The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09
INTERSTATE ELECTRIC ROAD

Ek-SsAlE ELEUinfu nUAD
PARTY OF CAPITALISTS START
OUT TO GO OVER TILE ROUTE.
Proposed Railroad Of the South Caro-
lima Public Service Corporation
VIII Cover Various Sections of the
State and Reach Charlotte and Au-
gusta-Meeting at Commercial Club
on January 11th-Outline Of the
Project.
From Charleston News and Courier.
Men high up in the financial and
railway world arrived in the city yes
terday. and today will leave the
Southern depot aboard a private car
bound for Columbia, Orangeburg, All
ken and Augusta, at which cities
brief stops Will be made and oppor-
tunity given men who are interested
in the South Carolina Public Service
Corporation, to meet the men who are
engineering the plans Of the company,
and who Will be ready and willing to
explain 10 all persons who desire to
know the objects and purposes Of the
| corporation.
Among the party which arrived in
the city Yesterday were the following:
J. J. Tirnmes, New York, fnancier;
c. r. Van Etten, former traffic man
ager Brooklyn Rapid Transit, and will
be general manager Of the S. G. P. S.
c.: E. J. Mcclure, SO Wall street, a
prominent New York corporation at
torney and general counsel for the
South Carolina Public Service Cor
| poration; F. w. Schroeder, retired
/ merchant of New York; John Bon
ney, an electrical conductor and man
| ufacturer; T. J. Dischinger, retired
merchant of New York; W. W. Wells,
formerly traffic agent Of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit; A. T. Jones, princl-
| pal assistant engineer to the tunnel
work of the Long Island and Penn
sylvania Railroad; Joseph A Bernel
president Of Queensborough, New
IYork; j. E.. Glass, a prominent New
York attorney and fnancier; Joseph
A. Bell, manufacturer; George A.
Fleck, Jr, anancier and wholesale
merchant; j. G. Lott, Of the General
/ Electric Company; J. G. LAWN, cleo
4 trical 4ngineeg D. s. Smith general
manager of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company.
Plans of the Company.
This morning this party OF capital
lists and railroad men will go to Co
lunbia, where regular meeting will
be held and the company organized,
the officers elected and other prelimi-
nary matters arranged. The visitors
in town today represent millions Of
dollars, and the company is capital
| lied at s10,000,OOO. The proposed
| route of the company will extend
from Charleston to Columbia, branch
ing at Orangeburg to Springfield, All
ken and Augusta, Ga. Branching
again at Columbia, with the northern
| division running via Winnsboro Ches-
/ ter and Rock Hill to Charlotte, n. c.;
and the western division via Lexing-
ton, saluda, Greenwood, Anderson
and AbbeYille to Greenville; and loop
! ing back from Greenville, via Spar
tanburg and Union, to a junction with
| the northern division at Chester. An
other division will start at Saluda and
run to Newberry, Clinton and Lau-
rens.
The inter-urban passenger traffic of
| the road will be handled in large four
| motor cars, similar to those operated
| between Minneapolis and ST. Paul and
various Northern cities. The through
PASSENGER traffic will be handled on
express trains, made up Of two or
] more coaches, with the multiple unit
system Of control, and Identical to the
| operation now conducted on the West
Jersey and Seashore Division Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad running be-
tween Camden, n. j., and Atlantic
City, on which speeds of sixty miles
per hour are maintained, with trains
in each direction and at intervals of
one hour.
1t is for the purpose Of showing the
men interested the route Of the road,
and also for the purpose of meeting
business men in towns which the road
will touch that the trip is being made.
At the meeting which will be held in
| Columbia, the men interested will ex-
press their approval &C disapproval Of
the plans and route which has been
arranged, and many routine matters