The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-15
More About Street Cars.

Editor Tulsa World Just a word In regard
to the street railway situation in Tulsa. which
has been getting some severe criticism.
Having started this discussion. with my verses,
roasting Frisco line, feel in a measure. rcspon-
s!hic Ter al! ;ha; followed. therefore am writing
this.
Admitting that the T. s. II. and the O. IT, T.
do not give us the service that the New York
subway or Chicago elevated furnish their patrons
neither do we furnish the fare here in Tulsa to
make such service paying proposition.
I ride the Frisco line daily, from Riverview
school TO corner Of Madison and Hodge streets,
taking the car that eaes Twelfth and Frisco at
6:35 a. m.
II IL very rarely indeed that this car carries
moro than five passengers in ALL for this entire
distance. They collect the sum OF 25 cents;
hardly enough to pay tho wages OF the motor
man. To say nothing about power, wear and tear
of equipment salary Of officials taxes. etc.
when they propose extension they are met by
iniuncions, was the when South Frisco
extension was proposed, which must be fought
by costly court proceedings or else abandoned
entirely
or by tho objections Of a few business houses
who are afraid that their personal income may
be affected slightly, as In the case of ~
o. II. T. First street proposal
Can VIC expect any street company to
spend good money Tor costly equipment better
schedules etc, when they meet with opposition,
objection and criticism every hand.
Would you Mr. Business Man, or you, fellow
workman, put your money into anything that
showed absolutely no prospect of return? Think
IL over.
In this OF high prices Tulsa is one Of the
very few towns whore you still ride for
nickel Your gas water, lights and practically
everything else has advanced, but the car fare is
still tie same old nickel It always was
Haven't street car employees wages advarRd
In Tulsa? Doesn't their material and equipment
cost more now than It did five or six years ago?
Fellow citizens, this is the one and only case
I know of in which the additional cost has not
been passed on to the Dear, Kind Public,
II anyone can name "A case where tho cover
head has increased much as this without an
Increase tn | a1
be pleased to hear from him
Now, few words regarding the motormon
and conductors handling cars la Tulsa.
| have been In great many towns. and no
whore have | over seen more gentlemanly.
ohging and accommodating set OF men than we
now have ON our street cars.
Tho following Incident which happened to me
In a good example OF their courtesy:
got on South Frisco at corner of Third
and Main about 12;lO a. m. one morning | was
the only passenger on car. While talking to mo-
torman at Twelfth street end Of line he told me
that he should have gone to car barn directly
and Just came TO end OF line as accommodation
to me. He did not state this fact as II he wished
me to believe II was favor to mo personally
In fact had to rather draw Il from him Spoke
as II It really was pleasure to him TO give overy
service possible to the public generally.
His conversation led me 10 believe that the
policy OF the T. 5. II. was to instlll this spirit in
all employees
Now also, have missed cars by half block.
40 feet, etc, Just the same as the patrons who
are complaining so loudly However ! have no
kick coming In that respect Wonder IL those
kickcrs ever stop to think that the street rail-
ways a schedule Just like every her
transportation system.
suppose YOU had purchased a ticket to Now
York at cost OF about 500 ana YOU were half
way between First street and railroad when train
was due TO leave Would they wait for YOU?
Absolutely not
a complaint to the officials would get you the
following reply;
THAT train is due to leave at such a timo.
Sorry you were late. Not fault your watch
is slow. only thing you can do is take the next