The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-17
ooNsoLIDArED ROAD.
Important Changes on the old Colony
 System-Other Notes.

Important Changes on the old Colony System-Other Notes.
 Next Sunday the New York, New Ha-
 ven and Hartford railroad will make
 a change on the Old Colony system, which will involve much work and eX-
 pense. On that date trains of tAe
 double track will begin to run on the
 right hand track instead ct the left
 hand. The New Haven system and one division of the Old Colony-the Stoning- ton-run trains right handed. Every where else the Old Colony system runs left handed. In England trains rur
 left handed, but that is the rule of 'he road there in highways. In this country nearly all roads have al ways run right
 handed, although the Old Colony, Lake
 Shore and Michigan Southern, and Chi
 cago and Northwestern have been not
 able exceptions.
 The work called for by this change is enormous. Every block signal electric connection must be reversed so as to
 signal in the opposite direction. Every side track must be discontinued at the present switch, and the switch relocated at the other end of the siding, so that the engines will not take the switch point on." The cross over switches between the main lines must be similar ly relaid. Water pipes at stations for supplying engines must be carried to the other end of the stopping places. The quartermaster general has paid the different railroads for the trans portatione of men and freight to and from Mantle. The sums paid were as follows: New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, $5,1SO-$4, ,526.10 for
 men, and $654 for horses, guns, etc;
 Philadelphia and Reading, $27S.6O; New | England, $414.S2; Central Vermont, $2O1.6O; South Manchester, $125S0. To- l tai, $6, ,195.92.
 THE sNANTAsKET EXPERIMENT PAID AND EXTENSIONS WILL BE MADE.
 Boston, Sept. 1s.-In an interview yes terday J. R. Kendrick, the third vice president of the New Haven ratlroad, said of the proposed extension of cleo tricaf equipment of the Old Colony di- vision:
 'We are entirely satisfied with our l experiment. on the Nantasket Beach business, the season having demonstrat- ed the fact that the cheap and frequent 1 trains create traffic. The passenger sta tistics for the summer just closed show an increase of 300 per cent. over those | of the season of 1894, and next year we expect these figures will be beaten.
 The tests made the other day in demon starting the practicability of electricity | in its relations to the freighting bust ness wer ealso eminently satisfactory, ! and mean a great deal in the applica- tion of the current to all branches of rail transportation. Intregard to the re- l port that our company was taking steps looking to the equipment of the link be- | tween Nantasket Junction and Brain | tree with electricity, we expect to have the line running in full working order andrunning in connection with the Man. | tasket Beach branch by the first of next season.''
 l Are the other roads in this neighbor- hood interested in the experiments ot | the New Haven system?"
 ! "Yes, they are keeping close watch | on whatever we do. It has been prac- l tically decided to use the current in conjunction with steam, so far out as | Readville and Dedham, on the Provi- l dence division. There will be foul tracks on the elevation, the outer one being for trolley cars"