Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-08-02
ACTION AGAINST


| amounting to over five hundred dollars
| $500 in connection with the application
of the Wilmington mud Philadelphia
Traction Company Ia increase It's car
fare IN tho city of Wilmington, wlIefcas.
said Indebtedness consisting of $500
should have been placed upon snid Will
mington and Philadelphia Traction Com
pany, for whose sole use mud beneht SAID
| indebtedness was incurred
Second That said Board ri Public
Utility Comulss, 3ncrs without due no
tice, without having gwen Ia the public
a reasonable and fair opportunity 10 be
heard and IN the faee of protosts ms 10
their go doing did grant la the said vii
minpton and Philadelphia Traction Com
pany permission To charge seven cents
for ono ride and Sly and one-qlarter cents
for each of four rides, over It's car lines
within the corporate limits 81 the city OF
| Wilmington, when the first request for m
increase 10 aix cents. and for which due
notice had been given, could hive been
| granted without opposition
| Third That sind Board ri Public
Utility Commissioners persiatently held
it's meetings tabout mid day when IT we'll
knew the public nj large, particularly tho
working class, could not attend, and the
| said board in So doing acted III bad faith
to the public, rs Il should have eIven the
| public in matter so vltally affecting Il,
| as the rate increase full opportunity 10 be
| heard upon the matter
Fourth That the said Board of Pub
| lie Utility commissioners held SAID meet
ing on the fifth day Of June. A u. 1918.
nj which il voted upon said rate nctcaae
nj ar about the SAID noon hour, when II
we'll know that ono Of it's menbcrs, Mr..
| Mock 10 whom hut ono hour 8 notice of
| SAID meeting WINS given, could not md
| would not he present knowing 1t was
impossible for hun NJ said time. Ia neglect
/ important business matters, mud bv go
doing said board acted IN bad faith 10 the
public elncs in matter 30 vitally affect
| ing the general public as the above men
toned rate increase. u was the duty Of
said i1onrd upon voting upon said rate
| increase to have made every reasonable
| effort 80 have n full membership 0f aald
| board present,
| As an evidence 81 the above tho Haid
| Mock resigned from sad poard and
| publicly stated he did not approve Of an
increase If fare f. seven cents
Fifth That said BOARD nf Public
! tllity commissioners permitted ono.
tlnrcncc K Holt, former member
81 said board to vote for sad increase
IN fare whom II know or could have
known hv reasonable diligence and
| inquiry that SAID Clarence II Holt.
had removed from and WINS no longer
resident II tho district Tint he was
Rupposod to represent aud that hocause
Of aaid removal from SAID dlstrirt sad
{ larcncc X Holt was not NJ the time of
voting on sad lncrraRc ~ fare legal
mcmlor II sad BOARD 81 Public tilty
commissioners. aud Ie. the SAID Clarence
X Holt. voted III favor pf SAID increase f.
eevrn cents
sixth That SAID Board 81 Public
ttlhtY commissioners did not net III
good falth N permitting 10 hc inadr
and accepting unqtTstionrd. report
as "a the t'ranrInl and physical condition
of tn" " ilmngtun and Philadelphia
Traction Company. from . representative
ot a concern. from whom sad Wilmington
and Philadelphia Traction tompanR
brought ITS supplies, which wax. could or
should have lHrn known 10 said Board Of
Public tIlity commissioners, and that
said Board Of Pubic tllitv Commission
crs did not act III good faith and IN tho
interest Of the public III accepting from
SAID representative figures IN gross pres,
tending 10 show the operating charges OF
sand Wilmington and Phadelphct Trac-
tion Company without demandinlsa state
Incnt IN detail showing what salS figures
III gross represented
Seventh That SAID Board II Public
Utility commissioners did noS net IN
good faith IN not demanding zand re-
qnrlng for the public tettcrz services
when and before II granted stl,e increase
IN fare
Eighth, That said Board Of Public
Utility commissioners did not act III
good faith III not securing for the city
just and reasonable portions Of the
financial benefits arising from the n
crease IN fare granted and whIrk matter
of benefits was called to the ,tttentlon
of sand Board Of Public Utihty eommis-
sIoner, by It's president, as Will appear by
the court record, and IN regard to which
the representative OF the Wilmington and
Philadelphia Traction Company, Mr.
Thomas " Wilson, agreed that the SAID
Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction
ompany should pay, IN the event of an
increase IN fare being granted. such
dement's II said CITY rs also appears
III and upon said court record p. l23'
Ninth That said Board of Public
Utility commissioners acted IN bad faith
IN not securing proper information. before
voting upon SAID rate increase, said lack Of
information being acknowledged by Niessr,
McAlullen and Isaac in their respective
examinations on the evenings of June
eighth and June fourteenth 1918, when TO
the greater portion OF the questions asked
them they answered Il do not know,
or words to that effect
Tenth That Cornelius - C;arretson,
member OF the said Board OF Public
Utility Commissioners, showed especially
bad faith and lack of public interest, and |
partial interest toward the Wilmington |
and phiiaHair,btu fraction { afpY,ap1