Republican farmer., 1920-07-16

any IS not paying the cars Will age and the following discussion they 1 showed little signs of activity until Harry Frank, in an impassioned and | eloquent speech, with tears in his eyes and voice, called attention to the rank injustice of the act which the Connecticut Go. through the message and recommendations of the mayor wanted them to pass. Frank said that he had been brought up with a number of the members and had always worked hard for the may or and his party and had accumulated little money, which he had invest ed in the jitney business which, if this ordinance was passed and the jitneys curbed as proposed by the mayor, he would lose all. And l what for?" Because I and the other men who operate jitney buses have done what they could to help solve | the traffic muddle of the city which had been caused by the gross mis- | management and disregard of the travelling public, which the Connecti- | cut Co. has always shown here in | Bridgeport
 Must we lose everything because | the trolleys can't make money | here? That is the only argument
 
 | out of business so that our competi- | tor can make money. It is not l claimed that the driving us out of | business will be of any benefit to the public. It is only claimed that it will benefit the Connecticut Go. It is a fine state of affairs when the l Connecticut Go. can come here and | tell you men what you have got to do, and they can't give any other I than that if n1l1Sf ha done solely for their benefit All I ask l is fair deal. This noon the mayor | told me that I would get fair deal. And this is the deal. It isn't fair, | 1t is death to the Jitney buses of ] Bridgeport"
 The only speakers in favor of the trolley company were two motormen one of whom thought that it was in the interests of Americanism the for eigners be not allowed to run jitneys and cause about 700 good old fash
 toned Americans to lose their jobs | with the trolley company.
 | Former Corporation Counsel Chas.
 l.. kleiner of New Haven, and Sen
 ator M. J. Quinn also of New Haven, counsel for the Buss association, called
 the attention of the aldermen to the
 statutes of Connecticut which pro-
 hibited the aldermen or any other
 
 passing any ordinances which did not
 apply to all motor vehicles, whether
 jitneys, buSseS, pleasure cars or
 trucks. Attorney Kleiner said you
 may pass such an ordinance, but you
 can't enforce it. and what is the use
 of passing an ordinnace which you
 know is not legal"
 , No one appeared for the Connecti-
 cut Company until near the close ot the 10 Mayor President Storrs in the rear of the , room and asked him to make a few , 1 remarks.
 President Storrs came forward and : said he really didn't have anything
 further to say than what he had al f ready said to the Mayor at the con- , ferences they had had and that all o1
 the demands of the Company were , contained in the written demand
 which the trustees had made and sem to the city a few weeks ago. ,1 When asked by Senator Quinn ii : the company would continue the cars for a few days while the different v parties, the aldermen, the Connection . 1 company and the jitney men get to- : gether and see if some solution could f not be reached so that would be satis P factory to all parties. Storrs sait | that the company would not wait They would stop at the time stated II unless all competitive service in tn, a city was eliminated. We are losin, = money every day. This cannot con ', tinue. We may not have given satis a factory service in the past but nov = we run many cars which carry onl,
 two or three passengers.
 During the recess one of the spec
 tators who had taken no part in tn
 debate said the jitney men had simp ly got what was coming to them, tn II same as the policemen, the fireme = and the teachers. They were al u . out shouting for Wilson at the las
 election and he has turned dow every one of them. The jitney me is were the worst of the bunch Ever
 jitney bus in Bridgeport carrie signs in large letters, Vote for Vii "a son and Save the Jitneys." The ts voted for him all right and he save l. the jitneys in order that he migt 'r feed them to the Connecticut Co le whose state wide ramihcations migh d help him to get the Republica ,e nomination for governor. Ever y promise looks alike to Wilson whe le he is looking for a nomination c
 election.
 of When President Storrs was calIe h to the floor by Mayor Wilson he cam ts forward dressed in double breaste a frock coat which was tightly buttor e ed and he, for all the world, locke I'd like dominae about to preach fg
 neral orati0n, with his clasped hand at in front of him and an angelic loo l- on his long face. Solemnly he ar r. nounced in deep tones, That th S. company had nothing further to sa