The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-12
AUTOC APE: TIES
IN WASHINGTON.
They Slip Along the Asphalt Pave
lnent In Fine Shape.
The CAPlIoLs CAR SERVICE.
Splendid Underground Trolley System
That Works Like Charm
Twenty Fifth anniversary
OF the Sultan.
Especial n.spatch to The Iimes.)

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WASHINGTON, D. c., September 10
yanced step IN the matter OF superior
street railway service. We nave now .sau-
Socarettese running to various parts of
the city not conveniently reached by the.
regular electric lines and connecting with
all the leading roads. These carettes look
like q small car and run On rui.her-ired
wheels, with a storage battery Tor driving
powe.r They resemble a regular street
car in all details, and are MANNED by a
znotorneer and conductor. The company
sells six tickets for twenty-five cents, and
these tickets are good Ior any OF Inc
regular lines IN addition it has transfer
arrangement with the Pennsylvania ave-
nue. lines, and passengers are tafsier.su
10 and from one TO the other. Inc caTettes
cover twelve miles an hour under iuit
seadway, and are likely to prove sue
cess In running over the smooth aslliait
r,apements of Washington. hardly fnlnk
they would prove satisfactory n cisS
OF cobbie-sto.les and poorly-payed streets.
MARKS ON EPOCH.
This Is one OF the advantages OF a Soou
system OF street paving, which iocai muir
CAPABILITIES m eht study With proiat IN me
capital of the nation. The autocareite
marks another epoch in the Ieniafkab.e
revolution of Wisnington5s street car ser
vice inaug,Irated under the congressional
act prohibiting hcrse-cais and trolley INES.
Il was hard on the companies at iirst,
which had grown poor sticking to horses
long after every other progressive city mad
abandoned the four-footed style OF proput-
sion. Every inns ENABLE scheme was resort
ed to in an effort to get around the law
any number Of experiments We're made TO
try to run cars. Some were run on power
by storage batteries, some. on wind-ac-
tually We'll. can il condensed air. But all
efforts proved iaili;ree.
Congress. however. was ineEorabie
Horses had 10 go. and overhead troilies
were inhibited. Two lines built cable
systems. One tired the underground cleo
trio wires, STEM aid IN q conduit, revers-
ing the principle of the overhead wire.
Finally the Metropolitan line, running on
r Street from Georgetown 10 the Capitol
introduced the Buda-Iaesth system. which
consists of a l.,ow attached TO the ca,, run
ming in cable slot between two feed
rats charged with electric power. This
at snce proved SO thoroughly satisfactory,
causing the cars 10 run without noise
and without 5oltil.E ocasionea by cable
and Observation-Disclosures that the road
;r.p pied ana Guadrupled its patronage, and
its stock went Ep from something like 80
10 somewhere near 200
ALL UNDERGROUND.
in the course Of time-not a long time.
either-the great i,owf--l,ouse of the Penn
sy.lvanla-Aveaiic cable line falling a vic
tim of the flames that company closed a
contract with a Kansas city contractor,
who converted The line into an under
ground electric. like the Metropolitan. At
The present tine moi a car line system is
conducted by any other method in Wash
inseon. and New York ana other cities
alaNs been copying il re iginusiy as by lar
hast f1-j me l0HDmOtlDn
America. The impetus given 10 traffic
through this advanced form of travel. con-
sidcring its speed, comfort and elegance.
has caused paying lines to be projected
for Ten al fifteen miles to the smaller
towns in Maryland and Virginia, which
formerly We're connected with this city by
river and railway only, and line is nearly
completed between AZ ashington and Bait
more. Travel has been enormously slim
ulated by 1ila action If Congress fixing
the rate of travel in the District and COM
peiiing companies to sell six tickets for
% cents, soad Oh all lines, and inausu-
rating a general transfe-- system from one
line 10 another. For less than scents a
passenger can travel frcm one end of the
Dlstrictsof Columbia 10 the other extreme,
and all the companies are making money
The autncarette system, Expresses the gem
,tsrai trend toward ta1e perfection OF street.
car travel. wlics, has become an absorbing
no part of the city shah i2a without cheap
ard comfortable sircst-car service.
THE SJ1LTAnS'S .s-Sc,IYERSARY.
The twentyfftia Anniversary of the
c.c.wrirlg of the Sultan of Turkey. Abdul
Hainid IL. was celebrated Saturday night
by the Turkish Minister. Ali Farrouh Bey,
at his home. in Cleveland Park.
A nunbzT Of guests from out of town
were present, and a few sfashingtonians
A solemn serNice Of thanks for the preser-
walton Of the Tnonareh's life was neld
according to The Moslem rite, in which q
number of Turks from New York partic!-
patsI- The house was decorated with
Turkish flags and ennln ems and American
flags Dinner was served on the cool
rorarda of the house. ana the health of
The Sultan and President Mckinley was
drunk. The porch was brilliantly iliumi-
mated and tbs fete was very much enjoyed
by all of the guests.