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Show INITIAL RON OVER THE CUTOFF The building and cqulping of tho interurban electric railway botweon Harrisville andBrigham cfty. sixteen and a half miles, including the electrifying elec-trifying of the road between Harris-vlllo Harris-vlllo and Five Points, baa cost the Ogden Rapid Transit company 3250,- The initial trip over the "Harrisville "Harris-ville cut-off" will be made this afteiv noon, those participating In It being the officers of tho company, 'Ogden, Wlllard end Brlgliam city officers, the county officers of Weber and Box Elder Eld-er counties and representatives of the press of the two counties. The special train Is to leave the Ogden Rapid Transit depot on Washington Wash-ington avenue and Twenty-fourth street at 3:30, tho time designated to make tho run from Ogden to Brlgham being one hour. Superintendent Bailey says this time will be maintained in tho regular schedule, ten minutes' extra ex-tra being taken in making the running to the Union dopot and the depot of (he Salt Lake & Ogden Railway company Qn Lincoln avenue. It is said that the dally service will bo on whnt is designated a short schedule mid the superintendent saya that, becauso of thle, tno people will hno to necustom themselves to getting get-ting on and off the earn ns rapidly as possible. There will bo no long-distance stop signals. Tho cars cannot wait for pcoplo to run from a half to threo, blocks to catch the train. I The beginning of the regular opera- tlon of the new service tomorrow i morning displaces tho old schedules altogether, n complete change being made in the time of trains from Ogden Og-den to Brlgham, over th Plain city dlvlblon and also over the North Ogden Og-den and Pleasant View division. Tho Plain city division wil bo operated as before, except that tho interurban trains will always have the right-of-way. The opening -of this cutoff marks the beginning of virtually a through Interurban electric car service from Brlgham ciiy to Salt Lake, Ogden being be-ing the central and Initial point. Mr. Bailey states that mileage transportation transpor-tation over the Ogden-Brighnm city lino will be good over the Ogden-Salt Lake lino and vice-versa. It having been agreed by the two companies to recognize interchange tickets. Today's initial trip really marks an epoch in the intnniiban development both north and south of Ogden city. rr |