The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-10-03
DUR. DECLARES
IT'S WILLING
TO CANCEL PACT.
Insists City Isn't Living Up To
Terms of Cheap-Fare
Agreement
NOT KEEPING FAITH ON
EXTENSIONS, IS CLAIM
Company Simply Trying to
Put Over Another Bluff"
Mayors Comment

The ID. L. r., in It's Official publica-
ton, Electric Railway Service. an
nounces that IL is willin. &c terminate
the cheap-fare agreement OF Aug. at
any time. Rather than build the pro
posed extensions TO the P;ngree lines
on an eight-for-a-quarter basis. the
company is ready to cancel the agree
ment and take It's chances upon be-
Jug ousted from the streets by the
mayor and the common council
The company insists that the pro-
visions OF the agreement regarding
extensions are very plain-all exteI.
sions to be built and operated under
the terms laid down In the HAMILTON
blvd. extension except as modified b.
the rates OF fare specified in the Aug.
agreement.
There is no denying this, although
statements made by ID. U. r. officials
up to week ago gave the mayor and
aldermen to understand otherwise.
The agreement would never have
been made by the council had the al
dermen known that the company dill
not intend to extend the Pingree lines
on an eight-for-a-Quarter fare basis.
Officials of the Detroit United
railway acted in good faith in agree
ing To the terms of settlement, and
believed that the officials of the city
were acting in equally good faith.
the statement says. and further:
The Detroit United railway has
kept its faith.
The city has not
"A week from the time the agree
ment was entered into the company
put into effect the rate of fare agreed
upon. but nearly two months have
gone by. and until Tuesday night
when the Junction line was adopted
the common council had not authoriz
ed any of the proposed extensions 70
be constructed under the terms agreed
upon
The company rejected the resoiu
ton passed by the common council a
week ago last Tuesday night for the
new depot extension OF the Fourteenth
line. insisting that the resolution was
passed contrary to the terms OF the
agreement.
In arguing the difference between
the rates OF fares, the writer of the
ID. U. r. article states that the frac-
ton OF cent between the seven-for-a-
quarter and the eight-for-a-Quarter
tickets is all that stands between the
company and financial failure.
In support OF its oft-repeated state
ment that the seven-fOr-a-Quarter rate
OF fare has greatly decreased the rev.
enue OF the company, figures are Civ
en- in the ID. U. X. publication show
ing that the receipts fell behind
S637.O3 during the first month the
tickets were in use, although traffic
increased.
Mayor Marx smiled when e read
the statement of the ID. l.. Il. that Ii
Is willing to cancel the agreement at
any time.
NO danger OF that" said the may.
or. The company is simply trying to
put over another BLUM The extern
sions will be built and under terms
that are favorable TO the city. think
that the city and the ID. U. X. offi-
cials can get together on this propo-
sition very nicely."s
The mayor will call conference
ellueI o6tulu0y vi thAo WCCh Va hSA,
Monday, for the purpose of reaching
a decision. II possible. on the depot
extension.
Aid. O'Brien and Hess, OF the Tenth
ward. and Aid. Lodge. chairman OF the
council committee on public utilities
are willing that the ID. Y. r. be given
the permission II asks to build the de
pot loop as at extension OF the Mich
igan-ave. line only.
"The depot must have adequate car
service as soon as II Is opened TO the
public" said Aid. O'Brien. For this
reason I am willing to drop the figni
for the extension OF the Fourteenth
line and allow the company TO build
a loop from Michigan-ave. on q seven
for-s-Quarter fare basis. We can take
up the matter OF extending the Four
teenth line TO Fort-st. at another
time"