. Electric railway journal . opertyowned by the city is not taxed. As yet no propositionhas been taken up for the insurance of the buildingsand equipment against fire. EXTENSIONS It is the intention of the public utilities departmentto extend the municipal railway as soon as possible intwo directions, but this will not be done until the north-ern division has been proved a success. As soon as theSeattle, Renton & Southern Railway difficulty can becleared up, cars can be run over Fourth Avenue to RyanAvenue and Rainier Boulevard, and eventually connectwith the Highland Park & Lake Burien Railro
. Electric railway journal . opertyowned by the city is not taxed. As yet no propositionhas been taken up for the insurance of the buildingsand equipment against fire. EXTENSIONS It is the intention of the public utilities departmentto extend the municipal railway as soon as possible intwo directions, but this will not be done until the north-ern division has been proved a success. As soon as theSeattle, Renton & Southern Railway difficulty can becleared up, cars can be run over Fourth Avenue to RyanAvenue and Rainier Boulevard, and eventually connectwith the Highland Park & Lake Burien Railroad. Itis also planned to construct a branch line out Virginiaand Fairview Streets and thence to the University dis-trict, but these plans are only tentative. The Lake Burien line was built by a group of capital-ists some years ago from West Seattle to Lake Burien,a distance of 9 miles. The road was promoted by per-sons who owned property near Lake Burien, and thefirst car was operated on July 1, 1912. For four months. Seattle Municipal Railway—Example of Rehabilitation Workon Highland Park & Lake Burien Railway an intermittent service was maintained, and then a slidecovered the track for a mile and operation was aban-doned. The line has lain idle until recently when it wasturned over to the city free of all incumbrances by theowners, on condition that the city maintain a service sothat the property owners along the road who subscribedto the funds for the roads construction might haveaccess to Seattle. The council immediately appropri-ated $25,000 to be used in rehabilitating the right-of-way, half of which is in the city limits, and at this timethe line is practically ready for use. Of the $25,000appropriated by the Council to be used in preparing foroperations, $7,500 will be utilized in the construction ofa substation at Ninth Avenue Southwest and West Tren-ton Street. The Board of Public Works was recentlyauthorized to purchase the site and receive bids for con-struction a
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