The evening world. Newspaper, July 23, 1920, Page 6

SSIVE SCENT FARES DioMitten Said to Look ‘to Na- “BT ransit- Chief Long Prepared PHILADELPHIA T tional City Bank or Du Ponts for Backing. GHTS BOOST IN RATE.| j J] Olty Bank of Now York and the du f ~ Ponts are prominent in the talk, par ticularly the former, Mr. Mitten, however, has been very tight-lpped about this phase of the matter, #0 it ia only conjecture after all, Nevor- jtheltas, be was ovidently aware sov- eral months ag@ or the ‘Stotesbury plan for an increase from 6 cents to & 7 or 8 cent fare for every passenger in the company’s oars, and had time enough to fortity himself. So confident has he been In bis ultt- mate success that when Mr. Stotés- bury and others of his group with- drew from the asrectorate of the company and its councils, be an- Transit Company will continue to function ee usual.” ) e ong that “the Philadelphia Raptd iE : for Break With Stotes- a HOW CONDITIONS HAVE UNDER- GONE THE CHANGES. ‘The yecognised transit system in this city wag for years known as “the Stotesbury idea.” This was | + bury Interests. indent of The Evening | World. July 28.—This “to be “The City of Brotherly | ." Then one day along came i transit “situation” Now Ry George Buehanan Fife. | ching is changed—that is, every~ but the situation, and even that \ ‘banged somewhat. Broadly | the transit situation has into what is likely to be- when it was first undertaken. In a little witile it became known as ‘the Stotesbury-Mitten plan." From that it developed into “the Mitten-Stotos- bury plan.” And now the Stotesbury part of it has apparently gone into thin ait, for it is everywhere called “the Mitten plan.” Obviously, these chameleonic changes brought about rivalries, and any one in Philadelphia who listens or reads will sense them. The purposes of the rivals, according eae ee cm gue a a THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, J Man of the Sea, aa they absorh an-| Cleveland and Buffalo, W. nually $10,000,000 of the street rall- ited in Detroit on May way revenue, leaxo June 1 necessitated under the | 7 yooum Relleved of this weight of rentals | SMtrement @ wage increase by the Phil-) ga ay hed to subsidiaries the busines men of |“ "PB compan Philadeiphia believe that the transit company would find @ five-cent fare] announc adequate for ail ite expenses and | Transit yield a profitable return, This mat- tor Js to be taken up at an extensive hearing by the Public Service Com- mission In Soptember, It la not believed that Mr. Stotes- bury and his “group” can consistent- ly o7 eo any attempt to break the underlying leases when it is recalled that he favored abrogation of the transit company’s oontract of 1907 with the olty in proposing to aaddle a T-cent fare upon the public quite re- gardiess of that contract. ——_ TRACTION MEN VOTE TO WAIT FOR RAISE Over 10,000 Philadelphia Workers Defer Increase That Had Been Granted. PHILADELPHIA, July 2 10,000 employees of thi unofficially, by the Brooklyn Rapid least 25 it ‘More than iiiadelphia Rapid Transit Compan. yesterday voted Re ga ry eo brim ing increase ‘approximately 7% cents an hour granted June 1 until Lue becapanes revenue increases suMciently to pay the advance, The action waa taken after Thomas BH. Mitten, President of the company, had outlined to a meting of etnployeca’ reprenontatives the financial condition of the company and paid it could not pay the Increased wages until additional reyenue ia obtained Under an agreement between the com- pany and the men, the ompenaation paid street to “inside information,” seem to about these: headed by Mr. Stotesbury, it hae great financial battle with that this desired not only to Danking institutions ongaged, Dovct its comparatively small indi- v horse and guns, And Now York ‘may say, with a controversy over ‘@ five-cent fare to seven cents, ‘ome to what is generally recog~ in the enterprive, but 7 r iiher 40 ward the interests of rather to {those who financed the original Stotes- | the bury reorganization plan through '|influence and representations of the “group.” : Second, as to the Mitten end of it, there are recent indications that Mr, Mitten has “broadened his views" over here as @ final break be-| with the development of his plan for ‘Thomas EK. Mitten, the head of an eMcient traction service at 5 cents Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com-|per passe , and Edward T. Stotesbury, the | ‘and until recently one of the ae tn one ‘Mr. Mitten : a timo when Mr. a Secscars were the best of ds, Mr. Mitten having come to foity originally as Mr. Stotesbury’s “ y selected operative head of old transit system. But the y love matter 1s off, apparent~ ly for good ‘and all. " Purthermore there is every indica- that the break which has oc- between what may be termed Mitten group and the Stotesbury the latter representing ‘tho | ‘, group,” was long foreseen . He beligves that with company Can be advan- royal when the It is expected that the Public Ser- vice Commission will render its de- cision as to the fares early next week, perhaps Monday, and then, ac- ve de | railway ‘employees in cording to all accounts, City Solici- tor Smyth will attack the so-called underlying companies in an attempt to | their clutch upon the city's trasisit system. 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