnin both ears 1 am not sorry
since our car got the best of it, but 1 cer-
tainly should not have sanctioned any such
| a contest"
MIR. Brown talked further about the busi-
| ness of the company in New England and
seemed very confident of its success in the
present trouble.
The Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company has just completed a
new noiseless motor. and the trials have,
they say. been most successful. MIR. Brown,
the New England agent, examined the
new motor yesterday, and Immediately de-
clared that lie wanted 40 of them as soon as
| they can he fitted out ii. Mes. Harding,
manager of the railway department, e1-
plaiEed the workings Of the new motor to a
DISPATCH reporter yesterday.
at is on the principle of doing away with
about half tine gearing" said he, land is
called the slow speed armature. 1t dis
penses with the intermediate gears and pin
ions. This reducing the number of reyolu-
tions necessary to run the car gets rid of all
the noise and yet it does not reduce the
| speed of the car. 1t is also better in the
cities, because it can be started or stopped so
much easier than the other. The old motor
| is lust as good as the new one ior. roads out
OF the city, as it can make just as good
speed The chief advantages gained are in
getting rid of the noise, and making it much
easier to start or stop the car. 1t is not the
| invention OF one man, bnt MADE by the COM
pany.
Reasons for the Company to Stand Well.
"Of course, there are other advantages
gained" continued Mr.. Harding. The
gearing is boxed up with an iron case, which
keeps out the dirt. About four-horse power
is saved on each car, the cost of maintenance
and repairs is greatly reduced, and the
gearing will last eight months where
formerly it was badly used up III two or
| three" ..-....
| Patents have been asked for on different
parts of the motor, but as whole it cannot
be protected. For that reason the manner
| of its construction is being kept quiet until
the cars can be introduced in different parts
of the country, and the company will thus
! have the advantage OF its competitors who
will be able to pattern after it to q great cx-
| tent. ....lss ....
Mr.. Harding showed the reporter reports
from the managers OF new roads in different
parts Of the country of how the work is
| progressing. There were also letters from
agents who have put Westinghouse cars on
roads operated by other systems. and the
letters were to show the superiority of the
local company's cars. ALI this was done to
prove that there is no reason why the COM