The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-19
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Open RUPTURE
INB.&M.P P.&.T.C0
Half Fare Tickets to Go on
Sale Next Monday
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SAY LOCAL DIRECTORS
Burlington End Of Traction Company
Consoles S1a Cent Tickets, Which
VIII Not Be Accepted--An-
other Meeting Monday.

Although they considered that 21a
cent fare on certain cars would be dis
Icriminatory and Illegal, Messrs. q. J.I
Flynn and A. O. Humphrey, majority
stockholders Of the Barre and Montpelier
Traction company, have now offered q
compromise Of aia cent tickets to the
Barre people who petitioned the COM
pany for a reissning of the former
half-fare tickets. This may be reported
Ito the meeting Of the Central Labor
Iunion tonight, but it II hardly probable
that the proposition win be accepted, ae-
cording to the opinion Of prominent
members Of that body to-day.
Meanwhile the breach between the lo-
cal and the Burlington directors Of the
Iconmpany is widening perccptibly, the
! former demanding the restoration OF the
l2Ia cent tickets on certain cars, in spite
Iof the action of q portion Of the direc
Itorate at Montpelier yesterday, at which
lit was agreed TO advance the 3 ~ cent
proposition. Hugh J. NL Jones, Of the
firm Of Jones Bros. company who was
called into the meeting Of the directors
| yesterday afternoon in an advisory capa
i city. consented to acquaint the. Barre
Central Labor union with the proposition,
lalthough he disayowed responsibility for
lit This he did at a conference last
eyening The proposition was not we'll
lreceiyed BY the committee, TO whom it
Twas reported
A Selected Directors Meeting.
| The meeting at which the az cent
compromise was decided upon. was more
lor less Of O select affair, Messrs. Richard
A. Hoar and Frank G. H0wland of this
lefty, two directors, not being invited
They knew nothing of the doings until
evening. when II. n. Bush, one of the
barre directors who did get an invita-
tion. told them OF the action. The two
Barre directors were quite put out
| In speaking Of it to-day, Mr.. Hoar
stated that the meeting was not a legal
one as all the directors had not been
notified. and be was inclined to pooh
Epooh the action Of those who were pres
ent
sAIessrs Deayitt and Bush were IN
yited To the meeting be said. but
don't believe they can swerye them from
their original position"
They fFlynn and Humphrey talk
about giving me and Mr. Howland shares
Of stock just TO get us TO serve as direc
tors. We paid more for our stock than
they did, They got theirs through Tom
I.awson's high finance
They say there's going to be some
lnew faces on the board Of directors, 10
ltheyi Humph. Well see about that
Before walk the gang plank, someone
else viii or Tom Lawson's theory of
high finance is failure Mr.. Hoar
thereby intimatcd that be had something
Iup his sleeve The reporter looked up
the sleeve and saw it was not empty.
The Roads Finances.
Director Hoar thinks that the road
can well afford to furnish haIf-fare
Tickets for cars twice a day. He figures
that the workmen's tickets bring some
thing like 5000 a month, and that the
whole cost OF maintaining the service
of the extra ears required is but SIS a.
year. He says that since January l.,
when the half-fare tickets were with
drawn there has been up to date fall
ling of in revenue OF the road $a45, or
about S3f5 a month over last year. To-
show how the let alone policy Is work
ling he cited one case where a Barre mer.
chant told d drummer that If he (the
Idrummer) rode on the electric cars their
business relations would have to cease.
'Let Alone" Policy Spreads.
Not only is the -let aIonen policy, in
Iaugurated by the Central Labor union,
igaining ground IN Barre but il Is spread
ling in Montpelier, where the labor unions
have decided TO adopt the same treat
Iment Of the trolley company. A meet
ling Of the Barre Central Labor union
Twill be held this evening, at which re-.
lports from the various unions will be re-
lceived
tn fact, the @let alone policy II get.
! ting TO be so infectious, declares Director
Hoar, that il is being adopted by the
eompany itself. Fe illustrates by point
ling to the semi-compete meeting Of the
road directors yesterday when I'VE asso-
ciatc only with those who agreewithus;s
hence he and Mr. Rowland who have
stood out from the FIRST against the
Withdrawal OF the half-fare tickets, did
not get cards Of invitation
Will Demand Half-fare Tickets.
"IIowever, We shall demand that the
~ cent tickets 70 on sale next Monday
morning II Superintendent Andrus re-.
fuses to put them on we shall delegate
someone else 70 do so. If / personally
lido not do it | shall see that someone
does
The order to Superintendent Andrus 60
restore the half-fare tickets, which was
served on him Wednesday, X AS follows:
l"Mf r. H. Andrus, Supt. of the Barre &
1 Montpelier Traction and Power com
pany.
s'My dear srs--At meeting of the
ldirectors Of the Barre & Montpelier
Traction and Power company, held on
the Goth day Of january, A. d.. 1907, 1T
Ethe office OF Richard a. Hoar, which
meeting was called to order By the pres.
ident Of said board, Ioha y Flynn, the
| following directors were presents A. O.
! Humphrey. u. G Howland, r. a. lioar,
IT.J Deavitt and II. X. Bush
1T was unanimously voted that the
committee consisting of r. A. Honr Y
J. Deayitt and H. r. Bush, appointed at