The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-09
TRIUMPHANT TROLLEY.
present experience, to show tha' II
would do an enormous business

would do an enormous business.
Notes.
There are many plans for picnic facii,
tiles at West Brattleboro ana sohle VI
them will materialize soon. Some one
should also seize the opportunity at lls
Eide IN nut in an ice cream Saloon ah"
resort there
The Bailey Clothes Wringer. business
at Centreville is likely to be increased
materially soon. =.
The directors talk OF erecting 10
foot tower on Prospect street near I sd,
mark there like the one planned ~
Wantastiquet's summit, Ihey are co 'Id
sidering several propositions IL wou'''
be a big attraction.
The Crowell water has this week been
mt into the Pine street car house.
It is intended to place seats AT tie ~ :
tersections of streets and where peopie
would naturally want to walt 1of cars
There are to be three stopping places
on Main street, one at the top Vi ~ -
hill near the bank, one OPPOSITE
Chapin's drug store and one by tle
fountain near Col. Hooker's;; Inc cars
will also stop elsewhere when peoPle
want to get on or off except al sharp
d p. Cobb has placed settee on his
piazza at the Pearl Central street COZ
ner for the benefit of people waiting 1or
the cars. He will also put in step
ming stone there. There is petitl3ni
10 the bailiffs for an incandescent lig1t
at this point and one is soreiy heeoeu'
Prospect street citizens are anxious TO
have he road run round the brow OF
the hin and talk of raising 500 for that
nurnose. This is or ought to be the
SHOW street of the village and the ROAD
will surely run round there sometime
Since the opening of the road there
has been no accident to any passenger
and surprisingly little trouble with
teams. The instructions to the motor
men are to come to standsilii wien
ever any horse shows signs OF frlghl
1t is understood that there is put
small amount of the treasury STOCK now
left unsold and that more VIII be OF
fered at par after this week
One of the pleasant little incidents
connected with the electric road inns
week occurred yesterday, when MIS-
DIR. Putnam. who is now 81 years OLD,
enioved ride to West Brattleboro and
back. President Crosby kindly assist
ing her on and off.
The Street Railway Journal pres
ents the statistics of 100 electric
roads operating in the Northeastern
states, a little less than fourth OF all
those in the country, showing that they
have made yearly from $40, 30, ~ TO
s12. 7Sl, 654 net profits in the past three
wears. which is from D. to Ga per
cent. on the capital stock. AS the
stock is somewhere about three fourths
water, and the capitalization from five
TO ten times as much per mile as that
of the Brattleboro road. the outlook
for the financial success of our local
enterprise cannot fail to be regarded as
of the best.
That old bridge at Centreville would
surely have gone down with such loads
as are being carried.
The conductors ought to be un
formed.
The breweries complain that their
trade is falling off greatly and the cl-
gar and cigarette trade also suffers.
Col. Thos. Harmon ana q. NJ. M.
Geo ID. Reed of the general staff with
details of the Guard and Battery under
Q. NJ. Eugene Robbins and II. ii.
Burnett went up to Fairlee yesterday
to prepare for muster