The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-30
GE NERAL NEWS
OF INDUSTRIES

In the course Of a long review show
ing the advantages OF Scranton rs a
location for trolley Investments the
Philadelphia Stakeholder says: 1.-THE
city of Scranton, all things considered,
offers n peculiarly inviting field for
capital anxious to invest in electrical
transit securities. Having popula-
tion, according to tho spring census of
1894 exceeding 104, 900. it is scattered
over twenty square miles in such n
manner than only by resort to the
rapid transit facilities can inter-com-
munication be readily accomplished
nnd the process OF business dispatched
Scranton is really nest of once sspa-
rate communities which have been
joined together by iron as we'll as politi-
cal bonds. What is now known rs the
West Side. once ths separate munich
pality of Hyde Park, comprises a pop.
ulaIion of 40. 900. and has put one link
Of transit connection with tho Central
City, that supplied by the Scranton
Traction company. To the north lies
what is yet called Providence, an in
tegral part of the city. yet comprising
suburb with Is. 900 population living
three good miles from the court house
South Scranton. containing 30, 900 peo
pie, is nearer the business portion Of
The city. yot the great bulk Of the trave
to and fro necessarily falls to the street
cars and could scarcely be accommo-
dated without them.
THE city of Scranton proper is only
one link of the chain of populous COM
munities tributary to tue Scranton
street railway system. To tho north :
east, within four miles OF the post office
huiIding in the center Of the city, lies
Dunmore borough with population
exceeding $4,000, most of which is en-
rloyed in some capacity inside the mu-
njcipal bounds of Scranto Beyond.
along the banks of the Lackawanna
river, lie in quick succession the Dor
oughs of Dickson City, 1900 popula-
tlOn; Olyphant, 1000, and Blak-
ely, 1000, not to speak OF the
smaller places, such rs Jessup, Throop
and Winton, which, by intervening,
give the appearances almost Of an un-
broken stretch of population. The
northern terminus of the Scranton
Traction company. lessee of the Scran-
ton and Carbondale road. at present is
ut Peckville. Gradually coming down
to 1t from the nest of populoug north
ern communities, of which Carbondale
is the center, is the trolley line OF the
Carbondale Traction company. A
Junction of the two roads is being af-
ltcted: and thus the Scranton system
will obtain the through passenger traf.
tc OF the AZ, 900 persons tributary TO
tho Carhondale systems lines.
"ln a southerly direction from Scran-
ton there are three branch electric
lines, one reaching to Bellevue, with
1000 people to feed it; another to Miu-
ooka, with J 800 to draw upon, and Y
third to Taylor, where $500 persons
reside, many of them employed daily
in Scranton. While tho places named
are the only regularly created munich
politics tapped by the lines senumerated,
/. should be understood that all along
the country is thickly populated by
persons who resort to the trolley
car as their one means of rapid transit
into the city. The Scranton and Pitts
ton Traction company, which is leased
by the Scranton Traction company, is
extending its lines to Il connection
with the Wilkrs-Barre and Wyoming
Wiley Traction company at Pittston,
lna tpl in, hn ohn,
OF continuous electric street railways
reaching from Nanticoks, on the ex.
treme south, to Carbondsle, on the ex.
treme north distance of more than
ii!ly miles
The reader who is unacduainted
with the geography of Scranton and
its vicinity will realize what such
system of electric railroads m sans
when he is told that in the territory
ihus drawn upon reside upward of
350, 900 people, more than the entire
population of either Oregon. Vermont
or Washington. and almost rs much
as tho com bined population Of Wyo-
ming. Nevada, Idaho, Montana and
Arizona. 1t is n population accustomed
10 travel, particularly between local
points it is in large degree an industrial
population. the males predominating,
which means that it ia the best kind If
population for the rapid swelling OF
gross receipts. Lastly. it is 50 situated
with reference TO the steam roads that
the trolley lines are rapidly capturing
the lions share of the business, while
every day their cash receipts exhibit
gratifying growth. Within the month
the Ontario and Western people, whose
new coal route into Scranton has
been paralleled by the electric
system. have taken off one half
their usual number Of local passenger
trains, giving as n reason the loss OF
travel since the advent Of the trolley
Other steam roads are known to DO
suffering correspondinRly. while regu-
lsrly AZ clock work the trolley makes
its progressive way into popular favor,
and the chances for renunerative in.
vestments in electrical securities mul-
tiply accordingly. 1t will be noted
that in all this large scheme
OF trolley expansion, already
brought down from the airy plane
Of speculation to solid basis
of monstrated practicsbility, the
Scranton Traction company aud 1t,
leased lines. both by reason of adysn-
tageous location and for ressons com
plimentary to its astute management,
holds the key to the situation. AS the
two valleys grow its profits will grow
1t occupies the relative advantage of
tho me tropolitan system as compared
with the village horse Car line. Patron.
ago cannot go away from it. Patron
age must come TO it.
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:
Among the railroads affected by the Pull
man boycott are the st. Paul, tho Illinois
Central the Northern Pacific, the Balti-
more and Ohio, and various other lines OF
greater or less importance.
The shops of the Pittsburg Fort Wayne
and Chicago are now running bu ftOul
hours five days Of the week, and are dl,
on Saturdays; but it is expected that after
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