Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-04-23
Boulevard Schedule Still Un-
settled After Conference.
TO WITHDRAW CHEAP'RATES
During Meeting With Committees In
Hampton as to Car Service. presi-
dent Payne Gives Notice That Five
Cent Tickets Will be Discontinued.

According 80 an announcement
made yesterday by Colonel William
j. Payne, president of the Newport
News & Old Point Railway & Elec-
trio Company, the company is going
TO discontinue the sale of five cents
round trip tickets on the King street
branch.
Colonel Payne came here TO dis
Cuss the question of running the
boulevard cars into Hampton with
the joint committees and 1t was dur
ing this conference that the president
said his company intended doing
away with the special tickets. Col
onel Payne said that the five cent
round trip tickets were only put on
as an experiment and that the com
pany has found the venture a los
ing one, with practically no additional
traffic over the branch line. He gave
figures prepared by Mr.. Franz Won
Schilling, the auditor of the company,
which showed that the company was
receiving about $3.50 each month from
the King street line. Mr.. Payne said
that it cost $3.50 per month to
operate the car and that his COM
pany felt that it could no longer
continue such a heavy loss. He added
further that the special rates would
probably get the company in trouble
with the Corporation Commission, and
as the agreement was merely a
temporary one, there was nothing left
for the company but to discontinue
the tickets.
Separate Matter.
Colonel Payne explained that the
question of schedule on the boule-
ward line had nothing to do with the
decision of the company to Withdraw
the special tickets, as whether there
is a change in the schedule or not
the special ticket will be taken off,
as this was a separate proposition
from the schedule affair.
The conference of the joint COM
mittees from the city council, East
Hampton and the boulevard was
held in the directors room of the
Merchants National Bank and prov
ed unavailing in so far as coming to-
settlement over the boulevard car
service.
Councilman C. V. Spratley acted as
others present were Colonel Payne.
General Manager w. w. S. Butler and
Superintendent II. p. Barney, of the
railway; Councilman Booker. of the
Merchants Association; Messrs. II.
p. Moore and II. H. Kimberly, of
East Hampton, and Colonel William
Thompson and DR.. T. II Parramore,
of the boulevard. Chairman Spratley
stated the object of the meeting by
going over the request from the
boulevard people for a better car ser
vice of which they ask is that the
transfer service be done away with
Fighting the Transfer.
Colonel Thompson addressed the,
meeting, in which he said the bOule-
varieties desired to do away with
transferring at LaSalle avenue and
that such a change would bring much
business to the merchants of the city.
He said that his section had nothing
to demand, but simply wanted bet
ter service if it can be given them.
DR.. T. II. Parramore told of the
inconvenience the boulevard .peolpe
suffer by the transferring system and
also said that several ladies had TO
walk home after missing connection
ut LaSalle avenue late at night.
Mr.. II. II. Kimberly declared that
the people of East Hampton are I'M
alterably opposed to a half hour
schedule. declaring that the present
twenty-minutes' schedule ought TO be