San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-29
ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAYS.
New Lines Being Run in Every
Direction.
How They are Developing the
Beautiful Suburban Prop
erty of San Antonio.

Many things go to develop the subur-
ban property, among which are rapid
transit, location, water and natural at
fractions, but the most important of
them points to the idea of rapid tranait
to the purchase of suburban home, for
the American of today everything is to
push, vim and time He desires to reach
his home, eat his meal and return to
business i'll short time. If he can do
this he invariably prefers the quiet, pure
suburban home, where all noise and
commotion is gone when he reaches his
home i'll the evening. Suburban addi-
tons to San Antonio are springing up on
every side, and invariably the first thing
which owners desire to impress the pub
lie with is that they will have an electric
car line extended to their addition The
San Antonio Electric Street Railway
since the able management and presi-
dency OF same has fallen on Mr. Vim
Weiss, has made extensive improvements.
The mule power has given place to cleo
trlcity until today the finest improved
electric cars are running in every part of
the city. The Avenue c line, which is
the most important in the CITY, rms
from the corner of Houston and Soledad
streets to Government hill. What is
Known as the International depot line.
now extended to that beautiful suburban
addition, Lakeview, starts from Alamo
plaza, passing the l. & G. n. railroad
dePot and runs to Lakeview. The San
Pedro Springs line, now extended 70
Laurel Heights, starts from Alamo plaza,
going up Soledad street and returning
Sy San Pedro avenue and Acequia street
The Arkansas Pass depot line starts from
Alamo plaza and runs to the depot. All
of the above named lines are run nv
electricity, and the systems work to per-
lection, nothing, since their Inaugural
ton, having interfered with the cars rum
ming every day. Outside of extensions
in the lines named, additional track has
been added to the East Commerce street
line, until its tracks stretch to the GENE
teries. This Improvement was long de-
sired by the public, as it places our
cemeteries within a few minutes ride
IRON the heart of the city. New addi-
IONS to the magnificent system will be
extended to South Heights, very de-
sirabie suburban addition to San Anto-
MO- The South Flores and North Flores
streets lines are the only ones of this
magnificent system which are not run
ny electricity. No doubt that in the
very near future this change will be
made. Since the adoption of the cleo
trio car system in San Antonio travel has
doubled, which clearly proves that the
people desire to do business in hurry,
and if they can reach their homes on the
hills surrounding San Antonio in few
minutes suburban property will be the
real estate most desired by the mechanic
as well as the business and professional
man; and thus the seeming unreasonable !
extension of new lines to suburban prop
erty will prove a good paying and well |
patronized branch of the system. While
other have set sleeping, Mr.. Weiss, the
genial manager and president, has pushed
his system i'll every direction and the
near future will develop the wisdom of
the new extensions made by the COM
pany.