The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-11
FUEL CONSERvERS
CONSIDER CUT FOR
TROLLEY STOPS
State Laws Block Plan Here,
Points Out SbadeI.

Elimination of one third OF ihc pres.
ent electric railway stop, 3, under con-
sldcrailun by me- national fuel admin.
islfatlun %, mean, ot saving fuel sup
plics. ENpcu, estimate that enforce.
ment of the plan would conserve more
than million and 4 half tons Of coal
annually I'm cities stops would be linn.
tied tp eight lo the mile, m suburbs
not more than four 10 the mile
John W Shaucl president oi the
Oklahoma Railway, COMPANY SAYS th.'
ii Fuel Administrator Garfield docs de-
eide 'p make this an order. be- does mot
see how thc trullrls IN this city can
comply with the order
State Law Conflicts.
The reason 8, because there Is spe.
officially q state law and q municipal
ordinance maklng,i' mandatory that
street car, make stop once 900 every
block
Administrator Garfield and many
other public officials have nu' as iri,
Mr. Sharcl point. uu. reached that high
degree of authority where their iciral
orders can abrugalc state and municipal
laws.
"Ailcr summing thi, new idea all ~
] conclude The game ism worth lhe
candle so FAR 4, auy saving IS con-
ccrned % said Mr. Shl0cI
BY rough figuring should think
the saving would be about percent IN
power. We figure We have two classes
of stops One class includes taking ON
and letting off passengers. the other
class includes dangerous street crossing.
fire and railroad crossings. emergency
stops and stops 90 avoid damaging fool
automobile drivers,
Saving Not Large.
probably about SD percent oi the
traction lines m this country use coal
o. set their power. Obviously the CON
tcmpIlDcd order affects only half the
country, lines, therefore as far as say
ing coal is concerned. # has been Dg-
urcd that the electric road, use only >
percent of the country, coal production
] don't believe IT this were made aU
order IT would result IN a saving ol
more than onc-tenth OF ! percent OF the
Cuuntry'S entire coal output
81 believe the statement credited 10
the Washington experts that more than
a million and a hall tons OF coal would
be saved annually is as wild as state
mcnt could possibly be OF course the
contemplated order is broad enough so
that il reads that all kinds OF fuel are
In mind as regards trying TO save BY
eliminating stops and this saving must
include cases where oil IS used for fuel
as in our own city and cases where
electricity for cars comes from hydro
electricity In the latter case the fuel
administrator may have in mind that
electricity saved in this way would be
for other purposes
Would Not Slow Service.
Asked IL elimination OF onc-thlrd OF
the present stops would slow up the
service Mr.. Shartel said he did not be
lcve it would.
"Oddly enough" concluded Mr. Shar.
tel, many more trolly companies IN this
country have done exactly this thing OF
dropping close to 25 percent OF their
stops before this idea was thought Of
in the Garfield offices. II has long
been knwn that il took as much power
TO stop the car to let passengers on and
off as it did while the car was actually
in motion between its stops As gen
eral rule this order would be Just about
the equivalent of ordering the cars to
skip stop"