Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-12-16
TO THE YIADUCT
BY TROLLEY IT'S
THE FIRST CAR BEGINS JOUR-
Nl1N AT sos y. VI. PLUS.
he WORKMEN SlNGT
The Erlglt aud J0y Wears OFF and
Full-Blown Traffic Becomes an
Established Thing.

To the rIaduct BY trolley, trolley-la
fares, please
And the street cars are running on
West Third; operating on West Third;
doing business on West Third--call It
what YOU will,
II starred last night, The first car
broke through the network OF new
mown tracks at Main and Third at
s O'Clock, There was such thrill
Of enjoyment running through the
wheels that they refused 20 run far
ther than inst over the line Of Main
westward. They stood still and the
car moved not for some five or ten
minutes. Then the motors began to
hum ana at sos lis o'clock the first
car 10 invade the unexplored track
age leading six or eight blocks west
ward to the vladuct was singing on
It's way.
The dogs a. West Third began to
bark and rend'their hair. Pedestrians
walking along that thoroughbare to
or from up town hastily lodged be-
hind telegraph poles and shot around
the corners. Some OF them even
Skinned up trees.
The cry that street car had bro
ken her moornys and was running
wild through the city was raised.
Frightened housewives rushed 20 tho
bed rooms where their precious ones
were murmuring Now I lay me down
to sleep" yelling for them to get right
straight up and prepare TO ny.
Chickens began to crow, and the old
bay trotter In his stall set his ears
forward and ogitated--whatever that
is-the added dangers which civilized
progress Is continually thrustlng for
ward.
The Sed Car reached the viaduct-.
that grim structure of cement stand
ing like a Colossus spanning the Fris.
go tracks--and laboriously began the
ascent of Its stopping eastern end.
Up foot by foot It went until II was
lost in the dim. distant blue or
black-lllo Il buy-plane soaring IN
the llllmltable, Then the summit was
reached This could be told by the
car quittlngjts groaning and numb
ling, The rest was all down hill and
the brakes began to grind. They
ground and they ground until at last
the car was grounded at the extreme
west end of the viaduct.
Then the conductor switched
around the crowbar, fastened to the
top end of the car and the vehicle be-
gan II backward flight
That was kept up until Il ceased to
be play and the novelty Of the whole
situation had worn Off Then the JOY
left the cur wheels
It was all arranged yesterday TO
engage in this street car frolic. The
light-heorted workmen for the Tulsa
street Railway Company made the
connection of rails at the east end of
the viaduct yesterday afternoon. sing
ing as they wrought. Morris Nc
.Gmth, superintendent OF the com
many cast furtive eyes--now whats
a furtive eye?--cast furtlve eyes up
the street downward When the shades
of night began falling so fast you
couldn't count them, the last spike
had been driven and the merry artl-
sans repaired homeward whistllng
about the time when they lived in
Baltimore,
The street car company had grown
weary In the ordeal of waiting on the
getting together with the city to SEQ
who should pay that remaining $3,500
due on the vladuct, according to Mr..
MtGrath. The street railway super
intendent AYERS that what the COM
pany has suffered in losses through
delay In the West Third Street matter
Is fully as much as whatever propor-
ton Of the foregoing amount the COM
pany has been asked to pay on It.
The officials Of the city knew Moth
Ing Of the operating Of cars on West
Third last night and Il seems that
the street railway company slipped
one Over-tho viaduct.