Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-18
SIX TO TEN new CAR LINES
Big System Of Extension Planned fol-
Local Company at CnCG
MONEY TO COVER ALL IS LAID ASIDE
Directors Decide TO Build All Inter
urban Tracks Possible and Make
other Important Improve
ments I'm system,

From six to ten extensions in Omaha
with a total Of from ten to twenty miles
Of new rails and two new interurban lines,
one of which is to be twenty-five miles
long, is the work decided by the board
Of directors of the Omaha and Council
Bluffs Street Railway company at its an
nual meeting.
This announcement was made by G. W,
Wattles. vice president OF the company,
upon his return from New York Monday
morning. In company with General Man
ager Smith, w. " Morse, Frank Hamilton
and Mr.. Tyler Mr.. Wattles went to New
York last week to meet with the eastern
directors of the street railway company.
At this meeting the directors decided 20
lay aside enough money for the contem-
plated work. which will also include $4,000
for the increase in the power plant and the
building of the four substations, one Al
Benson. one at Florence, one at Bellevue
and portable one at Lake Manawa.
The matter OF deciding these routes Is
left to committee of the local directors
who, with engineers, will go to work Tuess-
day morning and go over the ground, after
which a meeting will be held and a decision
reached as to where these extensions Will
be built" said Mr.. Wattles.
I'VE are going into the interurban bust
| ness and will build lines out from Omaha
wherever we think the business will pay
the interest on the money invested. The
| directors in the east agreed with us that
the time had come to build out of Omaha
and during the next two years we will build
all the lines we can secure rails and ma
terial for. The money has been set aside
and work will begin at once. The Omaha
extensions also will be pushed as fast as
possible"
| Enough Money IL Set Aside.
| While Mr.. Wattles did not state the exact
amount which had been set aside. he said :;
| 1T is not because the amount is mig
gardly that l do not care to state it, for
will say that a SUFFICIENT amount has been
| appropriated to do all the work which can
be done for the next two years.
| I'VE also will enlarge our car shops so
that we will in time be able to build all
our cars, but we expect to expand so fast
during the next two years that we will not
try to rely on the output Of our shops ex-
cept as auxiliary to the cars we buy
when the Omaha contingent was able
TO go to New York and assure the eastern
| directors that no unreasonable hindrances
was expected from the city council or the
people we had no difficulty in getting the
| money necessary to make the extensions"
| THE pass on the street railways of
Omaha is thing Of the past and after the
first Of the year every person who rides
must pay. Since the passage of the Elkins
law there is = great feeling against the
issuance Of passes and because of the in
terstate nature of our Council Bluffs line
we will discontinue passes"
Mr.. Wattles did not say where the six to
ten extensions of the Omaha lines would be
made, but he said the engineer and the
committee would go over the routes and
these would be soon announced.