PAGE EIGHT 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." CLASSIFIED 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." 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Box 412, Detroit Jewish Chronicle. WANTED-ALERT MILLINERY SALESWOMEN-To those with ex- perience and showing results we pay the highest possible wages and in- sure steady positions. Apply Elmer's, 140 Woodward Ave. BRIGHT, NEWLY FURNISHED ROOM, Forest Avenue east. Glen- dale 36854. "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: Secant Walking Oxford T HE Secant is our standard model walking shoe. It is especially designed to give free- dom and ease to the foot, with its medium high Cuban heels, and soft pliable uppers; while at the same time it retains all the individual stylish characteristics which give the foot a neat, graceful appearance. The shoe is medium light in its make-no, hut durable and substantial to give good service. Fine Black Kid, $14 and $15 11'1'1' "f<;;Xtr* IL I isP)i II Dark Brown Kid, $15 and $16.50 ourlh Floor "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." Does Ten Months' Time Change the facts? A.C.KRENZ Merchant Tailor The Shop where courtesy and service prevail 925Woodward Ave. Just North of Forest Ave. PUBLISHED BY CITIZENS' COMMITTEE ON STREET RAILWAY SETTLEMENT