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Show TO'NSffEi TO BE .fiCCBi . ' WiWl. STREET CBR LINE "Oh, botheration! there goes my car. - There comes one that goes within with-in two blocks of my house, but my transfer wouldn't be good on that. I'll have to wait ten minutes, and Jack said he wanted dinner early tonight." Thus exclaimed a woman on the corner cor-ner of Main and Second South streets yesterday afternoon. Up at the corner cor-ner of First South another woman uttered ut-tered practicaly the same complaint. Whoever is near the principal downtown down-town junction points frequently hears such expressions of disappointment and impatience every .day. But all this will end . in about ten days, for then a new transfer is to.be put in use on the cars of . the street railway system. When the order, goes into effect the "passenger will merely ask for a transfer without naming any particular line. At the present time the conductor punches on the transfer trans-fer the name of a line to which the passenger intends going. In future he will punch only the name of the line from which it is issued. Then a ticket will be good on every car except one going in the direction opposite to that from which the car the passenger leaves has come. The new arrangement is expected to work a convenience both to street car patrons and to the conductors. It will be" an advantage to the passenger in that ordinarily ho will have the choice of several different cars. Two lines may run near his house, and he will be privileged to take . the first car which appears, whichever the line. The conductor, ' meanwhile, will be saved a great annoyance". At present he frequently fre-quently is compelled to punch many different " kinds of ' transfers at one time. Under the new arrangement he may punch a number of the slips in ad-. ad-. vance, leaving nothing more to be done with them except, to indicate the time when passengers ask for. transfers. trans-fers. New equipment which, has been ordered or-dered by the Utah- Light and Railway t company' is expected to arrive here in time to begin construction work the middle of next month. Practically the entire street railway system will be rebuilt, except those sections on which new rails have been laid in the last year. . The Wandamere and Warm Springs, lines will be rebuilt first. The tracks south of Liberty park must be entirely new. Other lines on which construction construc-tion work will begin shortly after are the State street line to Murray and the Jordan Bridge line. Throughout the entire system thirty-five-pound rails will be Teplaced, in the down-town districts dis-tricts by rails of eighty pounds and in outlying districts by sixty-five-pound rails. In the reconstruction of the system 800,000 cubic yards .of gravel will be required. "It's a harder job to rebuild an old line than to construct a brand new one," said F." L. Morris, this morning. "In making over an old system, we have to take down before we can start to build up." |