Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-02
NEW CAR HERE
ON TRIAL TRIP
Public Service Officials Passed
Through This City Saturday
Cars On Local Line.
MODEL CONSTRUCTION.
Operated Only From One End and
"Ys" Are Necessary to Turn Them
at the End of Routes-Windows
Can BE Lowered Flush So There Is
Little Difference Between Them
and the Old Open or Summer Car.

tan 15e Lowered fluSh 80 IhePe is
Little Difference Between Them
and the Old Open or Summer Car.
Car No. 1927, the first of the new
single end trolley cars out of the
Public Service Corporation shops,
passed through here Saturday after
noon on trial trip which began and
ended at Elizabeth. On board were
F. II. Brown, district superintendent
of the third district; T. P. Burke, the
former assistant superintendent here,
who is to succeed j. T. Butler as
division superintendent of the Eliza
beth & Raritan River division, in
which this territory is included; F.
H. Gordon, roadmaster of the third
district; and w. H. Brown, general
foreman of the rolling equipment in
the third district
They were met by the local super
intendents at each place they passed
through. w. A. Belcher, local super
intendent of the lighting department
of the Public Service Corporation, ac-
companied by representatives of the
local papers, went out by trolley and
met the special car at Highland Park,
boarding it and riding back on it as
far as this city, from where it con-
tinued on to Elizabeth.
Service to Be Bettered.
From statements given out by the
officials it is assured that we will
have better service than ever, provid-
ed the city gives them permissionNo
lay 'Y" at the foot of Smith street
and the car barns.
The new model of car is a great ad-
vance over the type now in use. It
can be operated from but one end,
SO that the "Ys" are necessary for
backing and starting in the opposite
direction. The P S. c. has "Y" at
State and Smith streets the same as
is needed elsewhere.
On these care the pole is back to-
ward the rear of the car, and the
point where the pole is in contact
with the overhead feed wire is di-
rectly over the rear platform. The
likelihood of its leaving the wire
when going around curves is greatly
obviated.
These cars will be put on the local
lines as soon as permission is secur-
ed to lay "Ys" at the desired points.
These cars can be made as open,
practically, as the summer cars which
To 6n taly 0eT a
wide windows can be dropped flush
with the window sills and windows
in the front and rear doors can be
dropped, likewise giving thorough
air passage.
New Cars Are Large.
These cars seat forty people, the
same as a summer car or the usual
closed car. There are cross seats at
one side of the aisle for a distance of
half the length of each side of the
car. The cross seats on the left hand
side of the car are in the front half,
with ordinary seats along the other
half. The other side of the car has
the cross seats in the rear half. The
cross seats can thus be made wider
than in the former convertible cars
and hold two persons comfortably.
The lend seat hog" is in these cars
an individual of the past.
The new cars are fourmotor cars,
whereas the ones now in use here
have but two motors. The new cars
have a motor attached to each axle
and run just as well with three mo-
tors as four. There is little danger of
more than one motor getting out of
order at any one time, so that there
is small opportunity for car 10 be-
come disabled because of the motors.
The cars are 80 feet long inside or AZ
feet over all. not including the fen
der. 1t is semi-circular in form and
can be dropped so that rollers under
il go on the track. The fender can
be dropped by the pressure of the
motorman's foot from his position
on the platform.
To Have Open Cars Also.
Open or summer cars of the type
now in use will be run in the sum-
mer between this city and Boynton
Beach every day and on all the lines
on Sundays and holidays, between the
regular cars, under a fifteen-minute
headway.
Loop at Keasbey.
1t is planned to lay loop at Keas-
bey on private land, for which pur-
pose, Mr.. Brown said, permission has
been secured.
1t is also planned to run the track
across the land where the clay pits
are now, just this side of Keasbey,
which will afford decided shorten
ing of time for the SmithAstreet line.