New-York tribune., 1901-03-17
. HUDSON
ROUTE OF A BIG LOOP OF TROLLEY LINES
BEING CONSTRUCTED UP THE STATE.

Senator Bracket has introduced measures most
Of which have become laws, which have led to a
great development of the water power of the
Hudson River This is a development still in
progress. A big dam has been thrown across
the Hudson River at Mechancsville. and an
other at Saltwater Another is to be built
the Hudson River above Glens Falls. All these
dams are intended to store up water. and then
by water power to manufacture electrical power
The electricity from the big dam at Mechanics
vile is not only used al the works Of the Cen
eral Electric Company at Schenectady. fifteen
miles distant but also to propel the streetcars
in Albany.
The electrical power manufactured at the vari-
Gus dams along the upper Hudson Will be used
I'm propelling the cars Of the trolley lines which
will run along the valley Of the Hudson River
from Albany as far north Fort Edward and
Glens Falls. and then TO Warrensburg upon
the Schroon River. Recently third rail and
trolley road has been constructed from Hudson
to Albany. Another line will soon be under
construction from Albany to Schenectady In the
present spring OF the managers OF the AL
bany Street Railway Company says will be
able to take trolley from State-st.. IN AL
bany to Hudson the south. Schenectady on
the west. or Fort Edward the north.
Soon also the same trolley railroad system will
schuylervil!e to Saratoga, Ballston Spa and
Round Lake. and thence back TO the main line
OF the Hudson River line at Mechanicsvi!le
/ My Saratoga bills" said Senator Bracket.
have direct relation the vast improve
ment of the trolley system OF the Hudson River
Valley now in progress. James l.. Powers, Addi-
son B. Colvin and others have just acquired the
Saratoga Traction Company. They propose to
unite that Saratoga system with the Saltwater
and Mechanicsve at Saltwater. There will be
a belt line. A resident of Troy or Albany will
be able 10 take a trolley car. go to Mechanics
willie and thence ride TO Round Lake Ballston
Spa and Saratoga Then he can return home
by going from Saratoga TO Schuylervile. and
southwark from Schuylerville to Mechanicsville
| and then proceed to Troy or Albany. In the
summer time the people of Albany and Troy will
| undoubtedly use the line at times in going TO
Saratoga. l may mention that one of the de-
signs OF the men who have just bought the
Saratoga Traction Company is TO build line
from Saratoga TO Gens Falls The Delaware
and Hudson now runs steam cars between Sara
toga and Glens Falls by way of Fort Edward.
The trolley line up the Hudson from Mechanics
willie to Fort Edward cuts off about twenty
miles of the distance between those points. and
commercial travellers will be able to visit a lot
of small towns along the Hudson River which
hitherto they have rarely visited. The same
capitalists who are building the line from Still
water TO Fort Edward intend to build line
from Caldwell, the foot of Lake George to
Warrensburg. the Schroon River"
What do your Saratoga bills do?' was asked
They will enable to improve the village in
a large number of ways The hackmen, for in
stance. have made livery stable for years of
Broadway, and .heir cries of Hack, hack are
distracting to visitors. They will he kept off
broadway, and sort of concourse constructed
Where they can conSregate and secure custom.
Another of my bills gives authority for the ap-
pointment or a new sewer commissioner. Then
another authorizes the construction of a speed-
way This will be soft dirt road where men
can speed their fast horses We anticipate a
great revival OF Saratoga's popularity through
the eHortS or the Saratoga Association for the
Improvement of the Breed of Horses of which
William C. Whitney has been elected president
and Andrew Miller of Nev-York treasurer
The association bought the Saratoga Racetrack
and Horse Haven of q. Walhaum for s3o5 600
me racing VIII he made of an excellent descrip-
more attractive than it is at present and to
popuIariZe II as a summer resort"
Inc trolley roads will be Of considerable
lehgth. from Albany to Troy the distance is
SIN iies, from Troy to Saratoga it is thirty
TWO miles, and from Saratoga TO Clens FaIIs ~
would he twenty miles From C.Ia,s M"
Lake ,feoTSe IL IS nine miles and tban fro,,
Lake George to Warrensburg seven r,iIos ,rhan
tneIe Is the troiley road from Albany 10 Schener
tady, fifteen miles. and from AIhanrS 80 -
son. twenty-six miles 1t is TINS anna. -. '.uu. ..
q trolley system of large proportions is ,a 80
construction. which in the sunlr,ar ,;,,,1 si,
largely pa,ronlzed py the residents of this valley
incidentally, Saratoga, which win he on = -;
trolley loop" hopes 10 profit much bv tha ~, ols
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