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

but that the trolley system of New
York CITY will be operated by power
from Niagara Falls. Already sixty
thousand volt current is sent overland
from the Falls to Syracuse, one hundred
and sixty-nve miles distant, to operate
the trolley line running eastward to-
ward the Hudson. If lower New York
evinced the interest in interurban
trolley connections that is rife in other
parts of the State, every theater on
Broadway woulu today be on the main
line to all suburban towns between
Harlem and Buffalo.
Railway fares in Ohio have come
topping down since the interurban troll
ley lines have made through connec-
tions everywhere and run sleeping-cars
at night and regular express trains by
day The real battle with the railway
is just beginning around New York.
On Long Island the owners of sum-
mer villas are projecting interurban
| trolley connections that will gridiron
the island, and the Pennsylvania is
stealing a march by electrifying it's
| lines there and adopting the frequent
| single-car service, but it seems prob
| able that before very long we shall
| have Lon0 Island trolley tours adver
/ tised as industriously as the electric
roads out of Boston advertise their
| special tours to the numerous seacOast
resorts of Massachusetts,. The Hub sets
us an example and shows us what may
| be done. Every long-distance trolley
| line out of Boston has entered into an
advertising alliance, with the result
that from the head office maps and
folders are issued by the million direct
to the people, so that the countless
thousands who can not afford automo-
biles are given almost equally exhilar
ating rides in open cars over circuits
of forty to fifty miles, embracing both |
hill-country and seashore. 1t was the |
Boston trolley combination that made |
possible the trolley steamboat line to |
New York that carries through pas
sengers between the two points for
one dollar and seventy-fve cents. Not |
only that, but during the summer
months the Boston trOlleys advertise
through fast ears to the Hub from
almost every Sound city to which New
York sends a passenger steamer. There
is no trouble in catching a train at
Providence, Newport or Fall River
nowadays; the ever-present trolley car
is always in waiting. A little more
pressure on the various New England
Legislatures, and the people of the
East, as well as the more fortunate
Westerners, will be allowed to run both
sleepers and baggage-cars on their in
terurban electric railways.
TROLLEY SLEEPING AND DRAW
ING-ROOM CARS.
New Jersey is now ready to adopt
the Western system of Pullman sleep
ers, buffet, and even freight ears on
her trolley system, which means that
New York City is to have an entirely
new service; one that will bring more
than half of New Jersey within the
reach of hundreds of thousands who
have never before dared hope for coun-
try homes near the great metropolis.
From New York to Philadelphia and
return bv trolley occupies ten hours
and costs two dollars, or a fraction
over a cent a mile. This rate will
probably be lowered when the through
ears are in operation from Fulton
Street and Herald Square to the City
Hall in Philadelphia.
CONSOLIDATING TROLLEY LINES.
The interurban trolley has reached
stage in its career through which the
steam railways had to pass. Consoi-
dation has begun, so that through-trol-
ley routes between cities hundreds of
miles apart are coming under one man
agement. It's influence is being felt
about New York now that the great
Wall Street milliOnaires are turning g
from steam railways to the electric in
terurban Tor investment and specula-
ton. The suburbanite is now whizZed
twenty mines or more by electricity to
Yonkers and beyond on the Hudson, or
even farther still, on the Sound to New
Rochelle, tor a paltry eight cents, just
a third of a cent mile. The through
trolley fare to Boston, however, owing
to the connecting trolley lines being
in the hands of various companies, is
still almost as much as by rail, but as
the law now IOrbids the Joint ownership
of competing and paralleling lines of 9
communication, the old band of mil
lionaires Is compelled to drop the New
England troneys, and a new set of men,
not identified with the management
or ownership o. New England steam
railways is stepping in to bring about
Consolidation means
cheap trolley fares from any part of
New York City to any street in any
town of New England; it means, more
over, that millions Will night millions III
the various State Legislatures and that
the interurban trolley will secure the
same rights in New England that are
accorded the steam. railways. The troll
ley is the poor man s railway, and the @
manner in which the farmers of Ohio
have impressed this fact upon the
capitalists is a lesson that Is beIns
taken into account most seriously by
New York and Eastern magnates.
Untn very recently it was Cleveland,
not New York capital, that was behind a
almost every great interurban trolley
scheme launched in America, and in
Cleveland today the fight for three 2
cent fares is centering the eyes of -
every municipal government upon May
II Tom L. johnson and his crusade for 81
over city fares. L
FIRST ELECTRIC RAILWAY. -
Twenty-one years ago the world s c;
irst electric railway was opened be- ST
ween Baltimore and Hampden. Cleve @,
and capitalists at once began to sit b
Up and take notice. Ten years after Il
he world s first trolley line had been c;