. Electric railway journal . lose and have my fellow-citizens lose theservice rendered by the street cars that op-erate in my city? Seventh: Unregulated jitneys, where they are notendangering the lives of the street railways,are robbing those companies of so much in-come that they cannot buy new cars, modern-ize old equipment, make repairs on track*,and do other things which perfect service to;he riding public demands. Eighth: Unregulated jitneys, paying nothing fortheprivilege of using the streets for private pro-fit, and paying no part of the cost of keepingthose streets in repair, are takin
. Electric railway journal . lose and have my fellow-citizens lose theservice rendered by the street cars that op-erate in my city? Seventh: Unregulated jitneys, where they are notendangering the lives of the street railways,are robbing those companies of so much in-come that they cannot buy new cars, modern-ize old equipment, make repairs on track*,and do other things which perfect service to;he riding public demands. Eighth: Unregulated jitneys, paying nothing fortheprivilege of using the streets for private pro-fit, and paying no part of the cost of keepingthose streets in repair, are taking an unfairadvantage of all property-owning citizenswhose taxes must necessarily be increased inorder that the streets worn out by heavyjitney traffic may be kept in condition. In giving your support to the ordinance for regulating jitneys, you are asked toinsure to-your city the safety to which those persons and companies doing business inyour community are clearly entitled -they have xu> -mo***yso we cantcollect a cent. on bills, hospital bills, medicine bithe owner) ol the jitney which hid cTherefore you will see thai (or ihi Getting Up Booklets That CreateTraffic ALMOST every electric railway has issued bookletsto guide strangers in reaching points of interestand at the same time induce them to use the street is often questioned whether such advertising reallypromotes traffic, but that it does has been proved inDenver. This city, of course, has the advantage of be-ing a great tourist stopping point. In making up ad-vertising booklets, J. C. Davidson, publicity manager,has capitalized this fact. One of the booklets used some time ago by the Den-ver Tramway, entitled What to See in Denver, se-cured a material amount of traffic which the companywould not have obtained otherwise. The success waslargely due to the manner in which the informationwas set forth and to the method of distribution. Asmall boy above the average in intelligence was em-ployed to meet every imp
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