The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-19
They Make Survey of Street
Car Lines Today.
ARRANGE SCHEDULES SOON
No Block Skips To Be Made
on Kansas Avenue.
Popular Transfer Points VIII
Be Maintained.

The impending institution of the
skip-stop system becomes more immi-
nent. Today c. H. Danner. county
fuel administrator, in company with
Howard w. Patten, of the street rail-
way company, and Mayor House,
toured the city in a prospective survey
of the establishment of the system. A
map of the city was taken with them
while following out the various lines
of the company. A complete survey of
all the lines has not yet been COM
pleted so no definite schedule has as
yet been attained.
According to Administrator banner,
the present system which calls for a
stop at every corner on Kansas avenue,
will be maintained. Only the mid
block stops will be discontinued. The
skip-stop system, which calls for stops
to be made on the near corner Will not
apply to the corner at Eighth street
and Kansas avenue. Off of Kansas
avenue the skip-stop will be in force
on all lines as long as they remain on
paved streets. Where the streets are
not paved stopping at every corner
will probably be permissible.
Some Irregularities.
There will be come points where the
regularity of the system will be i'm
possible to enforce without consider
able inconvenience to passengers and
where the non-enforcement will still
virtually conform to the spirit of the
order issued by the government. In
instances of this sort a stop on two
consecutive corners will be allowed.
Howard Patten suggests two instances
which would be covered by this regu-
1ation. If the system should call for
a stop a block before a switch or a
siding, a second stop being ordinarily
made at this point, the two stops will
Il Of fl1a .fear11
Again as at the corner at Sixth and
West streets where cars run in three
different directions the corner has
been commonly used as a transfer
point. This will be true altho the
regular system should call for a stop
a block before reaching this corner. At
all other corners where the same con-
ditions exist, two stops will be adopt
ed in working out the system. 1t is
the idea of Danner and Patten to work
cut system which will conform most
strictly to the desires of the govern
ment and still give street railway pa
irons the most advantageous and con-
venient service.
On North Kansas Avenue.
The every block stop on Kansas
avenue will probably continue from
Tenth street to Gordon street in North
Topeka and will carry this greater ac-
commodation thru the business dis
trict in North Topeka. On Tenth
street stops will probably be made on
both Harrison and Topeka avenue.
Then on Twelfth street stops will
probably be made on Harrison and Ty-
Ter streets. While on Fifteenth street
both Harrison, Topeka avenue and
Tyler will probably be taken in. This
sort of a system gives the people liv-
ing in between these streets a chance
to go either way in riding down town.
A system of signs is being worked
out for the purpose of directing peo-
pie. These have not been decided
upon as yet. When finished they will
be placed in the most advantageous
positions all over town SO that people
will not make so many mistakes in at
tempting to adapt themselves to the
changes in the street car system and
the fact that Uncle Sam says they can
not now get on and off as they desire