. Electric railway journal . ehow on a general plan. The private in-vestor is in a position where he no longer trusts any-one connected with the utility business, either operatoror regulator. Hence there is the necessity for the doingof something definite. P. J. Kealy, Kansas City Railways, closed the discus-sion by saying that as it is necessary to have a littlejollity even at a wake, he would attempt to state someof the more cheerful aspects of the situation. Probablyno utility has had more to contend with recently thanthe Kansas City Railways, with three strikes in sixteenmonths, the last c
. Electric railway journal . ehow on a general plan. The private in-vestor is in a position where he no longer trusts any-one connected with the utility business, either operatoror regulator. Hence there is the necessity for the doingof something definite. P. J. Kealy, Kansas City Railways, closed the discus-sion by saying that as it is necessary to have a littlejollity even at a wake, he would attempt to state someof the more cheerful aspects of the situation. Probablyno utility has had more to contend with recently thanthe Kansas City Railways, with three strikes in sixteenmonths, the last costing $1,000,000. In the discus-sion at the meeting there has been passing through thecontributions a strain which makes for example, take the attitude toward the rate of mere fact that a service-at-cost plan is being dis-cussed is hopeful. Again, 400 or more roads in thecountry have been able to break away from the 5-centfare. Another example is afforded by the changed at- at the Mid-Year Meeting. P. H. Gadsden B. A. Hegerman, Jr. 520 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. 11 titude of regulating bodies toward the one-man car;where only a few years ago commissions opposed theintroduction of this promising improvement they nowfavor it. Powerhouse economies are increasing knows but that some power company will developa super-station, so economical that it will pay railwaysto take their power. The owners of securities ought to take more interestin conserving the electric railway business. They areafter all the ones most intimately concerned. The man-ufacturers should help also, as the utility furnishes theman enormous aggregate annual business. It must beremembered that if there is nothing developed to sup-plant the electric railway it must continue, and this in-volves the provision of means for supporting it. Theattitude of public officials is indicated by a remark maderecently by a mayor who said: These fellows are upagainst it and must be hel
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