The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-29
LIGHT ON TRANSFER TICKETS.

LIGHT ON TRANSFER TICKETS.
The resolution adopted by the City
Council the other night ought to secure
great deal Of information on the transfer
ticket question II the committee appoint
ed to act in accordance with its provi-
sions approach the subject in spirit OF
business rather than of politics. Here
is the full text of.the resolution which
we believe has not before been printed:
Resolved, That Messrs. West, Rathbone
Gardner, Kuvanagh and Tanner OF the Com
mon Council and Aldermen Burbank and Nc
Carthy, bo and they are hereby appointed
joint special committee to confer with the
Union Railroad Company, In reference TO the
establishment OF proper system OF transfer
tickets on all street railways within the city
limits. Also to ascertain whether said Union
Railroad Company VIII consent 90 a system OF
transfer tickets, without terms, and IL not
upon what terms. Said committee IL author
lied TO negotiate with said railroad company
10 the end that satisfactory arrangements
may be made In reference to said transfers.
All plans, negotiations and arrangements to
be subject, however, to the approval and reti-
fcation Of the City Council.
In of failure to come to any satisfactory
arrangements In reference TO transfers, to
report to the City Council what rights the city
has in the premises, and what action should
be takon to protect them, and whether said
city can compel said Union Rsiiroad Com
pany, directly or indirectly, 10 grant trans
fers.
Said committee is hereby authorized 70
apply TO the city solicitor and the Joint COM
mttee on ordinances for such legal assistance
as IL may deem necessary. Said committee
is also hereby directed to report to the City
Council within 10 days.
1t Is to be noted that the committee is
appointed "to confer with the Union Rail-
road Company in reference to the estab-
lishment OF proper system of transfers
tickets" and to learn whether the COM
psny win consent to system of trans
fer tickets without terms, and IL not, upon
what terms" The committee is. further
more, empowered to participate in any
arrangement that the conditions may
make possible or desirable to secure
transfer tickets and IL no arrangements
are possible they are directed to report
what can be done about it.
The power and authority of the COM
mittee provided by these resolutions are
comprehensive and ample. Nothing
seems to be wanting. The committee Is
not asked by the Council to pat chip
on its shoulder and go to the Union Rail-
road Company with the expectation that
the chip will he knocked off, nor
Is it clothed with any bumptious
or impotent authority 1t may seek legal
advice and the opinion of the committee
on ordinances, and as every member but
one of the ordinance committee is mem
Der of the transfer ticket committee con-
ferences between the two will not be diff |
cult.
AS to the Union Railroad Company the |
officials have never done anything but |
treat this matter, as oil matters in con-
troversy between the city and itself, in |
a businesslike way. Authorized com
mittees Of the city government have
been met in the spirit that would be |
expected to prevail between the repEe-
sentativos Of the PARTIES to an important
business contract. The Union Railroad
Company has never put any stumbling
block in the way OF any representatives OF
the city appointed to discuss any points
in the arrangements between the muni-
oipal corporation and the trolley corpora
tion. Whatever may be conceived in the
idea Of so-ealled universal transfers" has
been pretty well exploded, but the only
transfer ticket proposition Of any sub
stance, that invoicing the proposed cross
town line, heritage from the old horse
railroad company, and at one time seem
ingly In great popular demand, was ac-
eepted by the trolley company in good
fsiih and the company slgniHed its will
ingnoss 10 go ahead with il.
There is no reason TO doubt that the
new committee OF the City Council will