Show SPOKANE JITNEYS CARRY two Seventy-two Busses Use More Than inGas inGas in inGas Gas Every Year By The Special New S Service Enrica SPOKANE Dec 30 When When January rolls around Spokane Jitneys will have carried more than passengers during the days of 1916 according according according accord accord- ing to figures given out by Frank B. B secretary of the tion More than in fares will have been taken in by the jitney drivers Kliphouse declares We lie have two seventy-two Jitney busses running ronning at the present time said Kliphouse While some of the Jitney jitney jitney Jit jit- jit- jit ney drivers take in as high as 14 aday aday a aday day a fair average Is 10 per Jitney Some of the jitneys havo two drivers that is is the Jitney jitneys is run on two sep sen- arato shifts one driver taking it until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then another driver taking it until late in the eveningS evening S Some me of the drivers run as high as twelve hours a day but a fair average is ten hours A large proportion pro portion of the jitneys are Fords and they average close to twenty miles mlles on ona ona ona a gallon of gasoline Other Jitney busses have special carburetors and they make between eighteen and twenty miles to the gallon depending depending depending depend depend- ing upon the condition of the streets Jitney busses in Spokane purchase more than worth of gasoline each year while more than worth of new tires are worn wont out bythe bythe by bythe the Jitneys every twelve t months Lubricating Lubricating Lubricating Lu Lu- oil in a years year's time amo amounts to close to gallons which costs the Jitney drivers close to Each Jitney bus in Spokane covers approximately miles mUes a day This means that in the neighborhood of 46 46 miles are covered in a year yearby yearby by tho the two seventy busses doing business business busi busi- I ness here |