The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-08

fer tickets over a.proposed cross-town line
before IL.
"Your committee at once conferred
with the Union Railroad Company, and
requested that corporation TO state on
what terms 1t would establish q general
system OF transfers or all its lines. At
such conference your committee were out
spoken and unanimous in their opinion
that some plan should be adopted that
would more fully meet the public needs.
Your committee Insisted that the people
who wished to cross the bridge for q
mile, more or less, in any direction,
should not be compelled to pay two fares,
while others could ride five miles for
one fare"
The Correspondence In the Case.
The following letters were addressed
to the president OF the Union Railroad
Company:
City OF Providence, Clerk OF Committees,
City Hall, May 2l, 1895.
To Hon. Nelson W. Aidrich, president
OF the Union Railroad Company, Prov
idence:
Dear Sir-At meeting OF the Joint spe-
cial committee of the City Council APP
pointed by Resolution No. 1872, TO confer
with the Union Railroad Company rela-
tive to a cross town line and transfer tick
els, held this day, the following resolution
was adopted, viz:
Resolved, That the Union Railroad
Company be and said company is hereby
requested to advise this committee upon
what terms said company is willing to
agree upon a system of general transfers.
true copy. Witness
ID. +. HAYDEN,
Clerk of Committee.
Providence, June 10, 1895.
Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich, President of the
Union Railroad Company:
Dear Sir-I am directed by the joint
special committee Of the City Council on
crosstown street railway and transfer
I ckets to respectfully cali your attention
10 the accompanying resolution passed
by the City Council and approved June z,
1895, and TO ask that the same may be
considered by you in connection with
the resolution adopted by this committee
on May Il, 1895.
Very respectfully yours,
ID. +. HAYDEN,
Clerk of COMMITTEES.
"a copy of Resolution No. 251, on page
81 accompanied this letter.
The reply of the company was as fol-
lows:
Union Railroad Company,
Presidents Office.
Providence, X. l., June %. 1895
Joseph II. Kendrick, Esq, Chairman,
etc., Providence, X. l..
Dear Sir-We beg to acknowledge the
receipt OF your several communications
and resolutions. appreciate your anx-
iety, repeatedly expressed, TO secure cer-
tain changes in our service.
When the present managers of the Un-
ion Railroad Company assumed control OF
the property, two years ago, IL was with
the expectation of making the road a
model electric street railway, and with a
purpose TO furnish the people they were
TO serve the best attainable railway facili-
ties. They believed that this policy
would be the wisest in its ultimate re-
suits, and they felt that the obligations
assumed by the company on account of
the twenty-yesr franchise obtained by
their predecessors from the city OF Provi-
denoe should be met in the most liberal
spirit.
Following this policy, we have observed
with scrupulous care every condition i'm
posed upon US by our contract with the
city, but we have not permitted any mar
row or technical construction of its pro-
visions TO restrict US in our efforts TO givs
the people OF Providence a constantly i'm
proving service.
IL in some instances the measure OF sue
cess we have achieved has been lessened
by disappointing and vexatious delays,
we are conscious that these have, in all
instances, arisen from difficulties insep-
arabic from work OF the magnitude of
that we had in hand and, in no case,
from desire on our part to spare effort
or save expense.
Your committee are familiar with the
radical changes that have taken place in
our system and equipment, but il may
not be Improbable TO call your attention
spec ihcGlly to a comparison OF the facili-
ties furnished to the public by our COM
pany in 1892 and in 1894.
The figures that follow are for the Un-
ion Railroad lines alone and do not in
clude the other lines of our system: