Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-22
To Operate Partly Over the
Present Tracks of the
Central Traction.
WILL GO TO WILLIAMSBURG.
Opening Up a Large Tract Of Hith-
erto Undeveloped Property.
A PERCENTAGE CONTRACT MADE
On Track Mileage Basis With the Du-
quesne Company.
ONLY WAITING FOB AN ORDINANCE

The next move on the street railwa,
checker board will be made by the Centra
Passenger Railway Company, when it viii
try to get into the king row.
The Central Passenger Railway Compan,
Is the corporation which builds street rail
ways and leases them in perpetuity to th'
Central Traction Company. When this lat
ter company was planned it was intended
that its lines should extend from Duquesns
way near the Point to East Liberty. Al
the scheme developed it was Topped off al
each end and two good things were lost
The company has retained its charter, how
ever, for a road to East Liberty, and when i:
gets an ordinance from Councils it will al
once proceed to extend its lines to wilkins
burg. That ordinance is now being drafted
and will probably be presented at the next
meeting of Councils
An Independent Electric System.
As everybody will remember who has
ever ridden on its bold curves, which sug-
gest the gravity roads at the summer re-
sorts, the Central Traction Company is that
cable road which runs from the station on
Thirty-third street and Heron avenue
down Wylie avenue to High street, down
Sixth to Wood and then up Fourth avenue
to Grant, to Webster and back up Wylie.
There is an electric loop which has been in
operation but short time, running along
Fulton street to Center avenue and over the
old line to the end of the cable road.
1t is now proposed to run an independent
electric system over the whole road, with
out interference with the cable, except that
the new cars will 20 over the Center avenue
route and leave Wylie avenue above Fulton
street to the cable alone. A new line will
be built over Center avenue from the inter-
section of Heron avenue to the Duquesne
Traction system at Neville street. Then
the Duquesne tracks will be used to Negley
avenue, where a new road will run up
Center to Penn, making a loop around
Liberty Hall, coming back again to Center.
The electric cars will be run over Wylie
below Fulton on the route now used by the
Central around by Wood street.
Will Build a New Motor House.
The electric cars will be operated from a
new power house, the site for which has not
yet been selected, but which will probably
be somewhere on the plateau beyond Fulton
street 1t will be equipped with the most
improved and powerful machinery, and the
cars themselves will be furnished with the
Westinghouse apparatus. Thus, by the
building of about a mile and . half of new
track, a complete system will be estsb-
lished, which will be able to run cars from
Wood street to Liberty Hall In % minutes,
which is about six minutes faster than the
Duouesne cars can be run and eight min
utes quicker than the Pittsburg Traction
schedule This is because the Center ave-
nue. route is about mile shorter than any
of the Others As soon as the ordinances
are procured work will also be begun on an
extension of the lines of the Central from
Liberty Hall to Williamsburg by way of
some of the new streets.
There have been manv kicks of late be-
cause the Central Traction has not paid
dividend, although it has earned enough to
paw one. The reason is that it has spent or
will spend SIS, 900 for new Johnston rails
and new road-bed on Center avenue, and the
proposed extension will cost about $50, 600
more. New rails have been laid from Her
ron avenue to Soho street and men are now
at work laying new tracks from Soho street
to the junction at Wylie and Fulton.
No Increase OF Capital Stock.
The new plant for operating the electric
road will cost good deal of money, but it
will be paid for without an increase of the
capital of the company. As the traction
company cannot legally build road 1t will
be put in operation by the Central Pas
senger Railway Company, which is the