The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31
JITNEY DRIVERS
 READY TO FIGHT
 NEW ORDINANCE
Mayor Wilson Announces That He Will Put Sigma
 ture on Measure.
GOES INTO EFFECT
 BY MIDDLE OF JUNE
Counsel For Association of Jitney Owners Prepares
 Legal Campaign,

The mayor announced today that he would sign the proposed ordinance which aims to keep jftneys off of Main street on week days between the hours of 12 and and and 7.
 Attorneys for the Jitney Owners Protective Association announce that they will contest the ordinance to the last ditch in the courts.
 It has been stated that the passage of this ordinance is unconstitutional upon investigation made by attorney Michael Quinn, of New Haven, retain ed to defend jitney interests.
 Attorney Abe Geduldig, representing the J. O. P. Association in Bridgeport, said today that steps have already been taken to defend any jttneurs that may be held under the new ordinance, which will go into effect June 15-
 It is also declared by representatives of the jitney owners in this city that the Connecticut Company is respons1- bIe for traffic congestion in this city in allowing the large cars to turn corners in the heart of the city and in forcing all lines to transfer points on Main street Attorney Abe Geduldig, representing the jitney owners said: ':It is a fall lacy to assert that jitneys are causing the blockade on Main street This street is wide enough to handle all the automobiles in Connecticut if prop
 
 association tends to show that the prime responsibility is to be placed upon the Connecticut company for the size of cars they run and the fact that the company insists upon making Main street and Fairfield a transfer point for all cars.
 There is no reason why the vo1pme of transfers could not be made at out lying points An instance of this may be seen at Park avenue and State street All Park avenue cars and all Brook1awn cars are sent through the heart of the city. If the Park avenue line was sent through to StEaaFeld and Brooklawn, Park avenue could then be a transfer point which would ma teriaIly relieve congestion in the heart of the city. This is but one instance of what should be done to regulate traffic"
 Another representative attorney who has recently made an inYestiga- ton of the 1itney situation but whose close connection with the trolley in terests obviously prevents publication of his name, stated today:
 '-It is unlikely that the jitneys will be kept off of Main street Merchants are just beginning to awaken to the enormous loss of business that will re- suit to them after past efforts to gain it The jitney is a public necessity in 
 facilities. The factory worker has found that by using the jitney he can go to his home for a hot dinner, he can live further from the location of his work and he can be Transported nearer to destinations than by trolley.
 'HThe real estate operator wants jit- ney service The merchant on Main street wants the people brought past his door and it is not likely that they will permit Broad street and other streets to be built up by the dedection of Jitney traffic that way. It is esti- mated that the jitneys are carrying 10. 900 persons daily in Bridgeport It is true that there are accidents and that regulation must be enforced but statistics show that jitneys travel be- tween 200 and 250 miles daily. The accidents are not large in proportion to theSm11eage ands as far regula- ton is concerned, none tries to bar all privately owned autom obiles from the streets because an individual has an accident