The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-20
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placed before the city commission for
second reading Monday morning. Ten |
thousand hand bills and placards urg |
| ing public aid in demanding the kill |
| ing of the ordinance will be diStrib- |
uted throughout the city today.
At the same time jitney men will be |
passing petitions against the ordinance |
throughout business houses, factories |
and among their customers. Hun
dreds of the petitions have been taken |
voluntarily by working people who
rode to work this morning in Jitneys. |
Mass Meeting.
In the placardS announcement is
made that jitney drivers will furnish
| free passage to and from the city hall
| On Monday morning for all who wish
to attend a large mass meeting
to be held just prior to the meeting
of the city commission. H. G. Green,
an attorney, was present at the meet
ing and volunteered his services in
appearing before the commission and
other attorneys who have expressed
their willingness to cooperate with
Mr.. Green, will be on hand. George
Hughes will speak at the meeting and
explain the public's side of the case.
Paragraphs appearing in the hand
bills outline the character of fight that
will be made by the jitney men against
the ordinance.
FRANK Brown warned the Jltney
men not to loaf the job Monday
and permit the commission to slip
one over" If it had not been for
the Topeka State Journals action in
uncovering the ordinance it would
not have come to their attention
, until too late, Mr.. Brown declared.
If the jitney drivers will keep UP
| their aggressive fight they will have
three votes on the commission, at
least, Mr.. Brown declared
From Hand Bills.
,, Excerpts from the bills distributed
today follow:
The jitneys Paid This City
, More Money Last Year Than Did
. The Street Car Company.
Do You Believe in Monopoly or
Competition?
Do you Want to Go Back to
Poor Street Car Service? If So:
Put the Jitneys Out of Business.
The Law is Not Demanded by
the Public and is Directed for and
to the Street Car Company, Who
, Would Benefit to Your Disad-
Y vantage and Dissa tisfaction.
Their Argument.
Cold hard facts were presented to
: verify the jitney unions arguments by
= K s. McGrew, president of the jitney
{ union. First, he declared that most of
the car company's repairing went to
St Louis. Then he read the following
| figures:
tAAC JilAGy drivers SpenO S1,0UU
g a month and more for repairs in
d Topeka
d The jitney drivers spend $4,000
n a month for gasoline
n The jitney drivers spend $2,5OO
:, month for tires and tire repair
e ing.
t The jitney drivers have $3.50 in
f vested.
: one hundred families are supported
q as result of the jitney business
j. The 1ltn6VS he r4ifxr ~
Il year for licenses
e Nor are the jitney men prone to
lying down and taking without a muir
muir Commissioner Tandys statement
le done by the street railway company
n Figures on Paving.
, 81 have here the actual figures on
# paving underway or contemplated by
"a the city this year. said w. W. Gill
q more. There is 46. 900 square yards
~ asphalt paving. Of this amount 1920
- yards is being paid for by the jitney
drivers.
st contend that it is not the street
v. railway company who pays for most
~ OF the paving but the property owners
~ those whom we serve and those who
m will suffer from bad street car service
+ again if the jitneys are put out of bust
- ness"
- Continuing Gilmore named a dozen
account of the bad condition of paving
between the car tracks it is impossible
for automobiles to cross at more thar
five or six miles an hour
Uneasiness at City Hall.
e Uneasiness prevails in the city hal
among the city commissioners. Cit,
Attorney George Hayden who drafted
IN the ordinance, after several consulta
al tons with the street car attorney, wa,
in rage against the stand which i
1e was reported citizens were taking.
y Commissioner Porter, it is reported
be was so bombarded with telephone call
lie last night that he has gone fishing
re and could not be found in the city thi
-. morning.
> Commissioner WATSON, when seel
- at his office said that his telephone
~, y had been constantly busy with call
- from citizens in all walks of life pro
~ testing against the unfair treatment o
the jitney men in the legislation abou
to be enacted and that he was aston
IL ished at the widespread interest taker
in Banker Called Him.
a zone banker called me this morn
sir ing and said that the jitney had un
to doubtedly been responsible for tn
he better street service that we no,
| have and that he favored, if we paSSe