, 1881-10-16
CABLE RAILWAY.

CABLE RAILWAY.
LaBf "cck>b NrOEre%>-TfAc Extension
| to Lake Street.
| Superintendent Holmes, Of the South Di-
vision Railway Company, does not think that
| the clerk of the weather has BEEN doing the
SQUARE thing BY the company during The past
week, us the small-sizcd Hood has delayed
the work OH the new cable road quite scri-
ou5ly. The men have not. been idle, how
ever, and Il good deal has been accomplished
considering the drawbacks. From Adams
street south to Nineteenth street there is Il
| completed and unbroken line Of road, and
the roatl is finished from the Archer avenue
| excavation to the Twe,lty-tlrst street eNcay:t-
tion.- by the first OF the week the length, of
road between Twtnty-fi first and Twenty-sec-
Ond streets will be completed. and the con-
crete mixer now at that point will be IT.
moved south Of TWenty-seeond street, where
the construction of the road along the west
track is being rapidly pushed.
The State Street cars now run from Wa
] basil to State OIL Twenty-secotd street. and
at the corner OF State street switch Off onto
the east track. From tliiss point to Twenty
fourth street there is only {. single track, and
ut Twenty-fo1rth street there is I. switch
which is ls;atlc movable in siS foot sections,
anu eau bc Shifted us rapidly as the ro;asl is
completed. From this switch to Twenty
fr,,,, 'rw..,,t..n;ntj, .troat .H,,t tEn ~ III iI
tracks have not been touched as yet. The
waiting on switches ll,a!1es the time Of tho
State street cars slower than usual. and gives
the passengers Oh that line some idea Of
what the Indiana avenue passengers suffer
with their single truck and Switches.
The west track from point half way be-
tween Twe1,ty-snconh and Twenty-tlliru
streets to Twcnty-tifth street has hecn cont
at wr,frIiStl strts,,t fIhn trnn, !. j., ,'i,a,' ~
and concrete is heinz nut in lu Twen;v1sixti, It; XVIII
strcpt ;,n,i fro,n thsre tn tf,vantv.xe,.nth
FAR sn,,1 M M e ifrar :tr Js t c
traci lac i"a,, t,,r ~ n,' ~ irn,' ,''.
are JvinT aIons- tnp sfrcet to s1'l,irt y.tir.f
srraot rns,1S. -, la mn IN n,aoa ifh3 n;;,
las begun gun the iayins ms O. OF tie; the cedar block
:Ibont ilalr a block las been n tinisneI. The M
'tirst ~ tI,e ,xonl ramr IT ,',a,, ,,.;ii ha ,,I
at work laying te cedar hicks from or r T'wnu. ,,u.
tv-second Street south, The payers on lie
oye appe fSa Fouqenih pt f l st1aet reached point
''oo'' - foa1'eea.'n tm sl've1, ,,'s e..,,,,,,u
49,. . -; AT a, ,,. -Ap.ANs STREET STREE
Is i'll place, aud Is being concreted to Monroe
street. The excavation just south OF llIadi-.
son street n2s been nearly completed; and
TINS week viii be covered up: Many have
Sfnpi,ose!!G Illat M tne caoie H'ie WI end here.
pul lt VIII he eXte'lnsa through 70 Lake
Streetat once ti1cN cSt DIVISION COMPANY 'lay-
lhs asfc*u 70 Keep tileir cars ofs otatn street
1"rten ays.altloug SUPERINTENDENT lloMes
says Tile worS; cali De put through III less
tth!e: y t"eisc,ioot ptiiie5-"t9ect Viii De
put III 1T the Madison street excavation for
The southern cable, and Il siN-foot wheel will
be put III to rim The cable from
Madison TO Lake street, in order that the cars
may run slower aud not be thrown oil ut the
turns. Another six-foot wheel will be put i'll
ut ihe Lake street excavation. The Madison