The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-28
STEAM AND ELECTRICITY.
ELECTRICITY AS 4 MOTIVE TOWER
 ON BIG RATLROADS.


 other Fast Express.
 It has been supposed that the New
 York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
 road had taken the lead among the
 greater railway corporations of the country in applying electricity to one
 of its branch lines. But it appears that
 the Pennsylvania railroad has not been
 behindhand in this matter This com
 pany has decided to equip it's Mt. Holly
 branch, twelve miles in length, with
 electric cars on the overhead trolley sys- tenn. It is stated by the Electrical Re view that on this line the experimental car equipment will consist of one set
 comprising four 20 horsepower motors;
 one set consisting of one 10 horsepower motor and one set consisting of two 10 horsepower motors, each set to be plac- ed under 40-foot passenger coaches,
 rather lighter in construction than those
 generally used on steam roads, ana which will eventually be developed into
 standard electric passenger coach on
 the Pennsylvania railroad.
 Should this experiment prove sue
  ty-nine miles in length, connecting Phal- adelphia with Atlantic City will be similarly equipped This is probably the best opportunity in the united
 States to test electrical propulsion on a
 large scale. The passenger trafhc over the Atlantic City line is enormous ana the trains run regularly at a speed or mile a minute on the Atlantic anu New Jersey road. That will propaply be maintained as an express line, Whlle trolley trains will be run at about one half the speed over the Camden ana Atlantic. With a train every ten mln- utes during the day the fare coulo pc
 fixed at S1, and the excursion business would be very large. But eventually no doubt. a speed of even more than sixty miles an hour may be obtained on the trolley lines. MT. Moody Boyn- ion is confident that by using only one
 rail 11nder the car and another guiding rail above the car he can increase the
 sneed of trains to one hundred miles an ho11r. We have no doubt that the trol-
 lev experiment on the Atlantic City lines will be successful whenever it is made.
 GOFsBY ELECTRICITY
 While on the subject of electricity as
 motive power the following from the
 Bridgeport Farmer this week is of inter est. especially so in this famous city of carriage manufacturing:
 A long step toward the solution of the
 problem of speedy travel on the individ- ual plan has been made by Fred C..
 Hass, a German inventor, in his new electric motor carriage which appears to work wonders and with considerable satisfaction both as to economy, com
 fort and speed.
 Iincks &5 Johnson began the building of the new vehicle to-day, which the tn- ventorand the builders think will revolu- tionize travel. Inventor Hass has taken out patents in all countries. The model at the factory, and which some are be- ing made from, was built in Germany two years ago. Up to date there are
 1. 800 in use in Europe, and their popu- larity is growing. When the model was completed Emperor William rode in it and was so pleased that he presented it's inventor with diamond watch
 charm. The model was then brought
 over to this country and Bridgeport will have the making of them.
 The model in question resembles close ly the mail phaeton style and weighs | ], 300 pounds It seats two persons ordi- narily. but seats can be set up to ac- commodate four persons. The steering apparatus comes up through the body of the wagon, and is right in front of the driver ordinarily.
 fz .Ea o,1 6at front wheels move on a pivot at the ends of the axle. There is no fifth wheel | A box in the rear contains the machin- cry. It has gas engine and three horse power engine Kerosene, naph- tha, or compressed gas can be used and this is ignited by electric sparks
 The power is transmitted to the two rear wheels by a sprocket wheel and chain, and they then become driving wheels.
 The machinery is so perfect that when the steerer wishes to turn to the right,
 the right driving wheel stands still and | the left continues to move, so that the turn is made quickly. Tn turning the
 left the reverse motion is made. The speed rate is twenty y-flve miles an hour, and can be stopped within ten |
 l feet.
 Inventor Hass is experimenting the building of the vehicles.
 SUMMER TRAvEL-WOODMONT. A petition is being circulated in Derby bv Dana Bartholomew, which has been
 circulated in New York, Bridgeport,
 New Haven and other cities and which is being signed by all the Ansonians approached by MT. Bartholomew, who are cottagers at Woodmont. The peti- ton is to c. H. Platt of the New York,
 New Haven and Hartford railroad, and
 is for better train accommodations for
 Woodmont's summer cottagers, especial ly recommending that the 7:30 a. m. express to New York from New Haven stop at Woodmont for the accommoda- tion of the large number of New York and Bridgeport business men who summer at Woodmont. As it has been during past summers cottagers desir- | ous of getting to New York on an early train would either have to breakfast at 515 and catch the 6:10 accommoda- tion, or go over to Milford on the 8:1O
 up-valley train and wait there for a New York train.
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