Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1925, Page 16

16 RAL MERGER ELD STANDING PROBLEW Parmelee Tells Lions’ Club |~ One Company Will Have Financial Lead. Drawing a parallel between the street railway situation- in Washing- ton_and the consolidation - problem confronting the steam raflroads’of the Nation, Jultus H. Parmelee, director of the Bureau of Rallway Heenontics, today told the Washington Lions Club that one of the local street raflway companies will inevitably find - itseif in & much better financial position than the other “on any basis that may he selected.” Mr. Parmelee spoke at a luncheon meeting of the club at the cision of the Interstate Commerce Commission in'the Nickel Plate case. it will have an {mportant bearing on the tuture of conselldation,” the speak- er said. y ! Progress has been made ‘toward +larger systems, in spite of legal re- | strictions. “The ‘economic law whiech brings increaséd efMiciency and econ- ony through large scale production op- as in other lines of industry. #. % ¢ 1 need hardly add that the effort to consolidate more than 250,000 miles of railway, scattered through so, vast a territory as the United State: into 20 systeme-averaging about-12:000. miles each, is 8o great a task t is almost heyond human endeavor. In the meantime, however, events are set- ting toward consoHdation’by voluntary action of the railways themselves. Mr. Parmelé sideration. in whether rates, valuntfons or what not, must be: What effect' will uny firoposed policy have on the eountry’s economic weltare? 75 e i’ Reports Diamond Pin Loss. William - H. Spriggs, 512 Virginia avenue southeast, took a costly nap in Mayflower Hotel. “Here are two competing companies that must operate on the same basis of fares,” he sald. “On any basis that may be selected one company will ind itself in a much better financial posi- tion than the other. It is the old ques- tlon of ‘strong and weak lines.’ I do not know whether consolidation is the answer or not, but I do say that the problem is similar to that confronting the steam rallways.” Congress Action Questionable. Parmelee said he feels that ss will be slow to adopt any al to force the railways of the and perhaps un- h an effort would | to American public policy, followed as much as pos sible the path of economic growth and wogress ahd has interfered as little as possible with normal development,’ he said. The entire question of railway con- idation, Mr.. 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