Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-10
STREET CAR LINES
Prepare to Compete for Traffic to
Knoxville and Mt. Oliver.
POSSIBLE CONSOLIDATION.
The Transverse Road Preparing to Cross
the Allegheny.
OTHER INTERESTING RAILWAY NEWS

Bids were received yesterday for building
an addition to the Suburban Rapid Transit
road from Eighteenth and Jane streets to
| connect at Arlington avenue. Thomas A.
Noble, President Of the company, stated
yesterday that the road is now assured.
Work will be commenced in a few weoks.
It is also announced that the Pittsburg and
Birmingham Traction Company will secure
| rights of way on Knoxville and Mt.
Oliver and will compete with the
Suburban line. The two compa-
nies are bristling with predictions
of what they are going to do, but in reality
they sre believed to be bluffing on both
sides. The Birmingham road claims it will
utilize the Knoxville incline plane to get
to the top of the hill, and that passengers
will be carried for one fare
Chances OF . southside Combine.
The plan proposed is to strengthen the
incline and carry cars and passengers with
out q transfer, but it has been found that
the cars used are so heavy that it will incur
great expense to prepare the incline for
carrying them, and that when they get on
the hill the grade Is too great to permit
rapid enough transit to compete with
the single truck cars of the Sub
urban line. The latter road is said
to have offered stock to the Birmingham in
the hope of consolidation and the Birming-
ham is believed to have been equally anx-
ious to get it, but each is holding out for
its own terms, and at the same time trying
to scare the other. The Suburban has de-
termined to build, however, and with only
n e do &ha vhov,
Brownsville macadamized road, they claim
they can make good time and can compete
with whatever plan the Birmingham will
adopt. The fare to be charged is cents
from Sarah and Eighteenth streets, which,
added to Scent fare on the Birmingham
to reach the city, will, make the cost Of
transit from Knoxville and Mt. Oliver to
Pittsburg 13 cents This price is too high
to become popular and the hope Of citizens
on the Heights is that the two companies
will consolidate, and, by extending the pro-
posed Suburban branch one square from
Sarah to Carson ON Eighteenth street, make
could make good time.
Rebuilding Of the Tenth Street Bridge.
Another new scheme talked of In street
railway circles is the elevating of the tracks
of the transverse road over the Tenth street
bridge. To do this it will be necessary to
put new piers under the bridge and
strengthen it in other ways, but before cleo
tricity is introduced the company has de-
termined to either build a new bridge or |
run the tracks above the regular driveway |
Murray Werner has been instructed to look |
into the proposal of elevating the tracks |
and will make report at the next meeting |
of the Board of Directors
John G. Trimble, the Pittsburg civil en- !
gineer, has just completed q new electric !
road at Beaver Falls, which will begin
operation this week. The road is nine
miles in length, and connects Beaver Falls,
Bridgewater, Rochester and
Beaver. 1t was formerly horse road over
about one-third of the distance. Ten cleo
tric cars of the same construction as the
,ingle truck cars on the Duquesne road
will be used, j. c. Whitney is president
Of the company. The stockholders are prin-
,ipslly Boston, Cincinnati and Beaver Falls
men, and the amount invested about $780,
700.