The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-27
Electricity Drops 10 and Ia
Per Cent-Gas Goes
From $1.35 to $1.20
REPLACE ENTIRE
CITY CAR SERVICE
"Pay-as-Y You Enter" Plan
Will Be Adopted Means
Big Expenditure

In electric current for all res
idence lighting; a reduction
of Is per cent in all COM
mercial lighting, a reduction
in the net rate on gas from
$1.35 to $1.20 per thousand
cubic feet and a rejuvenation
of the entire street railway
system, including the install
lation of all new cars, was
announced at a meeting of
the city commission this
morning by Robert F. Pack,
vice president and general
manager of the Northern
States Power Co., owners of
the Union Light, Heat &
Power Co., of Fargo.
The change in the sched-
ule of charges for gas and
electricity go into effect May
1, and means a reduction In
the gross revenues of the
company annually of $25, 900
for electricity, $4,000 an
nually for gas, and the
spending of fully $780,
900 on the improvement of
the street railway system,
Mr.. Pack stated.
The changes in the street car serv-
ice contemplate the reduction of time
on both the north and south loops
from "a minutes to 15 minutes, the
reduction of the headway on the Oak
Grove and Sacred Heart lines from S6
to 20 minutes.
The twelve street cars now in use
will be scrapped, and will be replaced
by fifteen new steel cars OF the most
modern type. These cars IL purchased
a month ago would have cost $70,5O0,
but are considerably higher now. The
cars will be SO feet in length over all.
8 feet 2 inches wide. feet inches
high inside, and IL feet, inches high
q seating capacity Of "a.
Pay you-ent Cars.
They will be one-man, pay-as-you-
enter cars, in use in many cities the
size Of Fargo, and considerably larger
over the United States. Passengers
enter at the. front OF the car. but the
cars are also provided with an emer.
gency exit in the rear. All doors are
controlled and the cars
are Drovided with air brakes.
Instead Of the four cars on the two
loops, with a 24-minute interval be-
tween cars going the same direction
(headway), there will be six cars with
B. 15-minute interval In place of the
using of one car on the Oak Grove
and the Sacred Heart Academy lines.
with 36-minute intervals between cars
two cars will be put on these lines.
reducing the headway intervals 10 ~
The Moorhead Normal line,
Moorhead Courthouse line and Dill
worth line schedule, will remain the
same as at present, though new
cars will be installed.
Mr.. Pack announced this morning
that in addition to these improvements
there will be a new modern repair
shop put in at the car barns, and that
new wyes and turnouts will be built
War May Delay Delivery.
81 do not know when IL viii be pos
uihIa Tor IIa IN get the new cars here.
n. 49, 80 condit;ons Tnal,inr, AZ very lIn-
.ns4a;., ~. LIE, anv orders car be filled.
However, we are going 70 make this
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.,stto,s ne AZ NOT think that the cars
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n bIa taIly fo the commission this
,,arnins Mr Pack called attention to
he fact that reductions are being
.no ~ tire vvhen evervfhin1 used
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= .as e,S couinnnent such as viii Be
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