. Electric railway journal . most disor-dered of the many disordered busi-nesses across the land, the streetrailway situation in the big city byLake Erie is tranquil—astoundinglytranquil for Cleveland. One could hardly even attempt to The lines of the Cleveland Railway radiate from the Public Square, but there are many orosstown lines. The Cuyahoga River is crossed at several points. make a birds-eye picture of the per-plexing traction situation across theland without having ones eye alight—almost at the very beginning—apon Cleveland. In the days whenthe street railway industry in Amer-ica was
. Electric railway journal . most disor-dered of the many disordered busi-nesses across the land, the streetrailway situation in the big city byLake Erie is tranquil—astoundinglytranquil for Cleveland. One could hardly even attempt to The lines of the Cleveland Railway radiate from the Public Square, but there are many orosstown lines. The Cuyahoga River is crossed at several points. make a birds-eye picture of the per-plexing traction situation across theland without having ones eye alight—almost at the very beginning—apon Cleveland. In the days whenthe street railway industry in Amer-ica was in the very first flush of itsstrength and popularity that bigtown was already a trouble Tom L. Johnson had begun tomix things up. So, perhaps, afterall, it is hardly more than fit andproper that today, while traction menall over the land are bemoaning theirlot and the future of the industry isterribly beclouded, the Clevelandstreet railway men, barring an occa-sional bump with their labor, are 5,000I I I. SOUTHNEWBUR6H June 26, 1920 Electric Railway Journal 1293 having a reasonably happy time ofit. John J. Stanley, the president ofthe Cleveland Railway, looks tenyears younger than when I first methim—more than a dozen years ago. Those were the days when thehead-clubbing and rat-shaking per-formances were in full sway, withthe late Tom L. Johnson as the headdevil in charge of the were no half-way measuresabout the Honorable Tom. He cameinto the office of Mayor of Clevelandon the promise of gaining 3-centfares for the folk of the tovsm andhe intended to keep his promise—give him full credit forthat. It was as far backas 1903 that he was re-elected as the Big Watch-dog of the Sixth City andhardly a month thereafterbefore he started his sec-ond and real campaign foractual 3-cent fares onCleveland trolley cars. Theold Cleveland ElectricRailway opposed him, ofcourse. It was giving5-cent fares with practi-cally unlimited free trans-fers and p
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