The morning call., 1894-01-25

Market-street lines by the Regan Motor
Company. A scent fare will be main
tanned, and the first trip will be made a
few minutes after the departure from the
ferry of the last regular car. The first owl
ear will start from the ferry tomorrow
night at 80, and will run out Mission
street as far as Twenly-sXih. Until the
all-nighters become accustomed TO the con
yenlence OF these cars round trips viii be made
only every forty minutes, twenty minutes being
occupied In the trlp In each direction.
A regular schedule Will be maintained for
certain Wtll-knONu corners so that passengers
can govern their movements when starting
home ward. One engine can draw any number
OF trailers, and the CARS now used on the horse
system can be attached TO the motor. The owl
cars will be inaugurated on the lines Of The
Market-street system. the Omnibus system and
the Ferries and Cliff lines. This will provide
all-nignt service on every streetcaT line IN
the City. except the Sutter-street the Union
street and the Callfornia-street systems Owl
cars Will be put on all these streets just as
rapidly as the motors can be manufactured.
The Regan motor IS highly important as
new adaptation of he law OF mechanical mo-
ton. and makes possible novel results IN the
starting and stopping of car. BY the new
system the car is started with a trem- ndous
purchase and an even, gentle speed, Increasing
/ he rate of motion TO the maximum as the STRAIN
OF the car creases. If car be moving at the
rate Of fifteen miles an hour on a level road,
aud consuming fifteen horsepower, when the
car reaches grade the power required 10 keep
greater. Consequently the car Will decrease
It's speed 10 rate that can be obtained from
the fifteen hoTse-pow This result is secured
automatically, without any action on the part
OF the moorman, the mechanism being con-
structed with the special purpose oil obtaining
this object.
! line is used as fuel. II regulates its own cost
OF operating and maintenance, and contains It's
| OWN motive power without any external source
| of supply. The mechanical motion shown III
| Tie starring OF the Is of the salient
| points OF The motor 1t can be instantly stopped
| on steep grade and started Immediately with
| out dfhculty. As the car comes 10 a staldstill
| the motor continues running but II only con-
sumes the smallest quantity OF fuel sufficient to
| keep the gas in motion. The consumption of
/ such IL In exact proportion TO the load being
| carried, the engine automatically consuming
| the fuel in the precise ratio 10 the strain felt
| upon ii. Therefore. when travel is light the
| expense OF operating Is materially decreased.
| The car virtually pays its own way. Ii it Is
| moving along track with no hing IL carry but
| Its own weight the consumption of fuel is at a
minimum. AS one passenger after another
| enters the increased load entails a greater de-
mand upon the fuel supply, the cost OF which
is betrayed by the fares paid by the patrons.
| Experimental trips have been made with this
| motor during the last few months, but the owl
car service is It's first work a regulary estab-
| lished streetcar line. Yesterday, IN the pres
| ence of practical railroad men and capitalists
! number of tests were made to show The eff
! cheney of the ear made standing full on a dyna-
| mometer of 1900 pounds gradually Increasing
| from lOU 10 lZOO, WUeD Inc line holding II gave
way. A 10 per cent grade was assembled and
| the engine stopped and started on a side hill.
| allowing the car TO run down the grade without
brakes. 1t was stopped again and again by its
mechanism while half way down the grade and
/ sent back again. The car was made to vibrate
| back ana forth number OF times on this grade
within space OF ten feet. The speed was
varied from one mile an hour 10 ten.
Motors for the use Of this new power on all
the streets controlled by tue amagamated lines
are to be built Immediately IL the engines
| prove 10 be the success in practice which they
| have attained Ia experiments they Will I'M
| dOuDtedly in time replace the present cable
| systems by day well as by night. The saving
| To the companies in not being obliged to oper-
| ate an expensive poweT-house will be very
| great The present arrangement between the
Regain Motor Company and the Mafket-Streer
| lines IS that the former shall operate cars over
the day cars are not running.
Belated travellers will undoubtedly hail with
Joy the Announcement Of the establishment OF
! an Owl-car system tor which such agitation has
been made. The reason offered by the street
| car companies for not complying with the de-
mand OF nlgbt-wOrkers was that the compal a.
! tive light travel after midnight would not pay
| the operating expenses. BY RegaD's system
| the cost OF running car Is so small and in
| such exact proportion TO the number or patrons
| that the venture comes down 10 a business
| level, and Is expected TO prove success. To
| newspaper men detained by business until
! away In the morning. the Owl cars VIII save a
tramp of many weary miles. Telegraph opera
! tors Will be similarly convenienced. Clubmen
| VIII rejoice at the removal of the necessity for
! iDterrupiing pleasure TO race after last cars,
but their wives may not be so pleased at the
new arrangement, nor will II prove very pOpu-
lar with hacKmen.
The motor will be taken this afternoon from
| the machines shops on First street, where IL was
where it will be kept until the initial trip to-
| morrow night.