The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-03
NO MORE WAITS
OR MISSED CARS
Device at Home Will Show Just
Where Your Electric Equipage Is.
COMPANY TO BE ORGANIZE
PLANS TO INSTALL NEW SYSTEM
IN SALT LAKE.
\ wELLERs in Salt Lake may soon

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have the privilege of sitting COM
fortably in their homes and
watching the progress of the street
cars which they intend to take. The
days of waiting around the street cor
ners Of the residence district for the
delayed car may be eliminated and like
wise the dash after the fleeing trolley
that whisks past just before the be-
lated suburbanite heaves in sight.
All these Vexations may be eliminated
for the sum of 80 cents per month.
The agency that is to bring this will
be company soon To be organized in
salt Lake, the promoters being A. L.
Hyde, jf., of Salt Lake and c. G HOl-
cell OF Spokane, Wash, who control the
state rights to a device which will no.
tify any observer just where is the car
running along his line. The instru-
ment Will be fastened on the wall or
placed on a table just as a telephone
All the subscriber had TO do is to listen
to the instrument and he may thus
keep in touch with the progress Of the
car nearest his residence either COM
ing or going. If he so desires he may
set the mechanism so that at each
street crossing a bell viii be rung. By
still another arrangement the device
may be set to sound an alarm when the
car reaches a point on tn. line where
il is time for the subscriber to leave
his home to catch the car"
The device is an invention of H. A
Amman of Spokane. 1t has been in
successful operation in Spokane for
over a year and contracts have just
been closed for the installation of the
system in Portland.
Operation of Device.
The device consists of a small box
attached to the trolley wire and con-
nected by means of wires with the res
idence of the subscriber and the central
days fwaiting around the street cor
Office of the company. The box is sta
toned just above the trolley wire and
is equipped with a small metal tongue
which extends below the wire on each
side Contact with the trolley causes
the tongue TO fly upward and operate a
cIOcll-wOrk mechanism which sounds a
bell in the home of the subscriber. The
box can be adjusted to give any num-
Der of rings. For instance, if the sub
scriber wishes repeated notice of the
coming of his car he may have his sig
nal arranged to ring four bells when
the car is four blocks distant. three
rings for three blocks, two for two
blocks, etc, by connecting his bell with
a series of boxes. Each time the car
passes under box the bell in the sub
seubers home viii ring When its use
is not desired, the ringing Of the bell
may be avoided by turning d switch.
Value of the Service.
It is claimed for the device that it
viii not only be of great convenience
TO patrons of the street cars Dy elimi-
mating long waits at all times and
needless exposure during bad weather
but that it win be Of direct benefit to
the street car company by furnishing
an absolute check on every car in oper-
alton on its system. The owners of the
device claim that it can be adapted to
all classes of railroads and that it is
superior 10 any block or signal system
in existence. Arrangements viii be
made to have every box connected with
the central office Of the company so
that each car will be reported at every
street crossing. A sheet, correspond
ing to the train sheet OF a railroad, will
be kept and the movements of every
car recorded. If a car fails to register
at each crossing the failure will be
instantly reported 10 the street car
company, which will thus be advised
of trouble on it's lines. The exact po-
sition of a car, whether it is on time
or not, win be accurately known. 1t
win thus be possible to ascertain the
speed of a car at all times-a point of
great importance in accicents. Fur
Their, the company will be able to learn
whe Their the car crews take their car
10 the end of the line each trip, and
whether they delay at the end of the
line and make up the lost time by ex-
cessiVe soeed later.
The owners of sthe rights for Utah,
Messrs. Hyde and Holzell. expect 10
incorporate under the name of the Car
AnnunciatOr company of Utah and TO
install their system in the near future.
Already they have entered negotiations
with the Utah Light & Railway COM
pany. The price of the service viii
probably be 50 cents per month or s.
per year.