Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-05
JOKE TURNED ON
STREET CAR co.
Railroads. 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 it?
The Georgia Railway and Power |
Company. operator OF Auauta's WE'LL
known street car system, is asking |
itself that question today-and thereby |
hangs a tale.
Divers and sundry residents along !
Ponce DcLeon avenue recently petit |
toned the railroad commission to COM |
pei the railway company to increase its |
service on Ponce DcLeon avenue, par F.
tieularly during the rush hours |
whenever they are.
The commission heard 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 FIippant.
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 it intended the
increased service to apply to Ponce
DeLeon exclusively, on to the entire car
service now supplying Ponce DeLeon, |
much Of which extends into the south
side of town
Moreover the ear company said it
al
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 companys 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 !
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 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 it were
from 6: 80 to 80 q. m, from - to 8
p. m. and from 1870 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, | viii state
that the commission was very much
inclined to order ten minutes
service on this line all day long, as
IL was impressed with the fact that
thoroughfare Of this character,
settled as thickly as this and in
city the size of Atlanta. with a
company Ike yours enjoying eX-
elusive street ear opportunities was
reasonably entitled to a more fire.
auent service than three cars per
hour.
\ resident on Ponce DeLeon ave-
nue., contemplating the rush hour
order the company finally has received
gave il as his opinion today that the
company should be a dead game sport
now" and fix a to- minutes schedule |
Tor Ponce DeLcou all day long-re-
CARELESS Of rush hours"-sjnce that IL
about what has been provided in the