Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-26
INJUNCTION PETITION
FILED BY JITNEYMEN
WITH JUDGE ORLADy
Regulating Ordinance Declare
Unfair, Unreasonable and II.
legal by Union Motor
Bus Company
ALLEGE DIsCRIMINATIoN
Machines Charging Five-cent Fs,.
Alone Dealt With-Taxicabs
and Others Exempted

A petition for an injunction restra,.
ing Director Porter from enforcin. :.
jitney ordinance was filed by Harry !.
Berkowitz, representing the Union Mot..
Bus Company, with Judge orlady /.
Common Pleas Court No. 4, this an..
noon.
The petition alleges that the jitp,
ordinance is discriminatory in that /,
regulates only the cars which ask n A..
cent fare. but fails to deal with taxics,.
and other vehicles for hire. IL chars.
that the passage of the bill by Counru.
constituted an unfair, unreasonable srs
Illegal regulation of the public highwayss
The Union Motor Bus Company IS =.
organization Of jitneymen formed recer,-
ly. All OF the members are supposed ~
own their own cars. The petition wss
signed by Paul Randolph, president, and
Charles Sheldrake. treasurer.
The court is asked to declare the itr.,
ordinance unconstitutional and void. Il
the preliminary injunction is granted. ths
court will be asked to make It perrns.
ent.
Jtneymen scored another victory TODAY
The two drivers arrested last night when
hauling navy yard employees free of charg.
to Broad and Skunk streets vera an
charged by Magistrate Beaton in Central
Station. ,o
John Cornell, of 12S East wyomIns
street, was charged with violating the
jitney ordinance. Frank Robertson n
700 South Sth street, was charged with
the same offense. and, in addition, was
accused of having operated without
license and overlooking his automobile.
Had the two men been held Il a
thought that a test case would have. been
based on their arrest
Many Of the jitney men, indignant be
cause of the arrest of Robertson and Cor.
nell because, they say, Director Porter
had notified them they would not be In.
terfered with, were in. court today
Michael Francis Doyle, attorney for
joint committee of the Philadelphia Jithey
Association, and, the South Philadelphia
Jitney Owners Association, insists that
neither of the men arrested last night had
violated an ordinance, and that the police
had no authority to interfere with them.
The men, with about so others, were CIV
ing the workmen at the Navy Yard free
rides to create public sentiment in their
favor
The Navy Yard employees are incensed
because of the enforcement of the jitnty
ordinance, which has driven the cars
jitney men have been hauling the en-.
ployes up town free of charge II Is
said that the Rapid Transit Company
has had inspectors at League > Island
keeping account of the number of men
riding in these free cars and obtaining
the numbers Of tho cars giving free rides
Another BILL in equity is planned to-
day by the joint committee. which At.
torney Doyle represents. He is hoping
to have the court set Monday as the day
for a heating on the application for an
injunction.
A mass meeting for all owners ana dfgS-
ers of jitneys will be held at o. clock this
afternoon in the headquarters Of The
South Philadelphia Jitney Owners ASSOC
citation. at 1904 South Broad street. when
definite plans for the '-1ght-to-a-hnish"
will be made.
The Joint Committee. in charge Of the
fight for the South Philadelphia and
Philadelphia Jitney Associations. is com
posed of John F. Lieb, Jr,, Thomas Mac
Farland, Harry Ruwell, H. Roades and
H. Oste, of the Philadelphia Jitney As
sociation, and James Foley, M. ]. Bush,
John E. Burt, William Kelley and Will
lam Alexander. of the South Philadelphia
JtneV Owners Association. The presi-
dents of the respective associations, VIII
lam McGill and Joseph c. Tallman, are
eX-officio members of the committee.
Since Pennsgrove, N. j., has become 80
busy and has been growing so rapidly
because of war orders for du Pont powder,
many jitneymen who had been driven
from the streets of Philadelphia by the
stringent ordinance, are operating cars
in that place. They report that business
is excellent and is growing each day