The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-02-12
AKRON Line.
Promoters Hold Meet
ing Friday.
CANT0NIANS PRESENT
New Road to be Heavily Ballast.
ed..-A Chat With Mr.. N.Y.
erS, of Chicago.

The promoters of the Canton-Akron
electric railway held meeting in Ak
ron Friday, says the Akron Beacon
Journal.
l.. e. Myers, of Chicago, who has the
contract for building the line, and who
is also one of the promoters, arrived
in Akron Friday morning and register
ed at the Buchtel hotel. He was join
ed there by w. H. Hoover. of New
Berlin, Charles Kolp, of Canton, and II.
l.. Childs, of this city, and conference
was held.
Mr.. Myers was seen by q Beacon
Journal reporter shortly after his ar
rival here, but he would not talk about
the plans of the promoters except in
an indefinite way. He said: II came
here to meet the rest of the promoters
of the new line but l can't say what
we have In contemplation. 1t would
be exposing our hand as 1t were. We
have our plans but are not yet ready
to expose them"
Have you decided what route you
will take to Canton?"
THE NEW ROAD.
"Now, don't ask me that. 1t is too
early to say anything about it. We
intend to build that road and build it
right. We will use 80 pound rails and
will furnish 1t with an equipment such
as has never been seen in these parts
before. Our cars will be the regular
sized suburban cars. but they will be
finer than any of the cars on the SUBJ
urban lines in the northern part of the
state. We want to have an almost
direct line to Canton and will cut
down all hills so that we can make
good time. This will be our principal
object, and we expect to make the dis
tance in one hour at most. We are
satisfied that the road will be money
maker and we are prepared to put
plenty of money into it, confident that
we will get 1t all out There can be
no reason why we can't compete with
the steam road for passenger traffic as
we will run cars oftener and make as
good time.
LIGHTING FRANCHISES.
"The road will be ballasted as solid
ly as a steam road and we mean to
make it an ideal mode of travel be-
tween the two points"
where will your power station be
located?"
"That has not been definitely decid-
ed. We will erect a 1000 horse power
plant, but have not decided whether
it will be located in Akron or Canton.
But wherever it is placed it will be an
up-to-date plant and will furnish
plenty of power"
"Will you attempt to secure any
lighting franchise in any of the towns
along the route?"
"That Is a matter to be determined
later. We have not considered 1t thus
far. Little towns that can support their
own plants would probably be glad to
give us franchise, and when other de-
tails yet to be arranged are disposed of
we will take up that matter"
GETTING INTO AKRON.
"Have you formulated any plans for
getting into Akron?"
mot yet. We consider that the least
of our difficulties. We don't anticipate
any trouble on that score. The people
of Akron should feel that we will be
of benefit to the city by building line,
and believe we will have no trouble
in getting a franchise to lay tracks
in your streets. The probable route
| we will take to get into the business
part of Akron has not been decided
yet. OF course we have mapped
out a plan, but it wouldn't do to tell
1t at this time as 1t might upset our
plans. l will be in Akron couple Of
days looking after matters and will
| be ready to disclose all of our plans in
a short time"
From this last statement 1t Is evil
| dent that the promoters have given I'D
all hopes of being able to get into Ak
ron over the Northern Ohio Traction
company's tracks and intend to ask
the city council to grant them fran
chise to build their own tracks into
the city.