Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-08-18
WILL BUILD
T3 HOSPITAL

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+ Captain Robert Allison. Willis l..
! Bryant. Cha;les T. Leippe, Hon r.
, H. Koch, L J. Mills, W. @. Bill
man. Thomas B Illig, \ NJ. AL
bright and H. = Shantz, the sever
al o1pi.. lists aNch af the DanviIle and
B!oom7barg Electric Railroad who
arrived in this city Tuesday, yester-
day went carefully over the entire
! line and on returning expressed them
sevles as Immensely pleased both with
! the excellent progress made with the
work and the thorough and workman
| like manner IN which every part of
| the line is constructed.
The road is now approaching com
| pletion and unless some unforeseen
delay occurs the cars will be running
by September 10th. Grading is COM
! pleted to within a short distance of
Fishing creek and by Saturday night
the road bed will be completed and
the track laid up to that point. This
will leave but one mile to complete,
| the distance between Fishing creek
and Bloombsurg. Ger this short
stretch the work will be light and the
track will soon be laid.
The work of stretching wires has
be II delayed by the removing of tele-
phone poles These are now about
all out of the way and by Saturday
night the overhead work will be
completed as far as the track is laid
Next week the turuouts Will be put
IN. The first of these will 30 laid at
GIovania. The two towns of Dan
Vile and B.oombSurg viii each have
turnouts, one inside the borough and
the other just oustide the limits.
The roof on the power house at
Grovania was finished yesterday and
the boilers set in position. The car
barn will next he tackled The plans
for the building are now completed
and show structure ll2 by 30 feet,
atfording room for five cas- and a
snow pIow and containing work
room for car repairs
The five handsome trolley cars be-
longing to the line were shipped at
Philadelphia yesterday AMI are now /
en- route to Danville The cars are
entirely modern embracing all the /
new improvements known in trolley (
equipment. Under each car is a mot !
or of 40 horse power Each of the .
cars is equipped with Westinghouse /
air brake and a Westinghouse EIec- /
trical brake besides the latest i'm.
proved hand brake. Two of the ears
will be fourteen bench, open cars,
seating eightytour people; two viii
be plain passenger cars seating forty
pess9ns essh sh and Nd &q9g, lcomhi""fi""
The Danville and BloomsbuIg Elec-
trical Railroad Company intends
building its line to the Hos pital for
the Insane and will comm 3nce the
of its track on East Mar
ket street within ten days.
The citizens of Danville and Blooms |
burg alike as we'll as of the farming
community intersected by the line
are highly gratified AT the rapid prog
ress made and all the developments
which show that the two towns at
such an early day are TO be connected
by trolley line so thoroughly mod
ern and we'll equipped In Danville
especially, no more welcome news has
been heard for some time than the
fact that the DInville and Blooms
burg Company intends at the present
time running its line up East Market
street to the Hospital for the Insane.
Mr.. Pascoe, whose good manage
ment aud energy has been manifest at
every stage of the work, comes In
for his full share of praise. 1t is quite
apparent that the road is backed by
strong combination of capital, which
augurs we'll for the success and per-
manency of the enterprise. The men
back of it are experienced III trolley
affairs and are large investors III other
| lines and that they have full conf
| dence in the proposition here as we'll
as in the judgment AMI good manage
| ment of Mr.. Pascoe has been made
| quite manifest by their present visit.