Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-30
FIGHT FOR ROUND
FARE RESTORATION
BEGINS IN COURT
Commissioner Mungle Demands
Transfers Be Granted on
All Connecting Lines.
P. S. c. COUNSEL ALLEGES
CITY ORDINANCE INVALID
Alleges That Conditions Have
Changed Since 1t Bought
Lines in Newark.

shortly after noon today Joseph j.
Wolber, counsel for Commissioners
Mungle. of the Board Of Works, who
is seeking to force the issue between
the city of Newark and he Public
Service Railway Company Oh the ques-
tions of transfers at all points in New
ark and tie twenty-five cent round
trip fare between this city and New
York. opened argument fot the city be-
fore the Board OF Public Utility Com
m~issfoners at the Court House.
Mr.. Wolber first took UP the matter
of the round-t "trip fare between Newark
and New York. He argued that the
Public Service Railway Company
should carry on this excursion rate and
cited a city ordinance dated May 81.
1884, which provides for the ro1nd-trip.
The Public Service Company is bound,
he contended. to carry u the provi-
sions of the ordinances requirement.
because IL tool over the property and
franchise of the Consolidated Ira lion
Company and Newark and South Or
ange Railway Company, which operat-
ca ears here at that time.
Mr.. Woiber asserted hat section IL OF
the present public utilities act laid par
ticular stress upon the obligations of q
railway to live up 10 the ordinances
and agreements botweer, itself and a
municipality.
The Public Service maintains the
ordinance providing for the Console
dated Traction Company to give an ex-
cursion rate of twenty-five cents was
subsequently made invalid by the Su-
preme Court of New Jersey, said Mr.
Wolber. He added that this was 50 in
one case, but a later ordinance, tina
of 1896, was enforced and agreed upon
by the Consolidated Traction Company
and taken over by the present COM
pany. The company has lived up to
the other provisions of this ordinance.
among them the street paving and )
per cent. tax rate, said Mr.. Wolber.
Change In Conditions.
l.. ID. Fl. Gilmour. counsel for the
Public Service Corporation, vas Driel
in his answer to Mr.. Wolber. The
! former asserted that the ordinance
| providing for the twenty-hye-cent ex-
! cursion was made at a time when con-
ditions were different than they are
now
The ferries. said Mr.. Gilmour, were
not under the discrimination of the
Interstate Commerce Commission urAil
1906, and in 1909 the commission or
dered the disseminating of the ferry
companies selling ferry tickets to the
| railway company at reduced rate.
The Transfcr Question.
Mr.. Wolber. In opening his argument
for transfers at connecting and inter
secting lines, declared the commissions
based his demand on the strength of
an ordinance also accepted by the pre-
decessors of the Public Service. The
ordinance provided for the issuance Of
transfers at all connecting and inter-
secting points and was dated August
/, 1894. Mr.. Wolber said the company
issues transfers and further extension
transfers on its direct line In South
Orange UP to Eagle Rock. If the COM
pany can tolerate II in that section
there is no reason why 1t can not be
done to Newark. Mr.. Wolber said the
transfer helped the passenger to reach
his destination much sooner III With
out it. and did not seriously hamper
the service as alleged by the company
In rebuttal. Mr.. Gilmour presented a
map TO the commissioners describing
the different lines on the main streets
and added that a great many persons
would take transfers for cars which
they could have boarded In the fgsI
place had they waited a few minutes
The change was made, said Mr.. Gil
mour, TO facilitate the handling OF
traffic and not to put money in thu
hands of the company.