The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-14
MUCH MONEY IS PIuNG UP
Boston Capital VIII Be Used to
EIectrify Lines.
Westinghouse Is Enthusiastic
Over Proposed Change.

Z stand, the pennsylvania fta1lTood
company is now contemplating. Should
this plan mature, the city of Phila-
delphia will, so far as its railway ter
minals are concerned, be electrihed IN
a manner similar, so far as is prac-
ticable, to the Identification OF the
terminals of the Pennsylvania and OF
\ the New York Central at Manhattan.
The electrical engineers are conf
dent that should the electrihcation or
the Pennsylvania terminals and ap-
proaches in Philadelphia be maze
then, in very short time, the man
/ line of the Pennsylvania between
Manhattan and Philadelphia will be
electrified and passenger trains, at
least, operated by electric energy
Already the electrification of the
Pennsylvania's approaches to its ter
minaI at Manhattan is completed to
point a little east of the city OF New
ark-about nine miles in all should,
therefore, Philadelphia be electrified
for Pennsylvania railroad purposes
there would remain only about seven
ty-five miles of the main railroad line
to be electrified. That is almost the
exact distance between the Grano cen
trail terminal at New York and the
New Haven terminal of the New York |
& New Haven railroad. These seventy
five miles of the New Haven system |
are to be completely electrified within |
the next two years. thirty-fOur miles |
having already been electrlhed. me /
trains in this section of thirty-fou /
miles, excepting freight, are exclu- |
sively operated by electric energy
At the Engineering club in this city |
information has recently been received |
which justif1es some of the leading
engineers in saying that within Few
years possibly as short a time as five
years. the District of Columbia author
tiles will command that the Union
station at Washington and the ap-
prOacheS to it be speedily electrified so
that the steam locomotives will no /
longer be seen within the boundaries
of the district. Should Washington
Naral1rN ff7a
Union station in that city to be cleo
trified and should the Pennsylvania
terminal at Philadelphia and ap-
praoches to it also be electrified, then
it is inevita Bile in the view of the
electrical engineers that within q few
years passenger traffic between New
York and Washington Will be by |
means of. electric energy exclusively.
In New England.
The engineers have also learned that |
the railway terminal at Providence
and the approaches to it within the
boundaries of the city will, in all prob
ability, be electrified within the next
five years. And it is also the under
standing of the engineers that, pro-
Vided the Massachusetts legislature
and the city of Boston can come to
satisfactory agreement with the rail- |
way companies whose terminals are
now at Boston. the stations and the
approaches to them in Boston will be
electrified This would inevitably re-
suit in early electrif1cation of the line
from Boston to Providence. and that
would surely be followed by complete
New Haven road, over which the
greater part of transportation between
New York and Boston passes. There
would, IN fact, remain after eIectrifi-
cation Of the New Haven now under
way and from Providence to Boston
now contemplated was completed only
about a hundred and ten miles of rail-
way lines to electrify.
From New York to Albany.
So satisfactory from the economic
as we'll as safety and convenience noint
OF view has been the identification of
the Hudson river railway from the
Grand central terminal that it is now
considered certain that the New York
central management would speedily ,
to extend the identification {
OF the Hudson river line so that all
passenger traffic between New York
and Albany could be hauled by electric ! :
energy but for one thing
In fact the sole consideration which :
compels the New York Central man ,
agement to delay the identification of !
that part of its system which skirts the /
Hudson river between Albany and :
New Y rk is also the consideration :
which stands in the way of speedy ,
lines of the country, especially in the ,
east.
Where Large Capital Will Go.
Sometimes inquiry is made of men I
who control or possess a very large t
capital, What are to be the invest t
ments of capital in large amounts ]
which are predicted when the era of | +
business prosperity is restored - Bv | i
reason of enforced economies and also ! \
because of the lassitude which has f
prevailed in many business circles 6
there have been accumulated large ;
masses of capital in the past few years. !
visibly represented at the present time ;
by heavy exports of gold to Europe >
and by participation on the part of the ;
United States in foreign loans 1t is :
the expectation of business authorities :
that with the revival of bushes pros
perity this capital will seek investrn ent | .
along very broad lines. But where 2
All the railway managers say that r
railway construction in the United :
States is hereafter to be confined to
the principal railway systems having :
already been constructed The rail- .
way companies will. it is certain, ap- /
proach the markets where capital in /
large amounts is to be obtained, but '
he money secured will be expended i
n improvements, expansions and q
equipments 1t is, however, the ex- 0
oectation of our business men that a
coinctdent with the revival of business y
prosperity and in fact, on account of ?
I, very large investments Of capital | s
n electrical development are certain. a
Boston. it is understood, has millions s
IF capital which will be more easily e
EN- pied into the electrical field than s.
he field of telegraphing and telephon- p
ng- t.
1t is this question of finance which t
stands in the way of immediate and d
7ery rapid expansion of the of
electrical energy for the TRANSPORTATION p
II railway trains. The first cost of the A
installation of electricity, especially z
n and near the large cities, is heavy. d