Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-01

Gable Railway company has been a
work on some statistical figures regard
ing the operations of the company dur
ing the past year. After reviewing tn,
figures, Mr.. Crank makes the confiden
statement that there are more people il
Los Angeles at the present time than al
any previous period in the history of the
municipality. The records of the com
pany show thet the business of 1891 was
20 per cent larger than in 1890, while
the traffic of the road for 1892 shows 8
marked increase as compared with the
previous year.
During the coming year it is the in.
tention OF the Los Angeles Gable com.
pany to place electric lines on the mile
age OF the company operated by horse
cars, amounting to 26 miles. This, it ie
figured, will result in saving of $50, ,00C
per annum. The power for the electric
roads will be supplied by the engines
which draw the cables, thus placing
double duty on these steam leviathans.
The average daily passenger traffic for
the past year has increased over that OF
the previous year, and the attendance
to the concerts at Westlake park are be-
coming much larger.
The total number OF miles of track
controlled by the company is AZ miles.
The company is giving five-minute
car service on the Grand and Downey
avenue lines, and seven-minute SER
vice on the Seventh.street line, and on
all the horse lines 10.minute service.
j. F. Crank is in charge uf the road as
receiver, with j. j. Akin as superin-
tendent.
THE ELECTRIC ROAD.
The Los Angeles Consolidated Electric
Railway company was organized in No
vember, 1890. The protector of the en-
terprise was M. H. Sherman of Phoenix,
Arizona. The officers of the company
are: President, M. H. Sherman vice
president and manager, E. P. Clark !;
secretary, Frank V. Mcdonald; super
intendent, A. w. Barrett.
Active operation was commenced in
February, 1891. The first 5 miles of
double track was completed by July l,
1891, and on that day the first electric
car was run over the line to Weetlake
park. This line is conceded to be the
most difficult line to operate in the
United States on account of the contin-
uous succession of very heavy grades.
There are Al miles of road operated by
as follows: Westlake Park,
University, East Los Angeles, Vernon,
Maple avenue, Santa Fe and Pico street
divisions.
The company has 15 long double-truck
cars that. for ease and elegance in all
appointments, surpass anything in the
They were built by the Com
bined Harvester works of Stockton and
0'Brien & Sons of San Francisco. The
other. or single-truck cars, were built
by the Brill company of Philadelphia
and st. Louis Car company of St. Louis.
The power house is located at the cor
ner of Sixth street and Central avenue,
just south of the Arcade depot. The
buildings cover space 145x435 feet and
are of brick and Arizona brown stone,
and covered with iron roof, there being
no wood used in the construction of the
boiler room and engine room, making it
absolutely fre-proof.
1t is equipped with three batteries of
Stirling water tube boilers of 800 horse
power each, with total capacity of
1000 horsepower whenever called upon.
Two triple expansion engines of the
Thompson slide valve cutoff type,
Dullb NY bAC obdbC duu
iron works of San Francisco, have a
rated capacity of 500 horsepower, but
will when called upon respond to an in
crease of 30 per cent with perfect ease.
One engine runs two 250 horse power
multipolar generators and
one 240 horsepower Edison generator.
The other engine drives one 800 horse
power Westinghouse multipolar genera
tor and one 240 horsepower Edison gen.
orator.
These three Westinghouse generators
were the first large generators ever built
in the world, and was departure from
the custom of constructing generators in
small units and requiring large num-
ber of generators to obtain large out
put, and in being such departure was
subject to much unfavorable criticism.
The wisdom of placing such large gen.
orators by this company has been fully
justified, and the plan of setting the
has been approved and copied
from in a number Of instances.
In addition to this, the company has
another power house situated on Maple
avenue, equipped with large GUNNER
engine and three Edison dynamos, with
Hazelton boilers. This was acquired
by purchase of the old Electric Rapid
Transit company, which was built by
Charles H. Howland to Pico Heights in
1887, and was absorbed by the present
company.
The company employs over 200 men in
various departments. Cars run on the
main streets every three minutes, and
to the different outlying districts every
to 12 minutes.
During the year just closed the re-
ceipts of the company have steadily in
creased.