The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-27
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About $3.50 o'clock a train left the cor
ner of Eighth and Kansas avenue The
next train did not arrive for nearly an
hour afterward, so badly was the SER
vice disarranged, and Immediately fol-
lowing it came two other trains which
had been stalled on the track by a de-
railment of the first one.
Instead of the twenty minute time.
made by the cars on which the invited
guests of the company made their trip
Saturday, it took nearly an hour for
these three trains to reach Vinewood
There were long waits upon every
switch for returning cars. At the first
siding the three trains were held fir-
teen minutes and on the last one nearly
ten minutes. Around the numerous
curves the trains went slowly on ac-
count of the danger of the derailment
of trailers, but the passengers were
patient throughout. The novelty of the
ride held down the percentage of pro-
tests to the minimum. From the ar
rival of these three trains at the park
about nine p. m. until the last passen-
gers to return were taken aboard the
car traffic was congested.
About ten o'clock another train arrived
and started back After that time there
were no more cars until eleven, when
they began to arrive thick and fast. 1t
looked as though everyone would be got
ten home by midnight and the impatient
people CnmLeQ ABOARD the Twelve cars
that arrived together. These loaded, all
started back, a large city car in the
lead. AT the first switch the city car
was derailed and a half hour was con-
sumed getting under way. Some of the
more hardy started from the switch and
''hoofed it, three miles to home and
few, who had acquaintance in High
land Park, hunted them up and sought
shelter.
Two men went to a nearby poultry
70 xvhn
on speaking terms, and climbed into
small office room in the brooder house
where there was an empty bed. In the
morning they thanked their host and
had breakfast before they completed
their trip to town.
TRAFFIC WAS STOPPED.
After the cars had again been started
past the switch things went well un-
til the trains had passed the Twelttn
street viaduct where the refractory city
car broke an Sxle- That was the great
est trouble of the night as nothing more
could be accomplished until the broken
axle had been replaced Passengers
from the rear trains were transferred
around the breakdown to cars from the
city and were gotten home in the morn
ing hours, which, by that time, were
not so small as they might have been.
BY the time the last car had been run
into the barns II was Tune ne TO eor;ad car
crews got breakfast and started out AGAIN.
Earl Sage, a motorman' whose ne nerves yes
office and resigned his place this morning.
He said the life was too strenuous.
This morning car service was regular
upon the Vinewood line and the suburban
residents found no difficulty about gettlnS
into town only Sn the me p line Vine"oou CARS
There was little to do at Vinewood sun
day. Two or three fights ana clash pc
furnished excitement for sightseers, ana
the limited amusement facinties OF tne
Iro ht4cx fHr0TIOhO1If
s.Srnolxe'' williams, a Parkdale character.
and two or three friends, all of whom
w Sope e lhsU who were wiring the
buildings in the park. After the workmen
had been annoydso b IeT es'" the dsturbers
roughly williams was badly beaten up
and he and his comrades were escorted up
the track toward town and warned not 10
come back.
COMPANY NOT READY.
I'VE will not tolerate either interference
n m,rR 9u said Vice President Myers today.
THAT fight did not amount to much yes Is
terday but repetition OF 1t Will t n0+ off Re
Gals can not run this line and park We
will simply put our cars in the ,, barn v; amu
wood park quiet and orderly, or not Keep
it open at all.
II feel that we owe an apology to the
we handled the crowd which went ~, 20
Vinewood park yesterday. we vs." 49,, ~" 20
go At the corner of Eighth anu naiisa 90.
avenue I begged the people not 70 ~ O"J
on the car, but they insisted, VI eolns-
think l reached up and pulle el. uo~ 49, Dc
many as twenty-five men VINO WsIe cl i
ing in at the windows and ser tnem uo 1Nn
in the street When we saw the rush that
we would have to handle we Drought OUT
the little cars and undertook to run them
as trailers. They were not QUIZ LOT LOT vs.
on that sort of track and made all the
trouble The only thing that see 10 90 Is
70 faire off the little wheels and put on
wide Hanged ones. 49,. - 80 a.
+ro,,hie maj we did yesterday and can
oniv anolorfze for the unprepared condi-
tiorS ~ the road and service in general.
we handled over 900 people going out
asnd al1o,1t the same number returning. We
were fortunate in that not a single one Of
our passengers was injured
CARRIAGE PRESSED INTO SERVICE.
An amusing incident in connection with
the congested condition on the Vinewood
line happened at 10 O'Clock Sunday night.
Several of the city railway officials were
at VineWood park with some friends. They
found that If they met the fate of some Of
the passengers carried by the road they
were destined to stay at the park until
early in the morning. To avoid doing that
and to be sure that they would reach town
Charles Hixon who was starting the cars
at the park. when he could start them,
telephoned to town for a carriage capable
of carrying six people, BY means of the
carriage the railway officials managed TO
reach town