The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
Law YERS WORK ON
THE AGREE ENT
Power company's Counsel Submits
Contract 10 Traction Co.
Mr.. AlNsLIE ON TRANSFERS.
Replies to .,I. D." aud Explains That
the System Decided on Will
Work Co the Convenience
OF the Public.
Mr.. AlNsLIE ON TRANSFERS

I
nond Passenger and Power Company. yes
terday submitted to the attorneys OF the
! Richmond Traction Company a draft Of
! contract drawn by HIM relative to trans
J! fers. The Traction people will make such
| changes and interpretations as they deem
| proper. and the agreement will probably
| he in shape to be signed by the middle OF
! this week.
! Mr.. Ainslte said last evening that the
| transfer arrangement between the two
/! companies would soon be IN operation.
| 1.-THE main details of the coStract,' be
| added, have bsen discussed and agreed
I to, and we have prepared the first draft
! OF the contract between the two companies
| for the transfer system and have sub
/; nitted It TO Messrs. Henry u Williams,
| counsel for the Traction Company. I pre-
] sumo that the legal end of the matter will
| be concluded early next week. and that
! the details of the agreement which affect
l the operating departments OF the roads
] Will be gu exit: settled. The system should
/, be in operation by November LIST, or very
soon thereafter
The plan which the companies have
| agreed on is neither very abstruse nor
very Simple. but if person will locate III
his mind the position of the interesting
/ points of the two lines he Will not have
the plan and in seeing how easily and
simply it works. There was a letter in
one Of the afternoon papers of October
/ 10Th, signed NJ. d. The writer of that
| letter, a practicing physician evidently
| disap.Eoves OF the plan adopted by the
two companies. 1t shows that the doctor
has not famiiiar.zed himself with the sub
! ject of street railway transfers in gen
cral ana with the proposed plan in partI-
81. or
! more imaginary than real.
81 presume that the doctor will admit
the propristy of allowing the companies to
adopt reasonable regulations 10 prevent.
: as far as possible, the abuse of the trans
fer privilege, because it is q fact. demon
strated by long experience, that street
! railway companies are regarded as leStti-
! mate prey by an astonishins!E large pro
| portion of the travelling public Persons
who would not think of picking your
. pocket Of five cents will unbiushinSly rob
| a street railway comQany Whenever they
! can and boast Of it afterwards. Such per-
| sons will, without doubt. soon join the
! class known as circuit riders. that Is,
! those who ride as much as they can,
/, doubling and redoubiing their tracks, II
| they can slip by the conductor in the
!! crowd.
! IT was to prevent this abuse that the
i City Council ordained that the company
| shall have the power to make and enforce
! any reasonable regulations as to transfer
| tickets, or system Of transfers, TO prevent
| fraud. not inconsistent with the provis-
! ions % this section: and further, any
! person so transferred shall be carried and
! entitled TO all privileges and benefits 10
! which a person paying 4 fare to the COM
! pany to which he shall be transferred, ex-
| cept the privilege of another transfer,
| would be entitled.
! $50 then the companies, FOR their
| mutual protection. must select the dirac-
! ton which passengers may be transferred
/ provided they carry him in his general
J direction
NO TROUBLE AT ALL.
| The Doctor wants to get on car at
! Chimborazo ana so to some point on Nam
Street.. west of Twenty-first- All he would
I have to do would be to take Traction
/ car al ChimDorazo. get transfer south
| at Twenty-tirst and Broad. and he would
| be, carried by the Power Company to any
point on Main Street. west of Twenty
| first and east OF Seventh. If he wished
I to go to q point west of First Street. he
would take a Traction car at ChimboraZo,
transfer to another Traction ear at First
! and Broad. ana transfer to the Power
Company al First and Main and be carried
: TO any point West OIL fIESt olIGet.
| wished To go on Main Street. between
First and Seventh Streets. he would walk
/: Two squares from ChimooEazo to Twenty
ninth and Broad Streets. take a north
bound Clay Street ear and ask for a trans
fer to West Main Street. The Clay Street
car would take him to Seventh and Main
Streets, and at that point, transfer him TO
! a west bound Main Street car, which
| would carry him to MS destination He
| would not have to pay two fares in any
! case nor go in any of the directions
| which lie suggests in his letter, nor would
| he have 20 get TWO transfers. except in
| one instance. and the remedy suggested
| by him would not relieve him from having
| to get two transfers. for he would have to
! transfer to the Traction car south at
Eighteenth Street ana to the Power Com
pany car west at First and Main Streets,
! so that the bringing Of the Traction cars
on Main Street would not relieve him in
! any particular.
1 SUBURBAN LINES.
I .'As to the suburban lines. it is true
| that he could not be carried on transfers
from one Of them to point or Broad