El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-04

Z Grating expenses only. and do not in
! clude return on investment or depre-
/ citation OF property.
We submit also the following esti-
mates covering combined railway.
lighting and power departments;
Railway earnings -.------S 502,S65.00
Z Light & power earnings 620,6oo.00
Bridge earnings ..--.-- 100000
Total -----------------$l I'LL y, 5000
{ Railway expenditures IS 495,S94-00
/ Light and power expendi-
lures NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 54t.blb-u0
] Bridge expenditures 1900 S.S4t-00
I Taxes 100000
Dividends -.-.-----.-.... 50o.000.00
| Interest charges .--.-.--- 100000
Labor and material for re-
pairs 10 track. cars.
overhead. power sta
tons, etc ---.--------- $4,000
Total ------...--.--S1.4 5S.557.00
Deficit .------.-.--.----$ Sl5,Ss2.o0
says the application. the FL Paso
Electric Railway company has volun-
tarily increased the sliding wage scale
OF its conductors and morormen from
20c-25c per hour TO 33c-5Sc per hour,
as follows
January ], 1916----21c TO 26c per hour
August j.. 1916----23c TO CSC per hour
July !, l917--------25c to soc per hour
February /. 191S...21c to 32c per hour
May J, 1918 -------50c to SOC per hour
August J. 1918 ---.33c to 3Sc per hour
since the above increases in wages
10 conductors and motormen. as well
as advances TO employees in other de-
partments, the national war labor
board has announced the following
schedule OF wages as a proper wage
for conductors and motormen in cities
with climatic and living conditions
similar to FL Paso;
First three months Of service, IS
cents per hour next nine months OF
service, 30 cents per hour; thereafter.
- cents per hour. Operators of safety
cars receive four cents additional"
Counts Dividend in Expense.
Included in the gross expenditures
were 100000 dividends and $3.50. 600
interest charges. On oral question by
mayor Charles Davis. Mr. Bradley
said the dividends were = percent on
S. 600, 900 stock and the interest
charges were seven and seven and
one half percent on debts. His re-
port said depreciation charges had
not been accounted Cor
Brings Up Wages Question.
The question OF wages Of conductors
report detailing increases since the
war began from q 20 IS cents up TO
50 TO 50 cents an hour. The decision
OF the war labor board that wages
should be IS TO - cents. with four
cents extra for. operators Of safety
cars. was then cited.
1T Is the desire OF the FL Paso
Electric Railway company to adopt
the foregoing wage scale" the request
stated, but IL is manifestly impossi-
bic for II TO do so under the present
rate Of fare. a five cent fare viii not
yield revenue sufficient to meet these
expanding labor costs"
Calls It HJitne Menace
The jitne bus question then came in
for the following comment: 1T is
pertinent here TO refer TO the several
controversies in the past concerning
the jitne menace, which contribute TO
the present unsatisfactory showing Of
the company This company has con-
structed a plant capable OF providing
street car transportation TO the en-
tire city OF FL Paso and is today fur
nishing as good or better street car
service as is furnished in any city OF
its size in the United States Notwith-
standing all these things. the jitne