The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-31
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children out there all night t.
freeze.
While the crowd was INDUCING
in speech-making a committee wrs
drafting resolutions which weri
later adopted.
F. F. Hopkins stated that he
believed the delegates were get
ting off the track when they pr)
posed to make a personal attack
upon Manager Dimmock. H
held that they were blam'rs
Dimmock for things over which
he had absolutely no control and
were thereby scattering their
shot.
The resolutions will be for.
Iwarded to the Stone-Webster syn.
dictate in Boston. They follow:
Phe improvement clubs of tn
city of Tacoma, in convention as.
sembled, do hereby adopt and
submit to the people of Tacoma
the following declaration AMI
resolutions:
T. Whereas, The Tacoma Railway
& Power company, a New Jers, q
corporation, has been granted by
the city of Tacoma and now hold:
valuable franchises to operate
street cars on all the princi pal
streets of the city of Tacoma, said
franchises having been given
without cost or expense to said
company, whereby 1t has becom
and is the duty of said company
to give to the people of each and
every. section of this city regular
and adequate transportation sew.
ice at a rate of fare not excee /.
ing cents between all points
within the limits of said city. and
Whereas, Said company has as
on each and every line in this city
are now, and always have been,
operated without regard to any
time schedule or connection be-
tween its several lines, and with
out any regard to the needs and
convenience of the public. and
Whereas, One OF said car lines
called the cable" more generally
known as the "Merry-go-round,''
upon which said line 1t operates
cars at irregular intervals and I'M
certain times, is an old-fashioned
out-of-date continuance that be-
longs to a by-gone age, and is a
public nuisance; and
Whereas, Said company has as
its chief representative on the
coast a man who manifests &C.
wards the city of Tacoma a dis
position to obstruct the growth
and progress of said city, and also
has as its local manager one w.
5. Dimmock, who is universally
'egarded as grossly incompetent
and Is believed to be directly re-
sponsible for the broken promlsa s
and contracts of said compaa
md management of its car system
in Tacoma, and
Whereas, The street car COM
pany has, by sharp practice and
legal technicality, evaided its sol
emn contract to give transfers en-
titling passengers to a continuous
ride by pretending to operate two
separate companies and refusing
to accept transfers from one to
the other, and
Whereas, Said company, In vfo-
lation and disregard of its duty a.
a public service corporation and
its express promises, covena n is
and agreements, unlawfully occd-
pies and obstructs many streets
Of the city of Tacoma with worn
out cars, and in many places dan
gerous roadIbeds and tracks, and
and inadequate service
and is unlawfully attempting TO
collect a 10-cent fare between
points in said city of Tacoma.
Now, therefore, be 1t resolved:
1. That we dIsnounce the street
car service given the people of
Tacoma as inefficient and made
quate on each and every line IN
said city.
2. We demand that the "ca-
Bile" line as at present construct
ed and operated be discontinued
and that there be substituted
therefor a proper, modern trans
portation system on the streets
now occupied and obstructed by
said cable line.
3. We demand that the Stone