Evening star., 1925-11-17
COMMUNITY PLANS
SILVER SPRING LINE
w. R. & E. Service Is FIayed
by Residents at BaIti-
more Hearing.
By a staff Correspondent.

By staff Correspondent.
BALTIMORE, Md, November II.
A proposal to organize and establish
another motor bus company from
Silver Spring, Md, down sixteenth
street into the business section of
Washington was made through the
Maryland Public Service Commission
today at a hearing before the COM
mission here on an application of the
Washington Rapid Transit Co. to op-
crate intra-state bus routes.
Declaring that if either the Wash
ington Rapid Transit Co., or the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.
failed TO provide adequate transpor-
tation service from the Silver Spring
neighborhood into Washington, r.
Brook Lee, who outlined the proposal,
said "A new bus service would be
formed TO serve the entire Silver
Spring w oodside area of Maryland.
May Form Own Line.
Presenting the proposal to the com
mission Mr. Lee said:' THE people
of Silver Spring Woodside section may
be forced into the transportation bust
ness by the apparent war between
the trolley companies and the bus
companies in which our section is
serving as the present bone of con-
tention. We will finance and operate
our right and need to use sixteenth
street as an artery of bus tranSporta-
ton into the heart of our section if
we are unable to get satisfactory serV-
ice from existing carriers.
I'VE have secured stock subscrip-
tions totaling over 100000 since noon
Saturday and expect to be able to
increase them to between 900 and
500 900 within the next 10 days. We
have the support of 95 per cent of the
people of our section. Fifty per cent
of our home owners will be stock
holders.
I'VE contemplate Incorporating for
81 900 900 in preferred stock and $500
600 common stock. SO that we can offer
adequate bus service to other Mary
land communities that desire such
service and will subscribe to enough of
our stock to buy the equipment needed
by communities for their operation"
Mr.. Lee explained to the commission
that if other places, such as Hyatts-
vile. Bethesda. Battery Park or Cabin
John, wanted bus transportation and
were willing to subscribe toward
the establishment of such tranSporta-
ton, the proposed Maryland Washing
ton Transportation Co. would furnish
ii. Mr.. Lee is to be elected president
of the company for the first year of
operation.
Inadequate Service.
Much of the testimony introduced
before the commission today bore, di-
rectly upon claimed failure of the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.
TO maintain adequate street car Serv-
ice while its car lines were in opera
ton. and favored the petition of the
Washington Rapid Transit Co. to
operate its busSes intrastate on the
ground that such operation would
serve a great public demand.
Witnesses whose testimony was in
troduced in evidence by Conrad H.
Syme. counsel for the Washington
Rapid Transit Co, and by Mr.. Lee
coRtended that the growing popula-
tion of the Silver Spring area and the
territory north and east demands an
intrastate bus line, or one authorized
TO pick up and discharge passengers
at any point within Maryland or the
District of Columbia. Opening the ar
gument for the Washington Rapid
Transit Co, Mr.. Syme said the peti-
ton to operate intraState should not
be denied. because public property de-
mands adequate transportation.
He added that the Washington
Railway and Electric Co has done
everything it could to throttle bus
service in the District of Columbia. and.
in fact. seems to think ii can get
anything it wants in the District or
that part of Maryland which its lines
traverse"