Arizona republican., 1913-06-17
STREET GAR CO.
 |S 0N CARPET
Evidence Taken on Matter of Double Tracking West Washington from Seventh Avenue to State House Service Condemned

The street car company was again | on the carpet before the Arizona cor puration commission yesterday upon | the occasion of the hearing of the commissions own motion for the company to show cause why the system between Seventh avenue and seventeenth avenue on Vast Wash | ington should not be double tracked. The case was originally set for near | ing last Thursday but was postponed until yesterday on agreement 1 The proposition was to show if possible by the testimony of credible l and reliable witnesses that the sys | tenn is inadequate as it now stands, I and that the cars do not run with l sufficient regularity to give the greatest service. In opposition to 1 this the street car company presented an ela aborate and interesting table of 1 figures tending 10 support the de | fense made in the answer to the | commissions motion, to the effect that the service was perfectly ade- l uuate to the demands made upon iU The first witness for the commis sion was Capt. James s. Bates, bail l if of the supreme court Captain Bates said that he had often been | forced to leave the car at Thirteenth l avenue switch and walk the rest of the way to the state house, or be ! late 10 work.
 Frank Hildebrand said he made il practice To walk He thought the service poor and the cars uncomfort- able He mentioned an instance | HaI l He said at about lO:30 Sunday morn | ing week ago, the cars had been | crowded on their way to church. Councilman Warren said the ser vice was poor. He also had been compelled to wait often and had walked To town to save time. C. J. McElroy, also councilman ! and a real estate broker, said that the part of town served by the com pany IS growing at very rapid rate and that in a year and half seV- enty-five houses have been built in the section referred to.
 Jesse l.. Boyce. secretary of the tax 1 commission. said that he used the | cars frequently but had been com pelled to lose time often waiting at | the switch. Mr. Boyce was the last witness for the commission.
 l All the gentlemen testifying stated
 that they believed that double track | ing would increase in consequence Of the Improvement. They did not be ilieve that an additional switch would 1 dc. the business. neither did they Ir1hink that a seven and half minute service could remedy matters suffi- 1 cientlv.
 Manager S H Mitchell took the Istdnd in behalf of the company and l presented the list of figures that had lsbeen prepared showing that the traf- fife at present was not all the system Icouid handle with it's present equip ment neither had there been any lsgreat demands upon that part of the lsvs1em that it could not haidle Ht Eshowef1 by the schedule exactly tho number of stops that had been made lto take on and dismount passenger!
 on that line from between the two
 points that it is desirable to double
 track from May to May 31 H.
 tdrew the record on Mr Hildebrand
 l.statenent and showed the cars wer'
 Exefe not crowded on the date claimed
 by the former witness.
 Y Attorney Chalmers showed that or
 1 the switch that played so importan
 l., part in the testimony, eighty car
 passed daily, and that they often di'
 not have three people in them.
 l After the hearing however the com
 mission called the representatives 0
 the street ear company into the pri
 Nate office ard had conference rel
 1 ative to the actions of the cOmpan,
 In not obeying the order of the com 1 mission which was agreed to by tn
 | railroad company on Dec. 2S last
 relative to new cars and equipment
 Formal notice was given to the com pany that unless the order was obey
 ! ed b. September 1 in every partic
 ular, the attorney general will begin
 action against the company in th
 | courts.
 It was generally conceded Yester
 day that the commission has not q:
 l strong case in this double track ac
 tion as was presented previously il the street car matter