. Electric railway journal . ated in the captions under the accom-panying pictures. They range in size from a seatingcapacity of eleven up to forty and employ old four-cylinder Cadillacs, GMC, Reo, White, Masters, Stewart,Republic and other chassis. It is not thought that the number of buses in oper-ation will be increased materially until the bus ownerscan be given some assurance by the City Council as towhat their life will be. License fees for the buses nowin operation expire on Sept. 1 and there is no desireupon the part of bus owners to pay the annual feeuntil some plan for future operati
. Electric railway journal . ated in the captions under the accom-panying pictures. They range in size from a seatingcapacity of eleven up to forty and employ old four-cylinder Cadillacs, GMC, Reo, White, Masters, Stewart,Republic and other chassis. It is not thought that the number of buses in oper-ation will be increased materially until the bus ownerscan be given some assurance by the City Council as towhat their life will be. License fees for the buses nowin operation expire on Sept. 1 and there is no desireupon the part of bus owners to pay the annual feeuntil some plan for future operation is worked out. Itis said that ten buses from another city are waiting forshipment to Des Moines for the word that they will begiven a lease on life by the Des Moines City Council. Bus Men Want the BusinessIn addition to the efforts of the local bus mens asso-ciation to secure a franchise, several other interests havebeen actively at work endeavoring to secure a franchiseor promote a company to finance a system of buses to. A Sample op Bus Body Named Appropriately Stock Car displace the street railway system. Typical of thesepropositions is the following made by T. J. Fay, presi-dent Fay Motor Bus Company, which has made quite asuccess of a 10-cent motor bus line in Rockford, 111., andhas started a system in Little Rock, Ark., and in one ortwo other places. The Fay Motor Bus Company, co-operating with a numberof substantial business men of Des Moines, hereby makesyou a tentative offer to install and operate in the city ofDes Moines a complete motor bus system, consisting of atleast 154 buses of an average seating capacity of twentypassengers_per bus. After closely observing the intracity traffic of the presentmotor buses and traction lines now operating here, andestimating the amount of passengers that offer themselvesfor transportation, we find that the number is about 105,000passengers in each days operation at the present time, andas conditions improve, we will furnish all
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