My story . his very significant com-ment appeared in the Electric Traction Weekly, a monop-olistic organ: Altogether it is a safe guess that the inconvenience In routingand the heterogeneous system of transfers and tickets will soannoy the people of Cleveland that they will force their council-men to over-ride Mayor Johnson and grant a franchise that thereceivers and the Cleveland Railway Company will accept. On February 27 the Federal Court at Cleveland, JudgeKnappen of Michigan, sitting In place of Judge Tayler,decided that the franchise of the old company on theWoodland and West Side lines
My story . his very significant com-ment appeared in the Electric Traction Weekly, a monop-olistic organ: Altogether it is a safe guess that the inconvenience In routingand the heterogeneous system of transfers and tickets will soannoy the people of Cleveland that they will force their council-men to over-ride Mayor Johnson and grant a franchise that thereceivers and the Cleveland Railway Company will accept. On February 27 the Federal Court at Cleveland, JudgeKnappen of Michigan, sitting In place of Judge Tayler,decided that the franchise of the old company on theWoodland and West Side lines had expired February 10,1908. This had been the citys contention and on thestrength of It a three-cent-fare franchise had been granteda year before. The old Interests Insisted that the five-cent-fare franchise had been extended to July i, 1914,or at least to January 26, 1910. The receivers there-fore appealed to the court to know whether they couldcharge five cents on these lines or were restricted to three. LAST DAYS OF THE FIGHT 285, cents as the city insisted. Under the decision the re-ceivers had no authority to charge a higher rate of farethan the city had granted to the low-fare company. Judge Tayler, Attorney John G, White and the mayorwere a committee endeavoring to find a way to solve thewhole problem. Frequent conferences were being March 26, Judge Tayler addressed the city council,saying in part: The streets of a city belong to the community, and not toanybody else, and cannot be acquired by anybody else; and as anincident to that proprietary interest of the community in thestreets, there must be easy methods of transportation in thosestreets, and you cannot accomplish their suitable transportationexcept by the investment of large sums of money, upon which,in order to obtain it, there must be a fair return. Now there isa perfectly simple proposition, grounded on fundamental right,in the people and in the persons who invest their money. We have been going alon
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