The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-25
HOW CARS WILL RUN.
Arrangements of City Railway
Co. for Festival Week.
Continuous Line of Cars to the
Fairgrounds.
Other Fall Festival News-Arrange-
ments Made by Chief Wilmarth
for Firemenis Parade.

For Festival week the Topeka Railway
company has made most complete ar
rangements for handling the crowds No
transferring viii be done at the transfer
station during the entire week. On each
car run the line there will be extra
men placed who will furnish transfers to
passengers while en- route. Transfers will
be honered only from the corner of
Eighth and Kansas avenue. as usual The
transfer station will be open to the pub
lie and employe will be in charge, but
all transfers will be obtained on the cars
The fair grounds loop will greatly ia
cilitate travel to and from the fair
grounds. Accordingly. the west Eighth
street line will be abandoned for the
week In addition to the through trolley
trains from Garfield park TO the fair
grounds, specials will be run from the
transfer station to the fair grounds Dur
ing busy times four minute service will
be provided on this line
The route to the fair grounds will be
down the west side of the loop. Cars Will
go out West Twelfth street to Harrison.
thence south to the fair grounds, return
ing to the city on the Kansas avenue line.
In this way a continuous passage of cars
will be afforded.
The washburn college, Ouinton Heights.
West Fourth cars will run on their reg
ular schedule time and to the usual ter
mini.
No cars will be run direct to South To-
peSa during Festival week People wish
ing to go to South Topeka will take fair
grounds cars and be taken around the
loop.
Accordingly the South Topeka cars
which run TO Potwin will stop at the
tr-ar1 sta md 70 Fl,
lum- These with the regular asylum cars
win give ten minute service out West
Sixth street to the asylum
During parades on Kansas avenue not
an electric car will be run on the street.
This will be a great improvement over
last year. Washburu, Quinton Heights
and Lownan Hill cars Will be stopped at
Tenth and Jackson streets during parades
and the line operated from there TO the
ternlini- Also. the Oakland cars will stop
at Second and Kansas avenue, the West
Sixth and the cemetery at Sixth and Kan
sas avenue, the West Fourth at Jackson
and just as far south possible, and the
North Topeka at Crane street This. of
course, is simply during parades on Kan
sas avenue. At all other times the cars
will be run on schedule time
The Topeka Railway company has had
its track on Kansas avenue and the fair
grounds line put in excellent condition.
The company has 56 available cars
which will be used next week. The shop
force has been at work putting the ma
chinery in good order and the power plant
at Second and Jefferson streets has been
overhauled. Manager Joseph Patten and
Chief Marshal Norton went in a buggy
over all the lines of march for the pa
rades and tested the height of the trolley
and other wires Mr.. Patten said of it:
7 had a pole made which was five inches
higher than the highest float for the fes-
tival and Mr.. Norton and I went all over
the parade routes. Where our wires were
a little too low the places were marked
and they have been repaired so that there
is not a place where the highest float will
come within a foot of any of our wires
We found several telephone and electric
light wires which were too low and the
various companies were notified
All regular and special trains coming
into Topeka during Festival week will
be met at the depots by trolley trains and
sufficient accommodation given for haul
ing all who come.