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STREET CAR SERVICE IN OPERATION TODAY

Cars Will be Run on a One-man, Pay –as-you-enter Basis

[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 7 June 1921]

“Der Tag!”

Today is the day. After years of patient waiting, and months of watching and praying, today is the day that the car service will commence on the west side of the canal.

Mr. Waters, manager of the Niagara, Welland & Lake Erie Railway Co., told The Tribune and Telegraph yesterday that the company were still firm in their plan to put the service into operation today.

Questioned as to what time the cars will start operating, Mr. Waters stated that he was not in a position to state, neither was he ready to state whether a twelve minute service will be put into operation. Just how far up North Main street the cars will run it is also important to find out.

The cars will be run on a one-man basis, pay-as-you-enter system,-enter in the front.

At the present time only one car will be run, the other will be added in a short time.

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