The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-04
7. S. R. READY TO
PUT IN BUS LINE
Southeast District Will
Not Suffer in Removal
of st. Louis Tracks

Finance Commissioner n. r. New
block was appointed by the city
commission Tuesday as commit
tee OF one to- decide whether the
TULSA Street Railway company shall
be permitted to install bus or
tracSless trolley line nt the enc OF
its Bellview line AZ Fifteenth and
quincy. A letter from b. Hilburn
general manager of the street rail-
way company, announced his com
pany is ready TO operate this pro-
posed feeder" line II IL Is APP
proved by the mayor and commits
sioners. so the Oklahoma Union
may remove it's South ST. Louis line.
According to IIilburn. who repre-
sented the Tulsa Street Railway
company at the conference before
the corporation commission at Ok
lahomn City Saturday. and Street
missioner o. A. steiner and City
Tngineer c. r.. Griggs. who repre-
scented the city at this conference,
Campbell Russell chairman of the
commission, gave no intimation that
the commission viii back up on Its
proposal to grant the oklahoma
Unions petition. Russell, they add
ed, stated in effect that II the may
or and commissioners would give
their assent to the bus or trackless
trolley project OF the Tulsa street
Railway company the removal Oh
der will Immediately become effec-
| tive.
Several property owners along
/ South quincy avenue, between Fiji
] teenth and Eighteenth, attended the
] conference to protest against an eN-
| tension Of the Tulsa Street Railway
company's line south on quincy.
Two injunctions are already in force
restraining the company from ex-
tending south on this street. but re-
Gently in announcing the forthcom-
| ing order permitting the Oklahoma
| Union to remove it's st. Louis line,
| the corporation commission stated
| also the Tulsa Street Railway would
l be ordered TO make the Quincy eX-
4 tension. Property owners who at
| tended the conference and present
/ ed their objections believe this order
| will be modified since the Tulsa
/ Street Railway company has Of
| fered to install n bus line.
At the city commission meeting
| Tuesday Commissioner Newblock
announced several property owners
| along the proposed route of this bus
line have already entered objections
with HIM The line as outlined by
| Hilburn would extend from the
car line terminus at Fifteenth and
! Quincy east on Flfteenth to ROCK
ford. thence south to Eighteenth
street Cor Seventeenth place. and
east on Eighteenth to. Utica. As
| proposed, this line would extend
three blocks farther than the ter
minus of the Oklahoma Unions st.
Louis line.
simply Helping Out.
In presenting his companys let
ter to the city commission Hilburn
explained he would make no strenu-
Gus effort to obtain approval Of the
bus line project, that II would be in
stalled ''in an effort to help the
transportation problem and do as
much as we can toward serving the
people who would be left unserved
IL the Oklahoma Unions line is re
moved"
"The corporation commission in
timated that II the mayor and com
missioners approve OF this bus line
It will ALLOW the oklahoma Unior
to tear up the st. Louis line. and W,
make this offer as our part In try
ing to help out the situation" Hi
burn added. a copy OF his letter 4
the city commission was sent to tn,
corporation commission.
The Tulsa street Railway com