New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-03
WESTINGHOUSE GETS
S5,OOO.O00 CONTRACT
TAFT VICTORY EXPECTED
BY THE PENN. r. r.
Company Places TuuneI EIectrfca-
ton Order after Being assured
of Election Outcome.

/ Having become convinced that the election Cf
| Taft was assured. the Pennsylvania Railroad
| closed yesterday a S5000000 contract with the
/ Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com
| pany. Of Pittsburg This contract is for the
| electri1cation OF the tunnels of the PennsyI
yania which run from New Jersey TO Long Isl
and City and the extension of electrical opera
! tion on the Long Island Railroad. which is con-
| trclled ny the Pennsylvania. The contract has
| been hanging fire. the directors did feel
| that ii would be wise to go ahead and lay out
| SO much money until they were assured that
| business stability would not be upset. they
! believed would be the case if Mr.. Bryan should
| be elected.
The officials OF the Pennsylvania road have
| been devoting considerable time in the last
three years to g study of the requirements of
the terminal and the Westinghouse company
| has already built several electric locomotives
which have been subjected 70 elaborate tests
under the direction of George Gibbs. chief en-
| gineer of electric traction OF the Pennsylvania
| Railroad
The contract must be completed in twenty
months. 1t will give employment to a daily
average of one thousand men in the works Of
the Westinghouse company and to hundreds Of
others in other works which supply material to
that company. The total horsepower of the ap-
paratus 10 be installed will amount to about
| two hundred and fifty thousand a much greater
amount than that involved in the electrical sys-
TENS of either the New Haven or New York
Central roads. These roads installed thirty-fve
electric locomotives apiece, hut the PennsyI-
vanie has ordered one hundred, besides several
hundred motor cars to be operated on the multi
pie unit system
The belief was expressed AT the offices If the
Westinghouse company. No les Broadway, that
the letting of the present contract would have
A feet Wit n
staIlation of other electric systems which have
been held in allegiance pending the decision Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad.
No one concern is much more interested in
the outcome Of the election than the George A.
Fuller Company. Plans for future business
on vast scale await the election OF Mr.. Taft
said Harry Haesler, assistant to the superin
tendent OF the company. Should BRYAN get in
one of our biggest jobs would be lost. The
feeling however, is that Mr. Taft is certain of
election, and the fact has given a very encour-
aging outlook When this is made sure by the
election itself We expect great activity in the
building line. Retrenchment in every direction
would follow the election of Mr.. Bryan II he
should by any possibility get IN. and the effect
on our business would be most disastrous"
John Wanamaker foresees in the election of
Taft greater prosperity than the country has
experienced. He said: The halt in this bust
one need fear for the future. It will be found
that no one has been seriously hurt in the panic.
inconvenient as it was. OF course Mr. Taft is
going TO be elected President, and, of course the
Republican party is going to revise the tariff. II
IS bound TO do this under the next administra
ton. or public sentiment will blackbalI 1t at the
next election.
The Republican party is the only party that
believes in and understands the tariff, and its
patriotism commands it to proceed promptly
and meet the views Of the people by moderating
the present tariff in careful ways that will not
upset the business of the country The business
interests Of the country at the present time
quire a rest from both financial and tariff panics,
and the Republican party can make beginning
at revision with a few protected articles, and
when the country is adjusted to these continue
to take more. until We have more satisfactory
tariff
President Roosevelt has called himself only
the arouser Cfs moral sentiment 1 know Mr..
Taft TO he a man of action and doer of deeds.
and he viii carry on the work that Mr.. McKtn-
ley and Mr.. Roosevelt have begun, and lead this
country into a new era Of prosperity.
Henry siegeI president of the Simpson -Craw-
ford company, said: While 1 have voted the
Democratic ticket in past years. have always
voted according to the man and the demands Of
the time. This year I shall vote for Taft
Louis Stern. of Stern Brothers, drygoods mer-
chants, said. There has been a great improve
ment in the sentiment toward Taft in the last
few weeks. l do not know a business man in
the city who Is not for him. With his election
business will take a jump. There has been
gradual revival in the last SIX months. and the
election of Taft Wzll keep everything moving
nicely"
Edward P. Hatch. member Of the firm OF Lord
& Taylor, drygoods merchants. said; 4 am for
Taft" He remarked that he understood that the
business men generally wanted to see the
Ohioan elected and he had no doubt about the
result He also said that business would keep
on improving
Dexter n Force, treasurer Of the H. B. Cla7in
Company, one of the largest wholesale drygoOds
firms in the United States said: 1T is all set
tied for Taft Every business man is for him,
and with his election there will be impetus
given to business"
BURBANK WINS SUIT OVER WILL