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Show I Commercial Bodies Send "Peti-; "Peti-; tion to Ufali bight and Rail-way Rail-way Company. . BAMBERG Mil II MARTI I A' , INDORSES THE PLAN i Says Four Roads Would Build Up Suburb Easier, and ! Benefit Everybody, i i Bountiful, through Its commercial bodies has scut a formal rcmiest to " iho Utah Ijlght & Railway company to ; ' extend the city tstrect cm- system of Salt J-ako to Hint prosperous and beautiful - little suburb. The petition has not yet reached the company, and Saturday night General Manugcr J. R. Wells said that . he could, of course, express no opinion on the subject until ho had received the official reciucat. The petition follows: Bountiful, Utah, March S. 1010. The Utah Light & Railway Co., Salt I ..rn ft If 1 II -ill- I, Gentlemen The city council, the Com mercial club of Ilonntiful, the representative repre-sentative business men of the city and ', -others In mass meeting assembled horoby unite in urging you to extend the tracks 'i ' of tho Utah Light & Railway company to Bountiful. Our present transportation facilities sire unsatisfactory. Kor years we have patiently accepted the service afforded by the Salt Lake & Ogdon railway, living liv-ing in the hope of better things to come, and now as the time approaches when our anticipations should be realized through tho electrification of the Bamberger Bam-berger road, wo are rewarded by having hav-ing commutation ratus abolished. That lino has failed to comprehend that the , main function of a. suburban road is to cater to suburban business and to adopt such rates of fare and other measures as .will foster that traffic. Tho suburban Idea Is not an experiment, experi-ment, and It is unnecessary for us to recite what has been accomplished in that direction elsewhere. Our city is Thoroughly olive and progressive and offers of-fers an Ideal placo for a city man to make his home. TVc have an electric lighting system and have just voted bonds to the amount of ?35,000 for the enlargement enlarge-ment and extension of our city waterworks; water-works; but, above nil, we must have rates that will enable people to travel back and forth to Salt .Lake City every day. Permit us to point out that your com-rany com-rany has already taken a long step In our direction. Tho terminus of Its tracks In North Salt L.ako is one-third of the required, distance, and something less than six miles additional is all that is necessary, "We are anxious for you to come. Right-of-way within the city of Bountiful is guaranteed, and wc will undertake to so-rtiue so-rtiue for you from the county commls-' commls-' Bloners a franchise outside thereof. "Wc furthor pledge our support after arrival, ulthough tho more advantageous location of your tracks through the business portion por-tion of our city will In itself control the "business. An expression from you on the sub-Sect sub-Sect will be appreciated Yours trulv, WJLIiARD G. CARR, Secretary pro tern. 1 Commutation Privilege Abused. Simon Bamberger, president of. the Bamberger railroad that runs from Og-r Og-r den to Salt Lake through Bountiful, speaking Saturday night of the matter, said: "T am heartily in favor of the plan Bountiful Is a suburb that any city might be proud of, and everything that' will help in any way to build It up will receive my best support. There arc three roads connecting Bountiful and this city, and a fourth one will be aty the better, bet-ter, especially a ear line giving frcciucnt and local service. It would tend to build up the who!ecountry between here and that place, i "So far as the. Bamberger road and' commutation tickets arc concerned, I nut sorry to say that we tried that plan for a long time and havo been compelled very unwillingly to give It up. The trouble was tiiat so many do not fully realize what a commutation ticket is, and insisted on riding on tickets long after they had, expired. This led to much trouble and misunderstanding, and wc had to slop selling them. "Up till about two weeks ago the Bamberger Bam-berger road sold commutation tickets to bo used on business days within a certain cer-tain time, such as one month, as Is the custom on all roads. But people who do not know what such tickets mean wanted to ride on them Sundays, and often six months after they had expired. Wc could not put a stubborn old huly off the train at a way station and leave her there, especially If she had no money with her and nothing except the expired ex-pired ticket. Nor could we do so with children. Just so these people had a ticket of some kind, no matter what the agreement was that It was sold under, they insisted on riding. "If any road wants the trouble we have had they are welcome to it. I ain sorry that a few less progressive ones compelled com-pelled us to sell only one kind of ticket, as I would gladly "give commutation rates .to Bountiful or to any other place so situated sit-uated if they were not abused. "We have to treat all alike. Caused Constant Trouble. "Perhaps some of those who apparently appar-ently blame tho Bamberger road for not continuing the commutation' ticket experiment, experi-ment, after wc found It would not work without endless trouble, do not fully realize this phase of the matter. "Special rates cannot be granted except ex-cept under special conditions, and when those conditions arc constantly violated, then the spcciul rates cannot bo granted. Tills is the practice of all railroads, Including In-cluding the other two through Bountiful, Bounti-ful, and the Bamberger line Is no exception. ex-ception. No railroad accepts expired commutation tickets, so we have had to go back to the old basis of one kind of tickot to everybody alike. "If people Insisted on riding on street car transfers six months old the companies compa-nies would probably abolish transfers Just as we have the commutation tickets, and for the same reason." |
