Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-02-07
towns ITS OWN
STREET RAILWAYS
How Province of Liege
Cares for Street
System.
BOUGHT Old COMPANY
AND LEASED TO ANOTHER
City Exercises Supervision Allows
Certain Profits Regulates Fares
And All Hands Make
Money.

low writing from Liege under ;ecent
late says.
Tho question of municipal control
aud ownership of street car lines. gas
and electric lighting. and water works
! plants Ll5 been seriously occupying the
attention Of the officials Of this prov
irce for the past few years. with the
result that the city of Liege has taken
charge of three Of the street car lines
and has II, contemplation the purchase
NJ tho above mentioned plants on the
expiration of their franchises If the
present undertaking meets with the
expected success.
The franchises for twenty-eight
years and eleven months of the three
lines owned and operated by the So
ciete ArOnyme Tramways Liegeois, in
the city of Liege lin all i1.9 kilometers
or about "a miles,. expired December
|, 1900, and the city purchased them,
| together with the rolling stock and
equipments, for sum of 100000
francs 1921 5000, and has leased them
for ten years and one month to De
Mellotte & Co. under very rigid regu-
lations. This company IL composed of
the employees of the old company, with
capital Of 10000 francs (sSS.Sl0) d.
vided into one thousand seven hundred
shares Of 100 francs (s19.30) each.
This company is to pay rental OF
not less than 100000 francs (s57.9O0)
per year on a gross earning OF 100000
francs (sl5i.i00) or less. and an in
crease Of per cent additional on the
gross receipts every time these increase
so 900 francs t$9,65O); thus. should the
gross receipts reach 10000 francs
tsl73.700). the amount to be received
by the city would be the 100000 francs
plus 2 per cent of the 300 900 francs, or
$4,000 francs-a total Of 31S 900 francs
1861 ,372)-and so on.
The city is to provide all new equip
ment. side tracks. extensions, etc. and
is to be the sole judge of what is
needed. 1t is to have a general super
vision OF the running OF the line. The
books Of the company are to be open
at any time to properly authorized
representative Of the city.
The lessees are to make all repairs Of
the line and rolling stock, and to keen
the roadway between the tracks and for
20 inches on either side In good repair
and to pay all damages resulting from
accidents.
There are at present employed on
these lines thirty motor cars and thir-
teen trallers, and, owing to the great
reduction in fares. this equipment will
doubtless be insufficient. The cars run
every six minutes between the hours
Of $50 a. m. and $50 p. M, and at
least every fifteen minutes the balance
Of the time from I a. m. to 10 p. m.
in winter and from $3.50 a. m. to II p.
m. In the summer The usual speed
is 10 kilometers (6.2 miles, per hour,
with maximum speed OF ~ kilometers
GA miles, per hour.
The fare charged by the old COM
pany was, for first class, 10 centimes
20 cents) for the first kilometer
l,O93.6 yards) and centimes Il cent?
for each additional kilometer, with
maximum charge for single trip OF 90
centimes a cents); while for second
class the charges were s, and lG GEN.
times, respectively. The new fare to be
charged is 10 centimes q cents) for
any single trip. with double fare after
II o'clock p. IN. There will be no sec
ond class.
There were employed by the old COM
pany POS persons, who were paid from
3 francs (57.9 cents) to $50 francs
(sl.0G). Under the new management.
there will be at least as many persons
employed, and the city has made 1t
obligatory upon the company to pay
its motormen and conductors not less
than 40 centimes (S.7 cents) per hour
for day Of nine hours and SO centimes
Gl cents) for all over time. The con-
ductors and motormen must be given
one holiday every two weeks at full
pay.
The new company also paws 10000
francs Cs3,SG0) per year for the adyer-
Using privileges in the cars and about
the station OF the lines.