The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-08-17
.DEsM0|NES FOLKS
WALK TO LAb0RS
e.opLE CROWD GREAT BUSES
AS SUBSTITUTES IN ORDER TO
TRAVEL ABOUT CITY.
eosscs Send Autos to Pick Up En-
ployes Getting to Work;
EVERYBODY Cheerful in
Making Shift.

lrS MoiLes. Iowa-Street cars were
...rl.ory IN Des MOines Thursday.
S,N enly-two busses, big omnibus bod
H., on three ton truck chassis, were
go, ring every street car line in the
city.
Perhaps it was because people did.
u,t Jam the cars at the usual rusl.
hours, hut rather arose early AMI
ca.ed the rush, but everybody rode to
work.
livery bus was crowded, from the
first owls" that followed in the wake
of the trolleys on their last trip, to
il the full fleet Thursday.
Every bus was being worked on a
trenty-four hour shift, with three
drivers
Have Il ride" clubs began func-
n toning and continued through the
b morning, carrying many workers. No
y automobiles came to the downtown
& district empty.
q The heavy buses bumped down
Il low with their capacity loads-they
n seat twenty, but at least forty rode
on every trip.
Id When the boss got to work he sent
81 his car to pick up his employees.
81 Every one of the sixty-five Des
Il Moncs trOlleys was lined up in from
II of the car barns at ten minutes before
midnight, the hour set by the fedora
" court order which stopped the trolley.
IL after the mortgage holders, together
VI with car company receivers, had re
# sisted cessation of service.
~ An eleyenth-hour attempt to hol,
S$up the car company cashier Of til,
$1,000 Of the last run receipts WA
WI frustrated and hour before the street
cars were taken off when one Of tn
accompices went to the police wit
his story. c. E. Hill, a former mo
torman with the company, was arres c
and is said by the police to have con
y feSsed
When the conductors Of the nigh
run trolleys checked in their cars an
8 started Oh long walks across the cit
to their homes. 1850 more men wer
All left without jobs In Des Moines. III
WI carmen's union was unable to nclp o,
lA their wokers, it was said.
Des Moines. city Of 10000 sea
tered over thirty-four square miles
& territory, will be done inestimab
los, by the car tieup. according
"ohn A. Cavanaugh, president of Il
Des Moines National bank. The on
g# hlbus business is the only buSine
M mat Will not be injured, he said. y
M efforts are being made by any tactic
a or body to restore Strectcar service
Electric traction stopped on order
Judge Martin Wade, who appoint,
s$ +. I. Chambers and Homer A. Mil,
~ receivers for the street car compal
ana then directed them to suspcI
2Hs service because the lines were losi
large sums OF money.
Inc busSes are blamed by the sire,
|s9s car company officials for the loss
S-''VO to $4,000 month viii
@ caused the corporation to go broke.
BUSES invaded Des Moines in L.,
ana were granted the use of t
Rs@ streets over the vigorous protests
tue car company.
Inc suspension marks the climax
"i'y years of pickering between
car company and the city.
, Inc beginning of the end came |;
33s winter when. after the streetcar e.,
kk paiis was thrown in the recciv.
manu. II was granted an eiyhr.C,
'are by the federal court.
Inc streetcar property is to be S.
AS YET, no purchasers have co
''''h 10 buy the rolling stock and
craze the lines under the old fr
EE chise.