Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-18
favor Of not building the high-specd lines
now II that is the best bargain we can

favor Of not building the high-speed lines
now i that is the best bargain we can
| make"
Emil Lutte, 5o17 hardwood avenue. Sec
retary Of the Fifty-seventh Street Improve
| ment Association:
| THE guaranteeing p. r. T. stockholders
4 and possibly per cent on their invest
ment is certainly not fair to the public of
| Philadelphia. I certainly am not in favor
OF the proposed increase Of fare"
| J. II. shumaker, 1919 Frankford avenue,
president OF the Frankford Board of Trade:
1T is an injustice TO the public to increase
the fare as set forth in the transit lease. I
am in favor of the original proposition of
| fve-cent fares and universal free transfers
certainly am bitterly opposed to increas-
ing the fare to six and possibly seven
cents"
Frank 7. Reisxncr, one of the leading
merchants Of the city and former president
of the Market Street Merchants Associa-
tlon, said
II am in favor of the Taylor plan and no
other. As read the new provisions as out
lined by the Mayor, / am more and more
convinced that the old plan should be ad-
hered to and that no changes should be,
made"
Harry schoenthaI, recording secretary of |
the Kensington Board of Trade |
The public will never stand for that
lease which Mayor Smith submitted to
Councils yesterday. II Councils will be |
permitted TO ratify the lease as IL stands |
Philadelphians who are Interested In decent |
and honest government may as well throw
up the sponge,
This city should have a universal trans |
fer system and n fve-cent fare. We should |
walls at the present time in New York A |
lease OF the kind that has been presented |
to Councils will never help to develop the
city. II is laughabe to read the different
clauses. There is something in the wood
pile somewhere. and the quicker tnat some
thing Is exposed the better IL will be for
the entire municipality.
"The Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany in New York is giving transfers away
on a fve.cent fare. As a matter of fact,
you can ride about Manhattan Island all
day for jtney. and the Metropolitan street
Railway Company can pay its stockholders
a dividend of about 10 per cent.
II am going to bring the present lease be-
fore the attention of our organization when
it meets next September. Should some Of
our wise gents who think they are our
bosses try and put this grab over in quick
fashion I think II is the duty of every
civic orga nlzation to get busy and call mass
and make protest.
II sincerely hope that our member OF
Councils will use intelligent judgment when
the lease comes up for vote. We are
in Common Councils by Com
mon Councilman John b. Reynolds, of the
Nineteenth Ward. shall discuss this matter
with him, and if he wants to be loyal the
thing for him to do Is to vote against the
lease as 1t stands now"
g. A. Dawson, member of the SAMSON
Street Business Mems Association:
"It is true that frequently when person
prepares to leave for vacation he is
endered a little surprise of some sort I
'ae rendered one of those surprises en- the |
Ye OF going away on my vaCatau when |
cad the headlines in the newspa pers relat-
ug to the transit lease. didn't finish read
ng the entire lease. 1t was needless to do
10. I; just made me sick and disgusted.
I'VE must have a well-regulated transfer |
ystem in this city A well-regulated trans
er system means further development to |
he city, but apparently there are some per-
IONS in this city who have their own opin-
ons on this matter The fullest publicity
hould be given to this issue. because only
through publicity the public be ac-
uainted with the existing situation. I am
,ot in favor of the lease as it Is drawn
low"
A. C. Keeley, of the Kensington Board Of
Trade:
''The lease Is not clear in my mind.
There Is no doubt that II means an addi- |
ional increase in fare. The people don't
now where they are coming out on the
proposition and the Transit Company
eems to have them by the throat. This
proposition Is only adding more confusion
md delay to rapid transit. II we are not
areful we will get no real rapid transit for