The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-16

Stiu Continues Undiminisiled - Over
13,OOO Fares the Past Week Receipts
Thus Far $1Oi IA Day--PrOfits Enough
Already to Pay n z I-2 Per Cent Divi-
dend.
The third week of the electric road
opens with an undiminished business.
To say that everybody is surprised
would be mild way of stating it. 1t
was supposed that of course by this
time as the novelty wore off, the
travel would begin to drop. But instead
of that the pleasure riding continues a
prominent feature here as everywhere
out of town people who come in to trade
nearly all take spin over the line
ladies use it to return calls years over
due in distant points OF the village
the crowds constantly going TO the Gem
etery patronize it; business men save
time by using it to go to and from
meals. and the dinner pail' brigade
for the shops constantly increases. The
early Monday morning car brought
down 27 of these, Tuesday morning .6.
1t is a matter of demonstration now. AZ
the Reformer constantly asserted dur
ing the discussion. that because OF the
unusual conformation Of the place, the
trolley was needed, especially by the
shop and laboring men. The time had
Enthusiastically come in Brattleboro's de
yelopment when ii could not in justice
be longer put off.
Friday the road carried 1850 passen-
gers. Saturday within a few of 1000,
| Sunday 23s5, Monday 1900, Tuesday
1900. Wednesday between 1900 and 20Ol
and yesterday 1900 Sunday evening
there was a considerable loss because
the storm had washed sand over the
track on North Main and Washing
off at the former, requiring two
hours until midnight to get II
on. The third car disabled last week,
was not got ready for work until late
Saturday night. The expert from tho
| Westinghouse establishment who hae
To be called. found two little wires IL
the motor ran together and that was tn,
| whole trouble. But all this week tive
ears have been ran forenoons half al
hour apart. and three afternoons 70 min
utes apart and overtime every day u
meet the demands of the traffic, o
| course necessitating extra expense FOL
power and labor.
| But in spite of this the profit above
everything including depreciation on
| the whole investment at the rate o
10 per cent year, has been over 500
day. There has not been a single da,
when it has fallen below 80 and som'
days it has been between SO and sloO
The receipts since the opening hay'
averaged sl0i day Enough has beer
made already to pay a 2la per cent di
vidend on the whole stock. Proph
ecies for the future are no longer ven
tured because the most extravagant o
of them thus far has fallen so muci
short Of the realized facts.
Two of the men who were assessed
SO each for the fight against the en-
terprise have sought TO recoup them
selves, by taking 500 apiece of tn
stock. The whole stock of the compan,
has now been taken, il isn't at all likel,
that any more of it will go at par
4 Guilford man in town yesterda.
said he had just been at Greenfiel'
where the people were hot TO connec
by trolley with Brattleboro, and h
saws that out in Guilford they ar
ready to take hold and do their par
towards building road through there
between Brattleboro and Greenfield
There is a movement amongIreligiou
people 10 ask the discontinuance o
ears between 10 30 and noon Sunday s
1t is a request that aught to be acceed
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