. The Street railway journal . wayCompany. 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 ofcable
. The Street railway journal . wayCompany. 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 Railway Company and convert it intoa cable system. The horse car lines were most antiquatedin equipment, but were sold for $1,000,000 in 5 per centfirst mortgage bonds. The Metropolitan Company hasgradually absorbed nearly all of the other street railway October 13, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 911. RUINS OF CONVENTION HALL properties in the two Kansas Cities, having taken over theelevated railway in 1894, the Kansas City Cable Railwayand Grand Avenue Cable Railway and others in 1895, andothers since. The only line in Kansas City which it doesnot control is the East Side Electric Railway, runningalong the low lands near the river, and built by a brewingestablishment, more to reach their brewery than for anyother purpose. In addition to this there is an interurbanline, the Kansas City-Leavenworth Line, which is not as- THROWING WATER ON CONVENTION HALL FIRE sociated with the Metropolitan system. Otherwise, thetwenty lines in the city, with an aggregate length of 160miles of track, are all operated by the Metropolitan StreetRailway Company. THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF THE METROPOLITAN STREET RAIL-WAY COMPANY Kansas City is laid out, as a reference to the map willshow, on what is generally known as the Philadelphia sys-tem. The intersecting streets are, as a
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