Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-11-04
NEW RAILWAY OPENED.
Elsmere g. Wilmington Electric Line
in Operation.

IN tDDcTatlDn,
The Rond Inspected IN saturday Afternoon
amt Business Becun This Morning - In
tercsting trial rrIp.
A new Elsmere 4 Wilm ington electric
RAILWAY, connecting Elamere with this
city, was put into operation Monday
morning. ID. W. TAYLOR, president of the
company, states that for the present
cars will be run as frequently as the
patronage warrants. with about Il half
hour ar possibly 20 minutes headway.
Arrangements have been made with
the Wilmington City Railway Co. bv
which the cars will be run 10 Union
street and Lancaster avenue, thus
enabling the passengers To take the
cars Of thu Wilmington City Railway
Co. ut Lancaster avenue and Union
street down Lancaster avenue, down
Fourth street, or down Eighth street
with only tho ono transfer from car tn
car. The fare from Elsmpre to Union
street and Lancaster avenue will be
five cents. seven tickets gopd either way
on the Elsmcre road to be sold lay the
conductor for u cents.
The Elsmere & Wilmington company
will endeavor in the near future to
effect an arrangement with the vii
mington City Railway Co. TO run cars
through either 10 the r., W. & b. rail
road station or to some point on Market
street.
The handsome new cars for the road
will bs tiuished soon and placed on tho
line. In the meantime the Whining.
ton City Railway CO. has kindly con
sented TO furnish cars for operating the
line. The new cars Will he of an en-
tirely new type from any heretofore in
use in this city. They will ba closed
cars much on the same style of Nos 200
and 20l of the Wilmington City Rail.
way Co. . cars, hut will have double
windows Tho seats are reversible, 30
that the passengers will always face in
the direction in which the car is
moving. Those cars ars now being built
by the jackson IL Sharp Go. of this
city and will he constructed and fitted
out with all tho latest improvements.
A trial trip was taken on Saturday
afternoon over the new line by officials
OF the Elsmere and city railways anu
invited guests. The party left Ian
caster avenue and Union street about
9 o'clock on parlor car No. POI of the
Wilmington City Railway Go. in charge
of Conductor Fred Brown. with Moses
Lowther as motorman. The Elsmere
line starts in beyond tho Lancaster
avenue bridge anu runs along the
avenue 10 Cleveland avenue. Down
Cleveland avenue it takes its course
and crossing the du Pont road and the
Wilmington g. Northern railroad, the
latter being bridge5, enters Elsmore.
In Elsmere the line crosses the NEW
road" and turns down Northern avenue,
whence it makes II curve and stops out
eide the entrance gate OF the Delaware
Field Club grounds. The distance OF
about mile and half was made in
about 10 minutes
The easy running of the car indicated
an excellent condition of the roadbed.
After the members of the party had
looked around at the Field Club grounds
President Taylor Of the new company
took two snap shot photographs of the
guests with the car in the background
and also snapped" group of white
and colored boys. On the way back to
town Mr.. Taylor secured pictures of
the car IN the bridge over the vii.
mington q Northern railroad tracks and
view Of the road on Cleveland avenus.
The party comprised besides MIR.
Taylor, President Preston Lea, Assistant
Manager Harvey Z. VanGegrift and
Treasurer W. l.. Head of the Whining
ton City Railway Co, Postmaster EnoGh
Moore, Luvy Court Commissioner John
Lynn, City Councilman James Is.
OberlY, Alexander j. Hart, William
Lawton, Harry Elnmons, Joseph l..
Carpenter, Jr,, Samuel Q. Biddle, i.
W Foreman, Frank ID. Laukey,, vii.
liam Bratton, Road Commissioner Jacob
Brown and newspaper representatives.
The car on its trial trip was hailed
with delight by the people of Elsmure,
and Just as it reached the centre of
population of the suburb two ladies'
who resde there waved salute to the
merry party on board.