The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-20
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Editor World. ! sec by the morning World
mat President boslcr OF the Tulsa street rail-
way is coming to Tuku next Friday on "A pussy
footing expedition, the object being TO get the
mayor and commissioners to extend the powers
and franchise of the Tulsa street railway, and
limit ana shorten the power and rights OF tho
Pineys IN the operation Of their respective
1t would therefore, appear to be an oppor.
tunc tiiuo To say something about the rcspcc-
i've merits OF these public conveyances.
The Tulsa street railway is an Inadequate
cheaply built ana cheapy run system. and
might do very well In smaller city Of 10000 or
for city of some $4,000 or 900 inhabitants
with It's suburban populations
One oi the worst teatutea OF the Tulsa Street
railway IL the one-tnan car, which instead OF
making the company money. is In reality the
cause Of the company losing considerable Lor-
lion Of the business Il otherwise would obtain.
Failure Of the motormau Of the one man
cars To observe prospective passengers on
either side OF him, because Of being compelled
to watch straight ahead and mind his business
is one OF thJ rcasons FOR LOSSES for Il there
were conductor on the rear end he could
watch Tor thg bnsinoss and promptly signal the
motorman, allowing passengers on at the rear
door.
Inadequate room inside the car. with half
the seats built single"
The humpiness caused by the cars being so
small and chcaply built without suitable springs
and no cushions or cane for tine seats mako
ih"m most uncomfortable, undesirable
method OF transportation.
Ihc supremacy OF the iitney many.
J.. The jitney driver always sees front and side
and one sometimes suspicious them OF being
dplt 10 see from the OF the head.
way they locate passengers while moving and
stopping to get them.
?. one does not have to wait half an hour
90 catch the jitneys on the Admiral line, as
they run every three to five minutes
3, They halyc the time required by the one
man horse cars between downtown and York.
town street.
4, The jituey seats are far far more com
Portable than the wooden Canadian Pacific
Immigrant style OF seat used on street cars.
II President Roster OF the r. s. r., wanted
to see real electric street railway in opera
uun in city Of the same population as Tulsa
let him visit Calgary, Alberta and look into
facilities, service and fares on the municipal
owned and operated Calgary Street railway,
or for that matter any municipal owned and
operated railway (of which there are manyl
In Canada, or TO come nearer home tho Twin
ncapols, all OF which are l5O per cent better
than the r. $, r.
why does not the city OF Tulsa own its own
street railway anyway And instead OF having
three electric lines establish one adequate
system out of the scrap?
Limiting the jtncy only to those who are
one more method used by those who like
city Attorney Duncan among others seek
TO help the 'su-called' big fellow, at the
tNpcns" OF the little fellow, who cannot afford
AS patron OF the utncys and sometimes the
r. s. II" ! want TO ton city Attorney Duncan,
seats In the car. am just ~ willing 10 ride with
him as n he had - seats anI he should NOT
be compelled 90 discontinue business merely
because OF ha limited space. nor should he be
Although l am not a lawyer. I do not be.
hevc such an ordinance as proposed by Duncan
would hold, u taken to the higher courts,
Long i've tho jitncy" Then We know the
money stays right In Tulsa and does not 20 a
l"y-rld'nE {" ~nme capitalists in Ohio and
New York.
A. W. BALT2ER,
Iu!sa' oc'. H. 2llB East Second ST.