Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-17
WILL ASK COUNCILS
FOR AUTO BUS LINE
FRANCHISE TODAY
New. Company Plans to
Operate l20 Heavy Cars.
Damage to Pavements
Feared Director TAYLOR
Won't Comment.

| An effort to obtain a city franchise ,o.
a omnibus line on the principal stroo,.
will be made today at the meeting 10
| Common Council. For days a story ba,
| been current that part of the program,
of opposition to the subway propostior
was to be petition for an omnibus limo
on the plea that it would relieve th.
need for improved traffic facilities. This
the story ran, would be siezed upon az an
excuse to delay action on the subway.
Walter G. Mc1ntire, an electrical com
tractor at 10 North Fifth street. ,s III.
man In charge of the omnibus project.
lie is related to George C. Pierre. of the
Board Of Registration Commissioners Tba
Dellet that the scheme may be urped o
q substitute for other transit plnns q,
supported by a statement issued bv Mn,
lntire for the United Traction Imnrovo-
ment Company, which will operate tho
line. '"o
Mclntire says: "The petition for the
franchise puts the question of immediata
relief of passenger traffic conditions in
the residential sections squarely lin N
the city government"
In the days when the omnibus limo u.o,
nothing but a rumur those who heard n
said the plan might be used to diver,
attention from the transit proposition haS
fore Council. w.
'Of course, bus line never would tako
the place of a subway" said one man
prominently concerned in the subwav
p!ans' but, at the same time, those on
posed to the subway might use II "a
a preteXt for delaying action"
DIRECTOR TAYLOR WON'T COM.
MENT.
Director Taylor of the City Transit Ds.
paltment, declined to discuss the plan
for an omnibus line. He had not heard
petition for franchise was to be in
troduced
Electricity generated by gasoline motors
carried on the cars will be the rnotiya
power for the new bus line. The limited
Traction Improvement Company" is the
name of the organization which seeks tho
franchise. McEntire is the president
according TO McIntire the organizing
officials have visited England Germany
and France to study modern omnibus
construction The United Traction I'M
proFenent Company will have 100 ears.
Mclntirc says. Each can carry 2S pas.
scnScrs at speed of II miles an hour.
The cars will weigh 1O5OO pounds, but
that Is not too great a weight for the
pavement McIntire asserts.
ihtee routes are designated in the
petition to Common Council.
Route number one will start at Front
and Market streets, and will traverse
Market, Broad, Diamond, 25th streets,
Alleshcny avenue, 9th, Diamond 33d
and Dauphn streets.
Route number two will start at Front
and Market streets. and will traverse
AlaIket' Broad. Porter, 2lst, Wolf, 22d.
MliIIin, 24th and Christian streets.
Route number three will start a Front
and Market streets, and will traverse
MARKET 32d, Chestnut, 33d, Walnut and
SD streets. i
PAVING DAMAGE FEARED.
William d. Uhler. assistant engineer in
the Highway Bureau, was asked today
whether he thought an omnibus weighing
I05o0 pounds would damage paving. The
BUS line project was news to Mr. Uhler.
Il had not heard that anyone planned
10 operate a bus line" he said and
lntil | have some details as to the way
he trucks viii be built it would be inn
possible to tell what effect they would
laVe on the pavement. Some of the Bald
Win Locomotive Works trucks are heavier
han those proposed for the bus route
md Chief Connel is investigating now to
lee how much damage heavy trucks in
ilct on the city streets"
w hei lIe HUGHES DuS line was running
IN Broad street the damage to paving
: as severe.
Blueprints showing the construction OF
he proposed cars were issued today by
he traction company. The cars will re-
omble those used by the Fifth avenue
inc IN New York city. but their motive
'ower will be electricity instead of gaso-
me. This, according to McIntire, will
minate the shock OF starting and stop
ing noticeable on the New York stages.
There will be double rows of cross
cats inside tho stages ana on d top deck
winding stairs VIII lead up from the rear
ntr"nce platform to the open air deck
IN the left side are six cross seats.
divided by an aisle running the length
+ the ear are four more and one aisle
cat Arrangements will be the same for
9th decks.
Safety First and the Public he Pleased"
I'll be the slogan of the new company
ccording 10 an announcement sent today
D newspaper offices. There will be
light service specially designed to ac-
nmmodate theatre crowds, it SAYS Sched'
-os will he based on the patronage,
I'uEh il Is said the buses Will run on
lrco-mlnut" hcadway west on Market
rect for the first few DAYS