The Republican journal., 1913-10-16

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ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.

For years the people in this city and
section have been looking for the build
ing of an electric road from Belfast to
Camden. Many surveys have been made,
charters granted and extended. Now
a steam road has doomed up, and then
we were led to believe that in few
weeks grading and track laying for an
electric road would begin. Land damages
block the way, but are removed. and then
when operations are apparently about to
begin something intervenes - nobody
knows what; if they do they won't tell
and it is all off; and at the next session
of the legislature the charter is given
new lease of life. Whether this delay is
due to existing transportation COM
panies, or to other antagonistlc lnf1u-
ences, we cannot determine. 1t has been
said that certain business men feel that
if the road is built some of our people
may go to Camden and Rockland to do
their shopping, while a like class in Cam
den fear that Camden people would do
their trading in Belfast. AS it is, our
people can go to Waterville or Bangor,
do their shopping and return the same
day; and Camden people have ready &C
cess to the stores in Rockland. So far
as Belfast is concerned we do not think
it need fear competition with any city OF
its size-or larger-and nowhere in the
State can you find more attractive
stores. We have reason to be PROUD of
the business section of Belfast, and the
stocks of goods carried are equal in quail
ity and variety to the demand and prices
as reasonable as elsewhere.
That the proposed electric road would
be great public convenience, that it
would build up the section it is to trav
ersc, add largely to the summer population
and enhance the value of real estate,
cannot be doubted. The running of such
road in winter has been found practi-
cal elsewhere in New England where
storms are as severe, snowfalls as heavy
as here; and our steam roads maintain
their schedules with little interruption.
OF course the conditions in Southern
California are very different and more
favorable to the building of electric
roads, but some facts concerning the
Pacific Electric of Los Angeles from an
article in the October number of Sunset,
the Pacific Monthly, entitled THE Red
Car of EMPIRE are both interesting
and instructive. The writer says:
The red car has an even thousand
miles of trackage- twice as much
as any other electric interurban system.
All important lines are double tracked,
while the trunk lines extending north
ward and southwark out of the city are
four tracked for ten miles. Three tbs
of the straight road mileage is over pri-
vate rights of way, making high speed
possible. The equipment can make
sixty miles an hour; over the private
right of way, a speed of from forty-fv
to fifty-five miles is maintained. The
500 passenger cars carry 225, 900 persons
$4,000 miles every day. Seventy-two
million passengers are carried in year.
The entire steam system of the South
Pacific carries forty million passengers
in a year. The gross annual earnings of
the Pacific Electric are ten million dol
lars, the earnings per mile of track eX
ceeding those of any steam or electric
Dad in the world. The six thousand
employees draw five million dollars a
year in their yellow envelopes. The lines
reach thirty-five miles out of Los Ange
les in every direction except to the west
and southwest. In those directions the
lines only extend from fifteen to twenty
five miles because the Pacific Electric
isn't an ocean-golng road. Low COM
mutation fares between Los Angeles and
all points on the systems give per
mile cost of travel of from one-half to
three-quarters of cent. The single
round trip fare to any Of the beaches is
fifty cents.
This does not tell the whole story. The
company does parcel carrying, runs l, 500
freight cars and does express service at
freight rates. Mail trains run all day.
Newspaper trains leave the city at day
break and anywhere within IS miles the
morning paper is on the breakfast table.
The country merchant, at first opposed
to the red car, now finds it a great con-
venience. He no longer has to carry a
large stock of goods, but can telephone
to the city in the afternoon for the goods
he needs for the next day and have them
waiting for him on the platform in the
morning. In entering the city the red
cars have to slow down to the ordinary
street car pace. To avoid this slight
loss of time the company is to build a
steel elevated railway and subway at
cost of 100000.
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