The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-18
SMALL CARS DOOMED
TO-PUT LARGE ONES ON
ALI. LINES
CHANGE COMES NEXT YEAR
In Twelve Months All the Anti
quated Patterns Will Have Been
Dispensed With-Other
improvements.

The days of the small cars on the st.
Paul street car lines are numbered The
company has been making rapid I'M
provements in the matter of cars and at
this time has a good record to show for
it's effort.
The latest line to be equipped with
the large cars was the Rice street and
| there are many other lines that are ruin
ming large cars that were not a year ago
this time.
I ne Selby line was the first one upon
which the large cars were run and the
satisfaction they gave to the patrons of
that line aroused the company to the
fact that better service would be appre-
ciated and was the thing.
From the time that the -Selby cars we're
so favorably received until the present
the company has been gradually putting
on the new cars, until there are now
thirty-two more large cars on the diff
ferent lines of the. city than there were
a year ago.
The Selby avenue line, the Rice, State
and Concord lines, the Fort Smelling
line and the Grand and Lafayette lines
are now all equipped with the large cars.
That is, the regular cars on these lines
are all of the new kind, only the extras
that are run at the busy time, night
and morning, being of the old pattern
Nothing more will be done this year
in the way of putting on large cars, but
the work will be taken up early next
spring, and it is estimated that by
year from now there will not be a line
in the city but what will be equipped
with the new pattern cars for the regular
runs.
The cars are all built at the COM
pany's shops and are quite expensive
compared with the old style The work
on them is finer in every way and the
motor equipment far surpasses anything
that has ever been used in street trans
portation service anywhere in the coun-
try.
They are comfortable both for passen-
gers and operators and are capable Of
making better time and of course will
carry more than twice as many passen-
gers as the small cars.
The small cars, such of those as are
in condition, will be held at the barns
for extra occasions such as fair week,
etc, when there are unusual numbers
of people in the city
For awhile these cars will also make
the extra runs, but it Is only a matter of
time when every car upon the eompany's
trackage in the city will be of. the new
pattern.
The company is constantly experiment.
ing with new brakes and all manner of
equipment that will insure safety and
dispatch for the people who use the
cars. One or two of the cars are at
present equipped with new electric
brake which is proving quite successful.
Air brakes have been used on the Still
water line for some time and no doubt
all of the cars will be fitted out with
either one or the other of these brakes,
according to the one which proves the
best in the mind of the company.
The whole trend of the company is
along the lines of Improvement What
improvements have been made dur
ing the past year have met with success
and the company, realizes that the public
demands and appreciates every conven-
fence in the matter of street transporta-
ton