. Electric railway journal . s of decency at least. Jit- neys will not do. Not only are therethe service uncertainties of an un-organized business but the NewEngland winters are ill suited forthe operation of automobiles, par-ticularly through the roads of theopen country. Yet upon jitneys the Mayors of atleast four important industrial citiesof eastern Massachusetts began topin their faiths. Not that they hadany particular love for this form oftransportation, but, like the ousterordinance of Toledo, it formed anadmirable big stick to hang on the case they suffered almost equallygreat inconven
. Electric railway journal . s of decency at least. Jit- neys will not do. Not only are therethe service uncertainties of an un-organized business but the NewEngland winters are ill suited forthe operation of automobiles, par-ticularly through the roads of theopen country. Yet upon jitneys the Mayors of atleast four important industrial citiesof eastern Massachusetts began topin their faiths. Not that they hadany particular love for this form oftransportation, but, like the ousterordinance of Toledo, it formed anadmirable big stick to hang on the case they suffered almost equallygreat inconvenience. For duringboth days it rained steadily andheavily. And within forty-eighthours the City Council was broughtto the passage of a stiff ordinanceregulating jitneys; classifying andlimiting them to streets or routesnot used by existing trolley the assurance of the passage ofthis ordinance the trolleys resumedoperations and Lawrence breathedmore easily. Salem was a more refractorjsubject. On December 18, a fear-. Transportation under some difficulty on a Massachusetts electricrailway last winter wall and, school-teacher fashion, tobe pointed at from time to time. Soit was in Salem, in Lawrence, inLynn and in Brockton—some othernearby towns as wel—the jitneys,winked at by the politicians and tak-ing a keen commercial advantage ofthe raised trolley fares, began mul-tiplying in great numbers. The trolley folk watched this situ-ation with an ill-disguised impa-tience, and in the case of Lawrencetook a decisive step on the day be-fore Thanksgiving, 1919. Whetherthere was any significance in choos-ing such a holiday time I do notreally know, but the fact remainsthat for that day and ThanksgivingDay itself the many lines of theEastern Massachusetts in andthrough Lawrence suspended serviceentirely. And like the motorless To-ledoans the motorless Laurentianseither rode in a miserably inadequatejitney service—or walked. In either fully cold day, with the average tem-pe
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