. The street railway review . his latter road he became chief engineer for the Chi-cago & St. Louis Electric Railway Co., a corporation formed forthe purpose of building a double track electric railway betweenChicago and St. Louis, over which cars were to be operated at 100miles an hour. When this project was abandoned he took upsteam railroad work for a while, but a position in the engineeringdepartment of the Metropolitan Street Ry. offering itself hereturned to Kansas City. In i888, while engineer for the WestSide Railway Co., Mr. Hughes visited and inspected all the thenexisting experiment
. The street railway review . his latter road he became chief engineer for the Chi-cago & St. Louis Electric Railway Co., a corporation formed forthe purpose of building a double track electric railway betweenChicago and St. Louis, over which cars were to be operated at 100miles an hour. When this project was abandoned he took upsteam railroad work for a while, but a position in the engineeringdepartment of the Metropolitan Street Ry. offering itself hereturned to Kansas City. In i888, while engineer for the WestSide Railway Co., Mr. Hughes visited and inspected all the thenexisting experimental electric lines in America. Mr. C. W. Waddell, who has charge of the park properties andamusement features, was born in Gallipolis, O., in March. spent the early part of his life in his native state. He wentto Kansas City in 1878. where he spent eight years in the drygoods business and was afterwards connected with various cor-porate interests in the city. He has been engaged in park workfor the past six INTERIOR OF TUNNEL. 578 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. X, No. lo. The East Side Electric Railway Co, The only line in Kansas City not under the control of theMetropolitan Street Railway Co. is the East Side Electric Ry.,locally known as the Heim Line, running from the corner ofMain and Fifth Sts. through the East Bottoms for a distance ofthree miles. On a portion of this route an experimental electricline was operated on the Henry system from 18S4 to 1887. butwas not entirely successful. From 1887 to 1892 steam dummieswere run over the line, but these were also abandoned and therails removed owing to lack of patronage. In 1897, Messrs. Joseph J. Heim, M. G. Heim and FerdinandHeim, owners of a large brewery and other property in the EastBottoms, recognizing the influence better transportation facilitieswould have on land values, determined to build a first-class electricline from Market Sq. into the district, and if necessary operate itat a loss until the region
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