The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-15

iTs FORM HAS BEEN CHANGED


Some a. the old iron imported By The
Queen City Gable Company from Kansas
City. and which they claimed they would
use under their alleged Madison street
franchise. viii, after al, be put down on
Madison street The Madison Street Cable
Company instead Of the Queen City Cable
Railway Company i putting the iron in,
however.
II viii Be remembered that In January
last the 50 tons Of iron brought here by the
Queen City Gable Railway Company were
sold By Col O. r. Briggs. Of the Union
Pacific Railway Company. to Moran Bros
| to pay freight charges Moran Bros. had
the iron caYted down to their foundry
shortly after the sale A lev weeks ago
Assistant Superintendent Andrew Jackson
OF the Madison street cable road went to
Moran Bros'. foundry to make inquiry
about some work be was having done there.
While around the foundry his eye fell upon
the pile OF Queen City iron. Instantly
brilliant idea struck him. He would have
some Of that iron melted down in the GU
pols and used in casting some of the work
for the Madison street road. He made his
apparently whimsical request 10 the firm
and was delighted upon receiving the reply
that it would be granted A few days later
lot Of the iron was melted down and cast
into pulleys and brackets, all Of which will
he used on the road And it is in this
manner that the Queen City Cable Com
pany IS iron is TO be laid on Madison street.
woRK on MADISON STREET
Yesterday was taken advantage Of by
the workmen on Madison street, and the
work Of completion was carried forward
another STEP The concrete men reached
Second street yesterday evening. and to-
day they will complete q section OF the
road below that street. toward Front. A
lot Of the turntahle machinery was gotten
in position yesterday, and that important
mechanism will be completed with the rest
of the road. The cable has been hauled 70
the foot of Madison street, from which
point it viii be stretched when the road is
ready for it.
The track of the Madison street road was
to have been extended across the Front
street at an early hour this morning.
rnE PORTLAND CABLE ROAD.
James NJ. Thompson. the cable road
builder. paid Seattle flying visit yester-
day from Portland. He came over for the
purpose OF seeing how work was getting
along on Madison street. He was driven
over the road by DR.. A. r. Mitten, and ex-
pressed himself as perfectly satisfied with
the progress being made. He took the
train for Portland last evening.
Before he left he was seen by Posr-IS-
rELLIcKxCER reporter. In answer to a
question about the Portland road, he
said:
why. it is completed. The cable has
been stretched, and today wired my per-
mission to run car over the road this
afternoon. on condition" he added. with
laugh. that they kept the curves perfectly
clean and used plenty Of oil The road viii
be started up Tuesday unless something
UNFORESEEN happens, and You know lots Of
UNFORESEEN things happen in cable railway
conStructionsEi Just ~ soon ~ the road Is
in good running order l will return here
and devote my entire attention to. the diff
ferent railway enterprises in which am
interested here"