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Show ROTARY CLUB TAKES up JiMyuEsra Report of Special Committee, Commit-tee, Urging Strict Regulation, Regula-tion, Is Adopted. LIVELY DEBATE HEARD Three Members Take the Ground That Innovation Is a Good Thing. More, tiiun 125 members of the Rotary Ro-tary club, at the weekly luncheon of that organization yesterday, adapted t he report of a special committee, which sets it forth as the deliberate .judgment of the Eutary club that the jitney busses should be subjected to regulations regula-tions similar to that of the street cars. A vote was not reached until after a lively debate, in which Dr. Elmer I. Goshen, pastor of the First Congregational Congrega-tional church; 0. A. Ouigley, automobile automo-bile dealer, and Harry J. Andersou supported sup-ported the jitneys, while James V. Col-linsj Col-linsj who served as vice-chairman of the committee which presented the report, re-port, Charles Tyng. Fred C. Richmond and Wesley King vigorously insisted that in fairness the jitneys should be subjected to regulations and made to compete on terms of equality with the street cars. Mr. Collins provoked much laughter l.v his recital of the thrift of a man w'ho lives on Second avenue. This man 's business is on the west side, and in the morning before leaving home he hangs a 5-e.eut sign on the side of his car. picks up such passengers as he can get and whirs merrily along to his day's work. The same operation is repeated at night, with the result that an aver-ace aver-ace of half a dollar a day is added to his income-Report income-Report of Committee. The report of the special committee s as follows: We, the undersigued, your coin-miltee coin-miltee appointed ' to investigate whether the jitney bus is an advantage advan-tage or detriment to the city, beg Jpave to report that we consider the jitney bus to be a detriment to the advancement of Salt Lake ' ity: and while we do not believe in granting a monopoly to any one concern, we do feet that the" present pres-ent street- car system service is much better than "that given tho average city. Further, the street car system "is required under present pres-ent ordinances to pay its proper-. tiou of paving, which in some instances in-stances amounts to over 40 per cent of the entire cost of street paving on which its tracks are laid, anil it has paid nearly J 1,500,000 as its proportion pro-portion for paving of streets, he-sides' he-sides' paying fur repairing of this paving and taxes thereon, and we understand will be called upon to pay nearly $500,000 more in 1915 for improvements which are to be is our opinion that the street car system is entitled to fair piay, and that the jitney bus should bet regulated on an equal basis with the street car company. At the present time the. jitDeys operate on what is known as .-hart-haul business'' only; and, while the jitney may be of some benefit to those living close in on paved streets, yet they do not cater to the 'long-tiaul business,' or to business which is located off of the paved streets, and probably will not cater to such business until f-uch time as the city has paved the streets, with the assistance of the street car company. Regulations Suggested. We believe the jitnevs should be regulated, requiring them to furnish fur-nish an adequate indemnity or liability lia-bility bond; should not carry more passengers than the seating capacity capac-ity of their cars; should operate to the end of car lines, as does the street car company; should be operated oper-ated on schedule, and should be under un-der the supervision of the pofico department or a utility commission of some kind. Further, that after dark the toniieaus of their cars be lighted, and that, the city exa-t an adequate license fee. Wo have secured information from the larger cities of the coa:-t, in most cases through the mayors of the?e particular cities, and from what wo can learn strict regulations regula-tions are. now being enacted. We strongly Teconimend that the F.otary club put itself oil record as being opposed to the jitney bus, as it is at present operating, "as being a detriment to the upbuilding of tho city. Ifospectfullv submitted, W. 8. F,LT,Kl;);i;f K, chairman: -7. W. COLLI XS, ice-cliairman; .TAMES II. BROWN, W. .1. SHEALV, CLARENCE WAR.VOCK. |