The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-21
NEW CARS.
Worcester and Suburban Road Receives
Two Of the Latest Pattern.

| worcester ana Supufpan Hoau Receives
Two Of the Latest Pattern.
Two of the eight cars which the Wor-
cester and Suburban Street Railway
Company are having built, reached the
Boston and Albany freight yard last
evening. Six others are expected in
as quick time as they can be gotten
out and they will then be put in use
on the Spencer division.
The cars are to take the place of the
regular ones running between Worces-
ter and Spencer, and they will be re-
ceived with feeling of much satisfac
tion among patrons of the road in that
section.
The cars We're built in Springfield,
and they have cross seats as in the
ordinary railroad coaches. The new
cars are 80 feet long, seat 72 people, and
the general accommodation for passen
ger traffic is a marked feature COM
pared with any cars now in use in Wor
cester and in many places.
They are of the more improved vesti-
bule pattern, and protect the motorman
and conductor as well as the travelling
public from the hardships of winter.
! The outside, where the motorman
works, is vestibule front. and the
mechanical works are completely To-
Gated within the interior The motor
power of the cars is a 2 GEE 1000 mo-
tor and the facilities for rapid
transit are more advanced than in
the old cars The brake used is
safety design, which can be easily OPP
Grated and with greater advantage than
the old ones. The brake is worked on
a gear sprocket arrangement, and is
replaced by substitute sprocket which
can be brought into use in cases of
emergency.
The woodwork of the car is of oak,
put together by the most skilled labor,
and is built together on a framework
Of steel and oak. The outside work is
painted in carmine and white and the
interior is finished in mahogany. The
| outer parts of the car near the plat
/ forms have doors of sliding pattern,
which find place when the car is crowd
ed in section in front of the mechan-
ism which runs the car.
! Different from the ordinary vestibule
/ car, of which the Marlboro cars are
sample, the street railway people
have arranged a system of natural ven
I tilation which reaches all sections of
the car, finding it's source in the raised
! portion on the roof of the car in a set
! of windows which can be opened or
closed at will. The ventilation idea is
still further considered in the manner
farranged for the regular side windows
4 of the car. These side windows are
4 so fixed that they are raised if neces-
sary into the roof of the car. instead of
4 being dropped out of sight to the floor
as in the old cars.
| A new feature of the cars is the pres
| ence of a sand box arrangement which
/ is worked by the pressing of lever.
| The slightest pressure is enough to
throw sand on the rails, and this can
I be done without any trouble on the
motorman's part e E@
II The interiors; furnished with seats
of rattan and the floor is of hard pine.
! The windows are ornamented with
curtains of the latest design and they
are put in with an arrangement which
will allow their rise and fall at the
will of the passenger.
4 The car is heated by electric heaters,
which are placed under every seat
| These heaters are made by the Albany
Car Heater Company, and they are
new designs for New England.
I In one particular, the cars will be
different from the cars now> seen in
4 Worcester. The company has aband-
oned the idea Of lettering, and aside
! from the mere printing necessary to
guide the public, there will be none
visible.
The cost of each car complete is
more than the price paid for any car
now running in Worcester and they
/ are at the same time the most beau
tifully equipped in every particular.
The cars will be put in commission
at once, and as fast as they are re-
ceived will be distributed over the
/ Spencer line.