The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-22
LUCE LINE STARTS

Mayor c. A. Johnson happened to be
in Minneapolis on Friday and was in
vited by Col. E. d. Luce t make the
first trip over the Electric Short Line
in company with a party of Mime
apolis business men. This trial trip
was made on Friday, and regular ser
vice on the line started on Saturday.
Mayor Johnson says that he discussed
the prospects of the road with mem
bers of the party, who are among the
s~hrewdest business men in Minneap.
oils and they were all enthusiastic
over the prospects of the road.
Saturdays Minneapolis Journal says
of the first trip:
THE Electric Short Line began the
operation of passenger trains out of
the Minneapolis suburban terminal at
Second avenue N and Seventh street
at $40 a. m. today. Four trains will
be run daily each way and three on
Sundays. This is the third exclusive
ly suburban electric line to be put into
commission, the others being the Dan
Patch line and the Minneapolis &
Northern railway. Thirteen miles are
tracked and ballasted and in sixty days
the company expects to run trains
twenty-four miles out, and to reach
Winsted, Mimi, in the early summer.
IN. X. Fowler, fiscal agent for the
Short Line, paid the first cash fare for
a trip owe the road. He got up early,
hustled down to the station, boarded
the car and offered the first fare. Mr..
Fowler later exchanged the money SO
as to keep the original fare as a SOU
venir.
Business men were the guests of the
company for a trial trip of an hour and
twenty minutes to the end Of the bal
lasted line, at Parker's Lake, within
n mile of Wayzata, Lake Mime
tonka, late yesterday, following a
luncheon at the Athletic club, attend
ed by representatives of business
houses, banks and the professions.
Among those in the special car
which made the trip were e. B. Saw
age and Dow Smith of the Dan Patch
line, E. c.. Potter of the Minneapolis
Central Minnesota line, General Super
intendent ]. ]. Garfield of the Twin
City lines, Mayor c. A. Johnson of
Brookings, S. D., a prospective ter
minal town for the new line and Henry
F. Balch, the contractor who built
the road.
"Stops were made at various points
where Colonel Erie d. Luce outlined
the work in progress. The first stop
was at the interlocking tower where
the road crosses the Osseo division of
the Great Northern. The next was at
Sixth avenue N. where the company
has its car barns. The next was at
Inc JuiCLioh "nCiC Ihc Ian IdISu
lines new cutoff east of which the
Minnesota Central right-of-way
branches off to Champlin. Other stops
were at Medicine lake near which the
company has 157 acres of picnic
grounds. Twin Lakes and other points
where there are to be picnic grounds
laid out. The return was made from
the working camp near Wayzata. The
party was returned direct to the future
terminal at Second avenue N.
1.-THE business men turned the tables
on Colonel Luce, making him the guest
of honor, although Colonel Luce was in
reality the host. They announced that
they were to be congratulated instead
of Colonel Luce, as proposed. George
d. Dayton, who made the suggestion,
said that every man in Minneapolis
will benefit by what Colonel Lace is to
do for the city, as 1t will bring the peo-
pie of adjoining territory nearer to the
city, and the accomplishment of what
seems an impossible project will give
others courage to undertake similar
projects.
wv. L. Harris presided at the lunch
con. President Douglas A. Fiske Of
the Civic and Commerce Association,