Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-11
JITNEY OWNERS
MAY THROW UP
SPONGE HERE
Ten-Cent Fare or They Will
Have to Quit Business,
They Say.
POLICE EASE OFF ON
STRICT JlTNEY RULES
This Is Followed by Rumors of
Friction in Police Board Over
Traffic Regulations.

Possibility of the jitney bus men
throwing up the sponge in this city
and retiring from business. because
of the financial failure of the iitney
as transit proposition; friction
among the members of the Police
Commission over the regulation of
litney traffic. and the easing off Of
the enforcement of the stringent jit-
ney traffic rules on the part of the
police. were todays developments in
the jitney situation in Newark.
The jitney bus owners will decide
ct a meeting tomorrow whether TO
Quit business or go before the public,
asking for a ten-cent fare instead of
five cents. They say they are losing
money now. and that they can't make
any money on five-cent fares
Whether the people will take to the
sits" on ten-cent fare is prob
lematical, and it is something which
the jitney owners are fearful of
Most of the people who have been
riding in the jitneys found them
more convenient than the trolley on
five-cent fare. but when it comes
to paying out another nickel it may
be 2 different proposition.
AS was told exclusively in the Eve
nins Star Yesterday. the jitney men,
at their meeting, declared that they
either wanted a ten-cent fare or a
five-cent zone, the latter TO take in
only the central portions of the city.
TO-DAY Robert F., Kellett, president Of
the Jitney Service Association, and
Walter J. Goger, it's treasurer, agreed
that crisis Is at hand for the jitney
men They said that unless some
life saving scheme is found, which
must be different from the present
plan, the jitney will have to re-
tire from the field. Nine out of ten
Of the jitney owners are not making
money, they said, and they will not
be able to last long under the pres
ent conditions.
Police Let-up Noticed.
Jitney men all over the city today
report the easing off of the police
regula tions They were agreeably
surprised this morning when they
sailed forth and found that they
didn't have to travel in such a
straight and narrow path" which
has been the rule for the past few
weeks The new order from the Po-
lice Board of yesterday. which was
in response 10 the complaints ulduo
hv merchants on Broad street inside
the "iitney zone who very strenu-
ously objected to the police "shooing
away the cars of their customers,
is believed to have been responsible
to a large degree for the let-up in
the structures of the jitney men.
The rumor of friction in the Police
Board over the iitney regulations Is
very strong about the city today.
The story goes that Commissioners
Frederick Breidenbaok and Frederic
Bigelow are not entirely satished
with the way Commissioner John i.
Reid has taken to himself the regu-
lstion of the jitney and other traffic.
II is claimed that there has been
whole lot of bungling in the trafiic
rules. changes being made too fire.
ouently and rules iHaugurated which
the public have not taken to at all
THE fact that Commissioners Brei-
denbach and Bigelow took hand In
the regulation yesterday is said to
have born out the story of friction.
Commissioner Reid Has Kick, Too.
On the other hand. Commissioners
Reii is said to object to the manner
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