100 years ago: Streetcar company celebrates one year of serving Lawrence

From the Lawrence Daily World for Sept. 21, 1910: “One year ago this morning the first street car was started for carrying passengers by the Lawrence Railway Company. The first year has been a most satisfactory one to the company. There have been some surprises. It had been supposed that the loop over the campus would be the most popular route and therefore the best paying, but so far this has not been true. On the contrary this line was operated at a loss during the summer while the Massachusetts and New Jersey street lines are the money makers…. Registrar Foster is elated this week over a nice new steel vault which the Regents have presented him this year. For forty-four years the records of the university have been exposed to danger from fire. Had a serious blaze broken out in Frasier hall, the class records of the thousands of graduates would have been totally destroyed. The new vault is fire and burglar proof and is sufficiently large to preserve all the records…. Season tickets to all athletic events will be placed on sale Monday. Tickets will admit to five football games, ten basket ball games, ten base ball games, two glee club concerts, four band and orchestra concerts, three debates, and four track meets. They will sell for $3.00.”