The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-05
Work to Be Commenced on
Tuesday or Wednesday.
TERMINUS, VINEWOOD.
Through Cars Will Be Run
Every Hour.
Will Build Three Bridges
Across the KaW.

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Willard E. Winner, promoter of the
proposed electric line between Kansas
City. Lawrence and Topeka, yesterday
made this announcement:
THE Kansas City, Lawrence & To-
peka Railroad company has been
financed and the construction company,
which has the contract for grading the
roadbed, will begin work on the east
bank of the Kaw river. opposite Kan
sas City, Kan, Tuesday or Wednesday.
The negotiations for money sufficient to
carry on the work of building the line
We're closed yesterday and there is alb
solutely no doubt that the road will be
built
AN ordinance will be introduced in
the Kansas City, Kan, council next
Tuesday night, which will provide for
franchise for our road on Kansas ave
nue., from Seventh street to Eighteenth
street. This will give US connection
with the Armourdale division of the Met
ropolitan, and, although no written con-
tract has been made, 1t is understood
verbally that our cars will use the Met
rOpOlitan tracks In gaining an entrance
to Kansas City. We will terminate at
the stock yards, perhaps, but If the Met
ropolitan makes the proper improve
ments on Twenty-fourth street, 1t is
prObab Bile that the Topeka trolley cars
will run directly to the Kansas City
postofffce.
There will be two divisions of the
Kansas City, Lawrence & Topeka in
Wyandotte county, one division will
start at Grandview, making connection
with the Grandview extension of the
Metropolitan, and running west as far
as Muncie. These cars will run from
Topeka direct to the poStOffice, by way
of the Grandview line, the main line Of
the elevated railway, through the tunnel
and by way of Eighth street We may
not be able to get through the tunnel,
in which event our cars will stop at the
Union depot and passengers will be
transferred.
I'VE have already contracted and
paid for rails for the new line. which will
be sufficient to build the rOad into To-
peka. The grading OF the roadbed will
begin in johnson county, opposite the
terminus of Kansas avenue, in Kansas
/ City. kan, and viii be pushed rapidly.
AS soon as the rOadbed is made, We Will
commence laying the rails. It will be
necessary for US to build three bridges
across the Kaw river but plans for
these have already been made, and it
VIII be easy to get legislation providing
for their building. One bridge will be
built at the end of Kansas avenue, one
at Muncie and the other at Eudora- At
Muncie the GrandView and Armourdale
divisions Will interSect and use single
track from that point to Topeka.
THE principal towns which Will be
reached by our line will include the two
Kansas Citys, Turner, Edwardsvllle,
Bonner Springs, LinwoOd. Eudora, Law
renee, Clinton, Belvoir. Watson, and To-
peka. There are smaller towns and, Of
course, the building Of the new line will
result in a great many more springing
up.
From Kansas avenue to Turner there
will be a double track. and suburban
trains will be run at all hours Of the
day every 20 minutes. Through cars to
| Topeka will run every hour, and there
will be four express trains, making only
a stop at Lawrence, between Kansas
City and Topeka, which we expect to
make the entire distance in one hour
| and half
Mr. Winners plans are gigantic in
! their scope and he announces positively
| that money enough has been secured 10
| complete the line and equip it. While
/ he refuses to state who the financial
hackers of the road are, it is a we'll
/ known fact that Joseph Helm. the rich
| Kansas Cityan, is one of the men inter
/ ested and it is reported unOmcially
! that Metropolitan stockholders will hold
/ interest in the new enterprise. This re
port would seem not wholly groundless
/ in the fact that the Metropolitan has
! agreed to allow the Topeka line the
| use Of its tracks in reaching central
points in Kansas City, No According
! to the agreement, which has not been
put in writing, as yet, Metropolitan
/ trainmen will take charge of the To-
1 peka trolley cars as soon as they are
switched upon the metropolitan tracks
/ and all fares collected in the urban
limits go to the Metropolitan COM
/ pany.
I'VE do not want it to appear that we
are competing with the Metropolitan. "
/ said Mr. Winner last night The two
companies have a perfect understand
| ing and their work will be harmonious
| throughout"
The building Of the Kansas City, Law
renee and Topeka road viii put Kansas
r-lr4 rfa
4 est, if not the richest farming section
] in Kansas. The plans of the promo
/ tiers will make it possible for anyone
! living between Kansas City and Topeka
/ to come to this city at any time of the
day do his buying and return home
within an hour or an hour and a half
/ The hourly trains will have stopping
/ places at every fOur-Tnile point between
Kansas City and Topeka, While four
/ accommodation trains will stop at every
| cross road. There will be four express
I trains, carrying passengers and small
/ freight, running each way daily and
making stops only at Lawrence.
| Suburban trains will also be run GU
! of Topeka on double track, having al
! eastern terminus at Vinewood park
| which is three miles from the capitol
The only trouble anticipated by thl
| promoters of the new line is in getting
| equipment. Every big electrical firm il
| the United States is far behind with ii:
! orders, and even after the tracks O.
the Kansas City, Lawrence < Topeka
! road are laid it may be several month.
before cars can be secured. Mr.. Win
| ner says the road will have the very
best equipment. The cars will be fifty
four feet in length, twelve feet longei
! than those now in use on the Kansa'
/ City-LeavenwOrth line There will ais,
/ be special cars for the use of trolley
| parties, and the promoters of the roaS
| mean to make this one of the specia
features. Theater parties can b.
! brought from Topeka within an hou