Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-18

At this rate we further The PostIntelligencer
he tney busses would take from the traction companies in
the of the of $685. 0O But the business
assured lis only in its infancy" Jtney
ganzng in the city, and in San Francisco guaranteed
furnish 1000 to handle exposition crowds the opening
day. This writer tells of actual losses being reported by
companies in Los Angeles and Sacramento and he
cudes:
Where the itney ideal will lead question that is be-
earnest consideration by automobile we'll
the traction experts representative of of the largest
automobile in the country made the prediction
that the tney would disappear and with it the street
car lie believed both would be replaced by automobile
express of ten dozen persons each and operating regular
routes with branch lines and transfer He said
eral manufacturers already this idea as
suit of the jltney-bus advent
With the growth of iney traffic in the West naturally
find editors in the larger coast cities discussing reguave
The San Francisco Chronicle for instance
fair play for the service but insists that great
poraton system not occupy the crowded streets of large
cities without regulation.
Cities farther east meeting with the same problem
The ney bus has already appeared in San Antonio Fort
Worth, Houston, Texas; Oklahoma City; Ogden Utah. St
Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and lexington Mo-; OMAHA
New Orleans, Memphis Des AIones, Atlanta and Detroit
Plans under way and perhaps by the time this
print automobile will be doing tney business in Den
Lincoln Cincinnati Toledo Chicago Baltimore, Wash
ington, and Philadelphia The agitation fivecent bus
lines in New York and Boston perhaps Eastern NANTES
ton of the desire for cheap transportation outside of the
Kansas City according the daily stories in The Star has
taken the ney to its BOSOM with enthusiasm Within
after Mr. W H. Miller started the first jtney and Mrs G. NJ
Kansas City mad 81 weeks
49, Jitney busdrvers say they about So day. In
Kansas City all sorts of use from vepassenger
Fords to madeover trucks and regular automobile busse
There is central downtown station with branches
The cars leave when filled and regular routes
nounced by the Starters Extra traffic policemen are need
ed to handle the crowds Mr. Miller has stopt running car
and busy with the administration of the ney service Mr.
T. X Cames, his traffic manager, says Kansas City Star
interview that the of the ney rests cooperation
system OF routes and schedules Let the public be
sured that 1t to place and find itney
age And he adds that 'the fine thing about this of
transportation is that it impossible tie up the whole sys
tenn For Zone ney break down, but the hundreds of
others go their way just the same'
The great aid to jitney success, writes Kansas Can
to The STAR lis the public damned attitude of streetcar
corporations But he predicts that in year every
passenger who elects to Kansas City have
seat And similar benefits to the travelling public the
competition predicted by the St Louis Dispatch
New Orleans State Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman St
Joseph News-Press, and Oakland Enquirer
On the other hand the Tacoma Daily News hears that ex
perienced automobile do not believe the ney can be
made to and think that its entry into the transportation