The morning times., 1895-07-22
NOT PULLED BUT PUSHED
Electric Cars Will Soon Run on
the Ninth Street Branch.
NEW SYSTEM In OPERATION
Current Sent Along Two Parallel Rails
Instead of wire-Ftrst Three
Trains 10 BE Sent Out Tuesday Night.
Handsome MetaT Cars and Trailers
All brilliantly Lighted.

The time can now be easily measured by
hours when electric cars Will be running
on Ninth street, aud but a few days VIII
elapse until scores of weary car horses VIII
either frolic in green country pastures OF
be found applicants at the urban equine
employment bureaus.
The workncn arc busy both night and
day and the first car VIII be started over
the entire route on next Tuesday night
after the norse-cars have stopped running.
Very successful trial trips have already
been made around the l. street loop, but
the connections VIII not be completed
along the entire line until Tuesday afternoon
or evening.
Every indication points to the fact that
the new system, which is an experiment on
a grand scale, will prove 10 be the success
its promoters have hoped for.
RAILS INSTEAD OF WIRE.
The system VIII differ from other under
ground electric systems in that instead of
q wire on which the trolley wheel rolls
aS on the overhead wire, in their case the
conduit contains two parallel steel wires,
along which the electricity is sent and com
municate To the lever shoes which slide
along the rails and connect the motor
under the car.
The superiority of this arrang ement
over the wire is said TO lie in the fact
that water Will not handicap traffic.
Where the wire is used ii is always immedi
ately under the slot, and catches all OF
the water that may chance TO drip in the
opening during Il rain, while in the case
l-of the parallel rails, which are at cithel
side Of the opening the water can easily
fall between them
There are already ten motors in the
power-house, and others are being rap
idly supplied The electric fluid is con
veyed through one of the parallel under
ground tracks mentioned and through ont
shoe Of the car 10 The electrical notol
beneath the front platform The current
! after supplying the necessary power herr
for the lucomotiOu of the car, returns Il
! the other rail through the opposite shoe
CAN RUN AT HIGH SPEED.
| The cars VIII be easily able TO make a
speed Of twenty-five miles an hour with
trailer attached, if such speed were per
missible within the city limits. But lit
tie room VIII be taken up on the front
/ platform OF the car by the motor-hoX, and
The conveyance VIII be stopped and started
/ by horizontal levers as in other electric
\ cars
The company has already twenty cars
il the city and more are arriving each day
All that have been received up to date have
been OF the summer variety The cars art
/ or the green hue prevailing on the line with
white tops and gilded lettering. a trailer
VIII be run with each motor-car, and al
VIII be brilliantly lighted By electricity.
| Three motor-carS and tTaIleTs VIII be
1 run tomorrow night. If their operation il
successful others viii be put Oh as rapidly
as the drivers can be trained to operate tn
4 motor EQUIPMENTS and within a week o.
ten days after the first car is run Nintl
street viii have complete line of rapiC
transit calculated to stand on a par witt
any in existence