The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
IMPROVED CAR SYSTEM
TWO MONTGOMERY COMPANIES
 CONTINUE TO EXPAND.
During Year Twelve Miles of Tracks Were Built and Many New
 Cars Were Purchased.
 Parks Improved.

The improvements in the two street car systems of Montgomery have kept pace with the progress of Montgom- cry. if they have not in fact out stripped 1t.
 In the past twelve months the Mont gomery Street Railway has put in inn provements amounting to $75.000 and the Montgomery Traction Company has improved its system at a cost of $75.000.
 During the year approximately twelve miles of tracks have been built making altogether fifty miles of street railway tracks radiating from Mont gomery.
 A heavy per cent of this work has been done in the neighborhood of Electric Park. The Traction Company has built a double track to that park and the Street Railway has changed the location of It's old line and double
 tracked the line clear to the park. The opening of this famous pleas
 ure resort was one of the most impor- tant developments of the past year in Montgomery. It is pleasure park of
 which city the size of Montgomery might well feel proud. It is declared
 that with the buildings and devices which have been established at Elec- tric Park it represents an investment
 of no less than $S5,000. Its compile tion, together with the beautiful park
 at Pickett Springs, resort that has always retained its popularity. gives Montgomery an equipment in parks that perhaps no city of its size in the South enjoys. -r- .: :
 Improvements of the most radical
 Railway, not only in the past year but during the entire three years in
 which Richard Tillis has owned the
 system. When he purchased the sys-
 tenn three years ago It was declared that the only thnig he had bought was
 "a franchise and two streaks. of rust
 running In and out the city," ..:. In the time he has owned the prop erty MT. TilliS has almost completely
 replaced the entire system, trackage as we'll as cars. He has taken up all the light rails except from a
 section of the Ctoverdale and a frac-
 tion from the Electric Park line. In a few weeks every piece of the light
 rails will have been taken up and
 seventy pound steel rails will have re-
 placed it.
 The improvements in the Street Railway Company's system during the past year are in themselves impres~ sive enough. MT. Tillis has first of all constructed three miles of tracks lead ing into Electric Park. This track has been built in accordance with the most
 modern methods. The rail is of the
 seventy pound variety and 1t Is as
 fine a piece of street car work as one would care to see.
 The policy of Mir Tillis of rebuild
 ing the system has been steadily fol- lowed throughout the year. During
 the past twelve months he has taken up all the old rails and put down the new heavy rails on the Court Street line. the W est End line and the River side Park line In all MT. Tillis has rebuilt with seventy pounds steel rails no less than six miles of street car track during the year. In addition to this he increased the rolling stock of the company by pur- chasing four long and handsome sum mer cars For each of these cars the
 sum of s2,500 was paid. In order to remove certain features about Elec- tric Park, which some of its patrons found objectionable and which was said to he affecting the popularity of the pleasure resort, MT rllis pur- chased the entire park.
 The remodeltng of the Street Rail way system will be continued until 1t will be finished and among the very best in the South. MT. TillIs has only recently let a contract for no less than 5U0 tons of seventy pound rails. These rails will be used on the Clover | dale line and that fraction ot the EleCLTlC 1dEh lIuS WHICH IS SIiAA equipped with light rails.
 : In the near future Mir. Tillis will rebuild it's double track to the Capitol up Dexter Avenue. In doing this steel rans of ninety pounds will be used. In the near future, too, the company vii be furnished with six
 closed cars Tor winter use. These cars have been contracted for at d price of
 vo,VVo a piece.
 The Traction Company.
 1 The past year has seen tine Montgom- ] cry Traction Company inaugurate greai i improvements in its tlne sytem and eX- ] ceIlent service This company has put | no less than $65, 900 fin the Improvement of it's lines, and this does not include the money invested in the four new aii brake cars purchased by the company
 The $65,0O0 has been put in lasting per manent Improvement of it's tracks. By far the most important improve ment established is the building of the double track from Union Street to Flee | tric Park. The distance the new line covers is two and three-quarter miles Double tracked the whole way. it |: easily seen that the company had tC construct i've and one-half miles oi track.
 This new double track line running
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