The sun., 1919-08-10
n, EDWARD MARSHALL.


4 sons own corner Of the great
" establishment which bears his
,.us al Orange. N. J.. mounted on a
..a..tsi Of masonry. is the first Of the
wilson trolley car mechanisms. a sim
4. ,ruck with the electric motor con-
,eeted with the axle.
n was the pioneer appliance Of
,,ssn. quick power street transporta-
tim IN America. Naturally he is proud
~ q II is the only evidence Of his
many inventive triumphs expressed in
ANYTHING approaching monumental
firm about his laboratory. although
within his private room stands beau
Am, statue Of the Spirit OF Electricity
rrboldIng an Edison incandescent
light. He is about equally proud Of the
two memorials to his two greatest
achievements. No one yet has devised
way OF illustrating the invention Of
tbe monograph or the perfection Of
The moving picture in monumental
form.
The electric light, he has told me
c,ten. interests him most because II
h,s increased the length OF the human
Kings day, making 1t possible without
overstrain for ambition to study ana
strive much longer than had been pos
,ble before It was perfected. The per-
lection of the trolley. he believes, has
done an equal service to humanity by
enabling men and women to work In
the great communities and live beyond
their borders; It has saved time. too,
thus, as he says, adding to the span
OF human life, for every wasted hour
IA dead hour"
He is very greatly distressed by the
financial troubles of the trolley COM
panies throughout the country. al
though financially uninterested, for he
feels that 1t may stop development and
thus hamper human and national
progress. The other day he talked to
me Of II.
Urges Quick Action.
Il know of the plight the trolley
companies are in" he said; 81 know OF
the commission which has been study
ing It. I also know that II something
Is rot done and done quickly to permi,
the tro.eys to increase their incomes
a condition will arise which will do as
much to hurt the workingman as to
hurt the trolley.
More than FIVE billions Of money
1t present are invested in American
street railways and suburban electrics
and on account Of the great increast
In wages and the cost of materials
during and since the war they are or
the verge OF bankruptcy and have ap-
pealed to the President for relief
believe much Of national Importance
depends on the action following the
report Of the commission which he
appointed"
In New York. on my way to Mr.
Edison's, had paid a five cent troll
ley fare; in New Jersey. after I hat
left the Hudson Tubes, had paid {
seven cent trolley fare; he said tina
through the greater portion of tn
country the fares had not been raised
-Agitators, politicians and Socialist
radicals Of all sorts-are at the bot
tom Of the opposition" said he. Mos
men, individually. are pretty fair AM
reasonable, but often a crowd sur
rounding an agitator forms an unrea
sonable and 'unreasoning aggregate
Do they actually hypnotic each othe'
the agitators and the crowds?
often wonder. Cannot men reasol
Justly In a crowd? Is a certain cubi
air space necessary to a mans clea
thinking? II men get closer do thei
brains stop functioning? confes
that don't know; but I know tina
when crowds gather something Otter
seems to stop their thinking. Per
haps a man who wants to think clearl!
should get into the centre of a tel
acre lot.
His Logic About the Extra Fare.
There is no good reason whatso
ever why the workingman should no
pay the extra fare necessary to keel
The trolleys functioning properly
Men who once drew wages of ST.
per day now are drawing wages o
" and IS a day, which more thai
meets the increased cost of LIVING
why shouldn't they pay a few cent
more to the trolley companies VIII
nave had to raise their operating cost
enormously? My employees subscribe
over 100000 to the various Libert,
Loans and the men of all the othe
factories around us did about as wei
W course, they didn't live, meanwhile
" high-priced hotels; but they wer
Aoie to live comfortably here in Or
ahge because OF increased wage.
ana they've got to bear their shar
o. other increases.
trolley wages have gone up a
.neirs have. Some one has got to pa
ne Increase. They get the benefit G
Inc trolley service. They mustn't shir
'aeir obligation. We employers don
shirk ours.
The workmen Of the nation hav
vital interest In the prosperity Q
.Ae trolley lines. / believe that 4
Aanportaion lies the salvation {
- country; one OF civilization
greatest evils is that Of congestion /
the cities.
Bear this In mind:
hperv man tOho sOorks, doing III
pa't IN the tcorld, Is entitled to on
sood icontdn and home.
AZ Is the fact that under the pres
' system he cannot always affor
,s sse that Is responsible for most {
e present day embitterment; HI
~nsing and his hopelessness are 9
e bottom OF all the unrest in tn
world. All tha ,rrn- 90 iaA.