Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-19
D|NCEND|EFER TALKS.
Concludes That Companies Are
Preferable to Cities.

When a Newspaper critieises Com
psny II Yields Quicker Than You
Can Say Jack Robinson" but City
Authorities Feel Secure In Their
Places and Do Nothing.
1t Will he remembered that some
nine or ten months ago Mr. Dingen-
defer burst from the obscurity in
which. as simple clarinet player
In the orchestra OF a Manhattan the
alter, he had been enyeloped and
flashed upon the Brooklyn public as
redeemer OF its right 10 cross the
Brooklyn bridge at night without
clambering up and down the long, irk-
some flights of stairs leading TO and
from the elevated structures.
In other words. It was Mr.. Dlngen-
defer who, through the columns of the
Eagle. made II clear TO the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company that the dis
continued night service OF trolley cars
across the bridge ought to be resumed.
Ii was i'm this page Of history that Mr..
Dlngendiefer alluded In the following
remarks which he made concerning
municipal ownership of public utilities:
81 dink We SOON FREDDY goot lessons
alreatty got about dat moonizibal own
ershib dlngs. Kind you dink so, yes?
Ven dey didn't run dem drolley cars
auf der PrOoklyh prldge by der nighd-
dime lasd winter. all va. got to done iss
10 say s0omdings on der Eagle news
paber. und right away quick der Prook-
Ign Rabld Dransit gombany schtnrdt
dem running. Ind since dot dime We
didn't got no droubles like dot SOON
more. All vot der gombany wants to
know ia dot der pebbles wouldn't
schtandt dot SOON longer. und day get
sooch n move 10y dem dot you couldn't
say 'Yack Robinson Wrist
"But yot iss It ven der cidy own dot
raiIroats: | bed you dots a good deal
difference. Der private gombany vat
iss got dcIr money invested by dot
railroads couldn't affords to make der
people sooch n mad. meppe der peo-
pies rise oop und say dey gif SOON
/ odder gombany dot franchises or
Something's like dot. But ven der cidy
owns dot rallroat eferybotty vot runs
II aln'd got SOON oof his own money
invested I'm II. so he vouldn'd care vot
der peobles said. He run der railroads
yoost der same way vot he want TO.
"Soom pebbles said dot der bolldl-
| clans would been more afraid oof der
pebbles a. der briYate gombany, but
| dot iss a fOolishnesS. Der bolidiclans
got holdings to lose und der private
gombany got eferydings. Oof der boil
dicians vas afraid oOf der pebbles,
how iss It dot deg don'd go aheadt
right away qvick und buildt dot ele-
waited loop by Delaney strced? Don'd
der pebbles want dot? IND dOn'd der
bolldicians know dot der pebbles want
dot? Sure dey know dot. but dey
don'd care soomedings aboud II. Mep-
De dey COTS more money on der pOck-
cts ven dey don'd buildt dot loop. |
bed you oof dot vas left vor SOON bril-
vate gombany to done und der bolidi-
clans got holdings TO said aboud it
dot loop would be buildt alretty yet,
uud We vouldn'd got sooch a crowd
/ ings by der Prooklyn bridge nefer
SOON more.
"Efery dime ven I drinks about dot
moonizibal ownership drinks aloud
dot Mammalian prIdge, vot der peo-
bles would been Walking Offer by dis
time oof it was der broberdy oof SOON
private corporation. Ain'd you dink
no? No? Brooklyn Eagle.