Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-06
JOKE TURNED ON
STREET CAR CO.
Railroad Commission Writes a
Pretty Stiff Letter About
Ponce DeLeon Service.

Does it pay to get funny with the
Georgia railroad commission, or even
10 have that honorable body suspect
you of endesvoring to get funny"
with it?
The Georgia Railway and Power
company opeIator Of Atlanta's well
known street car system. g., asking
Itself that question today-and thereby
hangs a tale
Divers and sundry residents along
Ponce DeLeon avenue recently petit
toned the railroad commission TO COM
pei the railway company to increase its
service on Ponce DeLeon avenue. par
icularly during the rush hours -
whenever they are.
The commission hea I'd arguments pro
and con. and issued an order calling
upon the car people for fifteen min
utes schedule during the ordinary hours
and ten minutes schedule during the
rush hours" effective on North Peach
tree and Ponce DeLeon
Reply Considered Fippant.
The street railway people answered
the commissions order in vein the
commission considered more or less
facetious and Informed the commission
that it could not gather from the com
missions order whether it intended tine
increased service to apply to Ponce
DeLeon exclusively or to the entire car
service now supplying Ponce DeLeon,
much OF which extends into the south
side of town
Moreover. the car company said it
did not know what the commission
meant by rush hours" and that it
would. therefore, thank the commission
TO define them, as the company could
not do SO
The commission through its chair
man. answered the car company's com
munication today, and informed it that
the commission never contemplated in
reference with the companys sched-
ules on the south side of town, but that
inasmuch as the company had testified
at the Ponce DeLeon hearing that the
traffic was heaviest on that end the
commission hoped the company would
extend voluntarily the service on the
south side.
Rush Hours" Defined
Accepting the company's challenge to
name the rush hours" contemplated,
the commission wrote the company as
follows:
The commission was aware of the
fact that rush hours varied on your
different lines, and presumng that
you knew approximately the hours
on each particular line, intended to
leave 1t to your good judgment and
experience to operate this increased
service during the hours as in good
faith you concluded from your rec
ords were rush hours.
The hours this commission had in
mind from the data before ii were
from 6: 80 to 9:20 a. m, from II to 3
.. m. and from 4S0 to p m, and
in view of your uncertainty in the
premises you may take the above
as the rush hours contemplated by
the commission.
For your information. | Will state
that the commission was very INV
inclined to order a ten minutes
service. on this line all day ong, a :
~ was impressed Will tue ldN' Audt
q thoroughfare OF this character,
settled as thickly az this. and in
city the size OF Atlanta With
company like yours enjoying eN-
elusive street car opportunities, was
reasonably entitled to more fire.
ouent service than three cars PEI
hour.
A resident on Ponce DeLeon ave
nue., contemplating the rush hour
order the company finally has received,
gave it as his opinion today that the
company should be dead game spori
now and fix t. minutes schedule
for Ponce DeLeon all day long-re-
CARELESS Of rush hours"-since that is
about what has been provided in the
order, anyway!