Through Cars To Battle Creek

Will Be Put on by the Boland Line

DOING BIG BUSINESS

Between Battle Creek and Jackson - Carried 11,000 Passengers in Two Days

Work on the Jackson & Chelsea and the Jackson & Ann Arbor electric railroads is being pushed, although it is more or less delayed by the tardy shipment of materials. The reballasting between Grass Lake and Chelsea is nearly finished, and the roadbed is being placed in the best possible condition, heavy rails being substituted for some of the lighter portions laid.

The electric rail by which the road is to be operated has not as yet been installed, as the insulators on which it will rest have not yet been received. There are some other necessary accessories yet to arrive from the east before portions of the work can be completed, but as soon as they arrive the third rail will be installed. The steel has already been distributed.

A large force of me is at work between Chelsea and Ann Arbor, building the roadbed for the Ann Arbor extension. This roadbed, as well as that between Grass Lake and Chelsea, will be the equal of that constructed by the Jackson & Battle Creek interurban. This will be absolutely necessary, as cars will be operated direct from Battle Creek to Ann Arbor, and it is necessary that the best of roadbed be provided along the entire route. - Jackson Press.

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Passenger Agent Bucknell of the Jackson & Battle Creek road Saturday furnished the Jackson Press some figures concerning the volume of business done on the Jackson & Battle Creek line, which well illustrates the great growth of the "travel habit" which has followed upon the completion of the electric road with its low fares and quick and cheap service.

Last Monday, Labor Day, was the big day in the road's history. On that day alone it sold 6,500 fares at Jackson, Battle Creek and intermediate stations. Friday, however, was another surprising day, when 4,775 tickets were sold, making over 11,000 passengers carried for the two days. Thursday upwards of 4,000 people were carried, The other tow days of the week have not figured, but is is a low estimate to place the number at 17,000 for the five days up to and including Friday.

It should be borne in mind that this astonishing achievement by a road which has only been in existence a few months, during which it has been operated under adverse circumstances, and has not been able to demonstrate the full possibilities of electric traction, was accomplished by the Jackson and Battle Creek line, and no account whatever is taken of the thousands who have been transported to Michigan Center, Wolf Lake and Grass Lake over the lines of the Jackson & Suburban Traction company east of the city. The average ride taken by the seventeen thousand people was upwards of twenty miles. The fair at Marshall accounts for much of this great business.