The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-12
DES MONIES FOLKS
WALK TO LABORS
PEOPLE CROWD GREAT BUSES
As SUBSTITUTES IN ORDER TO,
TRAVEL ABOUT CITY.
BOSSES Send Autos to Pick I'm, H,,.
Pioyes Getting to Work.;
EVERYBODY Cheerful in,
Making Shift.

Des Molnes, Iowa--Street cars wara
a memory in Des Moines Thursdav
oe'enty-two busses, big omnibus bod
les on three ton truck chassis, wera
| covering every street car line in III.
city. 'A ING
rhaps 1t was because people did.
not jam the cars at the usuaI rush
hours, but rather arose early ond
| work. W
Every bus was crowded, from the
nrst owls" that followed in, the wake
OF the trolieys on their last trim, IN
the run fleet Thursday.
| Every bus was being worked, an
twenty-four hour shift, with, tbroa
| drivers
have ride" clubs, began. fnnc.
tlohihg and continued through the
morning, carrying many workers. No
automobiles came to the downtown
district empty.
Inc heavy buses bumped down
low with their capacity loads-thev
seat twenty, but at least rorty rode
on every trip.
| "heh the boss got to, work he sent
liis car TO pick up, his EMPLOYEES.
Every one of the sixtv-fiva r,o.
Mones trolleys was lined up in from
Oh the car barns at ten minutes before
midnight, the hour set by the federal
court order which stopped the trollavs
aller the mortgage holders, together
with car company receivers. had ra.
sisted cessation of service.
An eleyenth-hour attemnt IN hold
up the car company cashier Of the
hoooo OF the last run receipts was
frustrated and hour before the streat-
Ears were taken off when one of the
accomplices went to the police with
MS story. G. Il. Hill, former mo.
IoFinah with the company, was arres4er
ana Is said by the police to have con-
| feSSed.
"hen the conductors of The nigbt
run trolleys checked in their cars and
Started on long walks across the ell,
10 their homes, 1850 more men wara
'eit without jobs in Des Moines. The
Garments union was unable to helm out
Ehelr wOkers, it was said.
Des Molnes, a city of 10000 scat
tefed over thirty-four square miles of
territory, will be done inestinahIa
loss by the car tieup, according to
John A. Cavanaugh, president of the
OeS MONIES National bank. Tho am
uiDus business is the only business
that VIII not be injured, he said No
EFFORTS are being made by anv faction
Ut Douy TO restore streetcar service
Electric traction stoned nm or,Iap or
Sudge Martin Wade, who appointed
+. o. Chambers and Homer A. Miller
receivers for the street car comnopv
ana then directed them to susnend
service because the lines were losing
large sums of money.
The buses are blamed nv tho stroo.
car company officials for the loss of
S29'oo0 to $4,000 month whi,h
ralSed the corporation to go broke.
Buses invaded Des Moines in 1o2O
ana were granted the use of tho
streets over the vigorous protests of
the car company.
me suspension marks the climax Of
ulty years of pickering between fine
car company and the city.
Inc beginning of the end came last
winter when, after the streetcar COM
pahy was thrown in the receivers
nand, 1t was granted an eight.ce cent
tare by the federal court.
The streetcar property is to be sold
AS yet, no purchasers have come
torth to buy the rolling stock and CD
crate the lines under the old firm.
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