Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06
CARL|NES REQUEST
REVENUE INCREASE
Want Offset to Loss Expect
ed From Reduced Fare
to Pupils.
CONTINUED From First page.l

GOnClnueo from FlrSb FaBe.D
tive, might take steps for providing this
company with additional net revenue"
Three-cent street car tickets will be
sold school children at % established
agencies alf1 the 3-cent bus fares will
be distributed from some 20 similar sta
tions following the Inauguration of the
new fares next Tuesday, 1t was an
nounced by DR.. Frank w, Ballou, super
intendent of schools, in a circular sent
to all school Offices today.
Method of Sales.
The fares will be sold in strips of
10 tickets, or in books of 40, at the
option of the pupil, at the rate of 3
cents each. They will be distributed in
the school buildings only on next Mon
day, in preparation for the first day of
the Scent rate.
According to the plans announced by
DR.. Ballou following consultation be-
tween school officers and the represen-
tatives of the transportation companies,
the tickets will be sold to pupils OH
presentation of an application signed
by the pupil and by his teacher. These
applications will be furnished by the
traction companies and supplied to the
schools in time to be used for the first
purchases.
The street car lines and the buses
will have distinctive tickets. However,
the street car tickets will be good on
the cars of either line and on buses
operated by the street railway compa-
MES. Bus tickets will be good only on
the bus lines. All reduced fare tickets
sold under the Scent fare law will have
space on each strip or ticket book for
Identification of the holder, and these
must be filled out
Transfer Regulations.
Free transfers will be issued on the
reduced fare rate wherever transfers
are issued on adult fares between
street cars and buses operated by the
street railway companies. Free trans
fers also will be issued under the re-
duced fares between the Capitol TTac-
ton Lines and the Washington Rapid
Transit Line at Colorado avenue and
fourteenth street. No transfers viii be
issued between transportation systems
where transfer arrangement does not
already exist.
The reduced fares will be good only
on school days between the hours of
7:30 am. and pm. on routes to
school. The reduced fares will not be
good on Saturdays, Sundays or holi-
days.
WIN Sell Tickets Monday.
Representatives of the traction COM
panies will visit the high, junior high
and vocational schools and the teach
ers' colleges Monday for the purpose
Of selling pupils tickets.
After Monday, all purchases of street
car and bus tickets must be made at
the 40 designated agencies. These are:
Brightwood Pharmacy, 5916 Georgia
teenth street and Colorado avenue;
Shoemaker's Drug Store, Georgia ave-
nue. and Ingraham street: Washington
Rapid Transit, 4615 Fourteenth street;
Shepherd Drug Co., Georgia avenue
and Shepherd street. Armstrong Phar-
macy. Eleventh street and Park road;
American Security g. Trust Co., Eighth
and H streets northeast; Capitol Trac-
ton Co., Thirty-sixth and M streets;
Co. car barns, Fourteenth and Decatur
streets; Capital Traction Co. Navy Yard
car barn, Eighth and NJ streets south
east; O'Donnells drug store, Wisconsin
avenue and street; Potomac Electric
Power CO. service station, Eleventh
street and Florida avenue; Riggs Ma
tional Bank. Fourteenth street and
Park road: Riggs National Bank, Wis
consin avenue and NJ street; Riggs Ma
tional Bank, Seventh and streets:
Judd's Pharmacy, Fourteenth and Gil
rard streets; Baldwin confectionery
store, Sixteenth and u streets; Hay
Rubber Stamp Co., Thirteenth and !
streets; Georges Radio Co., 2141 Penn
sylvania avenue. and the Riverside
Pharmacy, 2134 New York avenue.
Regular Sales Places.
Street car tickets viii be sold regu-
larry at the following places:
American Security &c Trust Co., Sew
enth and z streets southwest; Anacos-
tia Bank, Nichols avenue and u street
southeast; Capitol Traction Co., bus Of
fee, 1916 F street; Capitol Traction
Co., Seventh street car barns, Water
end p streets southwest; Chevy Chase
Servings Bank. Connecticut avenue and
store. Thirty-fft street and Reservoir
road: Riggs National Bank. Wisconsin
avenue and Warren street; Riggs
National Bank, Eighteenth street
and Columbia road: Riggs National
Bank. Dupont Circle: Seventh street
Savings Bank, Seventh and n
streets; DR.. w. 3. Spires drug
store, Twelfth and Monroe streets;
northeast; Washington Railway & Elec-
trio Co, Fourteenth and c streets;
Washington Railway 6s Electric Co.,
Brightwood Car Barns Georgia avenue
and Military road; Washington Rail-
way g. Electric Co.. Thirty-sixth and
Prospects streets; Washington Railway
& Electric Co.. car barns, Four-and-a-
half and o streets southwest; United
States Savings Bank. Fourteenth and u
streets; Washington Mechanics Savings
Bank, Eighth and @ streets southeast;
Washington Railway q Electric Co., bus
Office, Georgia avenue and v Streets
n ~ p Ia Qy
barns, Fifteenth and II streets north
east; Washington Railway g. Electric
Co, lexington car barns, Fourth and
T streets northeast; Washington Rail-
way g. Electric Co., East Capitol street
car barn, Fourteenth and East Capitol