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Show Syrians Rise in Wrath to Obtain Lower Carfares t Populace at Beirut Smashes Up Trams; Jitney Buses Start Operations BIKRVT, Syria. Sept. t J The public pub-lic of this Myriaa city la on strike agalnat excessive atreetcar fares, and tha local tramway company. Instead ol taking In S00 pounda a day, now collects col-lects not more than flv pounds daily. Everyone la wondering how long the belglan company that owns the trolley trol-ley service can hold out. The few short 11 nee In he elty are not more than a third the length of the lines In a city of similar al.a in America, and although the service a far Inferior, the fares are about double the American rate. The public demanded (0 per cent feereaae, and not getting It, a boycott boy-cott of the ayatem was started, ror once the people have stood together. The first few daya a very few people attempted to ride, but sticks and stones soon made the care so unpopular that all desisted. A number of cara were pretty well smashed up by the hoodlum element, and then for a week not a car came out of the barn a Government aid waa asked, and three policemen ever furnished for each car and tney began to run again. But the public stuck together, and th police were th only paatengera Then the Jitneys started ip. ftmall American motor cars are doing a thriving thriv-ing business, and the rah horse a are getting thinner from long hours and little sleep. Although thla state of affairs hae continued for 'ver a month, there seems to be no end in a I got. Foreigners who pretend to understand the merlta of tha case aver that the 1 public ts tn tha right, and. if the present pres-ent eolidnrttv can be maintained for few weeks longer. It would aeem aa though the company muat yield. |