Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30
COMPANY HAS AMENDMENT
Street Railway Proposes New Provision to
the Transfer Ordinance
COUNCIL MAJORITY AGAINST PLAN
Members Insist on Universal Trans
fer, as Most other cities Have,
and Fight IL still
on Tapis.

The railway committee of the city coun-
Gil. Assistant City Attorney Dunn, Attor-
ney John l. Webster, for the Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Railway company
and officials of that company are now
wrestling with an amendment to the uni
versal transfer ordinance" which was
passed December IL by the council over
Mayor Dahlmans veto. The amendment
which has been prepared by the city legal
department will not be introduced in the
council chamber until the railway COM
mittee and the street car company officials
have consulted together and agreed on the
amendment. Thursday evening, in the
Office Of Attorney Webster in the New York
Life building, street car company officials,
railway committee of the council and part
Of the city legal department met and talked
over the transfer dilemma.
The amendment, which will be intro
duced in a week or so, stipulates that when
a passenger pays his fare on an Omaha
street car he shall indicate to the conductor
then and there the line and direction Of
his ultimate destination 1t being required
that the conductor shall inquire of the
passenger whether a transfer is wanted
and the passenger must then signify his
ultimate destination. Placards to that
effect must be posted in all cars. The pur-
pose of requiring passengers to give With
mate destination when fare is paid is so
that each transfer the passenger receives
on his trip will indicate his destination
or last line on which he will have to ride
to reach such destination. This is the solu-
ton offered to enable the street car COM
pany to carry out that provision in the
ordinance, already passed. with reference
70 r1racludippr round trina one fare
Majority Not for 1t.
Considerable doubt has been expressed
whether the amendment will go through
the council. as a majority of the council
men are as sensitive as an aspen leaf on
the transfer question. They want uni
versal transfer like most other cities have
and seem disposed to demand it. They
consider this amendment very good for the
street railway.
Reports received from the meeting OF
Thursday evening in Attorney Webster's
office are that Vice President Wattles and
Attorney Webster OF the street car com
pany advised that 1t would be timely tt
make all possible concessions in the mat
ter of transfers while General Manager
Smith and Secretary Leussler suggested ar
ignorance of the ordinance passed December
IL, as they maintained It was unfair.
Councilman Harry b. Zimman announced
| Saturday morning that he would at mex
weeks council meeting offer another ordi
nance to require the street car company
to sell twenty-five tickets for 81. Mr.
! Zimman's first ordinance Of that character
was placed on file.
| Councilman Zimman stoutly denied a ru
NOR that he intended to give up the
| fight for twenty-five street car tickets fol
81. II am firmer than ever in my position
in this matter and intend to fight 1t QUE
believing that the street car compan!
should make such a concession to the pub
| lic," Mr.. Zimman said.