The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04
ONE HUNDRED MEN
To be Put to Work on New
Street Railway by Feb. Is.
MATERIAL is ORDERED
Supt. Construction Here Look
ing Over the Ground.

S. L. Nelson, formerly general manager
of the Springfield, Ohio, street railway
company. and who is to have charge of
the construction of the new street rail-
way system here, arrived in Wichita yes
terday morning and, in company with
Coler Sim and Superintendent w. @.
Church of the old lines. looked over the
railway property and the city generally.
In the time that Mr.. Nelson was con-
nected with the Springfield street rail-
way he built up the lines and increased
the yearly earnings from $4,000 to more
than $4,000, or more than $4,000 a year.
Governor Bushnell of Ohio was a stock
holder in the company and introduces Mr..
Nelson to Wichita business men with the
highest OF commentator.
A few minutes conversation with Mr..
Nelson will convince any one that he has
come here to build a street railway and
not to talk. He says that he shall give
attention to the most important lines first
and that as soon as material arrives he
will put a hundred men at work and in
CAtdoC the uuiHDEI dS last DIS llG SeAAl set
material and men to work.
He has already bought 200 tons of rails,
300 tons of which is already shipped from
Joliet, H. The other 400 tons are to be
shipped from Pennsylvania at an early
date. Two cars of spikes have been or
dered for shipment January 10th. Two
cars of rail joints have been contracted
for March 1st under forfeit of $1,000 to
be paid by the manufacturer if the stuff
is not delivered on that date.
Ten 16-foot vestibuled car bodies have
been ordered for immediate delivery and
trucks for shipment from Kingston, New
York. January %. The contract for mo-
tors calls for their delivery here on Feb
ruary 10. a premium of so day to be
paid to the manufacturers for every day
the stuff is delivered prior to that date,
and they to pay a forfeit of so per day
for every day of delay after that date.
In every case Mr.. Nelson and Mr.. Nc
Kinley in making contracts for material
have forced forfeit for delay when pos
sible and offered to pay premium for
earlier shipment.
What we want to do" said Mr.. Nell
son, 'is to get the road to paying as soon
rs possible. We've got the property now
and it's our own interest to get it into
such condition that it will earn something
as soon as possible. We realize that to
Go this we must get ready to accommo-
date the public
Ten open cars have been ordered four
to be shipped March 20, to March %, and
four April l. and two combination cars,
Is feet over all, to be shipped June 1. One
boiler for the power house is to be
shipped in fifteen days and engines are to
be shipped ninety days from date of con-
tract, December %. New generators will
he here some time the first of May. No
Contracts have been made effecting the
lighting apparatus as yet.
Mr.. Mckinley is expected here today
when ne ant Mr. Mason will make ar
ransements to begir work the hour ma
terial arrives.
Mr.. Neiscp. when questioned as to the
handling Of crowds tc the fair grounds,
said that the fscil'ties would be almost
as great heIe as 81 Spr,nGfeld, Ohio. and
that tnsy had haried 2.,OOO people to en-
tertainments there.