My story . ry tracks immediately and at once put thatpromise into execution. On that same day Judge Fordissued Injunction No. 32 against the Low Fare Companystopping the laying of tracks at Sumner avenue, S. Low Fare Company had a franchise from the councilfor tracks on Sumner avenue and on New Years day hadput a force of one hundred laborers to work at layingtracks on Sumner avenue from East Fourteenth to EastNinth streets. The company already had tracks on thesestreets which it wished to connect by the Sumner avenueroute. Six hundred feet of track had been laid when thework was stopped
My story . ry tracks immediately and at once put thatpromise into execution. On that same day Judge Fordissued Injunction No. 32 against the Low Fare Companystopping the laying of tracks at Sumner avenue, S. Low Fare Company had a franchise from the councilfor tracks on Sumner avenue and on New Years day hadput a force of one hundred laborers to work at layingtracks on Sumner avenue from East Fourteenth to EastNinth streets. The company already had tracks on thesestreets which it wished to connect by the Sumner avenueroute. Six hundred feet of track had been laid when thework was stopped by Judge Fords injunction, January is the way the holiday season was being celebratedby the contending forces In Cleveland. But the people were getting the benefit of the contest,for on December 31, 1906, the Concon commenced to sellseven tickets for twenty-five cents. It was now fightingdesperately to have all the low-fare grants declared voidon the ground that I was financially interested in Photo by L. Vail O-ycn *The night of December 26, 1906, the Forest City Company attempted to laytemporary tracks on top of the pavement on Superior N ^^ FIRST THREE-CENT FARE CAR 243 All of the facts as to this contention have already beenrelated and the utter absurdity of the charge shown. Itisnt worth while to follow the legal Intricacies of thething; and it is anything but pleasant to recall the meth-ods employed to poison the minds of the people, but ifone purpose of the story of our nine years war with priv-ilege in Cleveland is to arm other fighters in other fieldswith courage to resist and to endure, It would be less thanfair, perhaps, to say nothing on this subject. Under theheading Street Railway Talks the Cleveland ElectricStreet Railway Company was running daily double col-umn reading matter in several newspapers purporting tobe educational propaganda on the local situation. of the talks appeared November 24, 1906, underthe usual note, reading: NOTE
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