Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-13
Clement Bids City
Fight p. r. T. Rent
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with free transfers should not be con .
tinucd.
Councilman Cox. also of South phil-
adelphia. was the next speaker. He re-
ferred to the difficulties downtown in
dustries would have IL free transfers
were eliminated He said IL the
straight fve-cent fare were put into
effect the car riders in his section would
have to pay thirty cents a day to go TO
and from work
~ Would Hurt Industries
IN This would work hardship on the
car riders and on the manufacturing in
dustries." Mr.. Cox declared. "Thc
employers would be hard pressed TO get
workers to pay that carfarc in order to
reach their places of employment"
Mr.. Cox referred to the United Gas
Improvement Co. and the Atlantic Re
fining Co. as the industries which would
suffer chiefly through adoption of the
straight tve-cent fare plan.
A six cent fare with free transfers
retained was tho suggestion of Council
man Devclin, of the West Philadelphia
district.
II don't see why Mr.. Mitten holds
so tenaciously to his five cent fare un-
less it is n fetish" Mr.. Deyeliu said.
the needs of the company and whnt plan
is best. but it is legal maxim that no
man can be 4 judge OF his own case.
You might paraphrasc this and say
no man could be his own judge where a
fetish Is concerned
Calls Six Cents Enough
Mr.. Develin's suggestion was that u
six-cent fare was the most practical
proposition. He said such fare would
add a gross amount OF 81 900 600 or
5000, 900 to the company's annual
revenue.
"a six cent fare is sufficient
charge and the car riders are willing
to pay it." he asserted. II have come
TO the conclusion there should be- no
elimination Of free transfers. Such a
20 per cent of the public. In my dis
trict, which embraces Ovcrbrook and
the Girard avenue section of West
Philadelphia. the riders would suffer
geratly If transfers were eliminated.
Besides, people have become accuStomed
to transfers and high speed lin"s re
quirc the issuance of free transfers" ."
Teachers Protest
After Councilman Gafncy finished
speaking Commissioner Clement read
the following telegram signed by ! J. .
Cabrey, Adams avenue aud Ruan
street, Frarkford,
thousands of teachers in South
Philadelphia schools live in West Phila.
delphia. 4 straight tiye.Cen fare would
increase their trolley expense 1GO per
cent, which they can obviously III af.
ford. The prospect invites further de-
moralization of the present p"rpIexing
school situation. \ six or seven cent
fare with present privileges will cuablc
the whole community TO ghnre the
burden and is the only fare equitable"
Among the councilmen who attended
the hearing were Joseph T. Gafrncy.
Edwin X. Cox. Charles F.. Hall .
Richard Wcglein, Charles II. Won
Tsgen, James \. Devciin, William r. 3
Horn, Francis +. Burch, Sigmund j.
Cans, William McCoach, Eduard
Buchholz, George Council and AlcAls
u. Limeburner.
Others in the room were CRY Solicitor /
David J. Smyth and Assistant Guy
Solicitors Ernest Lowengruend and
Samuel Rosenbaum and G, Oscar
Beasley, counsel for the United Busi. 1
ness Mems Association in their fight
against the Z. Il. I.