The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-12-23
POWER BREAKACE
CRIPpLES TROLLEY
Morris Street Extension Not
Ye! Ready for Service.

All hope of the operation this week
of the Morris County Traction com
pany's extension on Morris street
from the Lackawanna railroad sta
tion to Washington's headquarters
has gone glimmering because of
the breakdown at the power-house in
Dover which occurred on Saturday.
The armature on one of the two gen.
orators burned out SO that only one
machine is available for supplying
power In consequence instead of
opening up new line the company
has cut down its service to a point
that the one machine can carry. The
half hour service between Morristown
has been reduced to an hourly SER
vice, the state hospital cars have dis
continued running through to Morris
town and there is only a half hour
service to Morris Plains instead of
the usual fifteen-minute service. The
company officials are straining every
effort to get the repairs made but
it will be Saturday and perhaps the
first of next week before the gem
orator is ready for service again.
Laborers in the employ of the Nor
ris County Traction company worked
all day Sunday in putting in the con-
crete foundation for the brick paw
ing that goes between the trolley
rails
Bonding the rails will take con-
siderable time for the work will be
done only at night on account oil
traffic on the street. The company
will use its recently purchased elec-
trio welding apparatus for the Donu-
ing. This machine uses the current
from the trolley wire and Yields
bond that cannot be broken by OF,
binary usage and which does not
wear out like the ordinary copper
compressed bond.
General Manager Wiedman CON
templates a half hour service to the
Headquarters for a time until ne
sees how much time is needed to
make the extra trip from the rail-
road station, after which the main
line cars will probably run to the
headquarters, too.
! Work on the Morris railroad has
reached the stage of completion OF
one track and the partial grading
for the second. Poles are almost all
in place and the stringing of the troll
ley wires will begin soon. 1t Is ex-
pected to have the road. at least
one track and if the weather per-
mits both tracks, in operation short
! ly after the first of January.
The company contemplates the run
ming of its cars right through from
Wharton to Maplewood when the of
ficials have a chance to figure out
the schedules after the running time
on the new road is ascertained Fol-
the present an additional car will
be put in service on the Eastern
division of the line and the cars
from Maplewood will run to the Nor
ristown green.
Specifications are being drawn up
for ten new cars to be purchased
soon. These cars will replace the
eight six-w wheel cars that are now in
use and will supplement the equip
ment of twenty-five big double truck
cars the company now has. The
new cars will be even larger than
the present "310' type in use, seat
ing fifty people.
The present cars have almost all
been equipped with snow scrapers
and Manager Weidman and the other
| officials of the company expect little
delay this winter because of snow
ON the rails. Formerly the company
depended only upon snow plows to
keep the road open and the two pos
i sessed had more than they could
handle on several occasions. With
the cars equipped with scrapers It
is expected the line will be kept
open without difficulty and WHEN
there is a snowfall at night the cars
will be operated all night so that
traffic will not be interrupted.
The western division has been
hampered by lack of power and 1t IS
proposed when the Morris railroad
connection is effected to run the
eastern division power as far as the
Morristown railroad station fhis
will give plenty of power for the
cars climbing the Morris street hill
to Washington headquarters as the
power plant at Chatham, which fur
nished the eastern divisions power.
is even better equipped than the
plant at Dover, the source OF the
western divisions power.