The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-14
Six Tickets for a Quarter, with Trans
fer Privilege. and Eight for n
Quarter without Transfer.
FORFEITURE OF CHARTER
BOARD WILL INSIST ON THIS IN
CERTAIN CONTINGENCIES.
Full Outline Of the Contract as the
Board Has Determined to Have
Ii Made.

yves ana the members OF the Council COM
mittee. the Board of Works and others
representing the city in the office of Miller
Winter & Elan to again consider the prop
osition TO compromise street-car matters
At this meeting the company will submit
new proposition based upon the informa-
tion gained at the conference last Friday
night. The company and the city officials
are yet some distance apart on the subject
and. in fact, 1t is now doubted in some
quarters that compromise will ultimately
be reached. The Board of Works holds
some very pronounced views on the SUBJ
ject. which in some particulars are not
in exact accordance with the views held
by some OF the councilmen and by the
Mayor. Thus far the negotiations have been
carried on by joint committee, of which
the Board of Works is a part, but accord
ing to the charter the board must sign
the contract and agree to it before it
can be presented to the Council for action
The charter says the Board of Works
must make all contracts, but that they
shall be ratified by the Council, except
where it is specially provided the board
may make such contracts without ratifica-
tion.
1t has been learned on very good author
ity that the board does not entirely agree
with the views that have been expressed
at the meetings held. AS these meetings
were secret there is no way of learning
just what views were expressed and by
whom, but it is known that most of the
members of the committee think it will
be necessary to demand that the company
reimburse the property owners for what
they have paid for paving between the car
tracks. This is one of the points on which
the board does not agree with the commit
tee, not that the board does not think
it is just to reimburse them, but on &C
count of the difficulties and almost endless
Litigation that would grow out of any at
tempt to do so from the fact that SO much
OF the property has changed nanus and
the question would be to determine 20
whom it should be paid II this matter
could be settled the board would agree
to this part of the proposition. So far as
can be learned all the members believe
that the company should pay this money,
but to whom is the question. 1t was sug
gested yesterday that as it would be I'M
possible, without almost endless litigation,
to determine to whom this money should
be paid, 1t might be well to require the
company to pay bonus above all other
items of an amount equal to the sum thus
paid by the citizens and turn 1t into the
seemed to meet with some favor, but IL
is not known that 1t will be incorporated
into the plan that the board has decided
upon.
Different members of the board. for sew
eral days. have been figuring on what
should be demanded, and 1t Is now be-
unit on a proposition from which they will
not recede. 1t Is believed, and was stated
yesterday on authority that can hardly be
before the board for final action 1t will
make the following demands, except that
in case the joint committee reaches COM
tically the same thing, and recommends it,
the board may not endeavor to change IL.
There Is one thing, however, that the board
will hardly take a back step on; that Is the
reduction of fares, as outlined in the fol-
lowing demands:
The rates of fare. to be cents for a
cts for % cents, without transfer; six tick
cts for % cents. with transfer. Children
under five years of age free.
Build and maintain all streets between
the tracks and eighteen inches on each side.
in the same condition as the part kept up
by the city. The pavement shall be the
same as the rest OF the street, whether
asphalt, brick. block gravel. The tracks
10 be cleaned and sprinkled All streets al
ready improved must be improved in
being done each year. the Board of Works
having the authority to determine which
streets shall be improved first.
Take all poles from the center of the
streets, except where permitted to stand by
the board.
street-repair fund per cent. of its gross
receipts for each OF the first five years.
this amount to be increased 1 per cent: in
each period of five years until the last
period of five years the amount will be
per cent.
The city shall have the privilege Of pur-
chasing the plant at the termination of the
The company to extend it's lines or build
new ones whenever so ordered by the
board.
The franchise to be forfeited whenever the
company fails to comply with any of its
provisions.
a sample TO the board and getting its ap-
proval.
The underground conduit system to be es-
tablished whenever the board shall deem
Ii sufficiently perfected to warrant It,
Trains of suburban companies to be
brought into the city: or passengers trans
center of the city for 2 cents a passenger,
the suburban company to pay this TO the
city company.
EIGHT TICKETS FOR A QUARTER.
These provisions will need some explana-
ton to make them entirely clear. In the
first place. the members of the board con-
slider 1t more TO the advantage and interests
of the city to secure a reduction of fares
which will benefit all alike than to secure
large cdSn payment INTO the city treasury.
Any person who simply wants to ride once
can afford to pay cents for the trip and
IL Is believed that six trips for a quarter
with transfer. is as cheap as can be asked
The other provision. OF eight tickets for 25
cents, without transfer, is made especially
for those who ride back and forth down
town TO their work. One man, in speaking
OF this provision yesterday, said he was
confident that IL would increase the receipts
OF some lines in the city 25 per cent without
increasing the operating cost more than 10
per cent. To prove this assertion he men-
toned the long string of people that may
be seen any evening walking out Virginia
avenue TO their homes after their days
work is over A large per cent of them
are girls employed In the downtown stores
who receive only small salaries. and 10 pay
10 cents day for street-car fare, or 60 cents
a week from their salaries avera ging not
more than 50 to $3.50 a week. would take
large per cent OF Il. while IL they were able
TO ride for 3 cents they would patronize the
ears almost daily, resulting in the company
receiving cents day from thousands OF
people who do not now contribute anything
to it's coffers. Another thing which this
man suggested that would increase the num-
Der of passengers is the Sunday business
from the poorer people. Many a man, he
said. with a wife and three four children
does net feel that they can afford to take
an outing in the woods or some of the parks
on Sunday and pay cents each way for
all OF them who, II he could get eight SIN
glo tickets for q cents. would walk to some