The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-29
train SERVICE TO
BE EXTENDED SOON
Fairview Will Have Regular
Trains Next Sunday.
EXCURSION TO WICHITA
Citizens Along Orient Want
Low Rate to This City.
EXCURSION TO WICHITA

The Orient viii begin regular passen-
ger service from this city to Fairview
eek from tomorrow. This was the an
nouncement given out by General Agent
THROWS yesterday. The Orient side
tracks, depot and terminals will be COM
pleted during the coming week and the
road resurfaced from Orienta to Fair
view. The operating department has not
completed the schedule of the trains.
but these will be published within few
days 1t is possible that the trains will
be changed, leaving this city in the morn
ing instead of at night. The road is
getting so long now that the trains must
leave the southern points at a very
early hour CT the morning in order to
reach Wichita in time to give the pas
sengers an opportunity to transact bust
ness here. The train going TO the south
west at present leaves at o'clock and
will get into Fairview about II o'clock.
The distance is 127 miles, a run of at
least five hours for local trains stopping
at ali points and many business men
along the line south of Anthony have
expressed desire to have a night train
TO this city and leaving here in the morn
ing.
People along the line of the Orient at
all points in Oklahoma are pettioning
the Orient officials for an excursion
train to this city at an early date. The
Orient has run two excursions over their
line-one to Carmen and one to Fairview,
and each of these towns have royalty
entertained the Wichita people who made
the trip There is no doubt but that the
Wichita business men would Ike to en-
terrain the people of the different towns
If the Orient would announce a low ex-
cursian rate with special trains. within
the next few weeks. OF course, the ORR
ent will grant the usual excursion rates
for the Fair and Carnival, but the peo-
pie of the towns along the line want an
excursion of their own to Wichita. The
Orient officials are considering the matter.
Aline is a prosperous little town five
miles south of Carmen. The Orient track
runs along the west side of the townsite.
but the operating force does not know
that Aline is on the map except when
some one tells them about it. The peo-
pie OF the town are doing all they can
TO get the Orient TO stop for them, and
their latest move was to play a huge
joke on the trainmen Of the construction
crew. The construction train was back
ing into Carmen the other evening just
at dark and when passing Aline wo-
man suddenly doomed up on the track.
The train was not running fast, and 1T
was too dark to see very good. The
workmen and train crew yelled and ges-
ticulated wildly. but the woman never
stepped off the track. The train struck
the woman and after running few yards
past her the train stopped and the whole
crew ran back. expecting TO find the
horribly mangled remains of woman.
They found instead a WORKOUT calico
dress and some straw tied 10 a broom
stick. and the dress was not damaged.
Such a thing as an Orient train stopping so
surprised the people of the town that all
came down to see what it was all about
and they stood along the track and
gave the trainmen the horse laugh. None
OF the townsmen were implicated in the
Joke, TO be sure.
Every one of the towns along the ORR
ent are prosperous and progressive. New
and substantial buildings are going up
everywhere and it is impossible to get
material as fast as the worlImen can
use it. Residences are in great demand.
the people living in tents while their
homes are being built. The business
houses in the towns are being constructed
of brick and stone and some elegant
blocks are being built General Agent
Burrows yesterday stated TO the Eagle
that more than one hundred cars Of
brick had been ordered for towns along
fba Orient