The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-03
] |. $175,5oO,0oo $217, 100000

Grand total ... $175500,0O0 $217, 400, ,000
 The large increase in telephonic ap- pllances will be noticed and reflects the vast spread which is occurring in the use of the telephone.
 Particular interest however, has been shown in the progress made In the pro- posed identification of steam railroads this would be accomplished by the use of the third rail, but experience has raised the question as to whether this method was practical. In most instances where the experiment was tried 1t can hardly be said to have been successful. During the last year or two vast plans for the identification of certain parts of their system have been adopted by the New York Central railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co.,. those of the former relat- ed chiey to th3 identification of It's lines within a radius of twenty-five or thirty miles of the terminus at the Grand Central depot. 1t is expected that all trains within this radius will be handled by electricity, and the plans adopted and recently published show a very comprehensive system of tracks for suburban and througgl traffic. It is un- derstood that the New York Central has contracted for a number of locomo- tives which will receive their current by means of the third rail This cleo trification of the terminal lines, how ever, has not been in the direction ex- pected by laymen, who have looked for ward to the transportation of traffic from one community to another by means of electricity A great deal, how ever, has been done along this line which is not noted by many people,
 It has been announced that the Penn- ! sylvania railroad would equip with | electricity that part of it's system which | runs from Camden, just opposite Phil adelphia, to Atlantic City, comprising a distance of about sixty miles, and which has heretofore run one of the fastest schedules of passenger trains in l the country. For the purpose of intro ducing electricity a sum of about 1 $1,500,000 or more was appropriated, 1 Statements have also been made as to the proposed adoption by the Delaware
 Lackawanna & Western railroad of plans for the electrification of portions l of their line in New York state. in- cluding branches of the Erie system connecting New York city with vari- ous districts within committing dis tance, and a portion of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western running from
 Binghamton to Syracuse,
 ! The New York Central & Hudson River railroad, by means of a holding company called the Mohawk Valley Go. majority of whose stock it owns, has purchased a series of traction systems
 including both urban and interurbar lines, which extend in an almost un- 1 broken chain from Albany and Sche- nectady to Niagara Falls and Buffalo
 Certain traction systems controlled by the New York Central are not as yet numbered among the properties se- cured by the Mohawk Valley company i The purchases of the latter company include the street railway systems oi Syracuse and Rochester, the. Mohawk and Utica Valley system, serving Uti. ca, Oneida, Little Falls and a number of other communities, and the Roches. ter & Eastern Rapid Railway compa. ny. It is not doubted that a number oi other purchases will be made giving them control of the electric traction systems in the territory covered by their steam lines, similar to the con.
 trol secured by the New York, New
 aven & Hartford railroad company ir the districts served by it. It is stated as a fact that portion of the Wes
 Shore in the central part of New Yorl
 state will be electrified, and that
 branch of the New York Central &
 Hudson River railroad running iron Hudson River to Niagara Falls, knowl
 as the Falls road, will be electrified