The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-15
WILL KEEP IN Line
WITH GROWING CITY
Commodore Nelson Has OBJ
served What Wichita Needs
MORE ELECTRIC POWER
Also Something About Buying
of Fair Grounds.

wichita is eli right. twenty-four hours
in the day and three hcndred and sixty
five and a quarter days in the year. The
town is not spreading very much but
she is building all the time more com
pact. All over the tswn can see new
houses every time 1 come here We
thought we were building a good street
car line when We came here and the peo-
pie were pleasI with it but the town has
outgrown our plant in little over three
years"
That was what Commodore Nelson said
last night He came in from Galesburg,
H., where he is building an interurban
line and he had put in most Of the day
here looking over the CITY ana the street
railway plant.
Il wanted to bring out some of the
eastern people with me-" he said, but l
wanted TO get the track finished on these
paved streets first. l am Disguised with
the work l can see no sense in keep
ing the business streets torn up for a
whole year. If the Barber Asphalt COM
pany ever does any work for me they
will put UP cash bond as security
that they VIII get the swork done some
time in the course Of human events.
Il have said the town has outgrown
our plant That is the reason some of the
cars were slow tonight The old engine
wants a rest. We now have our new
engine. 1t just got here this week when
the makers contracted to have it here
by the first of September. We will have
plenty of power when We get it set In.
1t is a Tan lem Compound Condensing
engine of one thousand horse power and
weighs nearly one hundred thousand
pounds The generator now in use is a
two hundred and twenty-five X. w, but
we are going to put in new one which
is five hundred K. ". Both the engines
and the generator are warranted to work
fifty per cent above their rated capacity.
This viii give us plenty of power dur
ing snow storms and public days when
the cars are loaded with people it will
not make any difference in the running
of the cars. We are going to take out
the old engine and put in a larger light
Ing machine with direct connection. We
have also bought chain CRATES Tor au-
tomato stokers) which VIII feed the
furnaces without opening the doors.
Every time the furnace doors are opened
We are losing fuel. This arrangement will
also reduce the amount of smoke. We
are going to have a fine plant and it will
be the first of the kind in the state Of
Kansas west of Kansas City.
II noticed in Che papers that you were
%oI ha fnip nd
fixing them up. That is the thing to do.
Wichita ought to be the horse center
of the west and you ought TO have an all
the year round training track and then
you would be able to give several races
during the season. II some OF the live
business men like those who managed
the fair and carnival will take hold of it
the street car company will do its part
toward buying and fixing up the fair
grounds 1 have been Informed that the
grounds can be bought for about ten
dollars. If that is right YOU
ought to raise about twenty-five thousand
and put the grounds in good shape. Our
company would not want to put any
money into it unless it was going to be
done right That is the only kind OF
NoAh liet AeASS. III dNuANAp4t ~ Ni4ehA Jul
would put into the fair grounds
it would have to spend about five thous-
and dollars TO build a good street car
track from Harry street south to the fair
grounds"
It was nearly 10 o'clock when Commo-
dore Nelson was talking and he asked
to he excused for he said he wanted TO
go to the power house and inspect it
before he went to bed The company at
its last meeting elected Mr.. Nelson vice
president Of the company in addition to
manager OF The Wichita plant.