The day book. [volume], March 13, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 8

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JITNEYS. IN NEW YORK! ELECTRIC BUSES ARE
RUNNING WITH GIRL CONDUCTORS
Miss Alice Scanlon, and the luxurious electric bus in which she is con
ductor. This is one of several buses running in New York today as an
advertisement, without passengers. If the company gets its franchise, the
buses will afford as cheap transportation as the street cars, and much more
comfortable. .
New York, March 13-At last New
York itself has jitney buses!
The only trouble is nobody can
ride in them!
Bearing signs, "Can the People of
New York Get a Five-Cent Bus
Line?" they are perambulating
Broadway and the other traffic ar
teries of the metropolis, simply to let
the people of New York know that
somebody wants to give them jitney
bus service!
The company which wants to op
erate the five-cent buses has been or
ganized for a year; it has been doing
its darndest to get a franchise, or
even to obtain consideration of its
application for a franchise, for
months past.
Its officers finally got tired of re
maining in oblivion, and they have
started their buses running about the
streets, empty, but equipped with mo
tormen and conductors, to let as
many as possible of New York's
6,000,000 people know that they are
ON EARTH'
There is only one bus line operat
ing in New York. It charges a 10
cent fare. Up to a year ago its in
fluence was so strong in the state
legislature that no other bus com
pany could even apply for a franchise
in New York city. Such was the law.
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