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Then there was another electrical surprise.
The intramural electric "L" road was given
a further test. It worked beautifully. General
Manager Baker and Chief Engineer C.
P. Matlack got out one train of four cars,
and under the supervision of Electrical Engineer
C. H. Macloskie this train was run up
and down the track in the southern end of
the grounds. A good many people saw this
string of handsome cars skating along overhead
and chased themselves all out of breath
trying to get aboard. But they all failed to
catch that train, for it was out for trial purposes
only. The train worked finely. All
that was need was the adjustment of a few
brake shoes and things like that.

Scenes in Midway Plaisance.

Within three days the whole road will be
ready for operation. It is a novel concern.
It is on the "three-rail system." There are
to be fifteen trains of four cars each, and a
train will make the round trip of three
miles in forty-five minutes. This includes
many stops, for the electric cars can make
thirty-five miles an hour when they try.
Each motor car has four motors of a combined
power of 500 horses. The three long
open cars which each motor will trail have
a capacity of 400 people.

The people found much of interest in Midway
plaisance, too. Yesterday was the first
Sunday that admission has been charged to
the Midway, but the long street of wonders
was just as black with people as ever. It
was a motley crowd--Cossacks resplendent in
big wooly caps, jeweled daggers, and slim pistols;
high-booted cowboys escaped from Col.
Cody's wild west show, Bedouins in gay
striped burnoose, Copts, Eskimos, Javanese,
Japs, Singalese, Indiana Hoosiers, small
boys, Indians, Turks, French sailors, Swiss
artisans, and just plain Chicago citizens in
their best clothes.