. The Street railway journal . s and motormen are the same. The new salary list is an average increase of i cent an the first six months there is no increase in the wages paid,for the second six months the increase is i cent, for the nextsix months it is half a cent, while for the six months it isij^ cents. After the tenth year of service the increase over thepresent wage is 2 cents. 208 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIII. No. 5. THE CLEVELAND TRACTION FIGHT Events of importance in the street railway situation have beenfollowing one another with great rapidity in Cleveland dur
. The Street railway journal . s and motormen are the same. The new salary list is an average increase of i cent an the first six months there is no increase in the wages paid,for the second six months the increase is i cent, for the nextsix months it is half a cent, while for the six months it isij^ cents. After the tenth year of service the increase over thepresent wage is 2 cents. 208 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIII. No. 5. THE CLEVELAND TRACTION FIGHT Events of importance in the street railway situation have beenfollowing one another with great rapidity in Cleveland during thepast week. On July 24 Mayor Johnson and the Board of PublicWorks, with a large force of city employees, made a grandstandplay by tearing up the tracks of the Cleveland Electric Railwayon Fulton Road to make room for the tracks of the Forest CityRailway Company, the Mayors low-fare company. Surroundedby half the police force and with detectives mounted on bicy-cles scouting the neighborhood looking for imaginary enemies,. TEARING UP THE TRACK ON FULTON STREET the city pulled up a quarter of a mile of track in record-break-ing time. The rails were welded into one solid strip, and themanner of pulling up the track looked like the pictures one seesin old histories of the way Gen. Sherman pulled up the railroadtracks on his famous march to the big gang of men would raise one sidewith jacks and then the whole crewwould tip over several hundred yardsof track, sawing it up with hack-sawsafter it had been thrown over. Mayor Johnson was asked by theStreet Railway Journal representa-tive for his authority for taking suchaction, and he replied that the originalfranchise to the company provided thatthe city should locate the track, whichit did at that time in the center of thestreet. Two months ago the citygranted a franchise to the Forest CityRailway Company for a single-trackline at one side of the street and itordered the old company to move itstracks to the other side. The
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