The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-18
NEARING
COMPLETION
Rapid Transit Cars
Will Soon Be
Running.
NO DATE SET
FOR BEGINNING
Twenty.Seven Superb Cars Of
Modern Pattern Will Garry
the Public.

II Work on the cars of the Rapid Tran
sit Company is progressing fast 1t is
the hope of the company to have their
fine in running order some time next
MONTH Just when the directors do not
fKn0wy they are not trying to have their
cars running by certain date
Ten or twelve of the cars are up and
are in the hands of the painters They
will, when completed, be finished in
maroon and straw.
The rolling stock of the company con-.
sists of twenty seven motor cars Fiji
teen will seat thirty-two people, ten
will seat forty people. while two will be
used for trolley parties These last two
will hold something like forty or forty
five occupants, and will be fitted out in
superb style.
The twenty-five cars that will be used
in the everyday service will be open on
order to protect the passengers from
rain, curtains will run from the top to
the bottom They will be reinforced
with strips of steel every nine inches,
which will make them, to all practical
yorposes, as solid as a fixed wooden
side yet which, when not in use, can
be raised out of the way. The curtains
can be stopped at any point by means
of a spring The seats, which are I'M
ished in hard wood run crosswise with
a center aisle down the middle of the
rryl.a Il, c.i1 40 re
and are extra wide.
Every appliance known in modern
car building that will contribute to the
comfort and the safety of their We
hicles has been incorporated into the
rolling stock of the Rapid Transit Com
pany. Sand boxes, double brake chains
and ratchet handles will enter into the
makeup of each car. The motormen
will have complete control of the cars,
and will be able to stop. back or go
forward as easily as though they were
handling a toy instead of a huge piece
of machinery weighing many tons. The
American Car Company of ST. Louis,
who have the contract. say that the
Honolulu order is equal to anything
they have ever filled. and that they
will stand comparison with any pend
work of similar companies.
The cars, when completed, will run
over the following route, some six miles
in length: The starting point will be
in Manoa valley then through the Pu-
nahou district, from there down to
Wilder avenue. TO Lunalilo street, from
Lunalilo street to Alapai. from Alapai-
to Hotel. TO Nuuanu stream, over which
the cars will pass in a steel bridge,
which is being built expressly for the
purpose From Nuuanu stream the
line will run to Liliha street and up
Liliha to Wyllie avenue.
The curves. crossings and switches
are being put in. The boiler is in ex-
cellent working order. and the piping
which is to conduct water from the ar
tesian well to the different parts of
the premises, is all in. The work
from now on until IL is completed, will
be the perfecting of details, some of
them so trif1ing as TO seem unworthy OF
notice to one who is not familiar with
the work of such business concerns.
The company expects, however, that
there will be some bitches in their ser
vice when it is begun, and they have
wisely concluded to do away with all
that are now in sight before opening
the way for any more.