. Electric railway journal . sthat Mr. Woods and Colonel Kealyhave worked together there has arisenbut one question that required courtdecision, and that was a compara-tively minor one. As in Cleveland, the city, throughits representatives, actually super-vises the operation of the cars, mak-ing and revising the schedules andcar-routings, as well as helping makeand approve plans and specificationsfor new work and auditing and ap-proving requisitions and interests, moreover, are furtherprotected by the appointment by theMayor of Kansas City, Mo. (85 percent of the population served
. Electric railway journal . sthat Mr. Woods and Colonel Kealyhave worked together there has arisenbut one question that required courtdecision, and that was a compara-tively minor one. As in Cleveland, the city, throughits representatives, actually super-vises the operation of the cars, mak-ing and revising the schedules andcar-routings, as well as helping makeand approve plans and specificationsfor new work and auditing and ap-proving requisitions and interests, moreover, are furtherprotected by the appointment by theMayor of Kansas City, Mo. (85 percent of the population served by the system is upon the Missouri side ofthe state line), of five of the elevenmembers of the companys board ofdirectors. These men, each of whommust become the owner of one shareof the companys stock, are appointedin rotation, for terms of five far they have been chosen withgreat wisdom and discretion. Theyare five most representative citizens,and so well have they filled theirposts that as four of the terms have. The Kansas City Railways serves the citiesof that name in Missouri and Kansas. expired they have been filled againby the renomination of theii: formerholders. From its net earnings and by theterms of its franchise the KansasCity Railways is entitled to 6 percent upon its capital value. This isnot a guarantee. The company mustearn the money. And, as we havealready seen, it has not earned it—not, at least, for nearly three years,while there is apparently little pros-pect of its reaching a dividend basisagain for some time to come. Ap-parently the company is solving itslabor problem, of which more in amoment. The jitney and automobilecompetition, however, is not apt toend so quickly or so easily. Thereare today some 30,000 automobilesin Kansas City, as compared with 7,000 six years ago. Kealy and hisfellows estimate that each of thesemeans on the average two fares aday lost to the company, or, at thepresent rates, some $4,500 in grossrevenues. The fact that
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