Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-18

LANCASTER, PA, January 18. 1890
Welcome the Foreigner.

Mayor Edgcrley, 1t appears, does not
intend to either sign or veto the ordi-
nance giving the street railways the
right to erect their poles and string their
wires upon the streets for considera-
tion of five dollars n car and fifty cents |
q pole per annlim and so the ordinance |
becomes a law, and the companies Will |
70 to work at once to equip the lines |
with the new power and the people !
will have an early chance to test the |
quality of the pudding the councils have
given them.
We are of opinion that the new system
is likely to he of advantage to the husi-
ness of the town; and also the new
management of the new railways for
the old management has been so bad
that it could not be worse and the
street railroads are to-day nuisance
that can hardly be increased, even
though the electric system proves to be
as dangerous as many people think 1t
will be. We can take little danger to
get little comfort in the use of the
streets in our wagons and we take 1t
for granted that the new people who
have ventured to take hold of the city
rails will be held to stricter accountable
ity; than the present owners have been,
whose howls for mercy because of their
poverty has induced our wonderfully
inefficient street committee to permit
the rails and the streets to remain at a
continuous and permanent disagreement
in their levels, to the great distress of the
ordinary vehicle.
We do not think 1t possible that our
street committee will ever be decently
virtuous or wise but we have hope that
the purchasers If the street railways are
business men who know how to secure
the lively dollar by doing their business
in thorough and efficient way. They
will know that If their business Is worth
doing 1t is worth doing well. They will
understand that their pennies come
from the community, and that the COM
muniiy must be well served and well
treated to secure its full custom. To this
end they will keep their road and equip
ment in order and furnish service that
will please their customers and com
mand their patronage.
All this is very plain and should have
commended itself to the reason of the
Lancaster owners of three roads, who
have been running In amid and feeble
way for years, and have been overcome
with flood of joy al the offer made
them to give them now what they paid
TO- their stock. The alacrity with which
they have sold out their stock testilies
to lack Of business foresight and
energy which has been characteristic
<co nh 10, that
Lancaster capitalists have ever engaged
in. They used TO charge the trouble to
the foreigners who came here to manage
their money but these street car COM
panies have had home management
along with the usual home luck and
we are quite satisfied that Lancaster
capitalists do not habitually have capa-
city enough to use their money profit
ably in business ventures, aud betray n
high appreciation of their deficiency In
the enthusiastic favor which they be-
stow upon bank stocks; where their
money lies snugly in napkin and
earns profit from cultivation in foreign
fields. The interest business calls for no
extravagant outlay of energy or of faith.
The money docs not disappear without
leaving the well endorsed note behind
1t and when il is wanted it can be soon
called in. 1t goes out with a string at
tached to IL and our prudent people like
the string. When they put their money
In o business venture they do not see the
string; and 1t sends cold chill down
their backs to have it so out without.
The foreign folk who have come here
and gratified the Lancaster capitalist IS
taste for the sight of sound dollar, and
who have taken his rickety railways off
his hands, of course propose TO make
money out of them; and we have no doubt
that they will. 1t may be readily con.
ceived that there is plenty Of money in a
s:heme to run these electric railways in
atown of nearly forty thousand popula-
ton, centrally situated in the most popu-
lous county in the state, with villages
all about it and population of 100000
people in the county alone. Stating
these figures the other day to promi
nent railroad president, he lifted up his
eyebrows in pleased surprise and said
that this was indeed a trade worth going
for. II is a fact that there is no county
in the whole country that offers
larger returns to an enterprise that of.
fers to bring its people and trade to q
focal centre than this county; and
there is no town in the coun-
try that has better opportunity
offered to command an ungathered trade
richly lying about it, by giving it rail
way carriage, that has Lancaster town
IL the electric railways viii afford tn,
facilities they will do the work and reaI
the reward. IL steam roads are required
for it, they should be speedily built and
would have been long ago, in commu
nifty less disposedto seek reward, for it
capital in leaning it to Others and NOR,
wide awake to thedouble interest gained
In raising the value of home real estate
We know of no city anywhere better
located than this for manufacturing
purposes. 1t has an advantage which
few Others have in the rich lands abou
II that will always make il &
cheap living place. 1t is near In,
seaboard and the markets. 1t is close [,
coal and iron. 1t can easily command
railroad connections with four great sys
TENS of railroad that lie near its door
though IL has but two in its lap. Witt
these connections made the town Il
made.
Car Stoves and C0uplers.