The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07
WINCHESTER AVENUE ROAD
ORDERING NEW CARS FOR THE
SUMMER TRAFFIC..
Four Large Ones Costing $4,000 Each to
be Ready for May 1st-N-w Loop and
Other Proposed improvements.

| DE Neauy Tor May 1st-New Loop and
Theater to be Erected Mt Savin Rock -
Other Proposed improvements.
The Winchester Avenue Railroad
company has juet placed an order with
! the Wason Manufacturing company of
| Springfield, Mass, for four more open
cars for the summer traffic. The cars
will be much the same as the large ones
put on by the company last summer
| and which gave such good satisfaction.
They will contain fifteen seats each and
will be equipped with folding running
boards and drop bars. The cost of each
will be about $4,000 and they will be
ready May l.
The order indicates a preparation on
the part of the railroad for large
summer traffic, and Nsuch will undoubt-
eddy prove the case. The five-cent fare
| to Savin Rock last year proved popu.
lar rate and in consequence the roads
| traffic was the largest in its history.
| With the Improvements and changes
| which the company. plans to put into
| effect this summer the traffic will un-
doubtedly eclipse any ever handled by
| the company.
An improvement that will materially
aid in the smooth working of the time
schedule, especially on holidays and ex-
cursion days, will be the new loop
which will be put in at the grove. Here
tofore it has been necessary for cars
with trailers on arriving at the grove
to switch them in upon a side track IN
order to make the return trip, which
operation has always consumed consld-
cradle time and at times caused annoy
ing delays. The new loop will enclrcle
the ball grounds and In comparative
ly simple manner will do away with all
annoyance and delay.
This improvement will certainly be
appreciated by all who have ever been
at Savin Rock on holiday. NO pen
can describe the agonized feeling which
one experiences in having to scramble
undignifiedly into a traveller on such an
occasion, and then to have to stand up
during the long ride to the city. With
the best of feelings you might have tax
en- your stand in the waiting station
while the car was being switched, deter
mined to wait calmly until it came
along; but invariably at the first wa
vering motion of the waiting crowd to-
wards the car you felt your resolutions
vanish and found yourself breathless,
sprinting with the rest for the desired
goal. Ten chances to one you knocked
your knee or your knuckle in your mad
leap into the car, and was even less
able than usual to, stand calmly until
you reached your destination.
The new loop will do away with all
this and there will be no more scram
bling. The cars will draw UP in front
of the waiting station, as in any rail-
road station, and IL one has to stand up
during the ride to town it will be be-
cause the carts crowded and he Is un-
fortunately of the sterner sex.
At the regular monthly meeting Of
the directors Of the road held in West |
Haven on Saturday last the new theater |
which it Ia NOW proposed to erect at |
Savin Rock was definitely decided upon.
Architect T.. w. Maynard of Boston was
present and later went over the ground. |
The theater will be located on spiles |
over the water midway between Mil |
ler's and Skeeles piers. 1t will extend |
out for two hundred feet and will in
every way be one Of the most complete
of it's kind. The stage will be thirty /
five feet across and thirty feet deep,
suited for almost any kind of per
Torrance. The auditorium of the house
will be circular, eighty feet in diameter.
1t will contain the usual pit, gallery
and boxes, and the side walls will be
arranged SO that on warm nights they
can be rolled up. letting in the cool sea
breeze TT Isl fine plan of the company