The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-14
.DINGENDIEFER TALKS,
Concludes That Companies kFa
Preferable to Cities.

Rhen a Newspaper Criticise5 a Com
pany II Yields "ouieker Than You
Can Say Jack Robinson but City
Authorities Feel Secure In Tnsir
Places and Do Nothing.
! 1t will be remembered that sUMt
nine or ten months ago Nj Dlnycn.
defer burst from the OhSrari;ys in
| which. as a simple Clarinet player
In the orchestra of Manhattan the
| ater. he had been enyeiUp.d aah
flashed upon the Brooklyn public as Il
rcdeemer Of its right to cross the
Brooklyn bridge at night without
clambering up aud down the long, irk-
some flights Of stairs laaGing to ana
from the elevated structGres.
In other words. 1t was Mr. Dingen.
| defer who, through the columns of the
Eagle. made it clear to the Brooklyn
| Rapid Transit company that the dis.
continued night service of trolley ears;
| across the bridge ought to be resumed.
1t was in this page of history that Mr..
Dlngendlefer alluded In the following
remarks which he made concerning
municipal ownership of public utilities:
II dink We SOON preddy gOot lessons
alreatty got about dot mOonzibal own
ershib dings. Ain'd you dink so. yes ?
Ven dey didn't run dem drolley cars
auf der Prooklyn pridge by der nighd-
dime lasd winter, all We got to done iss
to say S0OmdingS on der Eagle news
paber. und right away quick der PrOok-
lyn Rabid DranSit gOmbany schtardt
dem running. Und since dot dime We
didn't got no droubleS like dot SOON
more. All vOt der gOmbany wants to
know iss dot der pPobleS wouldn't
schtandt dot SOON longer, und day get
sooch a move by der dot you couldn't
say 'Yack Robinson Wrist.
"But vOt iss it ven der cidy own dot
railroads? | bed you dots good deal
difference. Der brivate gombany vat
iss got DER money invested by dot
rallrOats couldn't affords to make der
people sOoch mad; meppe der peO-
pies rise oop und say dey glf SOON
Odder gombany dot franchises or
Something's like dot. But ven der eidy
owns dot railrOat eferybOtty vot runs
It ain'd got SOON Oof his own money
invested in it. so he vouIdn'd care vot
der peobles said. He run der railroats
yoost der same way vOt he want to-
"SOom peobleS said dot der bolidi-
clans would been more afraid OOf der
peObles as der brivatc gOmhany, but
dot iSs a fOolishness. Der bolidicians
got nodings to lose und der private
gombany got eferydings OOf der bolt
dicianS vas afraid O0f der peobleS
how iSS it dot dey don'd go aheadt
right away Qvick und buildt dot ele-
waited loop by Delaney strerG? Don'd
der peobles want dot? Und don'd der
bOlidicianS know dot der ppobleS want
dot? Sure dey know dot. but dey
don'd care SOOmedings aboud it, Mep-
pc dey gots more money on deir pock-
cts ven dey dOn'd buldt dot loop.
bed You oof dot vas left vor SOON bri-
vatG gombany t. dan" ind der hOlidi-
clans got nOdingS II said ahOud it
dot loop would be buiIdt alretty yet.
und We vouldn'd rrt sooch crowd
ingS by der Prooklyn bridge nefer
SOON more.
"Efer" Cline ven | dinks about dot
moonizibal ownership | dnks abOud
dot Mammalian pridgr. vot der peo-
bles would been Walking ofer by dis
time oof it was der broberdy oOf SOON
brivatc corporation. Ain'd You dlnk
so? No? Yes?"-B Brooklyn Eagle.