The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-03
TO BUILD CAR SHOPS.
Street Railways Decide to Unite
on the Scheme.
NEwELEcTRlcLInE SOUTHWARK.
Exhibits to the Spokane Exhibition to
BE Carried Free OF Charge
Railroad Notes. ~

Representatives of seven street railways met
at the Chamber OF Commerce at noon yesterday
70 act on the propes. ton to organize o car
building company. The lines represented were
James Street & Trunk line. the West Street &
North End. the Seattle Electric, the Front Street
cable. the Madison Street cable, the Yesler
Avenue cable oad the Green Lake electric. II
was decided that each line should subscribe
$250o to the capital stock and that any addi-
uona line should subscribe Q like amount.
eIhls secures capital of 1880
to begin with. The North Seattle car barn will
be leased, and building 6oxl20 feet, with two
stories. will be erected. 1t will have capacity
OF eight cars at one setting, with I've tracks,
ana viii be DIVIDED into q carpenter shop, q
paint shop and blacksmith shop. As many
OF the materials as possible win be purchased
In Seattle. Bids have been received already for
WOODWORK which compare well with Eastern
prices. The necessary papers will be imme-
dlateiy drawn up for the organization Of the
company.
The articles Of incorporation of the Rainier
Avenue Electric Railway Company will be fled
today, with q capitalization of $4,000. The In.
corporators are S. L. Bowman and J. K Edmis-
ton OF Seattle and George +. Edmisfon of spo-
kane Falls The object OF the company is to
build and operate al electric railway from the
center OF the city mp Washington street and
soHsheasteriy along the course of the proposed
Rainier avenue to Lake Washington, . point
seven miles from the Occidental triangle.
For the three blocks on Washington street be-
tween South Sixth and South Ninth, where
there 10 steep grade, double-track cable road
viii be put in to assist the electric power. All
the rest of the line is SO nearly on a level that
the greatest grade encountered will be four per
cent
The franchise for the road was granted by the
city council TO s. L. Bowman in July, and since
that time work has been actively, tn ugh very
quietly. going ahead, and two and half miles
ara already graded and force of $50 men are
now engaged on this work. The part Of the
line running rom Jackson and Seventeenth
streets southeast viii be completed before the
part reaching from that point to the center Of
the city Is commenced. The force at work is to
be increased az once, aud the grading will all be
completed By October Is The part from Jack
son street southeast is to be completed and
running some time in December. The rails
have been ordered and are expected to be here
in three or four weeks. The power house will
be on the w. c. Hit tract. The Thomson
Houston system will be used.
The line runs diagonally through the w. C.
Hill tract, lately In litigation, passes near the
brickyard and through large tract of land
owned by Senator Squire, and for a considerable
distance parallels Lake Washington. opening up
some fine residence property. Rainier avenue,
out is creation OF the late
W. c. Hill. who was to have been one of the
stockholders of this company. The avenue
points straight toward Mount RAIN r, which
mountain will be in plain view all the way.
Tue incorporators OF the company have large
capital behind them and will build the road in
the very best style. ]. X. Edmiston Is president
OF the Waila Walla Savings bank and he only
recently removed his residence to this city. s.
l. Bowman is also Waila Wala capitalist and
George r. Edmiston represents several large
British loan companies at Spokane Falls
The Tacoma correspondent Of the Rosr-INTEL-
LIGENcRR teegraphs:
Chief Engineer Bogue, of the Union Pacific.
arrived this morning, accompanied by his
private secretary. He is here to confer with Ia
coma citizens relative TO terminal faciiilies and
to perfect plans for the company's contemplated
improvements along the water front, the work
upon which he says will begin In about month
il the bill granting the right-of-way through
the Puyallup reservation becomes q law
within that time. Freight depots will be To-
Gated at the foot of Twenty-frst street. The
main line viii extend across the flats to a point
little east of the drawbridge, where it viii
cross the old channel of the Puyallup river,
which, by the way. should be flied up. The
line viii run thence nearly out to deep water,
aud turning there, run in northeasterly d.
From there we may extend to Seattle by way OF
Browns point and the Sound shore line, or by
another route through the valley, as we may
subsequently determine. Our PASSENGER sta
ton, he said, will be located on the flats Just
beyond the easterly end of the trestle which
contains the drawbridge, and on q line with
the extension oil Fifteenth street.
The Tacoma correspondent of the Posr-INTEL-
LIeENCER telegraphs: Joseph McCabe, APP
pointed to succeed Mr.. Horner as superintend.
ent of this division of the Northern Pacific
entered upon his duties here yesterday. He
has been i'll the employ of the company for
seven years, and for the last two years has been
superintendent OF the St Paul division. he 10 q
brother of Superintendent A. J. McCabe, of the
Dakota division, and another brother. George
McCabe long in the employ of the company as q
dispatcher at jamestown, is here for his health.
joint notice has been issued by the North
ern Pacific. Union Pacific, Oregon and Washing
ton Territory railroads. taking effect September
10Th and expiring November 18th, fixing special
rates for the shipment OF exhibits to the North
western Industrial Exhibition at Spokane Falls,
to be held from October LIST to November 1st. Il
provides that shipments of agricultural imple-
ments, machinery, mineral aud agricultural
products and other articles for exhibition lex
cept paintings) shall be transported subject to
the following rules and conditions:
The exhibits shall be billed at owners
risk and regular rates charged to Spokane Falls.
On return, no change of ownership having
occurred. and with proper evidence from the
secretary of their exhibition. they will be re-
turned free at the owners risk
Exhibits from all points on the main line and
branches OF the railroads named above in the
state of Washington, between Portland and
Spokane, on the direct lines of either the Union
Pacific or the Northern Pacific. as far east rs
Hope. Idaho and points on the Ceur d'AIene
division of the Northern Pacific, aud the Wash
ington g. Idaho railroad of the Union Pacific,
also points on the Oregon d Washington Terri
tory roads, no change of ownership having oc-
CURED, and with proper evidence OF their exhi-
bition, will be returned free at owners risk to
the point OF shipment and the charges paid for
the transportation of exhibits to Spokane win
be refunded.
All property must be returned fifteen days
after the close of the exposition, otherwise full
tariff rates will be charged.
Shipments OF paintings win be charged full
tariff rates to aud from Spokane Falls.
All agents will call attention TO this circular
before forwarding property.
The contract for ties for the Seattle x Montana
railroad has been let TO P. A. Wooley, of
the town of wooley. on the skagit river. 1t
calls for 100000 to 100000 ties, amounting to be-