Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-16
J|TNEY BUS
AS TOPIC FOR
WORKS BOARD
Members Will Discuss sRegula-
tion of Cars at Meeting
Tomorrow.
NO ORDINANCE, THOUGH,
FOR ANOTHER WEEK
Final Decision on Central Ave-
nue. Improvement Is
Also Expected.

The Board of Works at their meet
ing tomorrow will discuss the iitney
bus proposition. This is to be done
as a preliminary to introducing an
ordinance controlling the operation
of the ''jits" at the meeting on Thurs
day afternoon of next week Trolley
Inspector Joseph Crawford, Chief En-
gineer Morris r. Sherrerd and City
Counsel Spaulding Frazer, the com
mittee appointed to look into the mat
ter, have collected a volumn of data
which will be presented tomorrow.
Although we have worked night
and day on the proposition, time has
been wanting for us to draw an
ordinance that could be introduced at
tomorrow's meeting" said City Coun-
sci Frazer today.
I'VE have sufficient data collected,
but it will take time to place it in
ordinance FORM said Inspector
Crawford. I'VE have checked Up as
accurately as possible the number of
jitney passengers, the violations of
motor traffic laws and the car sched-
ules," he said
1t is the belief of the majority of
the board that the city should control
the operations of the jtneys. The
schedules and the streets to be oper-
ated upon will be other food for
thought by the members.
Mr. Crawford says he has made a
careful study of the wear and tear of
the streets over which the jitneys
have operated in other cities. These
figures will be shown so as to COM
pute the sum to be paid for a fran
chise.
In a(report submitted by the trolley
inspector he deals with the loss the
city will sustain If the jitneys are al
nance fee. 1t is said that $50 per day
is the sum lost. The commissioners
are considering just what sum the
operators will have to pay the city
to pay for the wear and tear of the
streets and to help make up the sum
likely to be lost by the city in loss
of the five per cent revenue from the
Public Service. This latter is COM
puted by the number of nickels placed
in the coin box on the trolley cars.
The Central avenue opening and
widening proposition will be settled
one way or another at tomorrow's s
meeting
"Jits" VS.. TrolIeys In Rain.
That the flying jitney is not a
stormy petrol was indicated during
yesterdays unpleasant weather.
Many OF the open jltneys had tc
hunt cover and those that stayed in
the game were in some cases not
very well patronized.
The rain and the trolleys and the
iitneys combined to furnish some
interesting occurrences at the -Four
oil hnt
o'clock in the evening. While the
lighter craft were only a little in evil
dence, the big jitneys, converted from
trucks or built as busses, put up a
strong fight for fares. The Public
Service cars on many lines were filled
to the brim. Up to crowds of people
waiting for one of these cars, per-
haps after being unable to board one
preceding because il was filed would
dash a bus, rubber curtains down
the sides, chauffeur huddled up in a
raincoat, a bareheaded young man
on the rear step shouting, Right
here for South Orange avenue OF
wherever the bus happened to be
going.
Sometimes the jitney and the troll
ley arrived at the same time. The
trolley conductors made no bid for
patronage, but the jitney men gave
strong-lunged encouragement to pros
pectiVe passengers.
Even at that there were quite a
few jitneys to pull away only half
filed, while the trolleymen had to
battle with surging crowds to get the
rear platform doors closed. Today the
jitneys are back in evidence as plen-
tiful as ever.
Rain, TrolIeys. Jitneys Meet.
1t might be said that the rain, troll
leys and jitneys had a matinee meet
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