Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-14
AN AMUSEMENT PARK
SUMMER THEATER TO BE BUILT
AT COST OF $4,000.
IN OPERATION MAY 1907
All Difficulties Removed and Street
Cars Will Soon Be Running
Through Streets of City.

Tulsa passed the dividing line yes
terday between live town and city
when Charles IL. Bosler, Of Dayton,
Ohio, obtained a controlling interest
in the Tulsa stret railway company
Mr.. Bosler aud his associates pur-
chased fftv-one per cent of the stock
of the company, and announce that
they will Immediately begin the con
struction Of from four to SIX miles
Of track. Cars will be running in the
city. said Mr. Bosler, by the first of
May, 1907. The railway will trav-
erse the principal business and resi-
dence streets of the city and an amuse
ment park will be built near the out
skirts at o cost of between fifty and
sevcnty-6 e thousand dollars with
which the railway will connect. 1t
is announced that the best of service
will be given and that the rolling
stock will be up-to-date in every re-
spect. The survey is being made now
and the route of the line will soon be
made known. Material will be or
dered at once, stated Mr.. Bosler, and
the work of grading and laying the
track will be rushed with all possible
celerty. The laying Of the track at
the intersection of First and Main
will be done at once, so that 1t will
be unnecessary to tear up the paving
to put down the track.
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The deal whereby Bosler obtained
the control of the railway company
has been under negotiation for several
months. There were number OF
bitches experienced owing to the fact
that so many people were interested,
but these were all successfully ironed
out. and about 10 O'Clock yesterday
the papers in the case were signed
and the control passed over to Bos-
Ter. The latter is street railway
magnate of large experience and has
had six years experience III the con-
struction and management Of street
railways and interurban systems. lie
is the nephew Of Dr. Loves, OF Day
ton. Ohio. the father of the inter
urban idea in the East. Mr.. Bosler
is at present president of the Leb-
anon and Franklin Traction company
of Dayton, and constructed this line.
II is an interurban extending from
DAYTON to Lebanon, Ohio, dis
tance of % miles. He is also presi-
dent of the Dayton Street Railway
company, corporation maintaining
n citv line in the city of Dayton. This
line is eight miles long. The city OF
DAYTON has nine different street rail
wav companies. The line with which
Rosler is identified is one of the In
dividual companies. Mr.. Bosler was
formerly interested in the Dayton 4
Northern Traction company, but has
since sold his interests to the Wide
ner-Elkins company of PHILADELPHIA.
This is one of the most important in
terurbans in Ohio, covering a dis
tance of forty-two miles from Green
vile to Dayton. Mr.. Bosler superin-
tended the construction of this line.
He also built the Dayton, Coving-
ton and Piqua Interurban which ex-
tends from Dayton to Piqua, Ohio.
This distance of thirty-two miles.
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Once a Politician.
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Mr.. Bosler is thirty-nie years old,
and was educated to be lawyer. He
practiced the profession successfully
for a number of years, but finally
concluded that he appreciated finance
better than he did Blackstone, and
he cut loose from his law practice to
take up the buildin" of street rail-
ways. He has been working in this
capacity for six years now and has
! been eminently successful. ell also
] took a flyer in politics. He was elect