The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
City Railway to Put in New
System Sunday.
Transfers Must Be Made at Ger
tain Points.
STATION KEPT OPEN.
1t Will No Longer Be Used for
Transfer Purposes.
Details of the Plan and How II
Will Operate.

Tomorrow, October 10, is the day set
for the new transfer system of the To-
peka railway to go into effect Trans
fer tickets of new design will be issued
by conductors on the cars, and none
VIII be distributed from the transfer
station.
The transfer station at Eighth and
Kansas avenue will be kept open as a
waiting room. however. and will be
warmed this winter as usual. 1t will be
the headquarters for the track inspector
and other line employees of the CONF
pany.
For some time the company has been
issuing transfers on its cars in a desui-
tory sort of a way, using up the supply
of old transfers on hand. Now, however.
the regulation universal transfer system
will go into effect Each line in the city
has a different color of transfer ticket,
and the colors. as far as possible, cor
respond with the colors in use on the
cars, as follows:
Washburn, green.
West Eighth and Garfield Park, red.
-Quinton Heights, yellow.
Lowman Hill. blue.
West Sixth and Asylum. white
West Sixth and South Topeka, light
salmon.
Cemetery, gray.
Oakland dark salmon.
Each ticket shows, IN consecutive Or
der the point at which a passenger
leaves the car to transfer to any given
where he is supposed to get off his
transfer ticket tells him.
The transfers are numbered con-
secutively from upwards indefinitely.
Each line is in a series by itself. num-
bered from upwards. There are said
to be only ten printing presses in the
country which print numbers auto
matically changing in this way.
The Topeka railway first made an ar
rangement with one of the largest rail-
road ticket printers in the country to
print the transfers and after the work
was commenced, it was discovered that
there was a patent upon the time limit
feature and the contract had to be
abandoned. This necessitated a trip to
Rochester N. Y, by Manager Patten,
and new contract was made with the
patentee for complete set of transfers
The style transfer is called the Stead
man time-limit patent
When the conductor issues a transfer
he punches the month. day. and the
hour and minute at which the transfer
expires. and also the line over which the
transfer is good. If the ticket is issued
before noon, the hole is punched in the
unshaded portion of the line to which
the passenger desires to Transfer; if af-
ternOon, in the shaded portion. This
prevents person getting a transfer il
the morning and using it al a cores
ponding hour in the evening. The space
marked special is reserved for emer-
gencies.
The transfer points have been arrang
ed with much care to convenience the
public as much as possible. For instanc,
a passenger from Quinton Heights de
string to go to Washburn college here
tofore has been obliged to so clear t,
the transfer station to obtain trans
fer. Under the new system, passenger
Will be transferred to and from tn,
above lines a Clay and Huntoon streets
saving to the passenger about 40 min
utes of time and over two miles O
travel.
The points where transfers may b.
made upon the various lines is as fol
lows: On the Quinton Heights line a
Clay and Huntoon streets for Washburl
college; at Tenth and Jackson street.
for Lowman Hill; at Tenth and Kansa
avenue for South Topeka; at Eight
and Kansas avenue for West Eight
street. West Fourth street and Oakland
a Sixth and Kansas avenue for asy
lum. West Sixth street. East Sixtl
street and cemetery; at Fourth an,
Kansas avenue for North Topeka.
On the 'Washburn college line tn
transfer points are as follows: At Cla-
and Huntoon streets for Quintoi
Heights; at Tenth and Jackson street
for Lowman Hill; at Tenth and Kansa
avenue for South Topeka: at Eight
and Kansas avenue for West Eight
street, West Fourth street and Oakland