The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
NEW TROLLEY SIGNS
They Will be of Muslin, sten- ciled With Street Names
 of Every Gar Route.
NEW CARS READY SOON
Acquisition for Next Summers Cars Being Held Up at Yellow
 Building.

lH5 OL Lllc cIlu OI dli signs on the dash board of the trolley cars, such as are at present in use in this city. is soon to be sounded. The new cars, long heralded, will soon put in their appearance on the streets and they will be equipped with an entire ly new kind of signs. The latter will be much the same as those at present in use in several of the larger cities of the country, where they are giving very satisfactory service. Instead of the present steel signs which are hooked on the dash board, there will be Illuminated signs located front and rear and on both sides on the roof of the car, Those on the sides will be just over the windows and those in the front and rear will be just over the glass of the motorman's box on the so-called hood of the car.
 The signs will be of muslin or other similar material on which will be stenciled the names of every car route in the city. The whole will run on rollers so that the desired street name can be brought into place behind protecting glass and before a number of electric lamps, which will illum- mate it so that it can be seen at a great distance by the public. It is understood that these sign rolls will be made to cover every car line. In all there will be over forty street names on each of them With this ar rangement car can be put on any line in the city at moments notice as far as the signs on it go.
 Signs similar to these are now in use on the cars of the New York sub way, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and on some of the cars of the Boston Elevated Railway company. In none of these instances, however, are there nearly as many streets to be printed as there will be in New Haven. For this reason the introduction of the system in this city is looked forward to with great deal of interest by trolley men generally, The news cars to be used here will be numbers 52S and 543
 At least one advantage in the new signs, when looked at from the Con necticut company's standpoint, will be the fact that they will not appeal as strongly to the freshmen on York street and others as do the present dash board signs for use as room dec oratlons. The under classmen at the college, some of them. never miss an opportunity to get one of these signs, 1t seems. Those marked Yale Field" are a great favorite with them. Whenever there Is a college celebra- tion and the streets are crowded and the cars delayed, there are numerous ' attempts made to obtain one or more of them.
 Another advantage will be the clear ness with which the signs can be seen by passengers at great distance.
 Three of the new cars are now set up here and practically ready for, use on the streets, except for the new signs which have not yet arrived here. Un- less they do come in a few days the equipment department will cut the dash board on these cars and make pro- :, vision for the present style of signs with shaded lights above. This will be but temporary measure and it is hoped 1t will not be resorted to, for \ once the dash boards have been cut, ! 1t Is practically impossible to fix them up again so they do not show the scar But such measures may have to be resorted to. for new cars are sorely needed
 The llaten ,ss with which the new winter cars will make their appearance !, reminds one of the new cars of last summer which arrived only in time for Labor day. There is considerable com plaint among the men employed in the equipment department of the trolley company at the tardiness with which the appropriation requested for new summer cars for the coming season is being looked after at the yellow build- ing. This requisition has not yet been endorsed. After it is, there will be some weeks of careful and voluminous clerical work to be done in connection with the specifications of the cars This will take some weeks time to do. As a result it is not expected that the or ders for next summers cars will be reary to be sent to the manufacturers until late in February, a date even later than last year By February the manufacture will have their hands full of orders for new cars from all over the country and the New Haven orders will simply have to bide their time until the other orders have beer filled The present indications are that New Haven cannot well hope for new summer cars this year until even late than Labor day.
 The trolley company has just shipped a number of wheels for the tops of ths trolley poles to different centers about the state These wheels are of a new design. Those at present in use are made of bronze The new ones are oi steel and are the invention of Dr Frank Eager of Waterbury, a dentis who has an inventive inclination and who follows 1t up as a sort of hobby The new wheels are said to have man, advantages. It is proposed to equir a number of the cars with double poles with one bronze wheel and one stee wheel In this way each of the wheel, will have an equal amount of wea, and tear and a comparison of theiI worth can be easily made. There will of course, be another matter to be con sidered, namely, the wear on the trol lev wire which cannot be determined
 FANCY SHADES FOR SIGNALS.
 When Mrs R. L. Hoy was being ex amined as to the fitness for a position as telegraph operator. Division Oper otor Tobnsor asked her the color o