The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-27
HAVE BEGUN WORK
Gang of Men Rebuilding Fair
mount Avenue Line
AND PLACING NEW TIES
Charles Sawyer Gets Contract
for Building Park Bridges.

Yesterday a gang of twenty-four men
were put to work rebuilding the Fair
view avenue line. That new street car
line has. for years, been a joke in the
city, but now it looks as though it viii
become a reality.
The work being done on Fairview is
replacing the old ties, or rather their de-
cayed remains, with new ones. The men
sn charge of the work say that it is one
OF the wonders of the world that the cars
ever succeeded in staying on the track.
Yesterday only two Of these ancient ties
were excavated which could lay any
calm to the title of tie. Some of them
were so decayed that they had to be show
eled out. If the Fairview line is IN such
a bad condition that It is called a track
only by courtesy, what name can be APP
piled to the line on the pavement?
Another thing which will give some
idea Of the antiquity ofthe track now be-
ing rebuilt is that in some places the base
of the rails have rusted through Mr..
Morrison, the superintendent Of construc-
ton, says that this is due partly to rust
and partly to electrolysis. He explains
that the rust was helped along by the
rails creeping on the ties. AS a result Of
this movement, the spike heads have kept
the rust scraped off and a fresh sur
face exposed. The electrolysis is due to
the fact that the contracts at the rail
Joints are very bad, and, in wet weather,
the current, instead OF passing back to
the power house through the rails, would
pass through the earth. OF course the
current passes from the wheels Of the car
to the rails, and thee asiest places for 1t
TO get from the rails into the earth are
at the spike heads. These two actions
combined have eaten great nOtches in the
base Of the rails, and the workmen had to
be careful to make the new spikes dodge
them.
The material for the extension of the
Fairview line to the packing house is now
distributed along the route, and, as soon
as the new side plates for the joints ar
rive. a much larger force of men will be
put to work laying this new track.
Yesterday the contract ror building the
park Bridges was awarded to Charles
Sawyer OF this city. The material for
driving the piles will be commenced to-
6a~. The park line will probably be
built as soon as the packing house line is
completed. Then the work on the other
lines win be DONE and by the end of
summer. II nothing unforeseen happens,
that long-dreamed of new street railway
will be in operation
REMARK CARRIE RESCVE
Mrs. Michael Curtain. Plainfeld. Ill.
makes the statement that she caught cold
which settled on her lungs; she was treat
ed for month by her family physician.
but grew worse. He told her, she was
a hopeless victim Of consumption, and that
no medicine could cure her Her druggist
suggested DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. She bought a bottle. and
TO her delight found herself benefited from
first dose. She continued its use. and
after taking six bottles found herself
sound and well. Now does her own house
work, and is as we'll as She ever was
at G. Behring's drug store. Only 80 cents