Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-21
NORTHWEST DEMANDS
NEW SURFACE CAR LINE
Permanent Committee Formed
to Get Trolleys on 25th
and 26th Streets
TO CONFER WITH TWINING

Five business organizations I'm the north.
, west section of the city have formed per.
mancnt transit committee to represent the
interests of that section in general transit
. matters and particularly to reopen the fight
for the immediate construction and opera
[, tion of a surface line on Twenty-hfth and
Twenty sixth streets to serve the territory
along these streets between Allegheny ave.
nue. on the north and Fairmount avenue
on the south.
Patrick j. Lynch was elected chairman
OF the permanent committee and william
i. Fowler Jr, secretary. The committee
intends to secure an appointment with
Director Twining at an early date, possibly
Monday afternoon, in order to confer with
him as to the best possible route.
AT present this section has no lines Of
cars rrnning north anG south between
Twcnty-second and Twenty ninth streets.
Thirteen years ago, the Northwest Bust
ness Mems Association launched cam
paign for the opening of Twenty street
through the odd Fellows Cemetery and
under the Pennsylvania railroad from Dia-
mond street to Sedgley avenue upon the as.
surance that the opening of this street
would assure construction of a new north
and south lino by way of this street. The
campaign was successful and the street
was physically opened and paved in 1907
but the financial condition of the Phladel-
the construction Of the expected line
When the committee calls on Director
Twining it will lay before him a definite
route agreed upon, and also serve notice
upon the city that in any proposed operat-
Ing agreement between the city and the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company for
tine proposed city-but high.speed lines
definite provision should be therein included
for general supervision by the city of
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's
present system. including the power through
which the city may be able to require
the construction by the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company of additional surface
lines.
The membership Of the committee. ac.
cording to business organizations, follows.
-, Northwest Business Mems Association, Inc
oh5fiss i; FluGk president; Patrick H. Lynch
iunMtS-seCond Ward Improvement Association
CaTrnI ana muh5ihgdEn president; John Il.
O. North Penn Improvement Association-Joseph
S2Gfnifn%' president; IL. J. Miller and Edward
Citizens Committee Of Business Men and Tax
EcSernss OF c the IhirtE,Gighth WqrdAnthony j.
Dr. James y, Lonsdorf '''' 1"N
M Twsnty;nnth rgr. ninth Ward business Mems and Tax
Richard Weglein and f. Z. Stutz
An appeal from the decision Of the Public
service Commission that it does not possess
the authority to compel the Philadenbia
i-apid transit Company to construct and
operate the proposed Fifty-sxth street
cross-town trolley line will be carried to the
Superior Court,
counsel engaged by the United Business
mems Association and the Allied Business
mems Association of West Philadelphia will
continue the fight for the line c Oscar
Beasley will serve as counsel assisted nv
Herbert L. Maris, Frank w Melvin, Robert
A. Beggs, Jrr Francis +. Burch, James H.
Hoifecker, Jr., and Edward b. Martin