Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-15
RURAL RAPID TRANSIT
Allegheny County Farmers to Have
Milk and Garden Truck
TAKEN TOMARKET IN MOTOR CARS
Perrysville Road to Be Widened and Elec-
trio Line Extended :.
VIEWERS TO HOLD MEETINGS TO-DAY

Every tree, post and stone along Per
rysville avenue is plastered all over with
posters announcing that the viewers on the
widening of Perrysville avenue will meet
to-day to assess the damages and benefts
The idea is to change Perrysville avenue
from an old country road to regular city
boulevard and make it one of the great
arteries of Allegheny City. The intention
is to cut among the hills above Federal
street to width Of so feet, and then widen
the avenue beyond to a width of 60 feet to
the city line. Councils have approved the
measure, and there is an immense amount
of interest being taken in this view.
Most of the recent Allegheny improve
ments have been in the direction of Perrys-
willie avenue and since the toll gates were re-
moved there has been an immense amount of
building in that direction. Places where there
were bare fields last year are now city
streets with houses on either side. The in
crease has been SO great that the Pleasant
Valley Company has been compelled to put
on number of new cars.
Rapid Transit for tho Farmers.
The greatest move, however, is the ex-
tension of the Perrysville electric line
from the city line at Jacob Born's tavern
to Perrysville, distance of ~ miles. The
road is being built BY syndicate of prop
erty owners out there. among whom are j.
B. Dewhurst, of Haworth & Dewhurst;
Sullivan Johnston, E. T. Earles
Fred Schwitter and James Breen.
They have organized, but have
not decided on any name for the Perrys-
vile avenue extension railway. These
men all own property out there and the
road is being butt to bring it out as well
as to enable the market gardeners out that
way to get into Allegheny market more
cheaply than at present incidentally the
road is to be erected for the benefit Of the
incorporators
The intention is to have the Pleasant
Valley Company operate the new road or to
cars of the new line will have the use of the
Pleasant Valley tracks. With this con-
nection it will make the Perrysville avenue
line one of the longest electric railways in
the city. The line is now five miles long and
with this addition it makes7k miles oftrack.
This will be the first time, however, that
any attempt has been made to carry freight
on electric roads. The intention is to have
freight cars fitted up with motors or else to
run the freight cars as trailers behind the
passenger coaches.
Bringing Garden Truck to Market
It is the intention to bring. all the prod
uce, milk and garden truck of that neigh
borhood down to the Allegheny market and
there switch the cars off, or run them over
to town if necessary. When j. B. Dew
hurst was interviewed yesterday he said:
Our intention in running freight cars is to
enable the market gardeners up there to get
to market much easier than they now do. as
move will greatly lessen the number of
teams on Perrysville avenue and thus enable
the electric cars to make better time. We
intend to commence building the road at
We also lesson the route considerably by
cutting a new road through from
Keating's road house to Fred Schwit-
shoe bend just beyond Keating's. The old
road will not be closed up, however, but will
be used as a wagon road. The short cnt will
also be a public highway. We had very
own nearly all the property in that locality
and number OF us own big block of land
to the left of the short cut. We are not cer-
ourselves or have the Pleasant Valley Com.
pany operate it for US.
Secretary Graham, Of the Pleasant Valley
Company, when spoken to on the matter
yesterday said no arrangements with the
extension people had been made, but it was
understood it was to be operated by the
Pleasant Valley. He said the travel over
their lines was so heavy now that they are
putting on ten new cars Three of them
have already arrived. They are much like
the new cars on the Duquesne road and are
lighter than the old ones. A new car will
be put on the Troy Hill line to-day and the
others will be distributed to the various
branches as soon as they arrive. The Cali
fornia branch is to have a couple more
coaches