Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-19
ANNUAL MEETINGS YESTERDAY.
Moth ing Done About Reducing Through
Fares to Five Cents.
NEW MOTIVE POWER FOR THE P, Am


the following report was presented to the
stockholders by Secretary Charles M.
Gormley:
Number of passengers carried during
the year ending October 81, ISS9.... 9,l73,775
Number of passengers carried during
the year ending October 81, 1885,. 6442,4
Passenger increase AZ per cent, or. 2731, 1903
Receipts, October 81, 1889 .S466 9l2 62
Receipts, October 81, 1888. ........ 33S l68 "a
Increase 3S per cent, or............$ lSS,749 S5
The stockholders were much pleased at
the report of the earnings for the year, and
Immediately proceeded to ballot for new di-
rectors. The old board were reelected.
They are as follows:
John g. Holmes, James Werner, James ].
Donnell, Wilson McCandless, Murray A. Yer
mel, G. L. Magee and H. s. A. Stewart.
After organizing, the board elected the
following named officers:
President, John G. Holmes; Vice President,
II. s. A. Stewart; Secretary. Charles NJ. CORN
ley; Treasurer, Nathaniel Holmes; Solicitors,
George G. Wilson and F. M. Magee.
DIRECTORS ELECTED.
The following directory was elected at the
meeting of the Citizens Company. John G.
Holmes, james Werner, II. S. A. Stewart,
James j. Donnell, Wilson McCandless,
Murry A. Werner and G. L. Magee. Joseph
S. Brown was elected President and Mr..
Donnell Secretary and Treasurer.
After the meetings Mr.. c. L. Magee said:
I'VE did nothing about the 5-cent fare uues-
tion, and 1 do not know that anything will
be done about it. This is matter for the
directors to take hold Of, and we had no
time for it tonight.
The annual meeting of the Pittsburg
Traction Company was held in the afternoon
at the power house. foot of Washington
street. The old officers and Board of Direc-
tors were reelected. They are as follows:
President, George W. Elkins; Vice Presi.
dent c. l. Magee; Secretary, George l. Nc
Farlane; Treasurer, W. McCandless; Directors,
G.. Elkins W. II. Kemble, p A. B. Widener,
W. L. Elkins, of Philadelphia; Thomas s.
Bigelow, Joseph W. Craig and q. L. Magee, Of
this city.
It was expected that the board of di-
rectors would transact considerable business
after organizing, but nothing was done.
Among the matters supposed to come up
was that of making a cent fare through to
East Liberty. The officials of the road
denied that they had any intention of
so doing, and said cent fare
would not pay. Although the traffic is
very heavy the expense IS considerable and
the earnings are not as large as some per-
sons imagine. The annual reports will not
be read until the meeting in January. An
other matter was the award of the contract
for the new electric cars to be used on the
Oakland loop. The branch will be running
by March Is or April 1. The tracks down
Atwood street have been laid and the con-
II. Ia ~ r
weeks. The cars will be manufactured by
the J. G. Brill Company, of Philadelphia.
The cable cars were built there, and Mr..
Brill is also making the ladies' or ''trailer"
cars which will be put on about December
Is. The present ''trailers," or horse cars,
will be sold, as the company will have no
further use for them.
OLD CARS NOT SUITABLE.
The reason the old cars are being dispensed
with is on account of not being suitable
for the short curves. They swing with a
iolting motion, and the roofs are too low.
The new cars will not be exclusively for the
use of ladies and their escorts, but an at
tempt will be made to have the male pas
sengers occupy the large cars. If they per-
sist in riding in the new ''trailers' they
will be allowed to Go so.
Another rumor bobbed up yesterday that
the Fifth avenue line was negotiating for
the Central and Second avenue roads. This
was denied, especially regarding the latter.
At the meeting of the Pittsburg, ALLIE
gheny and Manchester Railway Company,
to be held to-day, the subject of changing
the motive power of the road will come up
for discussion. The question of purchasing
or building a bridge over the Allegheny
river Will also be considered, and it is on
this latter subject that interest chiefly CEN
ters The stockholders of the road cannot
be prevailed upon to give decided opinions
either for or against buying or building,
one gentleman merely stating that the meet
ing would be entirely harmonious. As
matters stand now, the street car company is
paying Sc, 900 a year for the privilege of
crossing the Suspension bridge, and is will
ing to pay $4,000 a year to cross with a
cable line.
WILLING TO BUY THE BRIDGE.
It is also willing to buy the bridge out
right tor $4,000 or to secure controlling
interest on basis Of that price. One stock
holder of the street car company, who re-
fused to let his name be used, said that the
bridge company was now paying a dividend
of II per cent on its capital stock, and that
if the street car company built bridge of
It's own near the suspension, and put down
free footway for the public, the II per cent
dividend would be materially reduced. The
free footway alone would take from $15, 900
to O,000 a year away from the revenue,
and this added to the Sc, 900 rent from the
street car company, would make about per
cent Of the total bridge revenues.
Commodore Kountz, when asked if there
was any chance of the 6-cent fare being re-
duced to cents, said: 'No. The residents
of Allegheny do not, as general thing, pay
more than cents, as they all buy tickets.
The extra cent adds very little to the reve-
nues of the company, and is merely put on
to force the public to buy tickets that the
conductors Of the road might not be al
together at liberty in handling its money"
Since the talk of making the road cable
or electric line, some of the conductors and
drivers have been quietly figuring an an in
crease of wages, but are by no means all of
one mind on the question of an advance
being granted. Some of them arc of the
opinion that the company will expect them
to work on the motor line for the same
wages they are now getting. but others think
that the advance will be granted as a matter
of course. The L. a. COOS, X. of L., to
which they belong, has as yet taken no.
definite action on the subject. but the men
are said to be agitating the matter.