The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-08
"UNDER TWO FLAGS"
President Frenzel Now Talking Nice About the
Citizens Company Directors Meeting.

On May 16 the annual meeting of the
stockholders and directors of the Citi-
zens' Street-railroad Company will occur
upon which Mr.. John +. Frenzefs name
will come mp for reelection to the presi-
dency of the road or o successor will be
selected, and as it Is a job that pays 5000
o year, at least. and requires but two
hours of his time each day, it behooyes
Mr.. Frenzel to get solid with the directory.
This he has already begun to do through
his personal organ. the News. This
is the man who. q year ago. was
srrayed against the street-raiIway com
pany. and who fought it inch by inch in
the Legislature. where he espoused the
suburban street-railway bill. If Mr.. Fren-
eel was to be believed then there was no
corporation in the city SO vlllainous as the
street-car company. Now he has changed
his tune, n his t~iattery Of the directory
Is effervescing with fulsomness. Mr.. Fren-
eel has thist to say In the News:
There has never been any disposition on the
part of the Chicago people, that own this road, to
do otherwise than To make ali the improvements
In the system consistent with the public needs,
and a reasonable yearly expenditure for exten.
siOns and improvements. Ii cost q great deal
or money TO make the changes which have been
itI III tuc phbb lOuf lCdIb. II OulCusO YtO-
pie have spent IN that time in permanent i'm
provements considerably over one million dol
lars. Ii has been sought to work up some senti-
ment in this community In favor OF the late deal.
because or the amount or money that the new
parties would put in extensions. There was
nothing further from the fact than that these
parties would put In any considerable amount
OF their own money over and above the cash
payment on the purchase. They expected to
sell bonds TO do this. II they failed in this,
for legal or other reasons, the extensions
would not be built. / speak OF this simply 10
emphasize the willingness OF some agencies to
pull the wool over the pubiics eyes by implica-
tton, trying to- poison the public mind against a
party OF gentlemen whose faithful compliance
with promises made, and liberality in ex-
system what ii Is even now, in its uncompleted
state, one of the best, II not the best, In this
country, offers ne surest guarantee of good
faith and interest in the future. The abstract
proposition that the New York syndicate would
do more for the city than the Chicago syndicate,
and that is what 1t meant, is simply ridiculous.
The Chicago owners OF the road are, l believe,
broad-gauged. liberal minded people. II Is
nearly n year ago since some of them were here.
They talked TO the public through the news
made at that time, have all been fulfilled and
more than fulfilled.
Some one said recently that the new syndi-
cafe would have spent One-half million OH bet
terments and extensions of the electric system.
why, that Is nothing to boast OF. / have spent
as much for the Chicago people since last August
mine months. There has been no brass band
display about II. but the facts remain, just the
same. Look at the three lines, College avenue,
Irvington and North indianapolis, all very long
lines, and you can soon figure out the hundreds
of thousands of Expenditures, TO say nothing Of
doubling the boiler capacity and increasing the
engine and dynamo capacity five times over
what 1t was when first went into the road.