Show EMPLOYEES NOT TO BLA lE Friends of the street railway officials in efforts to defend the trolley management are aie aSserting asserting as as- that the poor service serice is due lilt to the potent force of men the company his h been compelled com coin to employ This is indeed a gratuitous insult in suIt sult to the thc working hard und and faithful employees ol ot the line As a rule the motormen are careful and quick the conductors tidy and courteous They The do dothe tile the best IeSt they can with dilapidated cars and bad rails The They o get all the they 9 can ean out of the rolling rolling roll roll- ing stock they are employed to operate But without with with- out OLIt a a. competent general there cannot be discipline in any mm army The car m men n constitute an undisciplined army They run the cars that cars that describes tl tile the situation But time schedules are smashed there is no system with regard to trolleys s 's passing each other on switches sw and as ns a consequence the thew citizen out his on w weary alJ wears patience waiting street corners for fOI cars that never pass as scheduled In a word the street railway system of operation is isa isa a grand free free for orall every e motorman and conductor for fOl himself Each crew and its car operates as a afree afree free lance The conductor who llo runs his car the tile fastest has the right of way the time tinie schedule be hanged hange But a big street railway cannot be operated operated ope ope- rated on such principles and succeed Things are hound bound to go to smash some day daj Then the stockholders stockholders stock stock- holders bolders will suddenly discover that a trolley system tem tern cannot run itself There Thele will be le a general reorganization reorganization re reo re- re organization and the road will wih be managed on modern mod em ern eln lines Salt Lake wIn will then get its dues But the men behind and in front of the tile cars are all right The charge of incompetency cannot be he laid at their doors What they need is some one to direct them The trouble is with the head men not with the tile leg III men C fl |