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Show TEAMSTERS TE3TING AN OBJECTIONABLE REGULATION Pittsburg, Inly 22. Professor Thcs. H. Ashford. of the Team Owners' association as-sociation of Pittsbur?, drove up Wood street and down Smithtleld street yesterday. The tralilc law requires that he should drive down Wood and up Smilhlield. and ho knew it, but In behalf of teamsters representing, u-s he says, $2,0uM.ono in horse flesh, he decided to test the law. He was promptly arrested and the case goes to court. Incidentally it conies from Profe.- sor Ashford that the teamsters pay twice or three times as much for license li-cense to drive the streets as does the Plttfburg street railway company to run Its enra. The figures since lMe, he Pays, compared, are $73.1,700 to $2oS.$$0. the larger amount to the credit of the teamsters A lgor:us fight is to he made by the teamsters against the high license and the "one way" traffic regulation on certaiu streets. |