| Show Street Railroad Street railway history in this city for tor the tho past year car has hUR been of ot marked Importance un in August 1 tho the control of tho the Rapid Transit company with Its miles III II ell of track passed Into the tho hands of the old city railway giving giving ing the tho now new concern 76 70 mites miles of ot track and the old oM city railway company was 1118 reorganized as 11 tho the Salt SnIt Lako Luke Consoli Consolidated Consolidated dated Railway Hallway und and Power company with Charles L IJ Stood Rood ns nil president In Instead instead stead stend of A W McCune whose sybase frequent absence O from tho the city made attention to tIme the duties ditties of ot hs hum hi entirely uncertain thIn tain Cameron of at tho the Rapid Transit then hen to tho the classic of ot New Hampshire where ho Ito gave his time to polo hooky and simi similar Jar lar Interesting methods of ot asphyxiating a time So 80 the tIme Consolidated company has hns now most of ot tho the local loral street railway linen IIno within Its management the sole note the lie West Wo t Side Bide Rapid Transit which runs rumia from First Ves anti and Second South streets southwest In Into I Ito to the suburbs suburb During tho time year to Hlo company has Imi add d to Its equipment 2 miles of ot track on Seventh Kast I street to park on West We t Temple street et half MIf a I mile mill line has hu IJ bean built from Ninth to Tenth South and amid the tho track on Third South S between bot Fifth 1 anti and OHl Seventh Erl t streets has been doubled In till 11 li nU j t mileS of at track have havo been built bui rh company In is li laying la 11 steel otcel In tha l district of the th city and the dou doti double bUt bIG max sick k on west Second S eon South street will wll wil be IN thus an its II Boon oon an as ill the tM Alca Alcatraz traz tras Paving company loati loa the Street In II for It to do tic 10 Sn o l f i i Junction and ha i been bean proposed and plans plane lau drawn dr but th t tIe f t movement at present is 19 9 nt not fully tully od oti o on The rhe company was vas 1 Intending alsi nl j to build a n power plant on an the tho west side the tho coming year but after a Cl I Chicago o electrical expert hint had looked over ocr the ground he concluded that the Ih present sources of ot power poor dould be auf suf sufficiently enlarged to meet all 11 demands for Co some ome time to come and the pro proposed proposed proposed posed west side sMa plans will wi be held In abeyance for tor the tho present pre ent However noe r the company Is prepared to take Inke the step when the exigencies of ot the tho situation de do demand domand mand It I The Consolidated Con company received rec ived ten ton now new double cars from the tM Laclede de car ar works this year capable of ofen seating en til people and six old Stephenson earn cars have havo been be n made over Into four other double truck cars mak making makIng ing a grand total of ot cars of ot which M 04 t are arc In active operation toll Then six ex cx tra tra largo large l rge cars havo have been be n ordered from the tho Laclede works work for tOr next summers summer Calders park travel and two ears cars are Ino areto areto to be built bui from four tour of ot the old Steph Stephenson enson cars which of ot course will wi b bi be un unusually unusually usually large and hold hol Quite tute a I crowd of people The This company has hi replaced four tour mites miles mies of ot old trolley wire with wih heavy heavy S j copper wire no as n the tho larger ller cars CLU domand a 1 current of electricity Th TIme rho of ot tho tIme Improvement amount to Tim Tue company Silt sur tv a heavy loss lose in 1 tho lie destruction by lIre lira of tho ho Rapid Transit car with wit wih twenty cars In n August lust last Tho Time loss los wea whit lih tho lie entail o ot of Travel each Mel oj og 01 tho the railway and amid tho Ito 0 on I Increases c to tu correspond One can oan go O from Ily point In tho tha th city cly now to O any ny othor other point for tor a and iid IHl tho the lure faro to OhIO tho ten tl State to five Ovo prison cents hiLts Iwa been boon reduced from |
