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Show SERVICE OH FIVE IK REDUCED Loss of Streetcar Patrons Pa-trons Owing to War Is Given as Reason Why Expenses Must Be Cut REDUCTIONS in nervio on five of the lines of the Utah Light and Traction company M'ere announced by H. F. Dioke. manager," man-ager," today, to take effect on Monday. October 14. Included tn a communication forwarded by Mr. Dicke to the public utilities commli- slon of Utah today la etatement of the company's decreased earnings. This, Is liven aa an explanation for the re-1 ductlon In service. j According to Mr. Dlcke, the gross earnings of the company for Heptem-Iter. Heptem-Iter. I it IS, show a decrease of 11119.10 compared with the corresponding month f 1917. Operating expenses show an Increase of $319.44, aa cum pared with. 1917, and an Increase of fl6.280.80 aa compared with 1914. According Ac-cording to the statement, the net earn Inge are steadily decreasing. , . EXPLANATION OIVEN. r In his communication to the commission com-mission Mr. Plcke says: "Owln to the continued dropping off In traffic as a result of the removal of so'dtere from Ft. Douglas, aa well aa the reduction In resident population served, on account ac-count of voluntary enlistments, drafts, calls from shipyards and munition In-! In-! dun tries, we find It necessary to re-I re-I duce our car service on a few of the lines, commencing Monday. Service will be reduced on the following fol-lowing lines: Routes 8 and 9. which I Includes the Third avenue end Ft Douglas ai.d"Bouth Fifth Kast cars; service reduced from 10 to 16 minutes after 8 p. m. All cars on the flfteen-mtnute flfteen-mtnute schedule go to Kt. Iouglss. Koutes 4 and 14, which Include the Kast Houth Temple and South Second Went line. Instead of the cars running every ten minutes they will be fifteen minutes apart from 9 a. m. to 6 p. nr. and again from 8:30 p. m. to 11:30 p. m. Kotite 7-18-19, which Includes the Ninth Fast-West Fourth North snd North Fifth West lines. Tars will' run ten minutes apart, excepting between the hours of 1 to 8:45 a. m. and again from 6 to 8:46 p. m., when the 7 '4 and 16-mlnute service will be In effect. MORE CHANGES. On routes 10 and II. which are tht Kugarhouse and Highland Orive ant-Warm ant-Warm Springe lines, the present service serv-ice of fifteen-minute intervals will remain re-main In effect to 13:30 p. )n The old schedule provided for ten -minute intervals in-tervals from 12.30 to 8 p. m. 1'nder the new schedule the ten -minute Interval In-terval between cars will not start until 4:28 p. m. and will be discontinued at 8:28 p. m. On the West Seventh Smith line the cars will run every twenty minute i nut part of fifteen minutes as at present during the entire day. According to the statement, there was a reduction of 46,301 revenue passenger pas-senger for September, 1918. as compared com-pared with September, 1917. and a reduction re-duction of 177,884 as compared with the same month In 1918. |