The review., 1920-02-05
HIGH POINT FANS MAY NOT GET
THE CAR LINE.
There Is Some Doubt Whether Public
Service Company Will Build to
Ball Park

There Is Some Doubt Whether Public
Service Company Will Build to
Ball Park.
Is Greensboro's determination to re-
pave South Elm street with asphalt
going to beat High Pointers out Of
car line to Welch field? VIII local
fans have to hire a hack" or walk to
see the Furniture Makers in action
against the other teams OF the Pied
mont league during the season or
1920? Those are questions puzzling
certain fans, the answers to which
arc trife more than anxiously await
edCertain fans with mind for facts
and figures have seen two here ana
two there and have engaged in ad-
dition. Not for minuIe~ls 1t DeheNeu
that the North Carolina Public Ser
vice company is unwilling to extend
it's car line to the local ball lot, but
it is known that the company has been
:up against some very heavy street
paving assessments during the past
three years Strange as it may seem'
everv street on which the system op-
crates in High Point has been as
phalted, and the company mas hao - -
heeT It's share Of the cost. A nla1orlty
of the streets of Greensboro. on which
the car line runs, if not all or tnem'
have also been paved and the street
car company was presented Win not
a thing. And the repaving OF Green's
horO's main business thorOugh1are Is
going to cost the company bushel OF
7-cent fares, something that the com
pGnv needs to keep on an even lou
inq those having some Information
declare.
Whether there will be funds avail
abIa tn do the work wanted in Hlgf
Point is what is causing worry -
/. winter league circles. 40 make tne
f outlook a shade more blue, the Fuolr
Service company has planned 10 eH
! tend it's gas mains along seVeral 1lsl
!, Point streets, residents OF which haV'
nrev;ouslv been denied connectlol
t with this modern convenience an'
r commodity. Further, the Pubic SCI
# vice company hasn't yet been given
; new contract for supplying current
n High Point by the city ottlc1als' III
s matter being slated for d1spositlon u
- tbo citv council next Tuesday eve
T. ling. of
- II has been decided, it is learned
that in the event the street Cal Ooil
nanv does not extend its line 10 "elo
- field, that it will be the Green s'i0
limo that undergoes extensloh'
o ,,,o,,1d he too expensive to run the I'LL
u down washington street, already d
nba1ted while but little grading "ou'
Il r. necessary to run the line acroS
III o1most virgin country from the e1
"A 80 +Ko Green street line to WeIch nei
L. further. there would be no pdVlns
~ he torn up and replaced.
TRANSFORMATION to the ball yaro a
ne .ha housing Of players constitute u
81 10 worries of local moguls Esl
III tally TRANSPORTATION. Last seaeo
with senri-pro ball, public autohlopll 80
had nice picking at 70 cents PC -
oach way. But then 20 ana 50 o0n
was the gate scale, as against
oo+ charge the coming season. Il
7nt 1I;11 make the smallest posslDle Il.
his ovnodition to the lot $l, Wnl
ing :ah+ mitigate against attenod1l
uTnarofor the need for the extensi
age 20 +bo street car system. AS 10 no
ful ING it is about agreed 10 10a0
led furnish house for the shelter u
ire nastimers, something that mas oe
Ugh done in Durham and Raleigh ao'o
bly, ing to reports. sow n
little has been heard from |,
by miller, manager of the local team u
,un- ino recent weeks. He~has peen IL
,te: nitv M several times for conferences " "
ck; Art Arthur Lyon, head of the local 0rgz e.
ity, iH n zation and this wise old baseball III n
sav is confident that Dick is gong 70
ing. Iu tbe - city a good club, Miller. at ;n, =
'b Ab. accounts, acc had nine or 10 men n, s,g' ~
and stated he had lines ou' - f0 res, M
anoa ones. A statement OF res.
1o;r accomplished toward getting ne u
vit1,re Makers in readiness -, ~
io - start is expected from either NJ ~.
: a.. At Mr.. Mr. Lyon y within a few days.-o0f
no,dence The News.
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