Show i 1 6 EXPERTS EM ERTS TELL Ii J I i 1 I. I tr RAILWAY NEEDS I I IF I F Td Federal d l 1 Commission Listens I e e era Col to 0 Opp Opposing i g Views s for f Solution S f i ution tion J y Washington Aug WItnesses 1 l 12 Witnesses toda toad today to- to ad da day a before I ro the thc federal electric railways rail rail- ways commission were In agreement that tile the Wc financial situation of or tho the companies was serious and probably would brow grow worse orse boc because of oC rising costs cost and motor vehicle competition Remedies suggested ranged ed from the tho proposal of Mayor Ia or Couzens of oC Detroit for municipal ownership anti and operation of oC urban lines to Yo Ru suggestions b by state utilities commissioners that revenues be increased Increased The Tho commissions represented represented I Were those of ot Indiana Connecticut cut cul and Rhode Island I II I I I F.-F. F. Fa F. Ingram of or Detroit a n retired I manu manufacturer su suggested public ownership ownership owner owner- ship of of tho street car plants plant a n o ner nominal nomI nom nom- inal tare faro charge chan c and absorption of ot nn n I I t I operating deficit by taxation of or theland the theland land Jand values alues of oC property serve served b by the I lines Mayor Couzens however contended j that only b by soc sociological treatment of or orthe j f the matter could nn any real approach beI be bo I made toward furnishing the public t 1 with comfortable and decent transI trans- trans j I For the present the tho Detroit mayor mayori I said eald ho favored f municipal ownership I j I and nd operation at n a reasonable rate of oC fare faree but said ultimately ho might I 1 easily come to lo believe that the street streetcar r car lines nes should be as tree free as the high high- hl highways I h-I 1 ways rays and and maintained at public ext cx- cx t I pen Ii as asare arc the highways i Most of the state stale commission representatives f cs who testified favored cooperative cooperative op co 1 I rathe control over o the trolley lines i b by municipalities and arid state slate commis- commis missions the latter having I powers I |