Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-10 | Page 2 | Toledo Carless; Buses are Busy

TOLEDO CHESS; BUSESM BUSY Traction Company, Ousted From Streets, Ships All Vehicles Out of State. TOLEDO. Ohio, Nov. 9. Car riders who last Tuesday voted for an ouster ordering order-ing the street cars from the streets because be-cause they were paying 6 and S cents to travel to and from their work today were paying from 10 to 25 cents a ride in automobile buses. The Toledo Railways & Light company com-pany began last night to spirit the cars out of the city until not a vehicle with wheels under it was left within the jurisdiction juris-diction of the city officials who were responsible re-sponsible for the ouster ordinance passed last June being submitted to the people. Mayor Cornell Schreiber himself introduced intro-duced the ordinance when the company increased the fares from .i to (3 cents and 2 cents for a transfer, to take care of an increase in carmen's wages. The cars were removed without notice to the public or city officials. All were taken into Michigan and stored on side tracks. The action was taken after official of-ficial notification was given the company by the board of elections that the ouster ordinance had been approved by the voters. Officials of the street car company, of which Henry L. Doherty of New York is the head, announced tonight that cars are not to be operated here "until a permanent per-manent settlement has been reached or is assured." All inteftirhan cars are being turned back at the city limits.