The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-12
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
Inc Electric Railway Company Rushing the
WORKMAN Street Soon to Receive Finish
ing touches and West Line Opened Up.

The cars being operated over the electric
line are sent over the track by the temper
airy power station at the Gilbert plow
works. The old plant at Riverside is being
given a rest. While electricity rarely ever
gets weary and files petitions for rest it
was decided TO give the plant vacation in
the hot season for a week or more. The
dynamo being used at present was wrecked
by lightning some months ago and
the Wichita Electrical Supply company
treated it tenderly for few months and it
completely recovered and in giving the
regulation power in regulation amount.
The company has the track completed
on the west side from the bridge west on
Douglas TO Seneca, south to Maple and
west nearly to Garfield university. The
connecting link of track from Main street
will be completed it is thought
today and in order to give the
west side better service mule cars
Will be put on tomorrow giving service
until the wiring is completed and the
electric cars can be operated over the ex-
tension.
Within few days the work will COM
meEce in earnest on the College Hill ex-
tension which viii be the next branch
added to the system. The work on the
corner Of Main and Douglas shows quite
netting Of tracks curved and straight
A force Of men keep pounding away
but IN the eyes of the spectators
are getting along quite slow. Some of the
Rock Island Office boys had a notice on the
board yesterday that the track would be
taken up today to see if it had been put
down on regulation curve and regulation
level. But no one supposes for moment
that the company paying for the work has
any desire 10 make the curves more costly
than necessary for good job and hence
the corallary.
The boilers for the power plant have
been shipped and are expected to arrive
within week. The building is nearing
completion and will be ready to receive the
machinery by the time it arrives. There
IS some fear that there will be delay in
receiving electrical machinery, but the
companies under contract to fill the orders
report that they are rushing the
work as rapidly as possible The
most trouble is expected in Sc
securing the cars. It is believed the
station machinery will be on hand in time
DuC SllOill JAtIt DC Il utldy III reclining
cars in all probability the company will be
able to get enough 10 give service to the
north part of the city, east and west. In
the event of a scarcity of cars the work of
the line to the south part Of
the city will be delayed as the present ar
rangement for service is suppos-
ed to be better than nothing |
for the people who depend on
street car service. While this might cause
a delay Of two or three weeks, the manage |
ment will aim to get the south town line |
in time to accommodate the fair |
this fall
Superintendent Fitch is now in Chicago !
looking after the interests of the company. |
He will stop at Kansas City and hurry up |
the work on cars as rapidlyas possible.
In order to get Main street in as good /
condition the work of paving the tracks .
will commence at Douglas not later than
Monday next. This viii within few
days place the busy blocks of Main in good |
and no doubt be quite a relief to
the business men concerned. AS soon as
-he south side of Douglas is paved the con
tractor will commence paving on the north
side at the west end, and as fast as the jas
Derite goes down it will be followed by the
rack space being brought up to the regu-
alton improvement.