Newspaper article:Page 1 of Wayne County Democrat,published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, February 7th, 1912 - December 14 2022
- Article title
- Want City Service: An Effort Is To Be Made To Have Car Lines Built In Wooster
- Newspaper title
- Wayne County Democrat
- Date of publication
- 1912/02/07
- Page number
- 1
- Organization
- Industry
- Other Services > Religious / Grantmaking / Civil / Profession and Similar Organizations
Full text
"Want City Service: An Effort Is To Be Made To Have Car Lines Built in Wooster. The Board of Directors of the Wooster Board of Trade is going to make an effort to get city street car service for Wooster. The matter was mentioned at the recent Board of Trade smoker. The directors have been talking it over quietly for some time and it is stated that a strong effort to land the service is to be made.
It is figured that city car service can be secured in two way. The Cleveland & Southwestern can extend its lines to take in several streets, or the Massillon, Wooster & Mansfield line, if it is built, could put in city service.
Directors, it is said, would favor a line out East Bowman St., towards the new allotment, down to the Pennsylvania depot, out to the Experiment Station and perhaps west to the fair grounds.
It is argued that nearly all the available building space has been taken up within a reasonable distance of the square and that if persons who work down town are to build houses at a greater distance from the square, they must have a way to get to and from their work. Street car service is the solution. One city street car making hourly trips and the regular cars would give a half hour service which would, for the present, probably take care of the traffic. It is believed that cars running to the Experiment Station and the University would carry many passengers while the depot would also be a good terminal."