New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-23
ELECTRIC TRAINS SPEEDY.
RUN AT THE RATE OF THIRTY MILES AN
HOUR ON THE ELEVATED ROAD
RESULTS SATISFACTORY.

The Official trial OF an experimental electric train
OF six cars equipped with powerful motors took
place yesterday forenoon the Second Avenue
Elevated Railroad between Fifty-fourth and Nine
ty-secoud SITS. which section is equipped with the
protected third rail The test train operated
for two hours. and declared TO be success
On one OF the runs between Ninety-second and
Fifty-fourth SITS. the time with single stop. was
only four minutes. which figured out to be
equivalent 70 a speed Of thirty miles hour The
motors were Of the standard type and were placed
on the fore ard Of the train and worked to-
gerber. There four motors al each end OF
80 horsepower each. and the whole Of them made
Up a horsepower force Of 100 That is four times
as much power as the ordinary steam engine used
on the elevated railroads can furnish. The current
for the experimental train was supplied by the
Metropolitan Traction Company from its cleo
trical plant Il Sixty-seyenth-st. and Second-ave-
The test was made under the supervision Of Cen
eral Superintendent Baker. OF the Manhattan Rail-
way Company and James s. Doyle, master me-
chanic OF electrical equipment OF The Manhattan
company was the r1otorrnan- The other officials
Of the Manhattan company VINO watched the run
ming OF the train were Alfred skitt, vtcepresdent
% that corporation; Hugh Hazleton assistant cleo
tricel engineer. and s. D. Smith superintendent OF
transportation
The Metropolitan Traction Company repre-
sented the trial Of the electric train by Presi-
dent H H Vreeland. Chief Engineer NJ J. Sterrett
and ". A Person electrical engineer Others
who spent the TWO hours running up and down on
the TWO miles Of track in the train were President
Clinton l. Rossirer. of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company: ". J. Van Dorm Of Chicago, head 81
the Van Dorm Car coupler Company; Messrs. NeTt.
Bckel and Nagle Of the Newly rk Air Brake
COMPANY. u. a Potter, chief engineer OF the
railway department OF the General Electric Com
psny and several women friends and relatives OF
the railway officials.
The experimental train was run out Of the yards
Sxty-seventh-st at 1910 g. m, and rounded the
curve OF the main track noiseesSly. The nrst run
I'd the road made in less than six minutes,
and then better time made Engineer Halle
ton said that as the motors each end or the
train We're working toger and under control OF
the rnotormsn difficulties encountered IN the opera
ton 81 other third rail systems had been overcome
When the new power is IN use air brakes. instead
Of vacuum ones, Will halt the trains within their
own length and while al fuil speed
the present service said Mt. Hazleton,
local trains the Sixth-ave road take fortynine
minutes between the Battery and One-hundred-
a-d-lf-v-ffrh-rt. and under the electric system
the trip will be made in forty minutes The Sec
on4-ave. elevated viii be the first electrically
equipped and the power Will be furnished from
station located al Seventyfourth-st-, East River.
The building will be constructed in about three
months and the machinery IS being made under
contract The laying OF the protected third rail Is
in progress. and the work viii be completed as
Quickly as possible All q the cars are heated and
lighted electricity