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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
OFFICIAL LODGE NOTICES
IN MEMORIAM
r
Herman Freedman, beloved Husband, Father and Friend
DIED FEBRUARY 28TH, 1915
Though years hav«mnie and sadly passed,
Like Winter's blighting breath:
The (tear ones that are left behind
To mourn and pray, earl solace find,
That all our tender love can last,
And bridge the gap of death-
To feel our spirits can unite
At touch of memories lustrous light.
MRS. A. FREEDMAN AND FAMILY.
LEE VEEDIRK PRESENTS
SIR OLIVER LODGE
ORCHESTRA HALL
SUNDAY EVENING, FEB. 29TH
"The Evidence for Survival"
Perfection Lodge No. 486, F.
&A. M.
Pisgah Lodge No. 34, 1. 0.
B. B.
Piecemeal Railway Construction
Means That Detroit
Gets Nowhere!
LOCAL NOTES
Read what our Best Civic Leaders have said about
Regular communication on Wednes-
day, March 3, at 7 P. M. sharp. Very
important matters to be discussed.
CHARLES K. SANDORF,
Secretary.
The next regular meeting of Pisgah
Lodge No. 34, I. 0. B. B. will be
held Monday evening, March 1, 1920,
in the Lodge Rooms, 25 Broadway.
Important matters of business will be
discussed.
The next Forum Luncheon speaker
will be Bro. Meyer S. Fink.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry l'agel, of Nor-
ristown, Pa., are spending the month
of February in Mt. Clemens.
PIECEMEAL RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Arfa (nee Anna
Goldman) are receiving congratula-
tions on the birth of a daughter, Mon-
day, February 16.
Mayor Couzens said in Detroit News, April 3, 1919, speaking of general
municipal ownership of railways:
"It is immeasurably superior to piece-meal construction."
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Alexander Dow, President of Detroit Edison Company, who favors gen-
eral municipal ownership, said in Detroit News, April 1, 1919:
"A competing system is too ridiculous to need discussion."
The Detroit News in an editorial March 22, 1919, said:
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"Of course. there is that other alternative--we can bond for 10 millions
and start in to build a competing railway system, finally to crowd the company
off the streets. Maybe that would save a little money; surely it would take a
great deal longer. The company's lines now occupy the streets best suited to
railway traffic. Questions of displacing them would doubtless lead to further
disputes and law suits. Is that worth the risk?"
The Detroit News, April 5, 1919 said:
"If the purchase is defeated the city will be so staggered by the enormous
penalty in halted prosperity it would have to pay to carry condemnation or
separate construction that public sentiment would demand that the D. U. R. be
left in possession."
Abner E. Lamed said on March 28, 1919, in an address before Palestine
Lodge, F. & A. M.:
"Piecemeal construction is full of difficulties. Should we order the com-
pany off Fort Street, that court order alone would mean months of delay."
And again, in an advertisement in the Detroit News of March 29, 1919,
Mr. Lamed said:
"Piecemeal construction and attempt to parallel existing lines means fur-
ther enlargement of capital expense and wrangle in the courts, and a very hazy
problematical alternate result." This statement of Mr. Larned's was pub-
lished and paid for by the Detroit Citizens' League.
Mayor Couzens, in his annual message to the Common Council, delivered
January 15, 1919, said:
"San Francisco, suffering from wretched service, undertook the construc-
tion of a street railway system on a piecemeal basis. Th
ey, however, had more
available routes for lines than Detroit. * * Time, however, seems to be
the essence of our problem, and this plan is a long, ted
ious one offering no im-
mediate relief. * * * Seattle has found the piecemeal plan faulty and unprof-
itable."
Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy, Mayor Couzens' personal expert engi-
neering advisor on street railway problems, told Mayor Couzens this morning
that divided ownership was not a happy condition." "Unified ownership," he
emphasizes, "is a far happier condition. The fare is five cents. Our longest
haul is six miles without making a transfer. We have no charge for transfers;
we do not transfer to the private lines except at a few points. For this the
other company extracts three cents out of the five-cent fare. And, this arrange-
ment does not hold good in transferring to the private lines from the municipal
lines." (From an interview in the Detroit News, January 27, 1917.)
The Detroit News in an editorial published April 2, 1919, said:
"The privately owned street railways of San Francisco like privately
owned street railways everywhere, were not satisfactory. If they had been
the city would not have built its own street railway on Market Street. Such a
venture is costly, troublesome and entails considerable risk to the administra-
tion undertaking it. No city will undertake such a job except when goaded to
it by great provocation."
Delos F. Wilcox, Mayor Couzens' expert street railway advisor for this
year, says:
"Street railways * * * can be operated more economicall
y and can ren-
der better service to the public if the business is handled by a single
agency
in each separate urban community."
Abner E. Lamed, in an advertisement in the Detroit News, April 6, 1919,
headed "Pingree Was Right," said:
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"I Believe this town wants the question settled now. I believe the people
want more street cars to ride in, and less lawsuits to read about."
Abner E. Lamed, in an address before the Woman's First Campaign
League, at the Detroit Board of Commerce, April 5, 1919, reported in Detroit
News ,,pek
of April
pi r il g 6 19 1
"Speaking of piecemeal
, said construction: there is no doubt in my mind that
the people would vote five million or ten million for a fight; then we would
have months of construction and litigation while the city's growth was being
held back."
Alexander Dow, president of the Detroit Edison Company, who supported
Mayor Couzens' municipal railway ownership plan in 1919, is quoted in De-
troit News of April 1, 1919, as follows:
"To go into competition and duplication will not give the immediate and
general relief of congestion and will continu e
the litigatio n
ex-
pense on both sides; and it will not give universal transfers. and
On "expert"
the contrary,
it will probably reduce the existing transfer privileges. Also, it will inevitably
increase the congestions at the downtown crossings, which is now one of the
limitations of the service."
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