The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-28
TO FINISH THE WORK.
City Railway VIII Complete Recon-
struction of. Line at Once


The Street Railway company will be
gin at once the work of completing the
rebuilding of the lines to the asylum,
Lowman Hill, Quinton Heights and
Washburn college.
Eight hundred tons of S0-pound steel
rails have been ordered for this -pur-
pose Part of the rails have already
been delivered in Topeka and the re-
mainder are in transit.
A portion of the Vinewood line Is
now laid with 60-pound rails. These
will be taken up and the new S0-pound
rails will be placed in their stead.
The present work contempiateS re-
building the Jackson street line. Work
men are now placing the new steel on
that line.
The Jackson street line will have
double curves at Sixth avenue. Eighth
avenue and Tenth avenue, in order
that traffic viii not be interfered with
in case of fire on Kansas avenue
which will block the line with hose be-
ing carried across the tracks. When a
fire occurs on Kansas avenue all the
cars will be run on jackson street our
ing the time the street is blocked.
switch will be built from the right
hand track on Jackson street south OF
Tenth avenue into the alley behind the
state heating plant which Will be used
to unload coal cars. switches may also
be built later to allow freight cars TO
be unloaded at some of the leading
stores on Jackson street.
New curves and double cross over
will soon be installed at sixth ana
Kansas avenues. The material for this
Milwaukee and is now in transit. IL
will soon be placed in position. the
material for this work cost $4,000.
With the completion of this work the
route of the West Fourth street and
the Parkdale cars will be changed.
These cars will not pass the transfer
station, but will cross the avenue at
Sixth avenue. The present half nour
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viii be changed to give patrons OF
those lines Is minute car service.
The double track wiz be built across
Kansas avenue at Sixth avenue ana
double curves will be built from the
avenue to the lines both-east and west
on Sixth.
The Street Railway company has
also organized an employees emergency
fire brigade. The men Will be drilled
every day.
The company has installed a scheme
of fire protection. By use of a 5000
barrel sistern. a high pressure electri-
cally driven pump, and big steel tank
in the car barns, assisted by compress
ed air pressure, the plant will give
hundred pounds pressure on the water
in the mains. Hydrants have been
placed about the yards, shops and
barns The plant has 1000 feet of fire
hose and will not only offer protection
to the properties of the street railway
but also will lend additional protection
the plant.
The Street Railway company has
also installed a 125 horse power boiler
to heat the shops, barns and the office
building.
Steam coils will run in the pits I'M
derneath the cars, and in the winter
months and on rainy days the cars Will
be thoroughly dried out during the
time they are in the barns at night.
The Street Railway company wants
to put on a gang of 200 men to carry
out the work planned for this fall.
They are offering work to all those who
wish it. The wages paid are $1.60 per