Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-23
P. R. 7. AWAITING
ISSUE OF CERTIFICATE
Delays Proposal Pending Appli-
cation Before State Public
Service Commission
WILL BE HEARD TODAY
Mayor Says He Has Not Yet Received
Notice Of Companys
Offer

Possibility OF development at the hearing
I'm Harrisburg tomorrow before the Pubic
Service Commission ON the application Tor Il
certificate of public convenience for the sub
way-eIcyated system projected for 'hiladeI-
phip is believed 10 be the underlying cause
for the delay in submitting to Mayor Smith
the proposal OF ;ho Ph ladeIph'a Rapid
Transit Company for taking over aud oper-
at.ng the city-built high-spced lines when
constructed
Mayor Smith today. upon his arrival at
city Hail was asked If the counter-proposal
Of the transit company has reached him.
81 have no. seen it," he replied
Questioned as To its probable arrival to-
day or tomorrow, the Mayor answered: 81
do not know when it viii be submitted to
me. have no idea whether it will come
today or tomorrow. ! have no appointment
to meet any representative of the Rapid
Transit Company today"
MAYOR WILL STUDY PROPOSAL
The Mayor further said he would look
through the proposal thoroughly and digest
its terms before making IL public He en-
tered his private Office where he held a con-
ference with Joseph =. Gafrney, chairman Of
Councils committee on Finance.
Ellis Ames Ballard, general counsel for
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.
was noncommittal when the subject of the
proposal was bTOachcd To him today. 81
understand IL s'to be sent to the Mayor
today or tomorrow" he said. declining to
answer further questions as to the exact
time of the submission Of the offer. Mr.
Ballard will leave Philadelphia late today
for Harrisburg, where he viii represent the
company at the commission hearing
Director Twuing and Assistant Director
Atkinson of the Department of city
Transit were likewise without definite word
of the probable arrival Of the p. r, r. pro-
posal. They too, are going to Harrisburg
tonight, as is city Solicitor Connolly.
FIRST FORMAL ACTION BY STATE
Tomorrows hearing before the Public
Service Commission viii he the first occa-
sion when the c'ty-built and company
operated system Of street railways. as pro-
jected in the proposed pact with the +. r. T.
has been taken up In concrete form by the
State commission.
The commissioners are asked 10 grant
certificate Of public convenience for all the
lines embraced u the system. with the sin
gle exception Of the Darby elevated This
latter branch-frst TO be built under the
Taylor plau-has hceu delayed, owing TO
some disputes over the plans and no applt-
cation on its behalf has yet been made,
The delay in presenting the company's
scheme of partnership with the city is at
tributed i'm some quarters to the likelihood
that the commissioners, at tomorrow's hear
ing may indicate, by their questions some
slight deyiatious from lines originally laid
down.
A desire that the proposition may CON
form to these ideas Of the commission, so
that when submitted IL viii be in fun aC-
cord with all requirements and encounter
no further obstacle, is said To be the real
motive for the Compauy's hesltanCy in pre-
seutiug the plan 20 the Mayor for his APP
prOyaL