The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-08-27
LINE ABOUT COMPLETE
FIRST CAR TOMORROW
Service on the Dallas and NaXa.
hachie Line Will BE Ready
About September ) With
Hourly Schedule


will be connected making com
plete the new interurban line from
Dallas to Waxahachie. The power
station at Dallas is ready to supply
all the needed light and power,
the trolley line is in readiness and
when the track is laid at this point
on Jefferson street and Fang
Boulevard car will be sent out
from Dallas TO make the run to
ballasted With pative gravel and Is
declared TO be in excellent condi-
ZION Richard MeriWether, super
intendcnt OF the new lime. said
yesterday that the new ear is to re-
main on the road for several days
in use as an aid to the conStruc-
tion forces. The car to be used is
a baggage car that afte-ward is TO
be on 4 regular schedule over the
line. None OF the officials OF the
road viii make the "trip Nednes
day and no foruialities are 10 be
viii be run one OF the passenger
cars. and possibly officials of the
railway company commissioners of
the city and some of tn. business
men viii make the run to the Ellis
county center.
The line is approximately thirty
two miles long There are Two
overhead crossings, one over the
Houston and Texas Central near
Lancaster, the other over the SAN
Ia fe at Dallas There are two
grade crossings Of steam railways,
one 81 the Katy at WaNahaelic and
one Of the roads inside the city
limits at Dallas The station Of
The Northern Texas Traction com
pauy Will be used at Dallas. There
is Il y Oh The court house
square at Naxahaehie There are
sixteen stations, about completed.
They are frame, with green shin
gle roots and pearl gray bodies
trimmed in green Lisbon, Red
Odk aud Sterrett will have stations
with baggage room. All are 10
have seats and protection from the
weather for the persons waiting
for trains Tickets are to he on
sale at some store or office IN each
OF the towns along the lines.
The two substations for power
are near Lancaster and near WaX-
ahaehio The power is to he serV-
ed from the Dallas plant Besides
serving the railway enterprise. the
company is prepared 10 serve light
and power along the line, Lancas-
ter having already given Il tran
chisc
The trolley Wirc is suspended
| from brackets on poles l35 feet
which Is TO be used As a feed wire
! tor The trolley, which is suspended
/ from il by adjustments every fiji
teen feet. This makes il imposs-
/ bic for a broken trolley ever to
/ reach 10 the ground. nineteen feet
/ below, There is no curve on the
| line which may not he taken at
! full speed il is said A copper
| feed wire one inch in diameter will
/ be the high power wire on cross
arm on the pole Local service
for the city will be done inside The
city limits The track is doubled
/ for about seyenty-fiye feet from
| Jefferson.
Regular service is to begin about
September =. or possibly few
days later, Cars are to leave DIAL
las on the hour, from 6 a m until
p. m. There will be a final car
| at ! 10 pm, The first car from
WaNahachie viii leave al $50 a. m.
reaching Dallas at $50, making
That schedule hourly. Cars will
leave Lancaster going south to
WdAahachie at , and IL M for
about 2o-minute schedule Thru
tickets viii be sold from points OH
the WaAahachie line to the North
ern Texas Traction company and
probably later TO the Texas Trac-
ton company for Sherman line
points and 10 the Fort Worth Gle
burne line. The ear from Waxaha-
chic arrives in Dallas ten minutes
before the regular Fort Worth ears
and forty minutes before the limit
cd cas-, There are not at first
to he any limited cars on the Wax
ahachie line.
the baggage car is 10 make three
trips a day each way, leaving Dali
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