The morning call., 1893-01-02
QUICK MAI. TRANSIT.
New York and Brooklyn Postosfices to
Be Connected by Electric Trolley.

view I0fN dliu aDIC0kiyu frOSL9iiICSS TO
Be Connected by Electric Trolley.
{ Il: ;->.. =. Brooklyn Eagle. i +:
al the earnest soicitationof Postmaster
Collins OF tilis city, and Postmaster Van
/ Colt of New York, and with the. hearty con.
eurrepce OF the Secretary OF The Treasury,
a contraft for the trans mission of the mails
between the postpfiees in the two cities by
electricity. was signed yesterday in WASH
Ieiagtoh by PostInas ter General Wanna
maker aid Oscar e. Wheeler, repre-
Dispatch s CoAlpany of II Broadway.
+ New York. BY the teTns of the
+ contract I he company STIMULATES TO Goa
sifilct dnItble line Of tubes. e0n4tee ting
/ both poStefliees 10 maintain ard operate
| the system for a year Al at IFS own ex-
/ pen sc, and 10 remove it.en5 TIE orderof the
Pestmaster-Genefal,l besides pay ing all
dana ages done TO Government property. by
|, reasnn afthe necessary connections. lie
contract further requires that when The.
tubes are completed the com paay shall turn
| the wliofe system oyer to lie G8veFnmegit
for such tests as The PAstm astef4 General
tHRy d eein ri ecessary. and that the tests are
to be made at the exIjense o r tire company.
il the TESTS are satisfactory the Company
binds itself to Tease thu system to / he Goy-s
eminent or Il: sell II 10 the United States at
1 the aetsiah cost -: !. .553~ ;:s.f y
IS Mfiet naked for some OF tile details OF
the proposed system: Mf, Collins said s."If
is most easily exflaihfd BY cAlhngit a inedi-,
I fed trolley. The plan waslaesigned by Ans.
E-dreWI Brgsen, the chief eng ineeE OF the.
company, who Is wen known in this cisy
/ from His connection with the construction
OF the Kings County Elevated Railroad.
The system con sists Of a continuous reetan4
giTiar steel tube IS, Inches SQUARE LIN this
/ tuba + Is a. carrier or Traveller, "a inches
|: square, and about 4 feet Tong. 10 the end of
~ llich is attached MI electric motto r, aeied
onlg an electric: wire ruin ming along tho
bottom of thestpbe, The speed with which
tile carrier Will travel through the, tubs
will be from 10 To I065miles an hour, and by
,iHeans of The system wescaieuate chat 5000
/ letters Can be packed IN a. single carrier
/ and dispatched frotn Brooklyn. to New
|: York I'M six minutes from office to office.
cross tina bridge with the tubes, and
| application 10 that effect Will se1n be made
TO the trustees. THE tubes will follow thu
tracks of the bridge. cars up to Hillary
Street and Will be then carried on poles
through Hillary street 70 Adams, entering
| the posfoiiiee Through enc OF the windows
of Tie gnlailiBg room. / have no doubt Of
/ the success ofthe enterprises and hat a lew
years wilf3see ID In use In ether large cities,
AT any rate the Government Is perfectly
/ safe in making a. test OF The system, for one
eftfs .stipnlations of The contract Is that
everything Isl 90 be dene ibt the expense Of
/ fiie:e9pp any, and ID VIII not cost the:Ggv-
eminent a.doilar.' 3 s, i; &
F The United States Automatic Dispatch
Company waa organized ahatlt FIVE wears
ago to- further o. pneumatic tab be invention
of:WinIam d.; McAlpin, but the advance Of
electrical science was. Sc marked and posi-
tive that tIle spnenniatic idea GAVE way to
tine electrical. system designed by EQgin eer
Bfysbn: The ;companF ise said TO bayaampie
f7ca ltaf TO garry out. is CONTRACT with the