Show i f ARt APE ti ON STREET STREETCARS STREETS S CARS SHOWS INCREASE INCREASES S NS NEW YORK Dec 10 10 StatIstIcs Statistics compiled by the American Electric Railway association showing the rate ot of fare in effect November 1 1920 1020 Inthe in inthe the he titles cities of the United States having a pop population lation of or more indic indicate te a continuing Upward trend in street railway rates The associations association's ns n's figures res show that thata a larger urban population is now paying aying a cent 10 base rate than is paying the old om fashioned nickel charge harge New York City has been omitted from the Calculations because because be- be cause ause owing to a complicated political political ical cal situation the principal surface lines nes are arc in the h hands of receivers and nd Various Carious rates from 8 cents to a flat 5 cents are in effect making comparisons impossible VARIOUS RATES PAID The cities excluding New York I City ity have a combined population of nine forty-nine cities having a II combined population of are aren on n a cent 10 base rate two cities with a population of have a a. cent 9 base rate twenty-seven twenty cities citie population have an cent 8 base ase rate four eighty-four cities population population tion on have a cent 7 base rate ate five fifty cities population 5 5 have a cent 6 base rate rate- rate rate- two fifty cities population have ave a cent 5 base rate and eighteen cities population have zone I systems which make the rate higher I than lan 5 cen cents The The- increase in fares as compared with February 1920 when the association association asso- asso lation issued a similar statement is most significant The 1920 census added some fifteen cities to the group under consideration without however affecting the general divisions Cities in n the group paying more than thana a cent 5 fare increased from to 35 the cent 10 cities increasing from rom fourteen to twenty-seven twenty and cent 7 cities from fifty-eight fifty to eighty FEWER EWER IN ZONE CLASS Six-cent Six cities cities decreased decreased fro from one seventy one to five fifty-five cent 6 citIes cites cities cit cit- Ies es from eighty to two fifty and zone zonO system cities from twenty-six twenty to eighteen Of or the two fifty-two cities I charging a cent 5 fare but four have havea a population of more than and nd of these there thore is immediate prospect ct of Increase in two Chicago on Its elevated lines Boston oston Boston Pittsburg Seattle New HaYen Haen Haven Ha- Ha Yen ven en Bridgeport Hartford Fall River Lowell Cambridge and Lawrence Lawence Lawrence Law- Law rence ence are among the large cities having a cent 10 base while for cash passengers securing transfers at certain certain cerain tain ain points the fare in Philadelphia lt id s1 10 cents as s it is in Washington for foJ oj riders transferring between two two- separately owned systems In certain cerain certain tain ain of the zone cities such as s Providence Worcester San Diego Sprin Springfield field and New New Bedford the i iare fare are for all but the short ride passengers passengers paS- paS engers is 10 cents or In excess thereof |