Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-10-06
FIRST TROLLEY
CAR IN DANVILLE

That nearly every one in Danvllle
desired to greet the appearance of the
first trolley car over the new road was
attested by the fact that shortly after
moon Monday crowds of citizens be-
gan to gather i'll the vicinity of Bloom
street, above the Philadelphia & Read
ing railroad crossing, and remained
there eagerly looking toward Blooms
burg. At about 80 O'Clock the size
of the assembIage increased to several
hundred persons, not counting scores
of children from the schools. AT last
the long wait ended in disappointment
upon the arrival of message that the
car would not leave Bloomsbury until
six o'clock The actual time of leav-
ing Bloomsbury proved to be 8:2O
O'Clock in the evening
1t was about one year ago that the
difficulties of securing the right OF
way over the proposed line were un-
dergone. During last winter nothing
was done on the construction wO X,
and it was not until May 23rd that
grading was first begun on Bloom
street.
1t was just twenty minutes after eight
O'Clock last evening when W. L. Pas
ooe took the charge of car No. at
Market Square, Bloomsbury, and start
-
line
The first stop was made at the Fish
ing Greek bridge, where considerable
pains were taken to thoroughly test
the frog and sharp curve at this
point. About twenty minutes were
spent there and everything was found
to be in first class working order. The
progress from this point into Danyille
was necessarily slow, frequent stops
being made to clear obstacles from the
tracks. Many of the crossings had te-
come covered with weeds and dirt and
had to be cleared, and in places the
trees projected over the track in such
way that it was necessary to trim
them before the car could proceed.
All along the route as the cars shrill
whistle heralded its approach wind
ows were thrown up, and night-capped
heads appeared, to call welcome to
the trolley When the car reached
Danville at 10 80 many of those who
were waiting earlier in the evening
had returned home, but large crowd
quickly gathered as soon as II became
known that the car was on Bloom
street.
From an engineering standpoint the
trial trip was an unqualified success
The car rode as smoothly on the tracks
as vestibuled limited. No electrical
leakages were discovered, and the volt
age was constant and maximum
| throughout the run. One of the men
| on board the car who has had twenty
five years of engineering experience
| and who has been OH dozens of trial
trolley runs stated last evening that
never had he seen test trip that left
so little to be desired
Those who accompanied General
Superintendent Pascoe on the trial run
last night were: Arthur l.. Davis,
| Superintendent Of the Danville and
Bloomsbury line, Milton Pascoe, as
sistant engineer of the construction
| company, L. p Bains OF the construc.
tion company, ". P. Condor, repre-.
senting the Keeler Boiler Company
J. NJ. Stead of the Quaker City Belt
Company, and Alfred Armstrong OF tile
| Gar Advertising Company. Charles
Klein, Lawrence Tooley, Bart BeistlC
and George H. Keider of Bloomsbury
Harry Mensch of Rupert. Harry Pat
ton of Danville and Theodore X.
Angle, representing the Morning News
After the car had been safely land
ed at the Philadelphia d Reading
tracks Mr.. Pascoe took about hun
dred Danville citizens to Mechanic
Vile and return. The party greatly
enjoyed the ride, and returned abou
midnight.