Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-05
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
TO have that honorable body suspect
you of endeavoring to get funny"
with 1t?
The Georgia Railway and Power
Company operator OF Atlanta's well
known street car system, is 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
ticularly during the rush hours
whenever they are.
The commission heard arguments pro
and con, and issued an order calling
upon the car people for a 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 Flippant
The street railway people answered
the commissions order in a vein the
commission considered more or less
facetious and informed the commission
that 1t could not gather from the com
missions order whether II intended the
increased service to apply to Ponce
DeLeon exclusively. or to the entire ear
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 company's 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. tho
commission hoped the company would
extend voluntarily the service on the
south side.
Rush Hours Defined.
Accepting the companys 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 presuming that
you knew approximately the hours
on each particular line, intended to
leave it to your good Judgment and
experience 70 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 G. 80 to $3.50 H. NJ, from II to
u. III. and from 4: 80 to o. 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, l will state
that the commission was very much
inclined to order a ten minutes
service on this line all day long, as
II was impressed with the fact that's
q thoroughfare Of this character,
settled as thiclSly as this, and in
city the size of Atlanta with
company like yours enjoying eN-
elusive street car opportunities, was
reasonably entitled to a more fire.
ouent service than three cars per
hour
A resident on Ponce DeLeon ave-
nue., contemplating the rush hour
order the company finally has received,
gave ii as his opinion today that the
,,ov,,,,er,- "should he a dead game sport |
now and fix a t"0 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! J