Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-06
HEARING MONDAY
ON SUBURBAN FARE
|. C. C.. to Consider Protests
Against Increased Mary
land Traction Rates.

Because Of protests against grant
! ing increased fares on the suburban
lines Of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company running into Mary
land, received within the past two
days by the fifteenth section board Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
the board has assigned the applica-
ton for public hearing Monday at 10
am.
Residents Of Hyattsville. College
Park. Berwyn and Laurel have held
| protest meetings against the increases
| asked by the Washington Railway
! and Electric Company, and have ap-
! pointed counsel to represent them in
the fight against the proposed in
Frank NJ. Stephen of Hyattsville,
| Nd, writing to the fifteenth section
board ION behalf of the commuters
| living on the line of the City and Sub
urban Railway" says he understands
| the increases asked will bring the
fares on the electric line up to high
| er basis than on the steam road paral-
| Telling 1T from Laurel to Hyattsville
He asks for a positive refusal of the
requests of the road.
| Protests Have Been Registered.
} Protests have been registered with
| the board DIN separate letters written
by w. K. Durnbaugh and William F.
Nash. jr.. both of College Park. In a
| letter to the board. ]. H. Ralston, an
attorney with Offices in Washington.
says he and Frank Lillard and Will
liam Gutsta have been appointed
counsel by the mayor of Hyattsville
to appear before the board and con-
duct the legal case for the city of
Hyattsville against the increases. c.
p. Close OF College. Park, D. K. Chest
nut Of Hyattsville and F. p. Veitch
OF College Park have been appointed
a committee representing the Col
lege Park Home and School Associa-
ton, to appear before the board This
committee will also represent the
Beltsville Grange. No. 179.
| A protest is understood to have been
sent to the board by residents OF the
city of Berwyn, Md. coming out of a
public meeting of protest held last
Monday evening. Individual protests
have been registered with the board
L. Mead. tr.. of College Park; H. J..
Patterson, a professor at Maryland
State College. and by w. E. Claflin
Of College Park.
Fear Perpetual Increases.
the application Of the traction COM
pany, filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission Saturday. asks for
an increase in Maryland of / per cent
ger zone per passenger in intrastate
traffic The company. in it's petition,
states that new tariffs, effective De-
ccmber l, will be filed by the COM
pany with the Public Utilities Com
mission Of Maryland. fixing the local
one-way fare att cents per zone
| in Maryland.
Several of the letters received by
the fifteenth section board point out
that these increases. If granted by
the board and by the public service
commission of Maryland. would be
perpetual. The writer's point out
that the seven-cent fare in the District
of Columbia Will automatically re-
vert to cents next spring, but that
an increase granted in Maryland would
last forever. No protests had been re-
ceived up to a late hour today by the
board from residents on the other
lines of the company running into
Maryland. Increases were asked on
the Cabin John Bridge line, the Rock
vile line and the Georgia avenue
line running to Forest Glen, Md.