Arizona republican., 1896-06-06
Five Million Dollars for a Motor.
The Great Invention of Joseph
 H. HoadIey.
Compressed Air will Hereafter Run
 the Street Cars Of New York.

age is now about to be tried in New York city, being nothing less than the introduction for street railway service of a compressed air motor that is said to be the nearest approach yet made to perfection in the propulsion of cars. yet at a minimum expenditure for fuA and collateral expense. The inventor
 of the system is Joseph H. Hoadley. brother of the cashier Of the National Bank of Arizona, young man who was in Phoenix several years ago. In addition to the New York contracts he now has on hand it is understood he
 has been offered an even million by exclusive use of the system in Ch1- the New York World says:
 All the signs of the times seem to indicate that the new compressed afr
 motor is going to play a very import ant part in the operation of street railways in the near future.
 It is announced today that big
 millionaire syndicate has been orga- nized to operate the new invention here and elsewhere and that the street
 railroad capitalists of New York and Philadelphia are at the head of the
 movement.
 Already s5,OOO,OOO has been sub-
 scribed to the syndicate, and prepara-
 tions are going forward for the con-
 struction of two immense factories,
 where the manufacturing of the new
 applications will be carried on.
 The Metropolitan Traction company, the General Electric company, of Schnectady, and the Westing ghouse
 Manufacturing company of Pittsburg,
 are engineering the consolidation of their vast interests, and the plan IS said to have been first suggested six
 months ago in Philadelphia, where Peter A. B. Widener, Stephen B. FL
 kins and other capitalists interested in street railways started boom, and
 secured the cooperation of eX-Secre-
 tary William C. Whitney, President H.
 H. Vreeland, John D. Crimmins and the
 other big stockholders Of the Traction
 company.
 They got together and investigated the invention of Engineer Joseph H.
 Hoadley of Worcester, Mass, and
 came to the conclusion that the experi-
 ment of introducing the compressed air motor was worth trying, and after ! many tests the plan of organizing 3
 new company which expects to control street railroads both in this country
 and in Europe, was decided upon. The first machines are now being built at the factory of the American Wheelock Engine company of Worcester, Mass.
 It is said that the new power house
 of the Metropolitan Traction company which is now in the course of construe- tion at Lenox avenue and One Hund-
 red and Fortieth street, will be filled with machinery for manufacturing the new motor device.
 The headquarters of the big con- pany will be in this city, but branch offices will be established in Chicago, Philadelphia. Boston and other large cities. It is claimed that with the new
 motor cars can be equipped with sufi- cient compressed air to propel them for twenty miles without recharging. Besides this there is an advantage
 over the cable and trolley systems in cleanliness, greater speed and power,
 and ease of control. The cost of op- erating is about the same. A car equipped with the compressed air moi
 or also will weigh 2,000 pounds less than the ordinary trolley car of the same size.
 The Metropolitan Traction company has sent six of its new cars to the shops at Worcester to be fitted with compressed air motors and six more are to be sent on this week.
 Now that the underground tunnel scheme is killed, Mayor Strong says that he expects to have conference with the committee of the Manhattan company, which consists of George Gould, Russell Sage and Robert N.
 Galloway, within day or two, when the question of the Improvement and extension of the Elevated railroad sys- tenn will be discussed.