The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-01
SEATTLE STREET ROADS.
re Big Cable Successfully Placed
in Position.
=. Electric Railway IL xsorins
Csnpistfon- work on ths Lake
washingssn Line

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Csmpietfon- " ORR on the Lske
washiugfsn Line
II fs83 were only leap year. the
x,-art street cable line would be cxser-
....;,,.x t.Sfnre Marrhf. Bat as tie rear
80 an orsinarv ses daxx snd
- Ja'e -. 80 -. - rss. -
feDsa1ls oa..s -. -. 90 :. -, - 80 -
not be started Hhtli asSer tDs iast DAY
sesa he would be running q car over
- tine l,s March LIST. ana souae peo-
- -. ts.e v.ns,ey ,ba, - ,.-a..,,a
Pc n.'' s. s.s..s-~s - - -.
h2ye ihe 1oAs- :. sssvt 1919 sA'ss
sine- They VII iose- Mr. thompson
tried TO make them Wis., though he
L.eux his promise for March 1st any
NJ Theulr,Sfsr, fr,feraa Il, tasa
80 -. ia ta-,,a~ ,-s.h 49,
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directors OF me 'FRONT.' street tanas
Company ana the puciic VIII be ex-
FADED IN invitation 70 q like priv
sl... Tor q nickel q head. next week.
-. cable was ss.csexsfs.IIv sfressh~d
s. ~, 81 ....rs, 49,. - =
yes.ssuAs. -, As ~ -
minuses- were pis, Stout horses
we're h;tcfied 70 the skeietoE DANNY.
Sh< grip OF wn,cn Was fastened tightly
tp the end OF the cable, and they were
stnsfkd from the tnrntabie up Front
slxeeg AZ O'Clock yesterday morning.
TWAS found, however, that some Of
TIE travellers, which support the
cable. hadn't been put 81 just right.
and delays we're caused by that and
SOME trouble thaf occurred AZ the
turns. The trip out to the
power house and back was
Completed at 80 2. IA. When the u
horses marched down Front street.
pulling the cable, they were met at the
end BY tremendous crowd who had
assembled partly ~ Response % the
IRE alarm and partly to welcome them.
The movements Of the horses and
some final work that Was done near
the tayntable during the afternoon oc-
copied the attention OF the great mass
OF people till nearly dark.
The rornd trip had now been sue
cessfaIiy made, but It was necessary
10 splice The cable; 90 the horses at 3
D. d. were started out TO the power
house where the work Of joining the
ends of the long wire began. splicing
cable IL an art that very few men are
masters OF. Mr. Johnson, Who was for
II years in the employ OF Gable Road
Hallidie, in San Francisco, is one OF
the few who has the skill for fastening
the ends of the wire rope so that its
surface at the place Of iuncture will
retain its smoothness and strength.
and he superintendent the job last
night at the power house. II took
eight men. and the loose strands for
100 feet at one end of the wire were
inferlaced with the strands of the
other end with a neatness, skill and
despatch that were watched with in
terest BY large number OF friends of
the road who had assembled 20 witness
superintendent Jackson SAID yester-
Gay shat u any one naa SiVn 70 Del
nirs ~ ,eiinist.t 10 ,ge sa 49,, as~
over fi,e line before that time hrs : !
4 waer,' 4 absoluteiv ,,aes3sars, =, .s@,r.,.
nieta the rosd - saon he wnui.lrsr 4
hurry matters vreatIv
There are sisose who saw thas Mr.
Thnmnson Hal little more than his
word "a stale when he sa;d he was,i,i
finish the lire Nv March / and RIM i
esr user r. II = aaia fiat ne hea I,ss
xtsgs9 In rasi, that Tho r..a.s srs.s,ia -.
+, .,sas.vsfis,r, ~, that .lasa f,thnrs IL
tsrests,i n the rr,ed are ky,,yr,, n, haye
waear.d s,,ise ~ rlofhiog as,d ysrsa,,s
nst.~ arss.I.a ~ sxal,,a - usrs.s. :
Wnsavrr Mr. Tbosnrss,p has hsr.sIy
hss ths Ginning ~ fl,as xI9ssl ,,.g,s.Ii !,
Tn x;sss whar, he ms ~ ,,e,,.i,.g MAN.
,.,,sss,as ,n.sre ~ -. ss.sr
1hst ,safiA haze haar, g, ,rs..i s. ss,s,-a
tssss MAJ hsay, f,kes, ia ,vag.,ssa j.,
s-ss tf,snr.s,s, il, sIaraI
Anywas tha lsra,.t sf.ee. ,at.,n &
x,rsr,,sallv fs,,ishe5 AMI ,,ea~is xsss's Z,
,nars had is,.,, ) s,,a,,.i..a Gar -,
rosanealassn,, s,f tI,s ,sse,r,,s. "a Ssss,ls.
~. 1ts....l.. ..s..... -. -.
= ses..'sss 49, 80 Wa siaAs :
nas eeeh COTE during the - days and
= nights OF the past month on the
Front street road. has attracted public
attention 50 generally that the work
on the electric road has been I'm a
measure lost sight Of. But Ii is never
theless fac. that the construction OF
the road and plants almost completed
and that ears operated bv electricity
viii ae rslnning in seattle within the
next 10 days. Workmen have nearly
finished stringing the wires along .he
line OF the road, through which the
mysterious masive current Is 20 be I'M
tfedaced from the dynamo in the
power house 10 the 'strolly" OF the
car aud thence down into the motors.
The machinery for the operation os
The road Is In position in the power
house at the foot of Pike street The
plant consists OF a steam engine and
boiler Of @-horse power, which oper-
ates the sthorse power dynamo. Al
other necessary appliances for the
generation and regulation OF the cleo
sric current are ready for operation
having been tully tested several days
SINCE. Mr.. Cobb OF the Jarvis Eu-
siheering company, which had the
contract ter putting IN the steam plant
sor tue road, returned to Boston night
pe,ofe last
me THOMSON Houston Company
nss haa the eohtract Tor FURNISHING
s,aassi anu - nurA wa W nave peeh
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