The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-06
THREE HUNDRED MEN AT WORK.
The Wichita Electric Railway Company Rush
ing the Work--Power Station Machinery
on the Road.

The Wichita Street Railway company
keeps saving wood with about three
hundred employees constructing the line
The company is rushing the work as
rapidly as possible and while the streets
are badly demoralized no one seems to OBJ
ject as it is looked upon as an absolute
necessity in order to make the change re-
sulting in a first class street railway
system to give service to all parts of the
city. Very few complaints are being
made on the contrary the public seem
well pleased with the quick work being
done.
The Topeka avenue line, giving service
from the corner of Main and Douglas to
the packing houses and car works, Is near
ly completed and within ten days the
Main street line will in all prob
ability be giving service to Carey park. The
line on Elm from Main to connect with the
Riverside line will be ready to be relied
upon within few days. This will cut off
part of the Water street line which can be
removed and added to the system on some
other street. This will nearly complete the
work on the north town lines and the next
in order will be the east and west extern
sions. The track iscompleted on the West
Side from the bridge TO Maple and Seneca
and within three days the West Douglas
avenue link will be put in which will ena-
bic service to commence to the West Side.
Two forces of men will be working on the
College Hill extension by "Wednesday and
the line extended on Douglas
from Topeka avenue When the east
and west extensions are completed the
South Main line viii be constructed. 1t
will reach to the fair grounds and be there
III time to accommodate the fair. When
this is completed the South Topeka line
Will be put in from Douglas To Lincoln
street.
In order to secure power, temporarily,
to give service until the new station is
ready the old time Suburban dynamo viii
be added to the power tomorrow 1t is
stationed in the pillow works and connec-
lions are being made from there TO the
system near the packing houses.
The brick work for the new sta
ton building Will be completed by
Saturday next. The building viii be COM
pleted within two weeks. Some Of the
machinery for the steam plant has been
shipped and will arrive within ten days.
Also some of the electrical machinery has
been shipped. There are some fears that
there may be some delay in getting the
cars as rapidly as will be needed to cover
the system, giving service as soon rs track
has been completed.
Mulvane & Kepley have paved
the track space from Park to Oak
They viii I'll in the sand stone
on Main street as rapidly as possible and it
is estimated that before the last Of the
month Main street viii be over the first
installment of improvements.
During the Fourth over 20,0CO people
were carried over to Riverside. The eight
motor cars and four trail cars were in the
service, and only one car left the rails
causing delay Of five minutes. No
accident of and kind 2 occurred on
the entire line and the management
owing to the inconvenience feel quite well
satisfied that the day went of as success
ful as it did. For some time the question
Of having double tracks on Elm from Main
to the bridge has been considered. lt was
decided yesterday TO put in the second
track, as this would give much better ia
cilities TO handle the Riverside piCuics,
shows and all sorts OF entertainments call
ing for large crowds.