The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-02
have MOTOR BUSES
!. FOR GREAT WHITE WAY

Broadway New York, the costlies,
and best-known street in the world, Is
to do away with its street cars and
senger-carEing on the street surface
(, Mayor Hylan, of New York City, hal
declared that the day of the street sur.
face Car has gone forever. He favor
the establishment OF bus lines every
where in the five boroughs and the
complete eradication Of tho street
car tines. tracks. traffic blocking b!
crowded cars, and everything asso
cisted with them.
New York was the last big city Il
abandon the ancient horse -car line,
hut about the first TO adopt the un-
foreground cable and trolley systems
for surface cars.
The building, maintenance and con-
slant repairs Of these made the for
tunes of many contractors and thu
men higher up" and Kept Broadway
constantly torn up for years before
the subway came to continue the noise
and nuisance for further dozen
years
Perhaps no street In existence has
been torn up, put back again. exca-
waited and rebuilt 80 many tin,es over
n period OF forty years, while business
concerns patiently paid rent and taxes.
and suffered until the general migra-
ton uptown left whole sections Of the
great thnroughfare deserted and prac-
ticaiiv dead.
Its famous old buildings. too old to
compete with those OF modern con.
structicn too far fro mthe new railway
centres. deserted. falling into ruins
merely mark an era OF bygone great
ness and progress.
Motor buses are running probably
in most of the big cities of Europe,
notably London and Paris for fffteer
years. Their records of cost. mileage,
and passens ger carrying have proved
them better In every way than the
surface trolley cars and the saving
in the cost of laying tracks, roadway
construction. and repairs arc enor'
nous They would never have been
success but for the dependable mag.
neto ignition with which. without cx.
ception, so far as the writer knows.
AL motor BUSES are equipped.
Although trolley lines are still! used
in the suburbs and interurhan ser.
vices these also are giving way ia
the advance of the more popular mo.
tor bus. which IN England. particular.
" before the war. made long trips in
TO thn country for hundreds of mile.
ard journied in every direction.
The Manor was impressed by the
reports and by the success and very
profitable growth Of the Fifth Avenue
motor buses of New York in the past
thirteen years. by the clamor of the
public for better service, and the de-
plandS of the interborough subway,
surface and elevated lines for tnCreas-
ed fares
The continuous trips OF the Fifth
Avenue buses, mum beri1g more than
800 in ait, averaging about 100 miles
daily throughout the year. had. ir
thirteen years service. proved the re-
liability Of the magnetic. This Is
small electric generator that provides
the spark in the engines and enable:
them To develop their full power in
all kinds OF weather and over all con-
dltions of read. and made the genera
application Of Mayor Hylan's plan pos.
s!hle
During the past five years the New
York. Chinatown and Coney Island
sightseeing" cars, carrying about
fifty passengers each, have steadily
increased in numbers. These proved
the possibility OF carrying ever -irtcreas-
ing numbers OF passengers through the
crowded streets and byways OF this
great city and far into the country.
The Mayor further states that while
he is not at the moment conterplat-
ing any city-owGed m otor truck ser.
vice for the markets, TO help bring
about reduced prices of food and clos.
err touch between the Trainer and pub
lie with the markets IL will undouht-
cdly heconte possible as soon as the
new Hndson River turnrei for vehicn-
Tar traffic Is completed.
The entire street railway system OF
the State Of New Jersey is controlled
hv the public Service Corporation. OF
=. j., and they have. after repeated
~ raising the fare, adopted a zone
farce Dry sss>ssae. e.assss -gslis
raeans as much as thirtvf've cents
for a single fare--yet mAgnete-eauip-
ped motor buses IN New Jersey. and
elsewhere. carry miliinos OF passen-
gers daily At nve-cent fares, and earn
magnificent profits for their owners