LET GO THEIR ROAD (Scanned but not yet proofed.) SECOND-STREET LINE LEASED TO THE SUBURBAN Better Service Promised for the South End by Alternating Five-Minute Trips. The City & Suburban Street Railway Company has secured control of the Second-street line. Control rests in a long-time lease, which will be effective December 1. The leased line extends from the north end of Second street, at Glisan to Riverview cemetery. It was organized under the name of the Metropolitan Railway Company, and the operation of the line was begun January 1, 1880. The road'was operated a few years from a power station at Fulton Park, but this was found very expensive, on account of the cost of fuel, and some time ago the station was closed down, and power procured from the Union Power station, and after that was burned, from tho Portland General Electric Company, by which a saving of some $900 a month wnli effected. Under the new arrangement the power-house at Fulton Park is to be dismantled, and the plant which consists of four boilers, two engines of 125 horsepower each, and four generators, of about 500 horsepower each, will be at once removed to the power-house of the City & Suburban Company, near Inman & Poulsen's mills, where they will be used in conjunction with the big plant there to furnish power for the company's lines. The City & Suburban Company, having just completed the deal for leasing the road, has not yet definitely decided what arrangements will be made or what changes will be necessary to operate the two lines conjointly, but the arrangements to be made will insure better facilities and a more extended service, which will be of great benefit to people at the south end of the city, who under the new arrangement, can ride from Second avenue to Irvington, Mount Tabor, or Woodstock, or vice versa, for a single 5-cent fare. The road parallels the Third-street line from Glisan to Grant street, and practically as far south as Gibbs street, though they are several blocks apart out there. Under one management, the two lines can he operated cheaper and to better advantage than when run in opposition, and by arranging that the cars on the two lines shall run alternately, instead of at the same time, a five-minute service practically 'will be given instead of a 10-minute service as now. The Second-street line has been operated for some time by the Washington-street, or Portland Street Railway Company, un-der the management O. F. Paxton, receiver. It was at one time consolidated with the Washington-street line, as the Portland Consolidated Railway Company, but when the Washington-street system was sold under foreclosure of mortgage, the purchaser would not buy in the Second-street line at the amount of the mortgage, so the road fell back into the hands of the original bondholders, and has under arrangement with them been ever since operated in connection with the Washington-street system. A representative of the owners has lately visited this city, and through him the lease to the City & Suburban Company was arranged and finally consummated, a day or two since. Probably before the time arrives for the turning over of the property, which, of course, includes the cars, etc., the lessees will have decided Just what changes of track, etc., will be necessary to operate the two lines harmoniously. September 30, 1897 - page 13