The semi-weekly messenger., 1902-08-08

of Elizabeth, y. J., and are OF the very
latest design, possessing all modern
appointments.
The four passenger coaches are vesti-
buled and will have 10 be entered from
the rear. These cars will be 43 feet
over all, with an extreme width of
feet inches, and foot platforms.
They Will possess Is cross seats on
each side of a center aisle, which
will give each coach a seating capac-
ity of % persons. The interior decorat-
ing and wood work will be exceedingly
attractive. The seats will be Of highly
polished hard wood, so as not to retain
dust. Opposite each seat will be a
handsome window, we'll protected by
Pantasote curtain. The paneling will
extend on a level with the seats. The
trucks are the Master Car Builders
standard, possessing extra heavy
wheels and axles and a long wheel
base, which insures perfect safety at
high speed. The coaches Will be capa-
BILE of a speed of 40 miles an hour,
though the same type of car is being
safely operated on a suburban trolley
line at Toledo, Ohio, at speed of so
miles per hour. The cars will be painted
a solid orange. Each when loaded will
weigh % tons.
The freight car and the combination
passenger and baggage coach will be
as we'll fitted up for their work as the
passenger coaches. They will also be
painted an orange hue, which is the
representative color of the Consoli-
dated Companies.
These six cars will be the only ones
used, except for the present, in the alb
sence of the regular freight car, the
Seacoast engine and car will be
pressed into temporary service to haul
freight. No trailers to the trolley cars
will be used. This has been definitely
decided. There will really be no ne
cessity for using them, as the cars are
of ample capacity, and the schedule so
arranged as to nicely accommodate ALL
CONVENIENT SCHEDULE.
I, The schedule, so important a factor,
has been we'll arranged. Three of the
four passenger coaches will be operated
all day. A car will pass a given point
every half hour.
The length of the line from the juno
tion at Front and Princess streets to
the beach is precisely IL $40 miles and
it will take just forty-five minutes to
make the trip. Commencing at $50
o'clock every morning, except Sundays,
when the time will be $50 o'clock, a
car will run every thirty minutes to
1U.OU e..
Saturday evenings there will be two
additional trips, one at IL o'clock and
the other at 11:30 o'clock At the beach
cars will leave for the city every half
hour commencing each weekday morn
ing at 7:15 O'Clock until Ills o'clock
every night, except Saturday, when the
last trip will be at 1915 a m. The first
car Sundays will leave the beach at
9:15 o'clock in the morning.
The fourth DaSSanper c0aPh will he
used as an extra and when the most
popular trip to and from the beach is
determined it will be used at that time
two sections being run. This may be
necessary for the early morning trip,
thou~h it is not likely, as there will be
three cars up from the beach within an
hour and the last of the three will reach
Front and Princess junction at o'clock.
, This schedule will, of course, only ap-
ply to the summer season. During the
colder weather the combination passen-
ger and baggage car will only be used
and will make a trip about every two
hours. This car in summer will be
utilized to meet incoming trains and
transport passengers, bag and baggage,
direct to the beach.
AS an illustration of the time that will
be made. the first car will leave the
Front and Princess junction at $50 a.
m. Fifteen minutes later it will reach
the first turnout, opposite the toll
house. AT o'clock it will be at
Wrightsville and at Ills at the beach,
ready for its first trip up.
THE FARE,
One of the most interesting features,
probably because it touches the pocket,
is the matter of fare. 1t will be four
cash fares GO cents) or four tickets,
(siX Of which can be obtained for a
quarter.) to the beach. 1t will require
the same, of course, to return.
This will make the round trip
fare forty cents, five cents in ex-
cess Of the present charge, if you pay
the conductor in cash, but il you use
tickets it will only be 3S 1-3 cents, 2-3
cents less than at present. Passengers
also get a saving of the ten cents street
care fare it requires 10 go to the Sea-
coast depot and back. These tickets
will either be sold by conductors at the
rate of for 25 cents, or they can be
obtained in book form from the general
city office. There will be two books,
one containing "a tickets for 81, and one
containing 60 tickets for $3.50. These
books will be a great convenience. The
fare to Bradley's Creek, Greenville, or
Wrightsville will be 15 cents or 80 cents
per round trip. All fares will be col
lected in this manner: A face or trans
fer to Delgado, two more fares to
Wrightsville or intermediate points, and
another to the beach. The tickets will
also be good to use on the city and
beach lines.
POWERFUL TURBINE.
The great power required for the
city and suburban lines, as well as to
light the city, will be furnished alone
by one prime mover. 1t will be a
Parsons steam turbine, the first ever
in the south, and will be installed at the
intended new power house at the foot
of Castle street. This turbine, while
of mammoth capacity, will be really in
significant in appearance to the unini-
tiated. Together with its dynamo it
will only occupy floor space 19x4 feet,
less space than occupied by a $50 horse
power engine. 1t will be of 900 horse
power and will run at speed Of $500
revolutions a minute. 1t will generate
an alternating current of 3S5 volts, and
this will feed two $50 K. w. rotary
converters, which will furnish current
for all the city cars and for a portion