Arizona republican., 1912-06-22
ALL TESTIMONY
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A General Agreement of the Witnesses Before the Corporation Commission That Phoenix Street Car System Needs Fixing

There was a mass of information corporation commission in which the Phoenix Street Railway company is under investigation which began yes terday forenoon; and not much, if any of it. was of a character to per init the extraction of any comfort by the company.
 The witnesses, the greater number of whom are, or have been, patrons of the line, testified that it is about the worst, if not actually the worst with which they have ever had any experience They said the cars. in point of age, are of the Noahs Ark order; that they are dirty, broken down contraptiOns that run only mi-Occasionally-in short that they are the sort of vehicles that would be regarded as disgrace anywhere
 And there was some other testi mOny, too, some of the expert kind. This was furnished by former Con- ductor Lane MT. Lane had had con- siderable experience with the com pany. He had worked as motorman and conductor both as all the line employees are in the habit of doing; and he had done business, he said, with 20 of these cars. And in speak ing of these cars the witness said that of the 20 there were r equipped with brakes entirely inadequate to the purpose for which they are used.
 You can't stop one of these cars under 40 feet MT. Lane said in the course of his testimony.
 F the system. was present to look after the interests of the road as was L. H. Chalmers, one of the cOmpanys attorneys Attorney General BUllard and Attorney Carpenter handled the case on behalf of the public. The hearing was held in the supreme court room, where it will be continued to- day. Chairman Geary, of the com mission, said yesterday evening that he could not tell just how long the hearing will last but thought most of the testimony will be in by this evening.
 William E. Jacquith. of the Pop ular Dry Goods company. this city, was called first by the attorney gen craI and gave cricumstantiaI ac count of his experiences with the de- fendant cOmpany's transportation line. Jacquth lives in the capitol district and for many months has been d frequent patron of the line, He said the cars are anticipated and so rickety that projecting screws and bolts frequently injure the clothing of passengers Once he had lost a coat in this way. On another occa- sion he said he had been compelled to stand in car during d storm because the vehicle was not equipped with storm curtains to prevent the seats from getting wet.
 There was some jOcosity in Mir. Jacquith's testimony. He referred to the cars as yellow perils' and said it required an all round athlete to ride on them with any degree of success. He didn't know if the Octa- gOnal wheels or the hexagonal wheels were to be preferred but really be- lieved the running of the cars would be improved by the adoption of wheels circular in form.
 Mir. Jacquith said further the cars rarely are run on schedule and that for this reason the transfer system is most unsatisfactory. According to his statements the transfers have Q time limit and sometimes passengers lose the benefit of the transfer through no fault of their own but simply because the connecting car fails to arrive before the transfer eX- pires. He thought this sort of thing should be corrected.
 The condition of the trolley wires