The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-05-10
BY TROLLEY SOON TO LAM
8ERTVlLLE.
A Splendidly Constructed Rosd and Ample
Power-Trip Every Is Minutes.


Work on the new trolley extension
from Yardley, Pa, to Lambertville is
being rapidly pushed to completion by
the Trenton, New Hope and Lambert
vile Traction Company. Five miles
of ballasting remain to be done on the
central portion of the roa It is ex-
pected that the new power house at
Yardley will be completed by the end
of next week and that cars will be
running shortly thereafter The cars
are of the Brill make, each containing
four fifty horsepower motors and capa-
bic of a speed OF fifty miles per hour,
and they will leave either end of the
road every fifteen minutes, making the
trip of sixteen miles in fifty minutes.
The fare between Trenton and Lam
bertville will be 20 cents.
Much grading has been necessary in
the building of the road, which will be
devoid of sharp curves, 50 that there
will be no possibility of a car becom-
ing derailed even if the motorman
slumberS at his post. Thirteen thous-
and tons of stone have been used in
building the road, most OF it being Sc
cured from the Eyre farm, two and Il
falt miles beyond Yardley, where two
large stone crushers have been in ope-
ration since last fall In blasting on
the Rossiter farm, three miles below
New Hope, il was discovered that a
vein of rock running through the place
contained considerable copper. There
is shaft on Beaumonts hill, near by,
that was evidently used in the mining
Of copper, although the Oldest inhabi=
tants have no recollection of the work
ting of the place.
The road crosses twenty three bridg-
es of which all have been newly built
except that over the Delaware river
between New Hope and Lambertville,
1850 in length. All the new brid ges
are built of steel with concrete founda-
tons, That at New Hope, replacing
the old cast iron bridge of an obsolete
pattern, contains two spans, each rs
feet in length. At the Medley place
is bridge 100 feet in length, supple
mented by trestle of las feet. There
are four bridges IS feet in length, those
at Yardley, at the ]. A. lawless farm
near Brownsburg, and at the Furman
property near New Hope and that re.
placing the old Acqueduet bridge
The Brownsburg bridge has an over
flow trcstle attached, IS leet long.
There are bridges IS feet ling at the
Smith farm, two miles from Yardley,
the Gwinner farm at TaylorsvilIe, the
canal at Dark Hollow, and at New
Hope. The smallest bridges are SIX
feet IN length, but all of the most dur
able construction.
The power house is 95 by As feet
IN ground dimensions, SO designed that
it can be extended at such time as the
growth OF the plant may require. 1t is
flreproof in all respects, from its con
crete foundations to its roof OF buck
tile and Stag. 1t contains three water
tube boilers of $50 horse power each,
a $50 horse power engine with direct
connection with 500 kilowat alterna-
ting generator, Wheeler condenser
for securing smoothness of speed and
economy OF power and a heater for Sc
curing ecoaomy of weaa upon the boil
ers by tcmperng the water before it
enters, and also saving in fuel
Material has arrived for the smoke
stack, which will be constructed this
week. 1t will be Of the sclfsupporting
design, 10 feet high and six feet in
diameter at the toy The pipe will be
bolted to base of concrete, from
which 1t will taper toward the top.
The work of construction Will consist
in fastening together the heavy plates
with rcd-hot nVetS
BY means of sub station 1T Browns
burg, to which the power vii be trans
mitted by the alternating gen, and
there changed to direct current by a
converter, the same as the power house
the supply will be so distributed as to
as to avert diminishing Of speed at
points distant from the mann source of
electric generation.
The officers Of the company are; I,
Sydney Cadwallader, president: Yard
ley; V. ID. Bates, secretary treasurer,
Allentown, Pa, Thomas Ross, Doyles-
town; Hon. Frank S. Katzcnbach,
Trenton, and Martin V. Dagger Yard
ley, directors. John G. Honecker of
Trenton, who built the Johnson line to
Princeton, is the contractor Three
hundred men have been engaged in the
work Of construction since ii was start
cd last fall