The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-01
RIDE THIRTY MILES
FOR FIVE CENTS
Transfers from Center Of
Chicago to Seventy Ninth
ST. Effective Tomorrow.
WILL EXTEND ONE FARE ZONE
Operating Agreement Brings Joy to
Cheltenham Patrons-Edison
Company Furnishes Power.

The operating agreement between the
Calumet and South Chicago CITY Rail
way Company and the Chicago City
Railway Company will go in effect to-
morrow and patrons Of the South Chi
cago system north of Seventy ninth
street will have advantage of a scent
fare to any part of the city traversed
by the Chicago City COmpany's lines
Thirty Miles For Five Cents.
BY means of the new arrangements
passengers can travel on the surface
cars from Howard avenue the northern
city limits, to Manhattan Beach and
Seventy ninth street for a scent fare.
making a distance of nearly thirty
miles for one fare. This distance, it is
said, is the longest ride in the world
for the same fare.
The COMMONWEALTH Edison Electric
Company within a few days. will begin
furnishing power for the local system
and it is rumored, the rumor coming
from an authentic source that the
power house at Burnside will be aban-
doned by the Commonwealth Company
The City Company will make repairs
4 build the extensions required by the or
/ dinances. and attend to other matters
of operating and maintaining. charging
! the local company therefore the actual
cost of the came. AS a further com
pensation the city company will receive
/ three fourths of the actual savings in
! operation expenses.
Another great saving Will be made
when the Commonwealth Edison Com
pany take charge of furnishing the
local system power, the city Company
having contracted with them under ia
vorable terms
Through Routes.
All fares collected on cars while on
the lines of the Calumet company will
belong to the local company 1t is
planned to establish through routes
over the city as far as Seventy ninth
street. While the city cars for the
present will not come in the Eighth
ward as far as Seventy ninth street it
will be done during the next few
weeks according to information receiv-
! ed yesterday from the City Company at
their down town office.
The operating contract entered into
by the Chicago City company and the
local system will be in effect until 1927
All matters pertaining to the contract
between the two companies will be I'M
der the management of the board o SUI
pervising engineers. B. J. Arnolod and
Mr.. Yves ton, the city's expert. will each
have one vote on this board, and the
two companies representatives, viii
each have one-half Of one vote.
1t is practically assured that under
this operating agreement large saving
Will be made. Both roads viii be bene-
fitted. the city's share of So per cent d
the profits will be increased. and the
date for the extension of the seem
zone Will be brought nearer. The mex
zone limit is at Roby. when the 'ont
city fare" project will become an as
sured fact
Extensions Already Ordered.
Recent ordinances have been intro
duced by Alderman Moynihan for ex
tensions of the local system affecting
the East Side on Ninety fifth street ano
Ewing avenue, One Hundred and Sixth
to One Hundred and Eighth street, ais,
Ninety first street, Commercial avenu,
) to South Chicago avenue. and Erie ave
nue. Ninety first street to Ninety fftl
, street, which were not included in TIL
: first ordinances.
VIII Extend Zone.
The people as a whole this morning
T seemed to be inclined to link with su
| perstition at the new arrangement an,
think there will be some hitch in Il
Those north of Seventy-ninth street ar
feeling joyous. Those south are kick
ing because the 5-cent zone does no
touch them Alderman Moynihan a
, the next session of the city council will
; endeavor to have the scent zone ex
tend to Ninety fifth street