The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-08-17
THEY LOOP THE LOOP"
The Street Car Inaugurated the
New Running To-day.

Monday, August 14th, stands as a
notable date in the history of Oska-
loosa street transportation service.
On this date was installed service In
the addition to the equipment of the
Traction Company property, the in
auguration of the operation of cars in
the loop district. The addition to
the property of the company repre-
sents an expenditure of between six
and eight thousand dollars, three
blocks of new track, and the installa-
ton of six new curves, connections,
switches, overhead trolley work and
the like. Between four and five weeks
of time were required in the handling
of the construction, replacing of the
pavement and in finishing the details
of work made necessary by the
changes. All pavement that was re-
moved for the laying of new track
was replaced upon solid concrete base
and will be permanent.
Better service is insured by the in
stalling of the loop system of handl-
ing the cars and the company will be
enabled to haul more passengers.
Districts are created by the loop meth
cd of handling and people will soon
become acquainted with their cars
Three districts are created by the
new system of operation, namely, the
East End route, via High avenue
and Ninth street to the east terminal
of c avenue at Fifteenth street; the
college" route, on the Penn and Os-
kaloosa college division, otherwise
known as the North and West route;
and the University Park division, or
the South route. The street car wait
ing room corner, High avenue and A
street, is made the exchange point.
All cars come in to this point, pass
round the loop and go out over the
same route. A passenger from the
south line cannot go through to Penn
college without change of car, as
formerly, but must leave the Park
car at the waiting room and trans
fer to the north-bound car.
In making the loop all cars will
move from west to east on High ave
nue. and from east to west on First
avenue. That is, the car from the
East End" will enter the loop at
the court house corner, run south to
First avenue, west to A street, north
thence straight east on High avenue
and out on it's route. The cars from
University Park turn into the loop on
approaching First avenue from the
south, go west to A street, north to
High avenue, east to First street,
south to First avenue, west to Market
and thence south again. College cars
coming from the west, first run east
on High avenue, take the loop as the
other cars and pass out over the north
ban cars pass about the loop upon
reaching the city after each forty
minute Beacon trip, going east on
High avenue. Thus every car in SER
vice at any particular time makes the
circuit of the loop, passing along
three sides of the park. Heretofore
the only cars passing the east and
south sides of the new loop were those
to and from University Park. With
the new system passenger desiring
to go in any direction to the Univers-
ity, to Penn college, to Oskaloosa col.
lege, to Park Place or to Beacon, can
get the desired car on any side of the
loop, which encloses three sides of
the square and the block west of
Market street, making it two blocks
in length east and west, and a block
wide, north to south.
The public is taking up with the
new system readily and it will be
popular feature of the service and
will be the means of winning the
Traction Company many additional
nickles. The new service is metro
politan in appearance and effect and
will work benefits for the many where
the few had accommodations under
the former method of operation.