The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-06

"PAA AA"hoiI SohPdhy VcNediS
Part Of Its Plans-Contract for the
Bridges and Electrical Equipment
Has Been Let--Contracts for the
Construction Work Will Be Award
ed in the Near Future-To Put Oh
Handsome Cars.
by October next 1t is promised that
cars will be running from this city to
Wilkes Barre over the double track
read of the Lackawanna and Wyoming
Valley Rapid Transit company.
Tho contract for supplying the cleo
tlical apparatus for the road has been
awarded TO Westinghouse. Church.
Kerr & Company. for $l.l55, 900. There
was a desperate battle for the contract
between that firm and the General
Electric company. The King Bridge
company was last November awarded
the contract for the bridges and most
of the iron work for them is finished
and ready for delivery.
There will be no grade crossings for
the entire length of the road and there-
fore number of bridges will be nec-
essary. The longest will be at Avoca
and will BE- 500 feet in length. On It.
the road will cross the Delaware and
Hudson tracks.
Contracts for building the road will
be awarded in about n week and in
ten days it is expected that ground
will be broken for the construction of
the road. Tho work will be prosecuted
with great vigor.
Just where the terminus of the road
will be in this city the officers of the
company are not prepared TO say at
this time, but will make their an
nouncement in about ten days. Like
secrecy is maintained as to the Wilkes
Barre end. but the officers assert very
positively that in both places they
will get into the very heart of the
city.
SCRANTON DIVISION.
The Scranton division of the road
will be the Connell Park and Speed
way Railway company. which is part
of the I.ackawanna and Wyoming VAL
ley company's system. Coming into
this city. The company has bought its
own right of way as far as Elm street.
1t will pass down Elm street as far
as Prospect avenue. taking advantage
of the franchise granted by the city
ana will proceed north on
Prospect avenue as far as the Roar
ing brook. What route the road will
take from that point into the middle of
the city will. as stated above not be
known for ton days or so.
Heavy rails will be used on the road.
it will be a double track and ballasted
with stone for its entire length and
will be equipped with the block sys-
TEN of signals. The bridges are all to
he of heavy and substantial construc-
ton. capable of bearing. the weight of
to haul freight over the lines
late at night after the passenger cars
have been taken Off
1t is the intention to put ON express
trains between this city and Wilkes
Barre. which will make only one stop.
at PittstOn. These trains will make
the trip to Wilkes-Barre in thirty-iive
minutes. The regular trains will not
stope wherever a passenger desires to
get on and off. but only at the follow
ing regular stations between here and
Barre: South Scranton. Mi
nooka. Moosic, Avoca, Pittston. Yates
vile, Latin. Hudson. Miners Mills and
Parsons. Trains that make stops at
all of these stations will make the trip
in fOrty-scven minutes. The fare will
he fifty cents for a ro,ind trip ticket
and thirty cents for single fare.
HANDSOME CARS.
The cars will he handsome Pullmans
which will cost $4,000 each. They will
be So feet long. feet and 6 inches wide
and the interior will he finished in
The cars will weigh 40
tons and each will be supplied with
four 75-horse power motors. Each car
will have a smoking compartment
The road is being built under reg
llation railroad charter which gives
the company the power OF eminent do
main in acquiring and condemning
property. A private right of way has
been secured for almost the entire dis
lance and is now in the possession of
The company.
The road is to be built by the Transit
company, of which G. V.
Boughton is president. This company
S made up of directors of the various
merged into the Lacka-
wanna and wyoming Valley Rapid
Transit company. which will also oper-
ate it for three months to prove that
[ is in smooth working order and will
hen turn 1t over to the owners if 1t is
There will not be curve on the
Dad greater than four degrees and not
| grade outside the city of more than
me and one-half per cent. The power
station for the road will be on Crown
lvenue, where Drums ice house now
The directors of the new company are
Ion. William Connell. Hon. Michael |
). Mcdonald, Matthew Stanley Quay,
:. C. Mates, II. +. Penman, Dudley |
Phelps, New York city; Joseph A.
Brewer, Jonathan jerks. Henry C.
Riley, of Philadelphia; Joseph Seep.
)il City; q. w. Rockins, Lewis Bremen,
lanes d, Lazell, Philadelphia; DR.. q.
:, Mohn, Mifliinburg: II. $. McNaul,
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