Arizona republican., 1907-07-22
A Comparison by Civic Federation Commit
 tee of Pub|f; and Private Management
aCOn arsOn of Both withPrivateIy Owned American Str Railway Systems to the Great Ad- vantage of the alter.

Mir. Clark points out that no Amer ed by tine commission and the only tramway installations directly investi- gated in Great Britain were those owned by the municipalities of Man chester, Liverpool, Glasgow and the London County Council and those owned by the following private com panies: London United Tramways, Dublin United Tramways and the Nor wich Electric Tramways. The writer calls attention to the fact that the en- tire development of street railways in the United States has been accom- plished by private enterprise and that this has permitted the construction of extensive systems serving entire com munities and linking them together ir- respective of municipal boundary lines. On the other hand. since 1894. at least, municipally controlled traction sys- tems have been confined. to a great extent. within the narrow limits of their respective municipalities. MT. Clark here enters into a statistical statement of the facilities enjoyed by the urban inhabitants of Great Britain aS COfnDdTtu NllIl lflt anu Nite population of the United States In 1902. the town and city population to each mile of tramway track was 12.46I while in the United States there was a mile of track to each 1,516 of town and city population. In Great Britain there was one car for each 3.76O of the population while in the United States there was one car to 57i city residents.
 Thus the urban resident of the Unit ed States had comparatively more than six and one-half times the num-
 Der of cars available for his use than were available to the British inhabi- tant The British systems carried l. .S94. .452. .9S3 passengers and the Amer
 ican 5.521,509 and of these 1,OS2.- 4O3. .392 or practically 90 per cent of the British total were transported free on transfers.
 MT. Clark takes up the charge that
 the traction carS-in the IRited States are over-crowded and declare that the
 figures given above show that on the basis of passengers carried per car per
 year. the American car averages only 93.5s5 passengers per year as against 1S2. 463 per year carried by the average car in the United Kingdom. While the
 Briton paid an average of 2.26 cents.
 against an average of 3.76 cents in the | United States, the writer points out that the formers facilities for travel
 were from r to 15 per cent Of those 1 enjoyed by the American passenger. In 1902 there were two British cities of more than 100000 population. seven with populations of from 50,0OO to i 100. 900. and 39 with from 25,0OO to | 5O. 900 inhabitants, without street rail- ways but in the United States there
 was no city of more than 25,OOO people without traction service.
 From 1890 to 1902 the length of 1 tramway line (not track) in the Unit ed Kingdom increased 536 miles, or
 from 94S to 1.4S4 miles, while in the United States in the same period there
 was an increase of 10.755 miles, or | from 5.7S3 to 16.53s miles. This great
 extension of service in the United States resulted in an actual decrease | in the number of passengers carried
 per mile of line. On this point, MT ! Clark says:
 "These features clearly demonstrate
 that the British policy has been to electrify and not greatly extend ex- 1 isting tramways. except through densely populated districts, which