The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-07
TO BEGIN RUNNING SOON.
The Progress of the Electrical Rail
way Compeny's Line.

! way Compepy's Line.
The Elecsic railway Of Savannah sx.
poets to have its cars here and the Price
street line in operation next month. pro-
vided the company can secure the GHinneti
street crossing over the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway tracks. The company
has the line completed except the crossing
and the overhead wiring, which can be pat
up very rapidly.
| The company has the line beyond
| the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway completed, and the power
house is rapidly :nesring completion.
| The greater portion Of the line Is on one
side of the Savannah, Florida and Western
tracks, the power house and the remainder
Of the line on the other side.
The South Broad street line has been COM
| pleted from East Broad street TO Montgom-
cry, and around to the west eide of the
market, with the exception Of several cross
ings which the company has the
city's permission to make The COM
pany was very anxious to complete
the South Broad street line from East Broad
down McAllister, and petitioned the xsy
council for permission 10 do this work after
May /, but the sanitary board, to which
the matter was referred, refused to allow
the work to proceed. The company would
also lay several more miles of street railway,
provided the streets were granted them by
the city, if it were not for the ordinance
prohibiting the upturning of the soil in the
streets after May /.
President Collins says that, while he has no
doubt Of the wise intention of the ordinance
and of its supporters, be is of the opinion
that 1t works unnecessary hindrance to
public improvements, such as street rail-
ways, where there is no likelihood of injury
resulting to the public health. The exca-
walton required for the roadbed IL only
about eight inches, the ties being I've inches
high and the rails go inches, the rails pro-
jecting somewhat above the surface. Upon
most of the unpaved streets the loose sandy
soil Is cut nearly to the depth required for
the roadbed by the wheels OF heavy trucks
"It takes considerable money out OF cirs
culation just when money is needed" said
Mr.. Collins "We paid out from S400 to
$500 a week for labor and nearly twice as
much for lumber and other material for
several weeks ending May l, and would oon-
tinue TO do SO il it were not for the ordi-
nance"
A MORNING News reporter went out to
where the power house Is beirg erected on
Gwinnett street yesterday and was shown
through the partially completed building.
The power house will be a fine piece OF
work when completed. and will be quite an
ornament to that portion OF the city. From
an examination OF the plans, it seems that
the power house win be as complete q
structure Of its kind as it is possible TO
make.
The power house and car house combined
have a front on Gwinnett street of 139 feet
by 100 feet ON OFT street and lilo feet on
the opposite side. The power house proper
has front Of So feet by 100 feet depth. The
walls are up, and the timbers for the
MA In hn t.,fl
is Of the most solid character, the walls
being eighteen inches thick. At the corner
Of Gwinnett and o t streets Is the dynamo
room, 4Ox40, With a twenty-two-fest cell
ing. The dynamos have arrived and are
ready TO be put in place. Engines supply
ing 500 horse power will be put In this room,
the intea ton being to put in sufficient
power to operate twenty miles Of line. Back
Of the dynamo room ia the boiler room, also
40x4O feet.
A wall cuts the power house exactly In
half. The front portion OF the second sec
ton will be used for an office and waiting
room. each of which will be 17x20 feet,
divided by a 9-feet hallway. Back Of the
office and waiting room will be the EN-
ployes' rooms and store rooms.
The car house is So feet front by ITO feet
deep. 1t will be fitted up with skeleton
tracks and q transfer table so that cars can
be placed upon any track leading from the
house. II will hold sixteen cars when filed.
The waiting room is to be fitted up in
first class style for the convenience OF
passengers. especially ladies, waiting for
cars. The power house sits back ten feet
from the sidewalk, and this space will be
Enclosed by an iron railing and planted with
flowers
The building will be handsomely fitted UP
and will make an imposing appearance
from the front when completed. There
will be a tower on top, 81 feet to the top Of
the cupola, with a flag staff on top. The
building will be brilliantly lighted by cleo
tricity, and an electric light plant will be
put in sufficient to light all OF
the company's property in the
neighborhood. The character of the build
ing demonstrates very plainly that the
company is not building it simply to rur
a three mile line from, but as the headquar-
ters for a large street railway system.
The Savannah Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, which owns the Electric
Railway Company, is building the line *
develop it's lands in the southeastern sector
of the city.