The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-25
RAILWAYS AND aITNEYS


 A pany, testified recently before the Federal Electric Railways Commission Washington, not street railway officer but expert Mir Storrs laid before the commit tee interesting facts of which the following the more interesting.
 rapid of a disastrous in fuence the revenues of street railways Since aos pr Massachusetts from i to 16Oo6 In the United States the person in 1o has
 Thousands their employment in their neghbor During three 2i5 miles of aseet railway have been abandoned The carrying the tourist has destroyed certain summer resort railways In bos ton street railways fares increased 10 cents have not cd a deficit
 The jtney and the itney getting half the short haul patronage in cities.
 ordinary prefers because of the sution of riding automobile rather than in street speed distinct attraction The frequency se service affords transportation when most venient." Also. he rides cheaper.
 Mir Storrs least in the portions Of his testimony supplied Times tell what methods the street rail ways may survive against competition in the method of running rail that will make matters better for them He distinctly that rate increases do not benefit the street railways be- people ride on the jitney.
 He implies, however, that the condition ought to be quotes with approval that much deested port of the Connecticut commission which tried to have the jitneys legislated of existence
 Mir Sorrs furnished the committee with the results of investigation riding a city of 4SO,OOO presumably Bridgeport which showed that railways carried 7a3ooo sengers and jitneys 18,939.OOO passengers.
 The street railways in Bridgeport charge cents the W neys charge The saving to the jtney passengers therefore ss9O besides which the tney passengers got ride that they liked better went faster to their destinations and found frequent and hence time saving vice.
 Society will not tolerate the legislative of the tney Only in the of public poly would such a remedy be dreamed of.
 The who find article which he likes bet which him and to obtain cheaper pay would submit to the legislative tnction of an inferior, and more costly article
 The steam enegine will not be suppressed because changes the conditions of hand work the electric tor because competes with the steam enegne neither will automobiles be abolished because they compete with street rail than street railways abolished because they competed with railroad trains and horse drawn vehicles
 The proposition deprive than Is millions of riders peedier and convenient ride the purpose preserving railways entirely 'hfc unprofiable and un- American
 Neither Bridgeport, any other industrial city, could endure such program.
 Mir Storrs has by established that the street railways cannot exist Many experiments being tried such self propelled safety and the like.
 It has shown hra three years 215 miles of street rail have been abandoned but shown the extent
 which these lines have been replaced by automobiles carrying their patrons faster oftener pearaby and for less money.
 This machine does much hour this produces much for S much less
 Every manufacturer every workmen which machine he would choose.
 STORRS TRY OUT THE BRIDGEPORT PLAN, GIVING FREQUENT SERVICE. FOR CENT FARE US- ING SMALLER SWIFTER CARS INSTEAD THE BIG, SLOW, INFREQUENT JUGGf1tNAUTS WITH WHICH HIS LINES ARE NOW EQUIPPED.