Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-14

The New Jersey law has fixed so per
cent, of the wages as the basis of
weekly payments and the money goes
directly from the employer to the dis
abled employee. There is no commits.
sion intervening. In my judgment
both of these provisions are wise.
Fifty per cent. seems to work out
fairly satisfactorily in the general run
of cases, particularly as provision Is
made for as high as so per cent. of
wages in cases of fatalities where
there are several minor children left
to be supported by a widowed mother.
las the strongest argument urged
for the passage of compensation acts
was the economic waste of the old
system it seems to me there can be
no valid reason for another kind of
economic waste in the administra-
ton of such laws, to wit, the MAIN
tenance of salaried. and more or less
expensive, State commissions to re-
ceive and disburse payments, func-
ton which can be more expeditiously
and more satisfactorily done by the
employers themselves. Every dollar
spent for the upkeep of such COM
missions must be paid by some one,
and to me it seems like a needless and
worse than useless expense
The Companies View.
An address on Electric Railway
Securities from the Companies
Standpoint" was made by Calvert
Townley director Lackawanna and
Wyoming Valley Railway Company.
New York, this afternoon. He said
in part:
1--WE have all heard q great deal
about the sins which street railway
companies have committed in the
past. 1t has become a popular, not to
say almost universal custom for
speakers to dwell upon this theme
frequently turning upon the audi
ence q confidential smile implying
perhaps a knowledge of many I'M
savory details considerably with
held.
"Of course now a 1ong-sufferlng
public having arisen in its might and
having taken command. many abuses
have been checked, but street rail-
way men ought to realize the justice
of the present public temper and to
acquiesce in, at least, even IL they
cannot accept with equanimity the
burdens which they are now called
upon to bear because such burdens
are merely retributive justice. Put
ting it another way-the street rail-
ways have had their innings-now its
the peoples turn. l have even heard
men prominent In the street railway
field themselves and who ought to
know better--hold forth along these
same lines.
II am one who does not subscribe
to these doctrines; who believes that
we make a mistake when we let their
PRONUNCIATION continue unchallenged
and who is here today to voice q most
emphatic protest. I do not think hui
man nature has changed. I do not
think we here have any monopoly of
virtue over those who have been for
years making street railway history,
nor do l think we have any occasion
to apologize or to blush for our call.
ing, while as for the public l claims
that in the days gone by they OBJ
tanned their full share of all resulting
benefits and have now not the slight
est right to complain nor to assume
an air of offended rectitude.
Railways must grow with the COM
munities they serve. They are by no
means completed entities which sim
ply have to be operated and MAIN
tanned Their growth cannot occur
unless a continued supply of new
capital is available from outside
sources. Suppose 1t were possible to
get your ten-year- boy suit of
pairs could be made to last ten years
but could not be made any larger nor
in that time could he have any other
suit. Imagine his pitiable plight when
he became eighteen. Every thriving
community is growing boy and the
trolley system is part of his suit of
clothes which not only has to be kept
in repair but also has to expand as
the community does or soon to be
hopelessly outgrown."
Convention Attracts Many.
The convention is being held on the
million dollar pier, and is attracting
thousands of Interested persons from
all parts of the country. Special
trains de luxe arrived yesterday with
delegates from all points, and many
We're accompanied by their wives, for
whose benefit special entertainments
are provided.
The greater part of the immense
pier Is taken up with fully 600 ex-
hibits, among which can be seen every
part of the mechanism employed in
the construction of a trolley car,
while on the outside of the building
are the most up-to-date completes
cars, exhibited by their builders
Tracks, switches, crossovers and
pavements, with machinery to re-
move the corrugated parts from the
rails, and electric welding machines
of every description are to be found,
with expert statesmen to demonstarate
their uses
Oils Of all descriptions used in car
fabrication and block signal systems
together with machinery used in re-
moving paints and varnlshes, and In
fact everything that can be thought
of, are here.
This convention is the only means
available that can possibly bring the
seller and the producer together. as
the salesman cannot carry his samples
about with him, especially II he sells
car wheels, but here the railway men
come directly In contact with the real
article, and all of the spare time they
get from their meetings is spent going
from booth to booth and looking
things over.
Public Utility Commission represent
tatives and city officials are here by
fbQ srora and alI IF fham ara infar-