The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-06
HOW TO GET THERE.
Time Cards of Street Railways
in All Directions.
RAPID TRANSIT TO SUBURBS.
Cable or Electric Cars Take Passen-
gers From Center OF City From
Sunrise to Midnight.

The street railways of the city show not only
continual increase in their number, but con-
slant improvement in the service given the pub
lie. Within distance of three blocks of Pioneer
Piaee and within period OF half an hour a per-
son can take car for any part of the city from
Green Lake and Ballard on the north to South
Seattle and to any one of three points on Lake
washington; in fact TO reach most of these lines
he would not have to leave Pioneer Place at all
Within the short space of two years the older
lines have increased their service until during
the busiest part of the day those penetrating the
most thickly populated sections of the city run
cars every five minutes, and line on which
cars run less frequently than every ten minutes
lis the exception
Beginning with the lines running to the
northern suburbs, on the Front street cable road
the first car leaves the powerhouse az 5:45 a. m,
runs TO King street and leaves there at 6:0I,
while the first leaves Bradley street, on
queen Anne hill, at SIS a. m. Cars then run
every five and half minutes each way until
5:34 p m, and from that hour they run every
six minutes until midnight, the last car leaving
Bradley street at ll:S6 p. m. and King street at
midnight
On the consolidated electric system cars start
from the corner of Commercial and Washington
streets for North Seattle, Lake Union, Lake
street. Fremont and Cedar street. the Fremont
cars connecting with the Green Lake line and
Lake Union cars with the Latona and Brooklyn
line. For North Seattle the first car leaves the
city at 5:3s a m ana leaves North Seattle at
a. H. cars running every eleven minutes each
way from that time until 1890 p. m. From that
time cars ran every twenty-five minutes each
way. the last leaving the city at 2:2o a. m and
North Seattle at II AZ a. M
On the Cedar street line the first car leaves
the city ct SAB a. m. and leaves Cedar street at
sos a. m, and thereafter cars run every twenty
aaQh ln.cS
every forty-foIr minutes afte- that time, the
last car leaving the city at II Al p. m and Cedar
street at 1908 a.. m. These cars follow the same
route as North seattle cars for a considerable
distance and thus give passengers the benefit
OF the additional service as far as the point of
divergence.
On the Lake Union line the first car leaves the
from that time cars run everv eleven minutes
until 1878 p. m. From that time cars run every
twenty-five minutes, the last leaving the city at
1928 a. m. and the lake at l2:45 a. m.
On the Lake street line the first car leaves the
city at 57 a. n. and Lake street at SOC a. m,
ana from that time cars run each way every
twenty-five minutes, the last car leaving the
city ct 9:3S p. m. and Lake street at 9:55 D. m.
On the Fremont line the first car leaves the
city at 5:45 a. m, and Fremont at 6:l5 a. m, and
thereafter cars run each way every fifteen min
utes until $50 p. IN. After that hour cars leave
the city at As, 10, 10:45 H. 1l:45 p. m. and II
midnight and leave Fremont at 9:I5, $780, 1918,
1880, IL :l5, II 80 p. M. and l2:15 a. m.
For Green Lake the Green Lake cars connect
with the cars arriving at Fremont at fifteen
minutes after each hour from 6:15 a. m. till IL Us
p m. and also with those arriving at forty-fve
minutes after each hour between S:45 a. m. and
5:45 p. IN. On Sundays the first Green Lake ca
leaves Main street at 7:i5 a. m. and Green Lake
at 7:52 a. m, and thereafter leave each end at
m fort -fva
minutes after each hour till Gas p. M, and
thereafter as on other nights.
Lake Uuion car No Ii connects with those OF
the Latona and Brooklyn line which leave the
lake at 6:25 and 1853 u. m, and thereafter every
iorty-four minutes until 10:Ss p. m. The first
car leaves Brooklyn at 647 a. m. and the last at
ii p. m, cars running every forty-four minutes
between those times.
On the West Street & North End Electric
road. beginning at a. m. cars leave Ballard and
the foot of Columbia street every fifteen minutes
until 7:30 p. M, and after that time as follows
from Ballard 7:30, s, Sis, s45 g. e:45, 10, 10: 3d.
IL 10 aud II p. m; from Columbia street: $780, g.
Sis, s:45, 8, 9:45 1880, IL 30 and u p. m The
freight car leaves Columbia street at IL a. m and
p. m, and leaves Ballard at $50 g. m and LAS
p. N.
On Madison street the first car leaves the
power-house for the lake at 55S a. m and for
the city at a. N. The first Car leaves West
sNIecb nv u Id n m, auu tne lake at b. Is q.
Cas- then run every six minutes, till 7:30 a. NJ
every five and one-half minutes till IL 80 a. m
every five minutes till 730 p. H., every K and
one-haf minutes till IL 10 and every ten minutes
until midnight. The last car leaves West street
for the lake at 1l:l0la p. m, and for the power
house at l20l a. m, while the last car leaves the
lake at II IS D. m.
On the Iesler avenue and Jackson street line
the first car leaves the power-honse at a. m.
Cars then run every five minutes till IL :55 a. M,
every four and one-haf minutes till 6 D. m,
and every five minutes till midnight, at which
hour the last car leaves the city The last car
leaves the power-house at II :35 p. m.
On the Rainier avenue line TO Lake Washing
ton anu Columbia the first ear leaves Third and
Washington streets at s a. m, and cars run every
half hour thereafter till II D. M
On the Union Trunk lines cars run on James
street every three minutes from a. m till
midnight connecting at the powerh house with
cars on Broadway, Beacon Hill and Remington
avenue. The last car leaves Pioneer Place at
midnight, connecting with the last car on all
lines.
On Broadway the first car leaves the power
house at 6 a. m, and thereafter ears run every
twenty-five minutes until 7:45 a. m and every
fifteen minutes from that time till midnight.
On the Beacon hill line the first car leaves the
power-honse at a. m, and thereafter cars run
every twenty minutes till a. m, every fifteen
minutes I'LL p. M, and every twenty minutes
till midnight
On the Remington avenue line the first car
leaves the rowerho at a. m, and cars run
every Welve minutes till midnight
On the Commercial street motor line cars run
every half hour, at the even hour aud half hour.
from a. m. till midnight
On the West Seattle cable road the first car
leaves the power-house at $50 r. m, and cars
run every hour thereafter, meeting the ferry
boat, the last car leaving the landing at D. m.
Cars run more frequently when traffic de-
mands it,
Accident to a Cable Car.
slight accident occurred on the Front street
cable road, at the corner OF Temperance and
High street, about 7;I5 last evening. When car
and dummy No. came down High street to the
corner of Temperance. on It's way down town,
the cripmAn. who was an ineSDerianred man