Boland Line To Detroit Completed This Season

BOLAND LINE TO DETROIT COMPLETED THIS SEASON

Strong Company With $2,500,000 Capital, Formed to Complete Line

Third Rail System Will Be Used, Express Train Run and the Finest Equipment of any Road in the State Planned For

The Boland line to Detroit will be built this summer. There has been a question for some time, in the minds of the people, whether it would be ever completed but those who have been closely watching the course of events have been satisfied that Mr. Boland would eventually succeed in getting enough capital interested to float his various enterprises successfully. That he has done this is now an assured fact, a company having been formed in Jackson Thursday for the purpose of taking over al the Boland properties, to be known as the Jackson, Ann Arbor & Detroit Traction Co., with a capital stock of $2,500,000.

The incorporators include some of the country's big men of finance. They are Wm. Halls, Jr., vice-president of the Hanover National bank, of New York; Henry R. Carse, of New York, cashier of the same institution; Bird S. Coler, president of the Guardian Trust Co., of New York; Leonard H. Hole, of W. N. Coler & Co., bankers, New York; W. N. Coler, Jr., New York; W. A. Boland, who is the original promoter of the road; N. S. Potter, vice-president and manager of the Jackson City bank and treasurer of the Jackson & Battle Creek Traction Co., W. A. Foote, Jackson, secretary of the Jackson & Battle Creek Traction Co. The officers elected are William A. Boland, president; William Halls, Jr., vice-president; Nathan Potter, treasurer.

The new company has arranged to take over all the properties of the co-called Boland system, east of Jackson, consisting of the Jackson & Suburban Traction Co., now owning and operating the Jackson city lines and the interurban line to Grass Lake; the Wolf Lake Railway & Resort Co., which owns the resort property, and a casino at Wolf Lake, twelve miles easy and near to the main line of the road; the Jackson & Ann Arbor Co., which has unfinished lines and right of way nearly to Ann Arbor, and the Detroit, Plymouth & Northville Co. These properties will all be consolidated and a through line to Detroit, on which the equipment and construction will enable cars to be run at a speed to compete with the fast trains of the steam road, will be built. The capitalists comprising the incorporators held a meeting here today and decided to push the construction work as fast as material can be accumulated and the necessary organization of labor perfected. Cars will surely be run to Ann Arbor this season, giving through service from Battle Creek on lines affiliated under a traffic arrangement, and the lines will be extended to Detroit as rapidly as possible. The third rail system and private right of way will be used.

Construction will be begun at Grass Lake, the present eastern terminus of the operated section of the line, within a few days, and by the end of the season cars will be run into Ann Arbor. As soon as the equipment is completed to Chelsea, service to that town will be given. Only eight miles of track between Chelsea and Ann Arbor are still to be built, but this section comprises some heavy grading.

The financial strength of the companies controlling the Jackson Battle Creek and Jackson Detroit lines is accepted here as a guarantee that a through system of fast and electric cars from Detroit to Chicago is assured.