. Electric railway journal . he ramifications of that mess andstew the present feud was was nothing that Nelson likedbetter than a good and healthy andextended feud. Have I not alreadytold you that he too was enlisted in AS THE SUBJECT for the second■■ of his series of studies on theelectric traction situation in the UnitedStates Mr. Hungerford has selectedKansas City. He has found that inthis city a number of special problemswere to be met, and Colonel Kealy hasmet them. A two-fisted fellow iswhat Mr. Hungerford calls the presi-dent of the Kansas City Railways, butconstructive figh
. Electric railway journal . he ramifications of that mess andstew the present feud was was nothing that Nelson likedbetter than a good and healthy andextended feud. Have I not alreadytold you that he too was enlisted in AS THE SUBJECT for the second■■ of his series of studies on theelectric traction situation in the UnitedStates Mr. Hungerford has selectedKansas City. He has found that inthis city a number of special problemswere to be met, and Colonel Kealy hasmet them. A two-fisted fellow iswhat Mr. Hungerford calls the presi-dent of the Kansas City Railways, butconstructive fighters were needed inKansas City as well as elsewhere, andColonel Kealy is winning out. the clan of the two-fisted? Thestreet railway row was close to hisheart. He was big and personallyvery popular. He had vision, too—the neat rows of exquisite littlehouses in the Rockhill section ofKansas City are proof enough ofthis. Incidentally those houses weremade usable by the extension of thetrolley system to their doors. All of. Colonel Kealys energy is not confined to Kansas City, but he is helping the industry as an officer and most active worker of the American Electric Railway which occasionally got by ColonelNelson. Not many things, however, havegone by the other colonel. The rea-son why is so simple as to be obvious. Kealy cant afford to let them getby. For more than a year now hehas been up against four big things,almost any one of them terrificenough to scare an ordinary streetrailway and an ordinary street rail-way president into bankruptcy andruin. Influenza epidemics, long-con-tinued epidemics of labor troubles,the severest sort of automobile andjitney competition and the steadilygrowing prices of fuel, raw materialand labor. Not that these thingshave not counted—and counted a healthy little operating sur-plus, in something over two yearsthe road came to a point where inthe year ended June 30, last, it hadachieved an actual operating deficitof $
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