The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-08
THE REVOLUTIONIZING
TROLLEYS RAPID MARCH

, article on 1.-The Future of Transports
) tion," by Alexander Hume Ford in the
Metropolitan Magazine for July. In
teresting IN itself the information may
have added attractiveness to Local
readers from the fact that the author,
Mr. Ford. was a recent visitor to Ho-
noluIu and showed a kindly interest In
the welfare of the Territory of Ha-
wall by contributing thoughtful let
ter to the Advertiser on the question
of transportation on~the islands and
between here and the mainland with
special reference to the encouraging of
both tourists and farmers to come here.
Under the subhead, "The Revolution
izing Trolley" Mr.. Ford says:
At all the North River ferries
through trolley tickets are sold from
New York to Philadelphia, and when
the McAdoo tunnels are completed the
Philadelphia, ready to go home, may
board a street-car in the shopping dis
trict of New York, and alight in the
shopping district of Philadelphia
| Should he allow habit to overcome him,
however, and fall asleep upon approach
ing the great drowsy sister metropolis,
he may be waited through his native
| Pennsylvania, and on to the Mississippi
River, for that matter, for even today
New York to st. Louis by trolley is
almost a practical possibility.
1t is an old story, the New York
to Boston and Bangor, Me-, trolley trip;
somewhat newer is the Gotham, Balti
more and Washington jaunt by electric
car, and soon we shall have Manhattan
to Montreal trolley connections without
a break. Travelling men even now
jump on the trolley at Herald Square
and ride most of the way by electric
cars to Buffalo and even Cleveland,
from which city there are sleepers and
buffet ears on the trolley lines that run
through expresses to Detroit, Cincin
natl, indianapolis and other central
Western cities. In fact, Bangor, Me-, |
promise held forth for next summer
by conservative trolley magnates, while |
those that are really enthusiastic de- !
clare that almost before the public be-
gins to realize what has happened, the
gaps in the eastern and western inter
urban trolley systems will be closed up,
so that the visiting rounder from the
Far West may jump on a trolley at
Coney Island ana ride entirely across
the continent while SOLDERING up, re-
ceiving a final transfer and jumping
Seattle or Tacoma. And from Seattle
they are building an electric railway,
the power for which is TO be generated
by the tides, to Juneau, the new Alas
kan capital. New York to Nebraska
by trolley! Indeed! City Hall Square
to Klondike, or nothing
NEW YORK TO PARIS BY TROLLEY.
"New York to Paris by rail- is the
promise of a French finaneier who has
just secured the necessary concessions
from what is left of the Russian Gov
eminent, and what is more, this man,
M. de LOebel, has millions at his COM
mand ana has made the actual surveys
for his rOund-the-world railway. 1t
may cause even hardened old specula-
tors in Gotham to gasp when it is
stated that the New York to Paris rail
way is not only to be an electric rail
way, but that a considerable portion of
it is even now in operation from both
the New York and Paris ends. In
Paris an American firm has laid miles
of electric railway leading out of the
French capital, over which every car
entering the Orleans depot is electrical
" propelled by an American motor
From New York, countless trolleys
stretch westward, anu the New York
Central has now in practical operation
a number OF electric locomotives that
will in time pull out of the Grand Cen
trail Station the through fast specials
for the French capital New York to
Paris by electric ears is by no means
the absurdity it would appear at first
glance.
In Chicago they are talking of a
Chicago-New York electric air line,
100 miles shorter than any existing
route; that is, bringing New York
within $50 miles of the Lake City, and
as the. electric trains are to make sew
enty-fve miles an hour, it means from
city to city in just ten hours. Be
tween Chicago, Milwaukee and other
Wisconsin towns there is trolley con
nectiOn; while across Montana, Idaho
and Washington long-distance inter
urban trolley systems are rapidly
closing up the gaps. In Denver a com
pany is raising fifty million dollars for
the construction of the Transmission
railway, while NJ. de Loebel has the
promise of two hundred million dol
lars for his railways, which involves
.oering Strait within two
years and laying two streaks of rust
from within the Arctic Circle to a
near Lake Baikal. with the
Trans-Siberian system, and the Trans
Siberian system is to be electrified
with power stations 800 miles apart.
The Emperor of Germany is still ex-
perimenting with his fast-speed elec-
trio trains from Berlin, and having ac-
Iuired a speed of 125 miles an hour :
with perfect safety, seems satisfied to ;
permit electric air lines to wend their !
way across his domain. A trolley ride
from the Haymarket to the Moulin :
Rouge NAV not seem as visionary a