Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22
INJUNCTION.
STOPS WORK
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other Venice car came up from the op-
posite direction. 1t was stopped at the
opposite corner and the crew taken into
custody. Other cars with tenders at
tached began to come in both directions
and in short time there were two lines
of cars each nearly a block long.
Impatient passengers swarmed out,
many of them abusing the city officials,
while others praised the stand taken by
Attorney Fleming. The blockade lasted
for fifteen minutes, when fresh crews ar
rived and the cars were allowed to pro-
coed.
Then Attorney Fleming went down the
street to Sixth and Hill where the cars
of the Los Angeles Interurban pass.
Tropico and Glendale car was boarded
and the crew taken to Jail The officials
of this road were evidently expecting the
move for they began to switch their cars
over another line and only three cars
were blockaded.
Traffic Official Defiant
It was here that traffic official, s. II.
Cline asserted that he would move the
car In spite of the officers. When threat
ened with arrest he changed his mind.
and after etorming about for few min
utes teIephoned for new crew.
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William ]. Davids, conductors; and r. o.
Houston, L. B. Nutting. E. w. Knapp, 7:
A. Maham, motormen, were arrested
from the cars of the Pacific Electric.
From the Los Angeles-Pacific
railway, 7. Hardman, T. W. Elsdon. II.
o. Carter and B. H. Hershey. conductors
and F. C. Canno ]. r. Charles w. X.
Kelley and Horace Clark motormen, were
arrested F. G. Volkhart. motorman. and
from the Los Angeles Interurban car.
The men arrested during the day were
released under bail of s1O0 each, paid by
| their employers. They viii appear IN
Judge Roses court tomorrow morning to
answer the charge against them.
''I am determined to enforce the fender
ordinance" said Attorney Fleming yester-
day. The railway companies have been
violating the law and endangering the
lives of citizens until public sentiment
demands that the fender ordinance De en-
forced.
at could have stopped the cars 1nden-
nitely but it would have been too great
a hardship on the travelling public so
allowed them to proceed with new crews
From time to time I shall arrest motor
men and conductors and In TINS way
haras. the railway companies into opey-
ing the law, which they seem determined
TO Violate.
VIII Enforce Law
MANY of the interurban cars are run
ming with absolutely nothing in the way
of fender to protect human life. The
railways maintain that we are forcing
upon them a patented trust made article
and that it is dangerous to use the fend-
ers on interurban cars operated at high
rate of speed. Personally l am inclined
to believe they exaggerate these d1ni-
culties. Some suburban cars are operated
successfully with tenders. All the city
cars have fender attachments and have
not been Inconvenience greatly by using
A patented article. Moreover, there are
other tenders than the Eclipse which tul-
fill the requirements.
''But whether these objections are vallo
or not is not matter with which / nave
to deal. Objections to the ordinance
should have been presented to the coun-
ell when the fender ordinance was being
framed. The ordinance is in existence
and must be enforced If 1T is bad 1t
should be repealed"
Traffic Manager Mcmillan will appeal
from the decision rendered by Judge
Frederickson. In the meantime an IN
junction has been granted by Judge Bord-
we'll restraining the prosecuting attorney
from making any further arrests or inter-
fering with the traffic.