. The Street railway journal . GROUP OF KANSAS CITY RESIDENCES good times and a renewed but more healthy growth. The first horse car line in the city was started in 1871 be-tween Kansas City and Westport, by Nehemiah Holmes,father of the Holmes brothers, now respectively presidentand general manager of the Metropolitan Street RailwayCompany. In order to convert this into a cable line and tobuild other lines, the Grand Avenue Cable Railway Com-pany was incorporated on March 27, 1886. Another systemof mule car lines was started in 1874 by a man familiarlyknown in Kansas City as Tom Corrigan. Fiv
. The Street railway journal . GROUP OF KANSAS CITY RESIDENCES good times and a renewed but more healthy growth. The first horse car line in the city was started in 1871 be-tween Kansas City and Westport, by Nehemiah Holmes,father of the Holmes brothers, now respectively presidentand general manager of the Metropolitan Street RailwayCompany. In order to convert this into a cable line and tobuild other lines, the Grand Avenue Cable Railway Com-pany was incorporated on March 27, 1886. Another systemof mule car lines was started in 1874 by a man familiarlyknown in Kansas City as Tom Corrigan. Five or six lineswere built and operated frugally and shrewdly. The cableline built up Ninth Street by the Kansas City Cable Rail-way Company demonstrated the advantage of the cableover the horse system, but the Corrigan interests were un-able to finance a change as expensive as the installation ofcables, and in 1886 the Metropolitan Street Railway Com-pany was organized to take over the system of the CorriganConsolidated Street
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