Show I RAILWAY CIRCLES I The Electric Street Railway People Peo-ple Hard at Work GLIMPSE AT THE PROGRESS MADE The Union Pacific In California New Winter Win-ter LineThe Southern Paelflc General and Personal Notes Active work has commenced on the power house for the electric street railway system and from the present time on the work will be pushed with a vigor that ought so satisfy the most persistent growler The power house will be 150 feet long by 43 feet wide and 15 feet high on the north side with 25 feet on the south side Itisbuiltwith capacity for500 horsepower and will have 250 horsepower put in at once The contract is now out for the engine en-gine to be laid down on the loth day of May and in three days Mr McCune expects ex-pects to start east to close the contract for the electric plant Ten cars will be put onto on-to begin with and the sixteenpound rails that are now down on the route of the electric road will be replaced by twenty five pound rails the work of making the change to begin also without delay Mayor Armstrong is moving a hundred hun-dred feet the strong lumber building on the north which will be used for the electric cars while additions ad-ditions arc to be made to the structure which now covers part of the present cars so that all can be kept under cover The bathing cars this season will be heavy new open excursion cars which will be operated by the time the season well sets in with electricity The smaller cars that are to be run by mules are being repainted and fixed up and when brought out will be spink spank new in appearance The service will be doubled |