El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-27

facilities for getting about IN
FL Paso are away in advance Of
- those usually found in cities Of
this size and population, is proven by
the ease with which the extra float
ing population that was brought here
during last summer by the army mobi-
IizatiOn has been transported TO and
from their business their camps
and homes. as well as keeping
the regular service going Very few
minutes delay has been caused in the
movement of crowds OF citizens and
soldiers at all hours of day or night.
Street cars and jitne busses pass Plaza
san Jacinto almost every minute and
speed away with their passengers 20
the Temotest corners Of the city.
Excellent street Cnr system.
The system of the FL PasO Electric
Railway company. one OF the numerous
Investments Of the Stone & Webster
syndicate. is one OF the most excellent
in the west both in equipment and
wear a much needed extension OF the
system was made from Boulevard TO
Alameda street. single track on Piedras
street. to connect the Park line with
that running TO Manhattan Heights
The new track enabled new circuit
10 be established for the Manhattan
Heights cars, OF the same time giving
cross town service in the eastern part
OF the city, where only east and west
lines before existed. Passengers from
eastern residence sections north OF the
steam railroad lines that bisect the city
east and west. now can ride over the
Piedras street line TO connect with the
Washington park line and the Ysleta
interurban without going TO the center
Of the city. The outbound cars in the
Manhattan line run by way Of the Park
line TO Piedras. thence north TO Man
haitian Heights. returning the same
way, thus relieving the Boulevard
tracks OF heavy traffic. The cross
town link on Piedras cost approx
mately $4,000
Has 80 Miles Of Track.
Including the cross town line the
street car company has approximately
40 miles Of track and trolley cables N
service in the city, and more than %
cars. many Of them the finest steel
double motors. besides a number OF
large trailers- Also the same corpora
ton operates the interurban line %
Ysleta. in the El PasO valley. over
which an hourly service is given be-
tween a. m. and II p. m
Many City Circuits.
The city street car lines are the fo,-
lowing Washington park, in the
southern part. over san Antonio and
Alameda 10 the park and Evergreen
cemetery second ward which serves
the Mexican quarter in that ward. run
ming south on Il Paso street and max
ing a circuit east and west. returning
TO the plaza on Oregon; Mexico loon.
going across TO JuareE by stanton
street and returning by the Santa Fe
bridge, serving the business centerS OF
the two cities: smelter and cement
plant line, carrying passengers 10 and
from the settlements around those two
big plants in the upper valley and
passing the apartment house center on
West Missouri. Boulevard cars on the
double track circuits on that street;
Highland park line to the eastern limit
of that mountainside addition Man
haitian Heights by san Antonio and
Piedras 10 the northern limit of that
addition Fort Bliss line over Boulevard
and running through the Alta Vista.
Government Hill. Altura Park and
Grand View additions TO FL PasO's bri-
gade military post. five miles from the
city hall Mesa line. north On oregon
10 the mesa and which may soon serve
the new addition OF Kern Place, Ari-
IONA line. on the street by that name,
10 the picturesque Golden Hill terrace.
which OverlOoks the valley Sunset
Heights line over the hills of the Mundv
addition in the northwest section nearly
to the Hart ViaducI- Government Hill
line. reaching TO the extreme east edge
of the city. The Mesa line also makes
u circuit down town on Myrtle avenue