Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-31
P-STOPS MAY
Be ELIMINATED ON
MARKET STREET
Complaints Heard by the
Board of Public Utility
Commissioners.
TO GO OVER CAR LINES

Vital subjects and petty grievances
wore nm before the Board ot Public
| tilitv Commissions yesterday afternoon
in INavor I.awson's office and were dis
posed cf with dispatch. Probably the
most important Of the subjects up Tor the
consideration, of the board, the requested
elimination of the skip-stops OF trolley
ears at Third and Market and at Filth
and Market streets, occupied the most
attention
4 committee of representative mer-
chants, whose places OF business arc IN
the vicinity of the two intersections under
discussion were nj the meeting and urged
the board to rc-establlsh the Stops nj the
two points ] Christv Conner, who IS
heading the fight for ;he re-cstahlish-
mcnt of the stops; F2cklci oopcT' cashier
of the Farmers Bank Robert L kohln-
son president If the Central National
Bank: Walter l. Butler, Of T.. ; Il. Butler
4 Son: Morris Levy. J. II Montgomery,
{ NJ. Banks. W IL Bryan, Robert u.
Morrow and Samuel Grccnbaum conpos-
ed the committee and all reiterated the
appeal nf MIR Conner, who spoke trst,
for trolley stops al Third and flith
streets on Market
Although the general basis .of the
complaint hv the merchants IS that the
elimination of stops hurts business, there
was nevertheless an element OF dlSSatis-
faction due to the apparent uniairneSs
dealt "a the down Market street people,
and every one 81 their expressions teStl-
fed To that grievance.
The commissioners questioned most
of the merchants aS to their particular
grievance and explained 70 them that the
orders were purely at a federal nature
and that the COMMISSION was merely
carving out 4 government order, mere
beng very little discretion lett Tor tic
commissioners but To carry out The ordcFS
However, IS was planned at the iast
meeting Of tho board, trip hy auto
mobile over the lines of tho company VIII
IL, taken in the near future, and the re-
vision of the present skIp-stop system,
as asked by the Federal government,
Will be made, Is the government has
asked fer more stops, It Is possible that
the stops at Third and Fifth Will hc re-
established and more skIp-stopS IN
auguratcd throughout the residential
district The commissioners had planned
t. make the trip over the traction COM
panvs lines yesterday, but the weather
interlercd
TRACTION COMPANY GRANTS CONCESSION.
John f. Ncarv, counsel for the traction
compane. which was asked to have a
representative At the meeting to explain
certain difficulties complained Of by Mrs.
Frank Jahlonsli Of 1889 Chestnut street,
when her house was wired Tor the Instalia-
ton OF electric lighting, and the company,
after promising to make the connection
free OF charge asked for $50 10 cover what
they called extra expenses. told the com
mission that expenses for all connections
made by the company, which were more
than 100 feet from their nearest main wire.
we're naid hv the patron. The home Of
Mrs Jablonski was more than 100 feet
from one OF their main wires and the
extra expense incurred was about $50,
which the company, as usual, asked the
patron to bear As the company had
promised verbally TO connect the house
free. Mrs JablonsH confded the matter
to Rev. Herman Schilke. pastor OF the
Polish Baptist Church, at Elm a nd
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