The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-30
Cars viii Run Every Hour
After Midnight, on Five
Cent Fare.
STOPS TO BE MADE BUT
ONCE In EACH BLOCK
These Stops Will Be on the
Near Side of the
Streets.

Salt Lake street cars will make but
one stop in each block, commencing in
the very near future, according to the
present plans of the management of
the street car system. Acting Gen
erai Manager Wells stated TO repre-
that such change is about to take
place, although orders to that effect
have not been issued as yet.
Mr.. Wells stated that, while he be-
lleved the public might not take kind
~ 10 the change at first, he be-
lieves that the advantage TO be
gained will be appreciated, and that
the public will soon become ac-
cpstomed to the change and favor it.
Mr. Wells states that by making this
change, which will merely be the
adopting of the custom in vogue
wherever street cars are run, that a
much better schedule can be main
tanned than at present. IT will not
only enable the cars to run on
schedule time, but will also eventually
work into much faster service being
maintained. The plan is TO have the
cars stop only on the near side of
street crossings, both in the sections
OF the city having the long blocks and
where the blocks are short.
All-Night Schedule.
The announcement that an all.nipht
schedule for the street cars is under
contemplation as one of tho MANY i'm
provements to be made in the service
viii be received as welcome news by
the Salt Lake public, and especially
that portion Of it which finds it impos
slble to secure homes on the out
skirts of the city, because necessity
often compels the need Of some sort
of transportation between the hours
Of midnight and 6 clock in the morn
ing.
Mr.. Wells announces that Salt Lake
is to have an all-night service as soon
as the many, improvements of the sys-
tenn have been disposed of. Tho
service, he states, will probably be
once every hour on all lines between
midnight and 6 r. m. For this service
the fare will be the same as at any
other hour
In speaking of the contemplated i'm
provements OF the system, Mr.. Wells
states that while no Construction work
can be undertaken until in the spring,
that orders are now being placed for
al or the new steel rails. Practically
slxty-hve miles of steel now in the
system viii be replaced. This means
pound stoei 0l with t sas Ih1ftyaYsi gdnnd
steel; and the double tracking of all
Of the lines within the city, and also
the Poplar Grove line, which extends
outside of the city limits.
In the matter Of new cars, il has
been decided that no more new ones
Will be placed in commission until
after the new track is installed The
condition of the present track on most
OF the lines outside of the paved dis.
trict is such that it racks a new
car TO pieces, and while new cars
Will be ordered and ready to place
In commission when the tracks are in.
stalled, the old cars will be made to
DO service until then. The installation
or the new track will occupy two
years time, although the work win be
commenced next spring, and as much
of 1t completed next season as is DOS.
sible.
Mr.. Wells also made the admission
that plans nre under way for the
building of new car barns in an en-
tlrely new location. He states that
the present car barns nre entirely in
adequate TO accommodate the cars in |
service, and this condition, as we'll nc
the desire to remove the barns from
the best residence section of the city
makes the change necessary. No loca, |
ton for the new barns, which will |
have a capacity double that of the |
Did ones, has been decided upon, al |
though there is not much question but
what they will be entirely removed |
from the residence portion Of the city,
probably somewhere near the Jordan
liver.