Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-08

@This Is what It viii mean to you in
Upon the completion OF the Broad
street subway and the other reoom-
nended hiRh-speed lines the time required
to travel from Broad and Spring Garden
streets will be reduced as follows;
ITO City Hail, from to minutes
a saving OF minutes to the round trip
ITO League Island, from 30 minutes
to 20 minutes, a saving Of 30 minutes
on the round trip.
"To 65th street and Woodland avenue,
from 81 minutes to q minutes, saw
ing Of 30 minutes on the round trip.
ITO SD and Market streets, from 20
minutes to 15 minutes, a saving OF
minutes on the round trip.
"To olney from ~ minutes to % min
utes, a saving of 30 minutes on the round
trip.
''To Logan (olney avenue) from 81 min
utes to % minutes, a saving of 30 min
utes on the round trip.
ITO Germantown and Chelten avenue
from "A minutes to 80 minutes, a saw
ing OF % minutes on the round trip.
"To Roxborough C.everington avenue1,
from 4sih minutes to 30 minutes, saw
ing OF 80 minutes on the round trip.
"To Frankford CArTott street,, from 4ila
minutes 10 81 minutes, a saving OF q
minutes on the round trip,
ITO Market street ferries, from ~ min
utes to 10 minutes, a saving of 12 min
utes on the round trip.
"The intolerable congestion on the eX-
listing surface lines will be eliminated.
EXCHANGE TICKET D1scRIMINA-
TION.
THE Illegal determinations imposed
against persons and localities by the
exchange ticket charge will be elimi
mated under the terms of the program
as arranged between the Department OF
City Transit and the officials of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company "
the same be adopted, otherwise they will
be eliminated by due process of law.
''The Department of City Transit has
divided the city into traffic sections
generally one mile square. Your section
is No. IS. A very small portion of the
18th Ward extends beyond It,
This section is bounded on the east
by Sth street, on the west by goth street,
on the south by Callowhill street and on
the north by Thompson street.
1.-THE population of your section In 1912
was $500. The assessed valuation of
real estate included therein Is S1659l, ,225,
equaling s1O9,3S3 per acre.
THE daily street passenger railway
travel between your section and the vari-
Gus sections of the city is as follows:
Central business district .............. 3S2 200 200
Sorth SSt PRIsdehba PRiIsba between Allegheny i"OV'
W.! $;"1S $sss.es is$ pa'*o '::::: n =: 3SS
mond Frsrktord Bridesbnrs. etc5... S. 5000
Northern and north suburban section
t.TioEa olney, Fox Chase. Chestnut
schuyikiii MnnaynnH, etc., .......o. 10000
Locally, within your section .......... 2.60O
THUS, on an average. 109,10O passen-
gers travel daily Within out of and into
your traffic section on the street cars.
The passengers who travel into and out
of your traffic section will be saved
SOS,OO0 hours per year by the high-speed
system, which, valued at 10 cents per
hour, will equal a saving of $4,000 per
year.
"The abolition of the discriminatory ex-
change ticket charge will save the pas
sengers travelling within. to and from
your traffic section s9S,OO per year.
FACILITIES INADEQUATE.
"The city is bound to grow. The ques-
tion is, Shall the population be properly !
distributed over wide area In individual |
homes, with pleasant surroundings, or |
shall it be concentrated in flats and tene- |
ments near the centres of employment?
philadelphia is going to develop hei |
natural advantages and commercial facili- |
ties in a way which will adequately pro- |
vide for the necessities, prosperity and |
comfort of the people! this clty's excep- |
tionally strong financial position and vast |
resources. coupled with the courage and
energy Of the citizens, win carry through |
the program.
Now Is the time to proceed.
Scores of thousands of men are out of
work. They do not want charity. What |
they want is employment, and the city
can give them employment promptly on
the construction of the recommended
high-speed lines.
Further, the city in seizing its op-
portunity in a businessliSe manner can
save very largely on the construction
cost OF the lines, owing to the business
depression and the present low prices
OF materials resulting therefrom.
THE manufacture of the materials and
the work pertaining to the construction
of the high-speed lines Will provide prof
liable employment for tens OF thousands
of people, and thus be a factor In re-
establishing prosperous conditions in
Philadelphia and elsewhere,
at seems unjust that the working
people in the densely populated sections
Of the city. who have no money to waste
and little time for leisure, should be
called upon to contribute their share in
taxes toward the upkeep and enlarge
ment of parks and other attractions
which they cannot enjoy
1--WE must be fair TO them and secure
TO them their rights by affordIng them
adequate transit facilities which will
give them the necessary opportunity for
convenient and economical travel to and
from every point in Philadelphia with
out any undue discrimination against
them in cost or in time required to
travel
This broad policy win bring bound
less returns to the people in time-saving,
in prosperity, in pleasure and in com
fort / want them TO stand shoulder to
shoulder with me in forcing this issue,
which means so much to them, to an
Immediate and successful conclusion"