July i8, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. xxi NEWS OF THE WEEK CONSTRUCTION NOTES pleted from Crawfordsville to Jamestown. Steel for 20 miles is arriving. The Lafayette line, the Danville extension and the coal road will be built next BIRMINGHAM, ALA.—The Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Com- year. This will give Indianapolis two electric lines to Lafayette. It is not unlikely that the coal road into Parke County will be pushed on to Rock pany has begun work on the Glen Iris branch, about a mile long. ville, where it will connect with the Danville Company's line into Clinton and BIRMINGHAM, ALA. At a meeting of the committees from the com- — Terre Haute. mercial bodies of Huntsville and Birmingham and intervening towns, held in The Muncie, Hartford Fort Railway Company Birmingham, to take steps for building a direct line of railway between Bir- MUNCIE, IND.— & Wayne has just begun schedule service on 30 miles of road from Muncie, through mingham and Huntsville, it was determined to appoint a joint committee of Eaton to Hartford City and Montpelier. Cars had been running irregularly twelve to arrange all preliminaries looking to making a survey for the route, since May 1. There are no curves and the grades are 1 per cent outside the securing rights of way, etc. The special committee is made up as follows: For cities where fifty-year franchises are held. The 40-ft. right of way outside the Huntsville, W. I. Wellman, Ben P. Hunt, Oscar Hundley, Milton Humes, cities is outright the Seventy-pound rails, oak ties, D. E. Scroggins and W. L. Halsey; for Birmingham, Rufus N. Rhodes, N. owned by company. Stephenson cars, General Electric Company equipment, Cooper engines. F. Thompson, J. A. Montgomery, James Bowron, M. V. Joseph and Robert Jemison. Sterling boilers and Packham trucks are used. The company owns and operates a summer resort park at Eaton. It contains 37 acres, and is located PRESCOTT, ARIZ.—Ground has been broken for an electric street rail- on the Mississinawa River. The fare is 2 cents a mile. The road will be built way for the city of Prescott, with the objective point at Fort Whipple. It is to Bluffton, 14 miles from Montpelier, by Nov. 1. The company is capitalized proposed that the line will eventually furnish passenger and freight transpor- at $1,000,000 and bonded for the same amount. Lewis Hester, Muncie, Ind., is tation for a number of the more important mining districts of the company, general manager. The superintendent is L. J. Shlessinger, of Eaton, Ind. S. the first to be tapped being the Groom Creek section. Backing the enter- M. Hester, of Cleveland, is president; A. L. Johnson, of Muncie, Ind., vice- prise is the Prescott Electric Company, from whose works power will at president; J. C. Gilcris, of Cleveland, treasurer, and F. W. Osborne, of Cleve- first be furnished. land, secretary. The other directors are: W. B. Cooley, of Hartford City, and Pacific MONTEREY, CAL—The Monterey & Grove Electric Railway has L. Hexter and A. Lewenthal, of Cleveland. been placed in operation. NEW ALBANY, IND.—The incorporators of the company that is to build SAN JOSE, CAL.—The work of laying the rails of the San Jose & Los the proposed electric railway between Louisville and Cincinnati have organ- Gatos Interurban Railway was begun at San Jose a few days ago. Already 15 ized the Indiana Interurban Bridge Company to build over the Ohio River. miles of line are graded, and ties are laid ready for the rails for a distance of The company is capitalized at $1,500,000, and the bridge that it plans to build 5 miles. The officers of the company are: President, J. W. Rea; vice-presi- will span the river at the head of Sand Island, about 200 yards above the dent, E. N. Rea; general manager, F. S. Granger; secretary, Thomas Rea; Kentucky and Indiana Bridge. The new structure will be constructed of directors, J. W. Rea, F. S. Granger, O. A. Hale, Gus Lion, A. Barnard and steel, double-tracked, and will be vised for the interurban cars and wagons. L. M. Robbins. RICHMOND, IND.—The Eastern Indiana Electric Railway Company has BRADENTOWN, FLA.—All work on the line of the Manatee Light & commenced its survey of the proposed line from Richmond to Portland, Ind., Traction Company has been completed except the placing of the steam the road to be completed by July 1, 1904. It has a clear right of way and turbines. The road extends from Bradentown to Manatee, a distance of 6 franchises granted along the proposed route. miles, with two 3-mile branches. Six motor-cars and two trail cars will be operated. The power-station equipment consists of two 260-kw Bullock SEYMOUR, IND.—The City Council has granted a thirty-year franchise to generators, two 300-hp De Laval steam turbines, two 300-hp Babcock & Wilcox the Indiana Central Electric Railway Company, which is projecting a line from Columbus to West Baden. water-tube boilers. The cars were made by the J. G. Brill Company, of Philadelphia, and are of the convertible type. The authorized capital stock VERSAILLES. IND.— Center Township, Ripley County, has voted by a of the company is $100,000, all of which has been issued. The authorized large majority in favor of a subsidy in aid of the Madison, Greensburg & funded debt of the company is $100,000, none of which has been issued. The Indianapolis Electric Railway. officers of the company are: John A. Graham, president and manager; W. DUBUQUE, IA.—The Dubuque & Western Railroad Company has filed A. Carter, vice-president; N. H. Graham, secretary and treasurer; H. C. articles of incorporation. Peter Kiene. of Dubuque, is president. The pur- Sloan, superintendent and electrician; R. N. Ellis, engineer. pose of the promoters is to connect Dubuque and the northern and southern McKinley, DECATUR, ILL.—W. B. of Champaign, the head ot the McKin- parts of the county by electric lines. The Eastern Securities Company, of ley syndicate, which is building electric lines in Illinois, has announced that New York, is backing the project. work would begin in connecting up interurban and street railway lines and CITY, IA.—Smith Dows, of Cedar Rapids, who have in contem- making a through fast-service line between Danville, 111., and St. Louis. At IOWA & interurban railway Iowa City and Danville the syndicate expects to have connections into Terre Haute, and, plation the construction of an between Cedar Rapids, have applied for a franchise in Iowa City. A hearing is to be by the line that the Consolidated Company is building, through Crawfords- ville, Veedersburg and Covington, into Indianapolis and to the East. given on the application on July 17. Electric Interurban DECATUR, ILL.—The sale of the Decatur Traction & Electric Company's MARSHALLTOWN. IA.—The Marshalltown Street & Council. property has been effected by a syndicate of Eastern capitalists represented Railway Company has been voted a franchise by the by W. B. McKinley, of Champaign, purchasing the entire issue of $250,000 in ROCK FALLS, IA.—The Rock River Traction Company, which will build capital stock for $200,000. The system has been bonded for $212,000. This an electric railway to Rock Island, has secured the right of way from Rock- makes the total valuation of the capitalists system $412,000. The represented Falls to Geneseo. by Mr. McKinley are now building interurban systems that will eventually be CARIBOU, MAINE.—The Caribou. Washburn & Perham Railroad Com- joined and make an electric railway from Danville through Champaign and pany has made a preliminary survey of its route from Caribou to Washburn Decatur to Springfield, thence to St. Louis. and Perham, and it has considerable preliminary work to do before getting I Additional laborers have been put to work CRAWFORDSVILLE, ND.— down to the work of construction. The road is to be principally a freight at Lebanon on the Northwestern Traction Company's line, and the grade is road, and will be built mostly outside the highway so as to get a very low now Crawfordsville. being made toward The work of building eastward from grade. The company will not make any contracts at present. The line will Crawfordsville is progressing satisfactorily, and tracks are connected with the connect Caribou, Washburn and Perham, a distance of 14% miles. The steam road, and cars of material are run out 3 miles or more to a point where officers of the company are: S. L. White, president; J. D. Emery, vice-presi- the tracks are laid. The grade has been completed for a distance of 5 miles. dent; E. A. Holmes, secretary; George W. Irving, treasurer. All material for the track is distributed, and the contractors expect that the BOSTON, MASS.—The Railroad Commissioners have issued three certifi- line will be completed by Sept. 1. cates, to the effect that the following extensions of locations are consistent FORT WRYNE, IND.—It is stated that the Fort Wayne & Southwestern with public interests: Of the Framingham. Southboro & Marlboro Street Traction Company, between Wabash and Fort Wayne, which is now in the Rail- Railway, in the town of Framingham ; of the Boston & Worcester Street hands of a receiver, will probably be restored to the stockholders within a few way, on Eastern Avenue, in the town of Framingham ; of the Lowell & days. The property was placed in the hands of S. L. Nelson, the general man- Boston Street Railway, on Boston Road, in Billerica. ager, as receiver, at the instance of the National Bank of North America, New The Railroad Commissioners have issued a certificate of York, which held a $100,000 note of the company, and which sued to prevent its BOSTON, MASS.— reconstruction of that portion of the Old Colony claim becoming a junior lien under a mortgage about to be executed.