The Washington herald., 1907-02-19
DEBATE CAR SERVICE
Board of Trade WreStleS with
Schedule Question.
FINAL ACTION IS DEFERRED
Recommendation That
District Commissioners he Given
Control Arouses Heated Discussion.
Question of the Acceptance of the
Report Postponed to Later Meeting.

Il was street railway night at the spe-
eiaI meeting OF the Washington Board
Of Trade al the New Willard last night.
The subject was discussed by the commit
tee submitting the report and by friends
of the corporations who sought 10 show
that the recommendations under consider
alton meant a radical and unwarranted
attack upon vested rights and invested
capital
The discussion was able on both sides.
being participated in by some Of the best
speakers and lawyers of the Board Of
Trade. The upshot of the matter was
that the report of the committee was re-
committed with instructions TO bring #
up at the March meeting Of the board
DIR. William Tindall submitted the re-
port of the committee. as its chairman.
He proposed that 1t be taken up section
by section and acted upon. This was
agreed TO. and such sections of the re-
port as recommended that the efforts Of
the committee be excrted in behalf of Sc
curing the entrance OF the Wabash Rail
road into Washington. the approval of
the plan Of street railway approaches 10
the Union Station. ard enc carrying Of
small freight and running Of fuel trains
on the street car lines between
and a. M. We're disposed Of in the af-
firmative without debate
Question of Schedules.
II was when the section Of the report
which recommended the making of time
schedules by the District Commissioners
on the street railways was reached that
the storm broke and the thunders of elo-
quence were Embossed. The first item in
the consideration Of the question was a
letter from Gen. George H. Harries, vice
president of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company, stating tina; he had
been called away from the city, and sug-
costing that the question be postponed
until another meeting.
Thomas p. Morgan opened the discus
sion in favor of the corporations by sub
hitting a statement relative 10 street car
management in various parts Of the East
erB States, which he denominated worse
than that in Washington. and showing
that the people of the Capital had little TO
complain of in the way Of service. He
was followed by Or. Tindall, who stated
briefly the purpose of the committee in its
report, which was nothing more than to
make effective legislation already on the
statute books.
c. A. Douglass and George Truesdell
spoke in behalf Of the corporations. Col
Truesdell declared that the law proposed
would place a power in the hands of the
Commissioners which meant depreciation
/ Of securities. and was a covert attack
upon the investors who had put Their
money into the stocks and bonds of The
street railways.
Henderson for Report.
William G. Hederson took up the cudge
/ for the public as opposed 20 the capitalist
and made a strong speech in favor of tho
report of the committee
Alexander Burton and T. Southland Par.
/ ker followed for the corporations. Mr.
Parker making an impassioned speech for
the existing order of things. John p Ma
gruder gave his experience in riding in the
ears on the Connecticut avenue line, and
reached the conclusion that the service
was fairly good
John r. Servin showed that outside OF
the State of Pennsylvania it was the uni
versal custom for cities of over 100000 in.
habitants to exercise such control over
street car lines as that proposed by ths
committee.
/ Frederick II. Siddons spoke impressively
upon the difference existing between cor
porations operating street railways anC