The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-26
BONDS ARE SOLD
Street Car Officials Arrive and Begin II
construction.


construction.
The new street railway bonds are
now underwritten and will be delivered
as soon as the lines are rebuilt, which
should be proof in fine to those who have
been impatient and incredulous as to
the new company's intentions
we will have our new cars running
by January first" said Mr. H. 3.
Church, president of the company. ye.-
tcrday eve will nave from 200 to 500
men at work within the next three
weeks, or sooner if we can get the ma
teri2L And v hen the lres are done and
equipped the system here will be one
that people can be referred to in fact 1t
viii be almost a show line"
TIE new closed cars will all be vesti-
hu,ed in accordance with the new law
passed last winter requiring that thi.
be done for the protection of motormen.
They will be about one and one-third
the length of the old cars and will be
2S inches wider The closed cars will
seat "a people each and will be built with
the strength TO carry a hundred passen-
gers. The seats will be constructed as
seats are in first-class railroad cars
They viii stand crossw.ze, six on a side
in the closed car with white rattan
cushion seat and reversible back. This
will make 1T a veritable pleasure to take
a ride whereas ii is now worse than
tiresome. With the new solid T rails on
new ties and new bed the cars will
move along as smoothly az the easiest
carriage, and people will ride.
There will be twelve new closed cars
and fifteen open ones. The open cars
Will be fitted with the same seating ar
rangements as the closed cars. There
viii be no mounting platform along the
side as now and along from one en-
trance to another there will be protec-
ton Of drill work netting. The entrances
will be from the end only and the danger
to passengers will be much less. The
end seats will stand longetudinally in
the car, giving about twice the entrance
way afforded where the seats stand
cro.swose. The style OF car decided up
on by the company is very handsome
and Of the latest design.
The new line OF road will go down
Topeka avenue and by shifting TO Law
renee avenue on Thirteenth street two
railroad c.ossing will be eliminted. This
is the intention OF the company. The
line down South Main will be built 10
the fair ground unless the Fair associa-
ton should decide to move the grounds,
in which Gaze the old line will be taken
up from Lincoln street down.
When asked why the company was
putting in new line out Oak street by
the cemetery to Paramount instead of
extending the East Douglas line up
Hillside 10 the cemetery, Mr.. Church
said that they had TO extend belt lines
when the town was built up and when
there was some show for travel. But the
company mas secured the franchise for
lighting the city. Some new material
will be added. New engines will be put
in and in fact new brick will be built.
1--WE will put in two 300-horse power
compound condensing engines" said
MI Church yesterday. THE coniensers
will be connected with wells. TO supply
the water for cooling. The boilers viii
be of the water-tube type which will
stand 4 pressure Of $50 pound. per
suuare inch. These boilers are known
as safety boilers. There will be an iron
stack erected 125 feet high, and "a inches
in diameter. The track or rail men will
arrive today, and the work will begin in