The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-03
Senator Adrich and His Union Railroad Company Should
Not Be Permitted Longer 10 Refuse to the People Of
Providence What the People Of Nearly Every
Other Large City Enjoy.

The people of Providence want and
demand that the Union Railroad COM
pany, which operates and controls all the
lines in the city, and practically all the
lines i'm the state, should issue transfer
tickets in this city.
Time and again when the COM
pany has asked for additional grants and
privileges from the city council promises
have been made on behalf of the rail-
road company, that transfers would be
granted, but they never have been.
In fact, large number OF citizens are
Of the opinion that the railroad corpora
ton never intended to grant transfers. or
never will. until the city council abso-
lutely refuses to grant any more privi-
leges until an absolute guarantee of
transfers is given.
TRANSFERS ELSEWHERE.
Providence today. probably. stands for
the only city of its size in which the
transfer, system is not in vogue, and this
in spite of the fact that all the favors
asked for by the company have been
readily granted.
The time has now come, however.
when the people will insist upon this
right and the city council will be COM
pelled TO take some decisive action. 1t
has the power to obtain transfer tickets
II IL desires to exercise It, and the Union
Railroad company fully realizes this
fact
Senator Aldrich, as president OF the
Union Railroad company, will probably
M xypltntaar To furnish transfer tickets
until he is obliged TO do so, and now the
time has come when the citizens OF
Providence will make their demands felt
through the proper channels.
There is no question regarding the
sentiment OF the people a whole. 7 and
II Is only those men who are Influenced
by political offices that decline TO openly
express their advocacy of a transfer
ticket system for Providence.
The News this morning obtained in
terviews with number of prominent
citizens on the subject, and all were i'm
favor of the desired change.
UNION RAILROAD METHODS.
Ex-Councilman and ex-Assemblyman
II. j. Mccarthy, a prominent member of
the bar. said:
when the Union Railroad company
was seeking privileges to introduce the
trolley system, the city council was in
formed repeatedly by express promises
made to the council. as an inducement to
grant the privilege that the transfer tick
ct system would be introduced as soon
as the company had been equipped with
the electric system.
''It was always urged against the ar
gument OF members who had no faith In
such provision without an authoritative
guarantee by the company that the rail-
road company was owned and managed
by honorable men. having interests I'm the
city and state, and they would fulfil their
promises.
cat the time when the ordinance grant
ing permission TO place trolley poles and
wires on Market square and the big
bridge was passed one representative
from the sixth ward argued as usual,
against granting the privilege. unless up
on condition that transfer tickets be Civ
en- on all lines passing that point
ole stated that that location was the
key to the street railway system. that "
transfer tickets were not secured before
the trolley system was fully established
the company would postpone them for
nineteen years, until an extension Of the