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Show AUTOMOBILES MAY! SUPERSEDE CARLINES Seattle. Wash. Jan. 19. In two propositions submitted to the city council, abandonment of projects for municipal ownership of street railways rail-ways is foreshadowed because of "jitney "jit-ney bus" competition One, a resolution reso-lution Introduced yesterday by the res in the council, provides for dropping drop-ping all litigation seeking to acquire an electric line to a suburban towu The other, a message from Mayor Hi ram C. Gill, vetoes a bill passed by the council to submit to voters a plan to extend the present municipal line three miles. The mayor's message said : "Automobiles are about to supersede super-sede carlines. Street railways In all parts of the country are experiencing difficulty in raising money for fear of motor bus competition If the city, in the face of this fact, begins to spend money on further extensions, we are fools rushing in where angels fear to tread." Five hundred "jitney bus" driven, at a meeting last night decided to I form a corporation to be known as J the "Seattle Auto Transit associa tion " The business of the organization organiza-tion will be to supervise schedules, assign routes, protect members in litigation, and promote the safety of bus patrons. Portland, Ore., Jan 19. On the ground that the operation of "jitney buses" in Portland was more than likelv to be short lived because it could not be profitable, the city commission com-mission declined yesterday to license or regulate their business A hearing had been called at the request of President Franklin T Griffith Grif-fith of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company, which operates the trolley cars of Portland. Mr Griffith Grif-fith represented that the 'Jitneys", by handling short haul traffic, exclusively, exclusive-ly, and paying nothing for the privilege, privi-lege, were a serious menace to the prosperity of the street car company which was obliged to carry people to the outlying districts for a 5-cent fare and to pay heavily in licenses and other dues. oo |