Show t i I PUSHING WORK ON ONt I t I BAMBERGER LINE Will Be Ready for Operation by b Y Electric Power in October H S Strauss vice president of the Falkenau Electric Construction company of Chicago which firm has the contract for electrifying the Bamberger railway stated yesterday that everything along the line is now progressing In excellent e shape and that Indications point to the road toad being opened for travel under the new motive power some time In October The poles POI for the line are now practically all n In place and the overhead construction work will probably begin within a few days Expert superintendents and nd fore foremen foremen foremen men from Chicago are beginning to ar arrive arrive arrive rive to push th the work along The trolley wires wire and feeders will be in place within a couple co le of weeks The new cars are well under way ac no according cording to advices received today from the builds builders said Mr Strauss Straus and they are considered co the highest type of Interurban Inter Interurban Interurban urban cars can in the country The passenger pa coaches will be sixty feet long und and each will carry four power motors The trucks are to be all steel and each car ear will wUl be equipped with automatic air 11 brakes The cars are designed for either train operation or to run singly They will be beautifully finished The Interior woodwork is to be solid mahogany mahogany mahogany any and the trimmings are to be of green and gold general design with plate glass glaes gla s windows and bronze metal parts They will wUl contain smoking and toilet rooms The seats wilt will be high backed with head rolls of leather On the outside the carswill cars carswill will wUl be finished In olive green with gold trimmings The substations will be similar In size and ADd design They will win be built of con concrete crete orete and brick and will be equipped with the latest type of electrical machinery There will win be four of them and a large force of men will wUI 1 begin egin work on them very soon lOOn Work will proceed on them simultaneously They will wUl be located as follows tollow No 1 near Becks Becka Hot Springs No 2 near Rosedale No 3 near tr Lay Layton ton tonNo I No 4 near Riverside We Ve have not yet decided on the question que Uon of building our own power house but that will not interfere in interfere Interfere with beginning the operation of the road The power stations station I may say sa will be beautiful and attractive from an architectural standpoint Generally con eon considered considered this road will compare c favorably when wilen electrified with any interurban system system tem tern in the United States In regard to the schedule for the road Mr MI Strauss said that It was the Intention Intention intention tion to start a car every hour on the even hours from both ends of tb the road between 5 Ii oc in the morning and midnight or r 1 the next morning The service will practically be from eighteen to twenty t hours each day Besides B Be sid sides s these trains several cars each day will run to maintain a special high hl h speed limited service stopping only at one or two stations station between the ends of the line Une or not at all |