The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-26
TROLLEYS STILL
 FAR IN LEAD

| Cn0 lGad LOQdy. lnG vote at noon To- day was 6S2 to 405 for the jitneys. ] Here are some of the remarks: 1 In favor of trol1eys: 1 "Jitneys are a failure. Put back the trol1eys.' i Hurry them up.''
 T wish some one would force the issue" l "If the people want both reroute the jitneys as the trolleys can speed up the trolley was fast enough until 1 the jitney got in the way "If the mayor is trying to please the people why don't he do some | thing"
 Put on the trolleys and give us a chance to ride. Run the jitneys off l the streets"
 What is all this delay in settling know the jitneys are a failure L | "The union will fix the jitneys''~ | "Comparisons are odious."
 Trolleys, that's all.'' | Cleaner
 Better service.''
 t'We want hoth- The trofleys is our | choice"
 This will be the last of the Will sons"
 I'm tired of asking for the troll 1eys.'
 "Jits are too expensive. No trans j fers, lights ] Safety frst'
 'eTrolleys with a seven cent fare is good enough"
 We need trolleys bad" l Better l Cleaner
 ''The city is going to pieces with jitneys.'
 T hope Wilson never becomes l Governor"
 The trolleys are the only thing for us.'' ! Safer and more pleasure to ride 1 in" | "I+,s |, sh,a +bo -e-x,;oa VIC are getting.'
 "The jitneys are not making good. Give us back the trolleys." | 'Trolleys are. my choice" | Safer" Give us back the trolleys.''
 What do the jitney drivers think
 "One trolley is better than five What will children do without i trolleys.' i In favor of the jitneys: Never bring the trolleys back. The | jitneys are handling the situation ad- l mirably."
 "Jitney service is quicker and more l efficient" l "Jitneys are continually improv- ing" "Tro1leys. never Five cents is | enough for a jitney or a trolley" | we want both the trolleys and jit- neys in order to accommodate all" | Nothing like getting to work on | time''
 Let the tro1leys take up their | tracks and over head wires. Better for us citizens
 ''The jitneys stood by when the | troIleys played the quitter.''
 ''The dirty jitneys are fast disap- | bearing from the streets, and clean ones are replacing them."
 How will the jitneur and police man agree on the top lever question. hot 6 hn 1Df fOr- nf out n I l Give us fair play"
 "Jitneys are improving all the time"
 "A driver was smoking in my jit- | ney this morning. | ''We can stand a little shaking up on the jitneys, no accidents" | we need both very much"
 Bridgeport, Ct, Aug. 26, 1920. Editor of The Times l It's a shame to arrest the jitney drivers for overlooking the jitneys and allow the trolley company to pack them in trolleys like sardines | Here's where I was an eye witness last Friday and Saturday standing on the corner of Barnum avenue and East Main street. A jitney stopped to let a passenger off a Barnum avenue jitney and eight men tried to crowd in when the driver told them he couldn't take any more, but two man. aged. to get in and six went up East Main street. I followed these men as far as Jane street. Now the same thing happened again Saturday night only the jitney was going the other direction.
 | Long Hill, Conn.,, Aug. 26, 1920. My Dear Editor
 I have read many letters in the press relative to the trol1eys and the jitneys Many things have been said about the jitneys in criticism of them. I was ir Bridgeport yesterday for the first time in four weeks. CWho would like to leave a beautiful place like Long Hill to go to a city below anyway. unless business made it necessary?) The las day that I was in the city was the first day that the troIleys refused tc run. I did not know but that if I wen down again they might resume work All the trolleys I saw, however, were punched together at the car barns.
 While in the city yesterday I ha6 ) occasion to use the jitneys. In trav cling about, in and out of the city previous to coming home, I rode or five of Bridgeport's jitneys. I did no / have to wait any longer, travel nearl! as slowly, and be any more crowded than I would have been if I had tray eled with the Connecticut Company The JNneyS gave eIIlc1eHL SerVice. AZ , l to the dirty jitneys-about which have read-I did not. see one. If th' trolleys had been runTbling about tn city streets, I would have used tn jitneys just the same.
 As we were passing one house. lady riding In the jitney said to tn jitreur that there is a lady at tha house who wants a ride. The jitneu stopped and waited for her, although she was sitting there Harding-1fke 'ol the front porch" The jftneys and tn jitneurs are on time. They serve tn people.
 Sincerely yours.
 MINARD L.. G. PROPER, ? Pastor of the Long Hill M. F. Church. :, THREE HELD, TWO e FREED. IN SMUGGLING