Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

pany. he said would always be ready
to meet Mr.. Gilday.
Up until an early hour this after
noon President Musser said he had
hod no request from Mayor Meals or
City Solicitor Seitz for a conference
with the officials on the strike stu
alton.
Mayor Meals decision to have Mr..
Seitz arrange a conference with Mr..
Musser followed a rather exciting ses-
sion in Council chamber this morn
ing between the Mayor and Mr..
Seitz and a score or more of the strik-
ing trolleymen, jitney drivers and
others
The strikers were headed by Hugh
L. Mclaughlin and their purpose in
| asking the Mayor to meet with them
was to obtain his views as to how
the chief executive could bring about
a settlement of the strike without
the services of ]. ]. Thorpe. the car
| mems organizer.
Jitneys to Go Thursday
During the conference Mayor Meals
reiterated his already published order
to the effect that unlicensed jitneys
Will not be permitted to run on the
| streets after next Wednesday. The
luckless jitneur who is stopped Thurs
day morning and can't show license,
according to the Mayor, will have to
surfer the consequences of the law.
not the city authorities couldn't re-
peal the present jitney ordinance, or
whether the municipality couldn't con-
tlnue to keep its eyes closed to the
Illegal operation of JitneyS were asked
of City Solicitor Se1tz.
Can't suspend Ordinance
When the city passes an ordinance
and the ordinance becomes a law
there is nothing else for the author
tiles to do but to enforce or repeal
that law" declared Mr. Seitz.
Vice-Presdent ]. ]. Thorpe, the
carmen's organizer, didn't attend this
mornings session but he was criticized
pretty severely by the Mayor.
Let Thorpe get out of town and
Wen show him how we can settle
TINS trouble" declared the Mayor en-
phatically And I'll just say this.
too' II on Wednesday evening when
you fellow5 have your meeting, We'd
nesday evening when you fellows have
your meeting, Thorpe makes any kind
of an in-l4mnetory speech that will
start any @<c:tb., I'll bet he'll stay
IN this t>wn awhiIe-at least until
ne can put ~ the necessary money
to get out!
The Mayor and Mr.. Thorpe
what You fellows have done was
20 get a 1901 adviser when you got
MN. Don't you think Mr.. Gompers
made a mistake when he sent on here
IeIIoW like Thorpe instead of a
diplomatic gentleman who would have
knoWn how to go about effecting a
settlement of this maCter2" demanded
Mr.. Thorpe's a gentleman, Mayor"
He's certainly a gentleman!"
w ell, he maybe a gentleman" de-
clared the Mayor vigorously, but
positively l. believe he's bughouseu"
Dldnt you go to another CITY or
other cities to get advice when you
wanted wanted TO obtain some ideas on traffic
regulations, Mr.. Mayor?" asked an
other. We'll, that's what we did We
couldn't get recognition here as we
were so we went to Detroit to get an
idea as to how"
Yes" promptly returned the
mayor, and if you'd have gone ont
,ia .nerS 10 see how Thorpe did things
idea aOePIeu MS
What you fellows do too much"
Went on His Honor, is to figure on
MHdt you think Musser is going to do
Ion 90 that. Wait until you get back
ana l, bet you Musser will be darn glad
70 70 set you back. He has told me that
ne CONSIDERED that in you men he had
the best bunch of men in the countrv
TO handle his cars.
- Suggests Local Leader
why DO you go out of town then
ana 4llS get fellow like Thorpe? Why
II guarantee that l can pick out ten
" you Tlght mere that have every bit
as much brains as Thorpe and could
handle this thing better than he,
Mhats the matter with Mclaughlin
mere as a leader? Wouldn't he malsa
a good leader? And" grinned the
Mayor, NAY 'Hughie isn't ratty like
The Ma,,o, o,.;.,.,
me strikers in urging the running of
the 1itneys. 1T stands to reason 7"
SAID he' that the more jitneys there
are, the less need thereIl be for troll
icy cars and when you get your old
JOBS back again, how will that situation
De OF any benefit to you E"
10 my mind that would have solved
TINS Whole problem in the first place.
II the jitneys had not been permitted
10 run the public would have been so
loud in demand for TRANSFORMATION
facilities that the trolley company
would have had to listen to you. If
theer was no transportation there'd
town, tell you.
After the Jitneys Go
one OF the strikers declared that
the public won't ride on the cars he
cause they consider the men who now
handle the cars as incompetents. The |
mayor declared that the same thing |
could be said of the jitneys.
So far as can see," concluded the |
chief executive, there's only one way !
to settle this. That will develop on |
Thursday. when we order the iitnevs
off the streets. And then if the trac-
ton company can't accommodate the
travelling public in safe and proper
manner-then We'll have something
to say to the traction company as 10
the proper exercise of its franchise.
Trolley Company Again