Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08

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ana made ready for the purpose, and the
dam which will hold the water will have
been completed 1t will be turned into its
former channel and continue to supply the
this work is Mr.. ]. c. Bryan 81 Baltimore.
The main line Of the Columbia electric road
runs directly in front of the power house
Snd ether buildings after entering Lake
land on a massive plate girder bridge over
Paint branch. This bridge is In two spans
OF sixty feet each, resting on large gran
lie abutments. with an immense pier of
similar masonry In the center. The same
necessary along the line Of the road. and
VIII be built under the general supervision
OF Mr.. W. Kesley schoepf. the general
manager of t>a company, Who designed
ana a,hat constructed m the Rock Creek bridge. on
Wnat Is now known as the Chevy Chase
3ranch OF the Capital Traction Company
me road runs through Lakeland on Super-
1 10. avenue. over right of way given by
Ine baltimore and Ohio tracks at an i'm
rel. ' " Lao-
Lake Full of Bass.
Inc town Of Lakeland, where this important
plant OF the road Is being erected Ia situat.
ed on both sides Of the Baltimore and Obio
failroad. and il in the center of the terrific
~ occupied by the towns Of Charlton
Heignts, Berwyn, College Park, Branch.
Vliie and the grounds Of the MARYLAND A~ri-
cultural College. 1t contains, among other
d .eraGtive features, lake OF seven acres.
supplied with water by a spring and q
twenty-ineh now pipe from Paint branch.
near the site of the power house. 1t is es
peclally attractive to anglers who are for
.unate enough to know Mr.. Newman. as II
is full of wary and game small-mouthad
PACK bass, catch of no less than seventy
nVe railing to two rods a couple of weeks
ago. A'
Character of the Cars.
The line from Washington to Laurel will
be ready to operate, as before stated. nv
september Is, this veal, and the cars which
Will be run over 1t are being rapidly built
by the Barney and Smith Company of Day.
ton. Ohio. They will be delivered early in
August: These cars will be superior in
point OF power and equipment to any cleo
trlc car now in use. Each will be operated
by 40 horsepower motors one on each
axle. The superiority of the cars in this
regard may be realized when it is stated
that the trolley cars now universally used
are equipped with but two motors, each of
th1rty-hve horsepower. The cars will be
equipped with air brakes of the most mod
err design, and the seats will be arranged
as tney are in passenger cars used on steam
roads, with the aisle in the center of the
car. Open cars amply furnished with
agencies to protect the passengers will be
used In fine summer weather and closed
Will be divided into compartments.
A Novel Innovation.
Notwithstanding the abundance of the
electric current at the demand of the COM
pany and its easy adaptabHity to illuminat-
ing purposes the cars will all be lighted with
Pintsch gas. the management having de-
termined that 1t gives a softer and more
satisfactory light than the electric lamp
Each Car, however, will be provided with
the equipment necessary to light it cleo
trically II desired at any time. There will
be smoking compartments. lavatories and
all other modern conyehienceSsof similar
nature In the cars. The trains to be run
Will consist of two cars each. All the prin-
cipal roads crossed by the line, such as
those at Hyattsville, Lakeland and other
towns, and the roads in general use, will be
guarded by electric warning bells that will
begin ringing when the approaching trains
are at a considerable distance, from the
crossing.
Baltimore to Ellfcott City.
At the Baltimore end Of the road the
grading has been completed, and the tracks
laid from the terminal of the system at
and Saratoga Streets where the
company has purchased large real estate
interests for depot, general Offices and
miles distant. This section will be finished
by September 8. The power house for the
Baltimore section, which will terminate at
Laurel, when the strip between, the latter
town and Elicott City is capRRleted. will
be located at Leicester, ten miles from Bal
timore. The property upon which it is
erected was partly donated to the company
by the Catholic Order of Redemptorists.
The power house at Leicester will be Of the
same general construction, bricks and gran
lite, as that at Lakeland, but 1t is much
further advanced, as the contract for it
was made, SIX. weeks earlier. The boilers
and pumps are now in place there and the
rest of the machinery will shortly follow.
The equipment will be precisely like that
Of the power house at Lakeland, described
before.
The Middle Section.
Work on tho section, ten miles long, lying
between Ellicott City and Baltimore has
not yet been commenced, owing to the fact
that the location Of the line here was not
determined as early as that Of the tive
ends. The contract will be awarded for
this piece early in August, and 1t will be
completed so that the entire road will be
in operation by the first of March, 1897.
The maximum grade of the road in Its en-
tire length is but per cent, except on the
extreme ends. where the company was
obliged to conform with the grades already
by the municipalities Of Balti-
more and Washington. This almost level
surface of roadbed will admit of sustained
speed of high character, but the rate at
WHICH the Trains Will De run mas not yet
been decided upon, although 1t Is expect
ed to be something out Of the common.
The controlling interests in the lexington
and Soldiers Home and the Belt railway
companies of this city are owned by the
Columbia and Maryland electric road, and
these lines will be run in connection with
the intercity road when 1t is completed.
The Builders of the Road.
The officers Of the company who are en-
gagged in the construction of the road are
Henry T. Douglass, PRESIDENT w. Kesley
Schoepf, general manager: 8. W. HUFF. cleo
trical engineer; Dr. Louis Duncan. presi-
dent Of the American Society of Electrical
Engineers, consulting engineer: and Henry
Brauns Of Baltimore. architect Of the build
ings All the officers Of the company are
engineers. Col. Henry T. Douglass, the
president, is prominently known in railroad
circles all over America. He was for twelve
years chief engineer Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company. and later chief
engineer of the typographical survey of
Baltimore, the position he now holds. In
1894 he was appointed city commissioner of
Baltimore, an Office similar to that of the
engineer commission of the District of
Columbia. but he resigned in August, 1895,
to accept the presidency Of the Columbia
and Maryland road.
Mr.. w. Kesley Schoepf, as general man
ager. an office which embodies that of the