The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-11-24
UP AND DOING
Madison People Will Put Forth
Effort to Secure Luce
Line
Line

Two auto loads of town boosters left
the city about $3.50 this Afternoon, en-
route to Brookings to attend the rail-
road mass meeting to be held In Brook
ing this evening and do such mission
airy work as is possible in securing tine
Luce electric line of road to Madison.
The Daily Leader published extended
information Of the Luce project in
Saturday evenings edition and it was
sufficiently attractive to make the
people of Madison sit up and take
notice. The matter Of Madison citi-
zens attending the Bookings meeting
this evening was taken up by Sec'y
Martin of the commercial club and he
was out early today inviting citizens
to make the trip, as many of them
as could conveniently leave their
business. The directors of the COM
mercial club volunteered to pay the
expense of the trip out of the funds of
the club which indicates that the
club will stand behind whatever
effort is made to induce the promoters
to extend their road to this city.
The Luce electric line is the best
proposition in sight for Madison to-
day. And it would certainly show a
lack of enterprise ON the part of the
psople of this community if they fail
to put forth their best efforts to se-
cure the road. All along the pro
posed line from Minneapolis west
through Minnesota the towns and the
farming communities are giving the
promoters all the encouragement and
assistance they ask. Unlike the steam
railroad the electric system comes in
to direct communication with the
farmer, the local trains accommodate
ing him almoFt anywhere along the
route, while the limited trains hand
ling through traffic make quick time,
stopping at stations only.
The Luce electric line ia not a new
thing but has been in the process of
formation for the past FIVE years, the
company's officials devoting their ener-
gies to securing terminal property in
the heart of the business center of
Minneapolis before commenting con
struction work. This they have &C.
complished and now own terminal
property valued at a half million
dollars. Wolk has been commenced
on the line west of Minneapolis and it
| will be extended across the state OF
Minnesota and into South Dakota as
rapidly as possible for an enterprise of
that magnitude.
Madison is s1rely in need of addi-
tionsl railroad facilities and it is up
to the people of this city to secure ad.
ditional roads if the town is to grow
and prosper and keep in the procession
with other towns of the state. The
Milwaukee company, the only line in
the city. has a bonanza, hauling In
and out every pound of freight used
and produced by a town of nearly 1000
population and county that is conceded
second to none Other in productiveness
in the state. This morning four
crowded coach loads of passengers left
the Madison depot. This is not an
every day occurrence, of course. but
there is never a time that the passen-
ger coaches provided by the Milwau-
kee company are not crowded with
passengers going and coming.
The party of citizens who went to
Bookings by auto this afternoon
were, Mayor Geo. H. Waskey, f. l..
Mease president of the commercial
club, l.. 5. Martin secretary of the
commercial club, DR.. W. A. Roths'
child, L. I. Love real estate dealer,
8. z. Seierson president of the Dakots
State bank, j. G. Schultz druggist, W.
T. Stearns merchant, A. q. Schmidt
real estate dealer, J. 8. Keegan, A. E.
Fuller, John Blewitt attorney.