The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-13
KANSAS NEWS.
The InterurbansI Is to Be Built
Far around Wichita.
From Mcpherson to Arkansas
City, via Halstead.
PPOMOTOR GOES EAST.
According to Plans Work viii
Begin in Few Days.
People Along the Line of Road
Eager For Its Coming.

Wichita, Nov 13.-The Beacon says:
1T IS safe to say that the interurban
road is a go.'' said A Thomas Cherry,
attorney for. the electric road which
has been granted a franchise through
Sedgwick county by the commissioners,
this morning.
F. NJ, Ceyes. president of the COM
pany, is at Valley Center and Sedg-
wick today and will leave either this
evening or tomorrow morning for ST.
Louis. where he will endeavor to pro-
cure the necessary outfit for grading
and the other work that will be done
The civil engineer will also be engaged
while Mr. Ceyes is in st. Louis and will
! be sent here Immediately According
Ito Mr.. Cherry, it is the intention of the
promoters to start the work within ten
i days or two weeks at the most, and
| he stated positively that it would be
but short time until the cars would
| be running over at least a part of the
route if the steel can be procured at
once.
The line viii run. according to the
present plans Of the company from Nc
Pherson to Halstead. thence to Sedg-
wick, thence to Valley Center, thence
to Wichita, thence to Waco. thence to
Belle Plaine. thHbce5 to Dalton, possibly
west to Dalton, thence to Geuda Springs,
and then to Arkansas City
! The right of way has already been
procured through Sedgwick county, ex-
4 cept through the city of Wichita. and
the company apprehends no trouble Ill
getting that when the time comes. Mr.
Cherry viii go to Newton Monday,
where he WIZ meet with the commits
| sioners of Harvey county, and he ex-
poets 10 meet the county commissioners
OF sumner county at Wellington within
a week or ten days He reports that the
people living and owning property along
the proposed route are anxious for the
road to go through, and that all are ex-
ceed1ngly enthusiastic over it
1t is proposed to have the power house
located in Wichita, as we'll as the Shops
sWltch yards, etc. The attorney stated
that the equipment for the power house
| would. cost $lSl 900 The company wishes
to use Market street as a means of get
ting through the city,. but 1t is possible
that some other street may be accept
able to it. Mr.. Cherry said that, while
heavy freight would be hauled bv the
road, none Of it would be taken over the
main streets of the city whichever ones
the road may be permitted TO use, and
that the only cars to be run over the
lines in the city would be the regular
VeStlbule passenger cars, much like
those now in use here, except that they
VIII be much larger. The regulation
/ 1nterufban cars VIII be used They. are
7 fffty-f1ve feet long and will seat over a
hundred people.
Z '~Phe road as now planned VIII be
about 10 miles long, said the attorney,
but this will be only a starter 1t is
planned by the promoters to connect
Newton and Hutchinson by running
branch lines at Dalton, and they are
now figuring on a branch line from here
west to. Cheney and another south TO
Anthony. If one of these goes through
all will for the company has the money
needed back Of it, Several eastern mil
lionaires are REPRESENTED by Mr.. Ceyes.
all of whom know what interurban lines
are"
Mr.. Ceyes is said to be a practical cleo
trio railway of much experience
and to have built several roads similar
to the one now proposed in the cast His
home is in Detroit
The permit whicn Vas given the COM
pany by the Sedgwick county commission
ers provides that the Union Electric Rail
way and Construction company shall be
given. the use Of e&rsanA highways upon
which to build and operate an electric in
terurban line. 1t also provides that the
road shall be built on either one side or
the other of the main Travelled road, and
that tho company shall keep in repair all
the county bridges used by them as well
as see to it that the drainage of the
roadbed is in nowise interfered with by
their road The permit which is in real
! ity a contract, is signed by President F.
eral attorney for the road. and by the
three commissioners attested by the coun-
! ty clerk for the county.
Mr.. Cherry is positive in the statement
that the proposed road is not a graft. but
that it is the intention of the promoters
to build the road and to operate it. He
says that there is more money in it for
the company to operate it, than for them
to sell the franchise.