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Show ' BETTER SERVICE ON CAR LINES Ogden Rapid Transit is to Have a Seven and a Half Minute Schedule on Washington Ectween 5 and 7 p. m. .Harrisville People to Obtain Car Service. I Pnsscngcr traffic on tho Ogden Rapid Transit, lines has so grown that the company Is forced to provide more adequate service, and, to this end. beginning next Monday, two cars will be placed on the Washington avo-nue avo-nue line. Kctween Five Points and the High I school building, one car will leave Five Points at S:25 in the morning and the other will leave the same place at 8:33 This Is being done fori the accommodation of students of the high and suh-htgh schools, and other educational institutes. Each car will make one trip. Every evening of each week-day, between tho hours of 5 and 7 o'clock, two special cars will be run between Twenty-fifth street and Seventh street, which will afford a 7 1-2 minute min-ute service Instead of the present 15-mlnute 15-mlnute service. This plan of operation opera-tion has become Imperative, says Superintendent Su-perintendent LUilcy. In order to relieve re-lieve the congested condition during those hours of the day and to make it possible to maintain the schedule time of the regular cars on the Washington Wash-ington avenue route. : Anothe r change of Importance that ' will go Into effect next Monday will I be the alternating of tho Washington avenue and city limits car, over the Washington avenue line and the liar-! liar-! risville line. The Washington avenue j car has been, and Is now. running toj the city limits on Washington avenue, i nnd. In order to get to the city, tho j I people on the Harrisville road have ( : been compelled to walk to Washington Washing-ton avenue to catch the car. Under 1 the proposed arrangements, every other car, after next Monday mom- ing, will go b the city limits over ' the Harrisville line, which means that I people can make connections with the Washington avenue car at the city I limits on the north on the hour and the half-hour, nnd at the city limits on lb' Harrisville line at the qunrter-honr qunrter-honr belore the hour and the quarler-hour quarler-hour after the hour. It means a thirty-minute service from the Harrisville and Wash in vton n venue starling points. The company Is making the change for the accommodation of the people along the Harrisville way nnd they feel that perfect satisfaction can also be given the Washington avenue patrons pa-trons of I he road. |