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 Convention Daily 
 
 
 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. OCTOBER 5, 1922 
 
 PAST PRESIDENT'S DAY AT AMERICAN MEETING 
 
 Seven Former Heads of Association Introduced by General Harries, Who Said: 
 Have Reverence for Those Who Preceded Us in Honorable 
 and Honored Service" 
 
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 AT the conclusion of Judge War- 
 Warwick's address yesterday at the 
 American meeting, Mr. Todd said that 
 he had now reached the part on the 
 program known as "Past Presidents 
 Today." He himself might perhaps 
 use the salutation of the old Roman 
 gladiator: "Ahout to die, I salute 
 you." Nevertheless, this was not the 
 actual situation. When a president 
 
 the way up the ladder by his ability, 
 and now was first vice-president of 
 the Chicago Railways Company, a part 
 of the Chicago Surface Lines. At the 
 time that he was president of the 
 association he was president of the 
 Chicago Union Traction Company. 
 
 Mr. Roach in his address said first 
 that he was greatly pleased to wel- 
 come the association to Chicago, In 
 
 "Mere suggestions of a reunion of 
 patt presidents prompts premier 
 thought of those who, with the golden 
 key of death, opened the palace of 
 etsrnity. An old world cynic of the 
 long ago said that 'a dead man has 
 neither relations or friends.' With 
 such an utterance we can have no 
 sympathy. We have reverence for 
 those who preceded us in honorable 
 
 CHAS. L. HENRY 
 
 JOHN M. ROACH 
 
 GEN. G. H. HARRIES 
 
 L. S. STORRS 
 
 returned to the ranks there was much 
 that he could do of great value to the 
 association, as shown by the services 
 of the past presidents. He then in- 
 vited the past presidents of the asso- 
 ciation present to take seats on the 
 platform. Those who did so, with 
 their terms of ofl5ce, were: 
 John M. Roach. (1899-1900) 
 Walton H. Holm.es, (1900-1901) 
 Arthur W. Brady, (1910-1911) 
 Thomas N. McCarter. (1911-1912) 
 George H. Harries, (1912-1913) 
 Charles L. Henry, (1915-1916) 
 L. S. Storrs, (1916-1917) 
 Mr. Todd then introduced Mr. Roach 
 as the senior past president, and said 
 this year he was commemorating his 
 fifty years of service in street rail- 
 roading. He had worked himself all 
 
 behalf of the Chicago Surface Lines. 
 He referred to the city as contain- 
 ing the most wonderful park system 
 of any city in the world, and at the 
 same time it was a tremendous com- 
 mercial center and railroad terminal. 
 He then explained that General Har- 
 ries would be in charge of the re- 
 mainder of the session and he eulo- 
 gized the services of General Harries 
 in the army during the late war and 
 also his ability as an electric railway 
 operator. He said: "He has brought 
 honor to the asociation, and he honors 
 us today with his presence." 
 
 General Harries then took the chair 
 and asked the audience to stand as 
 a mark of respect to those who had 
 passed beyond. He then spoke im- 
 pressively as follows: 
 
 and honored service, and 'deem them 
 sacred who have entered the immortal 
 state.' There be several such — of 
 whom I have no roster — but they will 
 be, here and there, reached through- 
 out this audience. Who ameng us 
 that knew Caryl Ely can visualize him 
 without emotion or deny the exist- 
 ence of the friendship which persists 
 despite the intervening and immeas- 
 urable space? Other names will move 
 you to thought — and to gladness be- 
 cause you knew their bearers in this 
 world of work and play during days 
 wh( n tlje , shadows of ever-approach- 
 ing dissolution were cheerfully disre- 
 garded. As we are here assembled to 
 enjoy mutual greetings and laud the 
 living, let us pay at least brief hom- 
 age to those of equal merit who — 
 
Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 Third Issue 
 
 PROGRAM FOR TODAY 
 
 All Meetings on the Municipal Pier 
 
 CONVENTION MEETINGS 
 
 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. — Final meeting of 
 American Association, American 
 Room, Congress Hall. 
 
 2 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. — Final meeting of 
 Accountants' Association, including 
 past presidents' day, Accountants' 
 Room, 3rd floor Pier Head Building 
 above registration booth. 
 
 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. — Final meeting of 
 Engineering Association, Engineer- 
 ing Room, Congress Hall. 
 
 2:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m.— Final meet- 
 ing of Transportation & Traffic As- 
 sociation, including presentation of 
 badges to past presidents. Transpor- 
 tation & Traffic Room, Congrccs 
 Hall. 
 
 2:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. — Meeting of 
 Claims Association, Claims Room, 
 Congress Hall. 
 
 5 p. m. — Executive Committee, Ameri- 
 can Association. Drake Hotel. 
 
 ENTERTAINMENTS 
 2 p. m. to 5 p. ra. — Music by Benson's 
 Orchestra. Tea service for the 
 ladies. Informal reception and 
 light refreshments at Reception 
 Room, Municipal Pier. 
 8 p. m. — Grand Ball at the Drake 
 Hotel. 
 
 keepers of the faith — have passed out 
 of sight of men." 
 
 After the audience had become 
 again seated. General Harries said: 
 
 "Those whom you this day delight 
 to honor are of as many sorts as there 
 are individuals; they differ 'as one 
 star differeth from another star In 
 glory.' Each, during his term of 
 office, did that which seemed unto him 
 best — if he could persuade the execu- 
 tive committee to vote that way. 
 Some represent administrations long 
 gone and bring to you suggestions of 
 that now imaginary aroma of the 
 stables and barns (that really were 
 barns) and reeking harness which 
 was as frankincense and myrrh and 
 precious spices to the nostrils of 
 aforetime presidents; presidents in 
 those distant days when pine tables 
 served for presidential desks and 
 drivers were paid a dollar for a four- 
 teen hour day; when the books of 
 account were kept by a bright boy 
 who labored after school hours for 
 two dollars a week — and deemed him- 
 self to be well on his way to great 
 riches. 
 
 "Others will bring you later — and 
 maybe less interesting — news, for 
 reminiscences have fascinating value. 
 All must necessarily be brief — most 
 of the total time allotment is re- 
 served for the introductions though 
 I will tell you who and what the liv- 
 ing relics really are." 
 
 General Harries then referred to 
 the previous speaker, Mr. Roach: 
 
 "It's a long stride from the day of 
 the Slawson-box bell jjunch, the odor- 
 ous non-illuminating lamps, and the 
 straw-bedded passengers, but some of 
 us have made it. John M. Roach was 
 naturally a president for two reasons 
 — first, because he is and always has 
 been worthy of the highest honor the 
 industry can bestow and, second, be- 
 cause he was born in the state which 
 shares presidential parental glories 
 with Virginia. Virginia claims to be 
 the mother of presidents, but her 
 youngest child has long been dust. 
 Ohio is the father of presidents — 
 but not with Virginia as a partner — 
 and still rejoices in the sturdiness of 
 example. 
 
 "It's none of your business at all 
 when Mr. Roach was born, but it will 
 interest you youngsters of fifty 
 or sixty to know that he's a 
 transportation man through and 
 through — yet by no means through. 
 He began where some folk who once 
 were presidents have finished — as a 
 conductor. That was in 1872, in the 
 employ of the North Chicago Street 
 Railway Company. Because he under- 
 stood the basic things — his job, his 
 fellow employees, and the human be- 
 ings who reluctantly handed him their 
 fares — there were promotions; assist- 
 ant superintendent, superintendent; 
 vice-president and general manager of 
 the West Chicago Street Railway Com- 
 prny; vice-president and general 
 manager of the system embraced in 
 the United Traction Company and 
 president of three other Chicago com- 
 panies; then President of the Chicago 
 Railways Company tor six years, 
 when in 1913 he concluded he had 
 worked long enough. Then he be- 
 came a mere director of the Chicago 
 Surface Lines. His fiftieth anniver- 
 sary of Chicago railway service oc- 
 curred this year. We shall remem- 
 ber him as one who earned the dis- 
 tinction of our presidency in 1899 and 
 who made good." 
 
 The first past president introduced 
 by General Harries was Walton H. 
 Holmes, now vice-president I'Cansas 
 City. Leavenworth and Western Rail- 
 way. General Harries said that Mr. 
 Holmes when president of the asso- 
 ciation was also president of the Met- 
 ropolitan Street Railways of Kansas 
 City, and that the industry would 
 never forget the Holmes brothers. He 
 paid Mr. Holmes the compliment of 
 saying that he looked younger than 
 he did twenty-two years ago when he 
 was president of the association. 
 
 Mr. Holmes, in replying, explained 
 that he had always been in the rail- 
 way business and that his father, 
 Nehemiah Holmes, had built the first 
 street railway west of the Mississippi 
 River. This was the Kansas City & 
 Westport Street Railway, and fran- 
 chises were as difficult to obtain in 
 
 1859, when this road was built, as to- 
 day. He said that uiWer the direction 
 of his brother this railway was elec- 
 trified in 1884-85 by John C. Henry, 
 a pioneer electric railway engineer. 
 He had seen three changes in motor 
 power — horse, cable and electricity. 
 Cable had been considered essential In 
 Kansas City and has been used on 
 roads having as high as a 19 V2 per 
 cent grade. He referred to other past 
 presidents who were not now living 
 and particularly Captain McCulloch 
 and Calvin G. Goodrich. He con- 
 veyed the greetings of his brother to 
 the association. 
 
 General Harries then introduced 
 Arthur W. Brady, president, 1910-1911, 
 in the following way: 
 
 "Mr. Brady filled — I mean just that 
 — our presidential chair in 1910-1911. 
 Also, while he is only five years my 
 junior in life, he unintentially dis- 
 tributes an impression of perennial 
 youth; nothing frisky — far from it — 
 but nevertheless youth; finely-bal- 
 anced, well-rounded, cultured and 
 capable youth. He has overcome 
 whatever disabilities may have re- 
 sulted from being born in Indiana, 
 which commonwealth is not much in 
 the production of political presidents; 
 indeed it has even been deprived of 
 the glory of being a pivotal state in 
 presidential years. 
 
 "Mr. Brady's route to the associa- 
 tion's throne was not hampered by 
 early experience as a conductor or 
 motorman. He approached it by way 
 of the I'niversities of Yale and Mich- 
 igan and a Muncie law practice. He 
 got into our game as counsel for the 
 Citizen's Street Railway Company of 
 Muncie and for the Muncie. Hartford 
 & Fort Wayne Railway; both now 
 among the companies merged into the 
 Indiana Union Traction Company. As 
 counsel he was evidently a brilliant 
 success. He so attended to the 
 merger terms and legalities that the 
 stockholders promptly made him vice- 
 president and president in rapid suc- 
 cession; in which latter executive 
 position he could advise himself with- 
 out fear of a conflicting opinion. As 
 a logical result, the Indiana I^nion 
 Traction Company has, after twenty 
 years of Brady leadership, an ideal 
 chief and an operating organization 
 of the first class. We see what the 
 business can do even to a lawyer. 
 
 "As association man and oflBcer, Mr. 
 Brady fills the measure — the liquid 
 measure — to overflowing. His inter- 
 est is ever active; his energies always 
 at our disposal; his judgment sound. 
 A good man to have at your side in 
 a flght — for he never fails. A con- 
 stant friend. He rings true." 
 
 Mr. Brady, in his address, explained 
 that, in point of service, he was the 
 oldest president of the association in 
 its reorganized form. He paid a 
 strong tribute to Mr. Ely, who he said 
 was largely responsible tor the exist- 
 (Continucd on page 45) 
 
Oct. 5, 1922 
 
 Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 39 
 
 
 Thank the Lord, Jupiter Pluvius 
 didn't attend the Convention. 
 
 Well, there is only one more day 
 
 left in which the question can be 
 
 asked: "Who is Parnassus on the 
 Pier?" 
 
 Our aptronymic spotter points out 
 that the name of the assistant treas- 
 urer of the Chattanooga Railway & 
 Light Company is C. Wright. 
 
 We know now why the column con- 
 ductors in the daily papers are paid 
 a king's ransom each week for the 
 stuff they write. They don't get halt 
 enough at that. 
 
 Roy Holden received an enthusiastic 
 vote of thanks from visitors at the 
 lunch counter on the pier yesterday. 
 He started something by climbing in- 
 side and introducing some real serv- 
 ice. 
 
 A loyal T. & T. man and rooter for 
 President Seely was heard to say yes- 
 terday after the installation of 
 officers: "Well. Garrett may be an 
 Attic philosopher, but he has no bats 
 in his belfry." 
 
 Parnassus nearly slipped from his 
 heights when he saw H. W. Carlisle's 
 world's largest map in Marsh & Mc- 
 Lennan's booth. A New Yorker saw 
 it and exclaimed: "My land, I didn't 
 know the country was as big as that." 
 
 Budd Evins brought his spike tails, 
 but forgot his dress trousers. Mrs. 
 Evins telegraphed to the janitor to 
 break in and send them on for the 
 Ball tonight. When Budd has his 
 pants, he is vice-president of More- 
 Jones. 
 
 Books are books to the hotel cham- 
 bermaids. Thus one of the Journal 
 editors who brought with him on the 
 train a copy of "Brann's Iconoclast" 
 found on returning to his room that 
 the girl who cleans up had put Brann 
 atop the Gideon Bible. 
 
 A lady stepped up to W. P. Hunt, 
 president Northern Granite & Stone 
 
 Co., Cleveland, in the Drake lobby and 
 asked where she could find Mr. Black. 
 Mr. Hunt told her to ask at the desk. 
 "But he told me to ask the door- 
 man," she replied. 
 
 The Smith family is well repre- 
 sented at the convention this year, 
 twenty-three being listed in the ot- 
 ficial registration list out yesterday 
 morning. The unlucky character of 
 this number is shown by the fact that 
 no Mrs. Smith is present. 
 
 On seeing the young lady In the 
 far corner of the Electric Raihvay 
 Journal booth powder her nose out in 
 the open the other day, we remarked 
 that the work was one of superoga- 
 tion; like painting the lily or gilding 
 gold. That was all the good it did us. 
 
 The Californians are looking out for 
 their Bacon. Frank Bacon, who is ap- 
 pearing at a local theater in his play, 
 "Lightnin'," is a Calitornian and the 
 California electric railway men enter- 
 tained him at lunch at the Blackstone 
 yesteiday. Californians surely do 
 boost each other. 
 
 Thomas E. Grossman was the re- 
 cipient yesterday of a gold watch 
 fob from the association in apprecia- 
 tion of his forty years' endurance in 
 recording the proceedings of the A. E. 
 R. A. Mr. Grossman knows more 
 about this business than many rail- 
 way men. 
 
 J. F. Edward, master mechanic of 
 the Indianapolis Street Railway, says 
 that his company has found a way 
 of "Foxing" the motormen who im- 
 provise foot rests by kicking holes in 
 car vestibule linings. His company 
 now uses Plymetl instead of the com- 
 position lining previously used. 
 
 Indiana seems to have the call on 
 presidents in the American Associa- 
 tion, with Mr. Todd. Mr. Henry and 
 Mr. Brady, all in recent years. Mr. 
 Emmons of Maryland, the only candi- 
 date for president during the coming 
 year, may appear to be an exception, 
 but he also was manager of an In- 
 diana road for a number of years. 
 
 Sam Greenland: "How did you ever 
 get this fine weather for the conven- 
 tion?" 
 
 Hiram Kenfield: "I prayed for it." 
 
 Sam: "You certainly were greatly 
 blessed for one prayer." 
 
 HI: "Oh! I prayed for a whole week 
 for warm weather." 
 
 Sam: "Well, you prayed too long." 
 
 The two big events of the fall to 
 electric railway men are the World's 
 Series Games and the Convention. 
 This is the order of their importance, 
 but fortunately this year the conven- 
 tion had the jump on the baseball 
 games by a couple of days. If you 
 have any bets to place, see Harry 
 Donecker. 
 
 After their Tuesday's session, the 
 accountants moved out of the hall near 
 the end of the pier because of the 
 noise made by adjoining exhibits of 
 car gongs, air whistles and circuit 
 breakers. So Secretary Welsh gave 
 the use of this hall yesterday to the 
 publicity men. After this meeting the 
 gong and whistle exhibitors declared 
 they wanted new locations. 
 
 YOU CAN'T BEAT THE GENERAL 
 
 General Harries in his genial and 
 inimitable way wrote a few items for 
 this page yesterday when he intro- 
 duced some of the past presidents. 
 Narsassus — or is it Parnassus? — was 
 present and cribbed a few, to wit: 
 
 John M. Roach is a transportation 
 man through and through, but he is 
 not through. He celebrated the fif- 
 tieth anniversary of his connection 
 with the Chicago Railways yesterday. 
 
 Arthur W. Brady, a Yale-Michigan 
 legal light, is a good example of what 
 the railway business can do even for 
 a lawyer. 
 
 Lucius S. Storrs was a geologist of 
 note before becoming a railway presi- 
 dent. Probably this is what has en- 
 abled him to keep his property off 
 the rocks. 
 
 In responding to the General's 
 "dubious" introduction yesterday, past 
 President Thomas N. McCarter said: 
 "While Brady was studying deviltry 
 at Yale, I was learning Calvinism at 
 Princeton." 
 
Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 Third Issue 
 
 Since tiie last convention we have 
 lost one handsome bachelor in the 
 shape of Martin Schrieber, who was 
 well known to all the railway frater- 
 nity as a confirmed benedict. There 
 is still another chance or two, how- 
 ever, for the winsome young lady, as 
 we still have in our midst Smiling 
 Matt Bru.sh and Bonnie Bennie Lyon. 
 
 YES, YES! GO ON! 
 Last night I was TODDling along 
 the Lake Shore Drive WHITE WAY" 
 HOLDEN my own the best I could 
 and trying to PIERCE the gloom 
 which overhung Lake Mich., while a 
 COLLIER was at anchor in the offing. 
 Its crew was trying to catch some 
 FISH when a society BUDD ap- 
 proached me for a subscription 
 toward a fund for the education of 
 the heathen in GOULD, TONTRUP, 
 FINIGAN and SIAM. 'Twould have 
 been a HECKER of a note to let her 
 think I was trying to WELSH on her 
 and I was afraid slie might make a 
 NOYES about it to a policeman, as I 
 hadn't had time to TRAINOR better 
 or have friend LABERT do the job 
 in his own way. Swat me for a 
 ROACH if I didn't think she was a 
 KIDDER and I was just about to tell 
 her that I'd rather spend my money to 
 PALMER or else send her FLOWERS. 
 Just then sweetie spoke up and said: 
 '•Haven't I SAWYER before?" Says 
 I: "Yes, maybe you have in some 
 BLACKBALL over on the WEST side. 
 
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 Conducting a column looks easy, but 
 ain't. Sometimes the stuff just won't 
 come. You blow the police whistle 
 for traffic to start, but there isn't 
 any traffic. As R. H. L. said vesterday 
 morning in the Tribune: "This is 
 one of the days when the last line 
 seems almost impossible." 
 
 The registration at 5 o'clock last 
 night was 3,891. 
 
 Notice — Executive Coniinittee 
 
 Meeting American Association 
 
 gravity Ace bus over the road to De- 
 troit. It will leave Chicago Sunday 
 morning early. This company ex- 
 tends to the delegates an invitation 
 to go along. Those interested should 
 communicate with Mark Smith at the 
 exhibit of this company. Space E 43 
 and 44. 
 
 Attention is called to the fact that 
 the first meeting of the newly elected 
 Executive Committee of the American 
 Association is to be held at 5 o'clock 
 this afternoon, Thursday, Drake Ho- 
 tel, in one of the parlors. See bulle- 
 tin board for number of room. Par- 
 ticular attention is called to the fact 
 that this meeting is Thursday after- 
 noon and not F iday morning as orig- 
 inally announced. 
 
 Notice — Engineering Executive 
 and Subjects Committee Meeting 
 
 A meeting of the Executive Com- 
 mittee and of the Subjects Committee 
 of the Engineering Association will 
 be held at !) a. m. Friday at the Drake 
 Hotel. (See bulletin board tor room 
 number.) 
 
 Notice — Executive and Subjects 
 Committee Meeting Transpor- 
 tation and Traffic Association 
 
 Muscle Shoals to the Front 
 
 Those interested in Muscle Shoals 
 will be glad to learn the views on this 
 great national question of C. G. Adsit, 
 vice-president and executive engineer, 
 Georgia Railway & Power Company. 
 Mr. Adsit is quoted in the special Chi- 
 cago issue of "Two Bells" as follows: 
 
 "I think some of the things printed 
 about Muscle Shoals are greatly ex- 
 aggerated. But I do know that at 
 Tugalo we have the greatest success 
 if we use oak boards, charred on one 
 side fnd bound together securely by 
 iron bands. The longer potential 
 power is stored, the belter the volt- 
 age. Sometimes peach seed charcoal 
 helps. But be sure to have them 
 charred in Louisville instead of At- 
 lanta. Power generated by the Louis- 
 ville process is far preferable, par- 
 ticularly for lighting purposes." 
 
 Where Is John Stanley? 
 
 A meeting of the Executive Com- 
 mittee and of the Subjects Commit- 
 tee of the Transportation and Traffic 
 Association will be held at 9 a. m. 
 Friday at the Drake Hotel. See bul- 
 letin board for room number. 
 
 Do You Want to Go by 
 
 Bus to Detroit? 
 
 The American Jlotor Bus Company 
 plan.e: to run its large low-center-of- 
 
 Past President John J. Stanley, the 
 genial president of the Cleveland Rail- 
 way, left Cleveland at 9 a. m. Sunday 
 norning in the conveyance pictured 
 here. Three hours later he was safely 
 landed at Rice Lake, Ont., at Field 
 Lodge Farms. Having made up his 
 nind to abandon all care this week 
 for a fishing and hunting trip, an 18- 
 hour train trip was altogether too 
 slow to take him to his play. En route 
 he flew directly over Niagara Falls. 
 
 JOHN J. STANLEY GOES IN FOR SPEED 
 
Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS 
 
 A 
 
 mencan 
 Proceedings 
 
 YESTERDAY morning's session of 
 tlie American Association was 
 opened promptly at 10 o'clock, even 
 though there were but a small number 
 in the hall. President Todd is trying to 
 get things oft on schedule. A large 
 number of committee reports were pre- 
 sented during the morning. A report 
 of the constitution and by-laws com- 
 mittee was approved and an amend- 
 ment passed providing that there shall 
 
 Budd, President of Metropolitan West 
 Side Elevated, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Second Vice-President — J. N. Shan- 
 nahan, President Newport News & 
 Hampton Railway, Gas & Electric 
 Company. Hampton, Virginia. 
 
 Third Vice-President — F. R. Coates, 
 President Community Traction Com- 
 pany. Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 Fourth Vice-President — W. H. Saw- 
 yer, President East St. Louis & Su- 
 burban Railway, East St. Louis, 111. 
 
 Treasurer — Barron G. Collier, Presi- 
 dent Barron G. Collier, Inc., New York 
 City. 
 
 Members at large, representing rail- 
 way companies, terms expiring 1925 — 
 Paul Shoup, President Pacific Electric 
 
 made by financial institutions, but 
 that they were not applicable in rate 
 or reorganization cases before public 
 service commissions when they were 
 to be contested, nor when court re- 
 view was probable. W. H. Sawyer, 
 East St. Louis, and W. H. Maltbie, 
 Baltimore, both disagreed with Mr. 
 Perkins, stating that as a business 
 proposition railways should approach 
 the yardstick method as a matter of 
 good business. True, said Mr. Maltbie, a 
 certain type of court does not now 
 adopt this method and a certain type 
 of cross examination may seem to 
 undermine It, but that Is a temporary 
 condition and railways must carry on 
 the work so that finally this method 
 
 C. D. EMMONS 
 
 J. N. SHANNAHAN 
 
 F. R. COATES 
 
 be nine in place of twelve regular 
 meetings of the Executive Committee. 
 
 Reports from the company member- 
 ship, individual membership, publicity, 
 committee of one hundred, co-opera- 
 tion with State and Section Associa- 
 tion, were all received and approved. 
 In presenting the report of the publi- 
 clations committee Mr. Storrs made 
 an appeal to executives for advice to 
 help the publications committee and 
 the editor of Acra to find the one best 
 and most useful place In the field for 
 the publication's service. 
 
 A feature of the morning was the 
 report of the committee on nomina- 
 tions and the election of the follow- 
 ing officers: 
 
 President — C. D. Emmons, President 
 United Railways & Electric Company 
 of Baltimore. 
 
 First Vice-President — Britton I. 
 
 Railway Company, San Francisco, 
 Cal. ; J. P. Barnes, President Louisville 
 Railway. Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Representing manufacturers' com- 
 panies — H. D. Shute, vice-president 
 Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur- 
 ing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 A. A. Hale, New England represen- 
 tative. Griffin Wheel Company, Bos- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 The report of the valuation commit- 
 tee was presented largely supporting 
 the further extension of "yard-stick" 
 methods of valuation. In a written 
 discussion presented by A. T. Perkins 
 of St. Louis, it was emphasized that 
 yard-stick methods must be applied 
 with care — that they were useful when 
 valuations were being made by cor- 
 porations and commissions with no 
 third party to examine into the re- 
 sults, or wben valuations were being 
 
 of valuation may be recognized by 
 commissions and eventually by 
 statute. 
 
 The next report was that of the 
 committee on co-operation of manu- 
 facturers presented by E. F. Wlck- 
 wire, its chairman, with the usual 
 Wickwirian witticisms. This report 
 indicated a very greatly increasing co- 
 operative activity on the part of man- 
 ufacturers and there was a note of 
 prediction of more to come. C. E. 
 Morgan, Brooklyn, in discussion of 
 this report, said that railway com- 
 panies should take the initiative in 
 this public relations work so as to 
 make the co-operation of the manu- 
 facturers less difficult. 
 
 President Todd then introduced as 
 the next speaker, Hon. Walter W. 
 Warwick, assistant director of the 
 budget. United States Treasury. Judge 
 
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 Third Issue 
 
 Warwick gave an account of the 
 budget system in the United States 
 and said that in his opinion within a 
 few years the annual message of the 
 President on the budget would be con- 
 sidered the most interesting official 
 document published. He then said that 
 the connection between government 
 financing and electric railway financ- 
 ing was closer than one might think. 
 He said he recalled the opinion of 
 the Federal Electric Railways Com- 
 mission and did not think the public 
 as a whole realized the burdens of 
 the railways. Those who did prob- 
 ably considered those burdens Just 
 retribution for the sins of the pion- 
 eers thirty years ago. Nevertheless, 
 the public, now, is coming to realize 
 that whatever the conditions thirty 
 years ago, they have an interest in 
 good present street car service. The 
 railway is, and will remain, the chief 
 means of local service, and the speaker 
 said that he does not expect to see 
 the cars replaced by buses, though 
 the latter may be all right for light 
 traffic. 
 
 nounced the remainder of the session 
 would be taken up with addresses 
 from the past-presidents of the asso- 
 ciation present. The account of this 
 portion of the session is given in an- 
 other column. 
 
 Engineering 
 Proceedings 
 
 THE meeting of the Engineering As- 
 sociation yesterday afternoon was 
 opened by a short address on Safety 
 Work by H. H. Buckman of the 
 United Lead Company. Mr. Buckman 
 stressed the importance of getting' 
 suggestions from employees as to how 
 to prevent accidents and he said that 
 even though these cannot be acted on 
 immediately, frequently circumstances 
 occur later where they will be found 
 of great value. 
 
 The report of the committee on this 
 subject of curved wneel and tread 
 contours was accepted with the pro- 
 vision that the recommendations made 
 by the standards committee regarding 
 it be carried out. 
 
 Subject No. 3, dealing with girder 
 rail specifications, was discussed by 
 H. H. George, who gave a comparison 
 of the recommendations made by the 
 way committee with existing specifi- 
 cations of the American Society for 
 Testing Materials. Mr. George also 
 explained and elaborated the way 
 committee's report on subject No. 6 
 relating to wood preservation. The 
 last two recommendations of the way 
 committee in regard to this subject 
 were adopted and the first was adopted 
 with the provision that this subject 
 be assigned to a special committee 
 for consideration in the future. 
 
 In discussing subject No. 7, H. A. 
 Johnson reported that the subjects 
 committee had decided that this sub- 
 ject should not be reassigned to the 
 way committee for future study. The 
 
 W. H. SAWYER 
 
 PAUL SHOUP 
 
 H. D. SHUTE 
 
 The question at present was, how 
 is the railway to get the new capital 
 necessary. The public has been edu- 
 cated during Liberty Loan campaigns 
 to understand investments, and as 
 people acquire capital, many can be 
 induced to purchase utility issues. But 
 they must have something more defin- 
 ite than mere promises. They will 
 want to know all about the business 
 in which they are expected to invest, 
 and they will want to see their money 
 go into good service. Railway com- 
 panies desiring to reach this class of 
 investor must be able to talk their 
 language. The statements must not 
 be too complex. With such a body of 
 stockholders, the utility will be in 
 much better position. But the man- 
 agement must not be of the absentee 
 class. The board must contain local 
 men of character, and the financial 
 institutions at home must be able to 
 recommend the security. Then the 
 situation of the railway is secure. 
 
 At the conclusion of Judge War- 
 wick's address the president an- 
 
 The report of the committee on way 
 matters was presented by W. F. 
 Graves, chairman. The various sub- 
 jects asigned to the way committee 
 for consideration this year were taken 
 up individually and the discussion 
 completed on each before proceeding 
 to the next. On subjects Nos. 1, lA, 
 3, 5 and 12 there was no discussion 
 and the recommendations of the way 
 committee were adopted by the asso- 
 ciation. Subject No. 2 was discussed 
 by H. Fort Flowers, who said that the 
 way committee favored the use of a 
 compound fillet rather than a curved 
 contour for the tread of wheels. When 
 two wheels differing in diameter by 
 1/32 in. are mounted on the same 
 axle, if the wheels had a standard 
 taper of one in twenty-five they would 
 have to move endwise % In. in order 
 to find a point of equal diameter. As 
 there is but Vs in. difference between 
 the standard wheel gage and the 
 standard truck gage such unequal- 
 diameter wheels will hug the rail. 
 
 way committee accordingly withdrew 
 its recommendation that the subject 
 of specifications for sundry track ma- 
 terials be assigned to the ensuing 
 committee for the purpose of com- 
 piling additional specifications in this 
 field, in view of the fact that this 
 work can be more economically han- 
 dled through the A. E. S. C. The 
 recommendation that the specifica- 
 tions submitted this year be adopted 
 as "recommended specifications" and 
 included in the Engineering Manual 
 was adopted. The dimensions of frogs 
 for crossings and turnouts as given 
 by the committee were adopted as 
 "standard design." 
 
 As recommended by the committee, 
 the subject of track construction in 
 paved streets was assigned to the en- 
 suing committee with instructions to 
 continue the joint study of this sub- 
 ject with the A. S. M. I. H. H. George 
 explained that W. R. Dunham and he 
 had attended the A. S. M. I. conven- 
 tion in Cleveland this week. There 
 is likelihood that public utility men 
 
Oct. 5, 1922 
 
 Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 will be admitted to active member- 
 ship in that society. If so. It will be 
 easy to promote co-operation with 
 that society. On account of the late- 
 ness of the hour, the report of the 
 standards committee was put over to 
 Thursday. Mr. Johnson, however, re- 
 ported for the subjects committee, the 
 recommendation of which will go to 
 the incoming executive committee. 
 Joint Session With Amekican 
 Welding Society 
 
 Chairman Kimball yielded the chair 
 to C. A. McCune, president Amer- 
 ican Welding Society, who briefly ex- 
 plained the organization of that soci- 
 ety. Mr. McCune then called on Mr. 
 Sparagen, secretary American Bu- 
 reau of Welding, to tell of the work 
 of that organization. 
 
 E. M. T. Ryder next read a paper 
 on "Welded Rail Joints Problems" in 
 which the activities of the A. B. of 
 W. committee on welded rail joints 
 were covered. In the absence of J. 
 S. McWhirter, his paper on "Welding 
 for the Maintenance of 1,600 Cars" 
 was read by G. C. Hecker. J. H. 
 Deppeler, chief engineer Metal & 
 Thermit Corporation, opened the dis- 
 cussion with some remarks on ther- 
 mit welding, and a communication by 
 Mr. Gillespie on oxy-acetylene weld- 
 ing was read by title. 
 
 Accountants 
 
 Tocee 
 
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 THE meeting of the Accounts' As- 
 sociation yesterday afternoon was 
 held in the new quarters, which 
 proved to be much more satisfactory 
 than the room originally assigned to 
 the association. After being called to 
 order by President Webster the re- 
 port of M. W. Glover, chairman of 
 the committee on relations with other 
 associations, was read and approved. 
 This report outlined the work of the 
 committee since its organization in 
 May, 1922, and suggested the desir- 
 ability of co-ordination of association 
 work insofar as the accounting 
 branches of the various industries 
 might be interested. Plans were made 
 for representation of the railway Ac- 
 countants' Association at the conven- 
 tions of the other national organiza- 
 tions and this will likely result in a 
 much better general understanding be- 
 tween the accountants in the various 
 industries. 
 
 After Mr. Glover's report was read 
 Henry W. Snow delivered a very com- 
 prehensive and interesting address on 
 the preparation and administration of 
 budgets. This address brought out 
 some very important points in con- 
 nection with budgets. This subject is 
 of particular interest at this time on 
 account of the financial problems 
 which the industry has been meeting 
 during the past few years. 
 
 In his address Mr. Snow suggested 
 that the budget work be handled by 
 a separate organization reporting to 
 an executive ofBcer and that the scope 
 of its work should include the fore- 
 casts necessary in construction, rev- 
 enue and material requirements, these 
 features to be summarized in a gen- 
 eral statement of cash requirements. 
 Budget Prep;\ked 
 
 The preparation of a budget cover- 
 ing a specified term, while reflecting 
 some advantages, appeared to be less 
 desirable than the preparation of a 
 continuous budget subject to revisions 
 from time to time on account of 
 changes in financial situations and 
 other unforeseen problems. 
 
 It was also suggested that the con- 
 tinuous budget be subjected to a care- 
 ful check with the records of the Ac- 
 counting Department and this factor 
 should be of considerable interest to 
 the accounting officers present, as it 
 will give them an opportunity to 
 study and anticipate future require- 
 ments. 
 
 While it is considered desirable to 
 prepare budgets along very definite 
 lines Mr. Snow emphasized the flexi- 
 bility of his system and stated that 
 no company should attempt to fix its 
 budget requirements in a way that 
 changes could not be made from time 
 to time. The circumstances under 
 which the companies are operating 
 are continually changing and it would 
 be manifestly impossible to prepare 
 a budget which would be of any value 
 without taking this factor into consid- 
 eration. 
 
 After the conclusion of Mr. Snow's 
 address a number of accountants pres- 
 ent requested further information as 
 to certain points contained therein, 
 and a general discussion resulted 
 therefrom. He was given a I'ising 
 vote of thanks for his work in con- 
 nection with the address and it was 
 also moved and seconded that copies 
 of his paper should be sent to the 
 various members of the Accountants' 
 Association in advance of the regular 
 proceedings. 
 Open Discussion 
 
 At the conclusion of the regular 
 program, the meeting was thrown 
 open to the discussion of matters of 
 general interest to the accountants 
 and some very interesting subjects 
 were brought up. It was felt by the 
 members present that these informal 
 discussions were of material advan- 
 tage to the association and that they 
 should be continued from time to time. 
 
 CI 
 
 aima/--^ 
 
 Jack Sprat could eat no fat; his 
 wife could eat no lean. ,You see, they 
 spent their money for the jitney's 
 gasoline. — Fresno Republican. 
 
 TOcee 
 
 dm^s 
 
 A man stepped off the sidewalk, 
 In a hurry for his chow; 
 
 He didn't look to right or left — 
 He's with the angels now. 
 
 — The Buzzer. 
 
 AT the third meeting of the Claims 
 Association yesterday afternoon, 
 G. T. Hellmuth, Chicago, North Shore 
 & Milwaukee Railroad, read a paper 
 on "Exorbitant Contingent Fees of At- 
 torneys and Doctors, Their Effect and 
 Legal Aspects." This paper had been 
 prepared by W. W. Smithers, of the 
 firm of Squires, Sanders and Demp- 
 sey, Philadelphia. A legislative bill 
 concerning ambulance chasers had 
 been prepared by Mr. Smithers and 
 was submitted for record in the pro- 
 ceedings. 
 
 Joseph S. Kuhn, formerly secretary 
 of the Claims Association, and now 
 with the Cleveland Railway, read a 
 very comprehensive paper exposing the 
 "Methods Employed by Ambulance 
 Chasers." He outlined methods em- 
 ployed by these "shysters," from the 
 securing the names and addresses of 
 the injured, to the supplying of med- 
 ical experts and the securing of at- 
 torneys upon a contingent fee basis. 
 Mr. Kubu pointed out the small per- 
 centage of money verdicts these am- 
 bulance chased victims eventually re- 
 ceived, and called attention to the sub- 
 stantial fees raked off by the unscrii- 
 pulous doctors and lawyers. Several 
 specific cases were outlined and com- 
 mented upon, and one or more pamph- 
 lets as used by ambulance chasers 
 were submitted for record. 
 
 John W. Yenson, Third Avenue Rail- 
 way, New York, supplemented Mr. 
 Kubu's paper by an equally excellent 
 one which outlined the methods and 
 procedure of ambulance chasers in the 
 East. Mr. Yenson suggested as relief 
 from the iiernicious activities of these 
 parasites, appeals to the various bar 
 associations and publicity. 
 
 Albert E. Powell, of the law firm of 
 Squires. Sanders and Dempsey, of 
 Cleveland, read a fair and unbiased 
 paper which treated from an attor- 
 ney's viewpoint the subject introduced 
 by Mr. Smithers, and referred to 
 above. He talked at some length upon 
 champerty and maintenance and con- 
 tingent fees. 
 
 Letters from the president of the 
 American Medical Association and 
 the president of the American Bar 
 Association were read and placed on 
 file. These letters were in response 
 to letters sent them by President Rice 
 and contained no special messages. 
 
 Attorneys from various cities spoke 
 briefly in a personal way upon the 
 caption, "Our Experiences and Opin- 
 ion." Among these speakers were B. 
 J. Kernan, of New Orleans; Mr. Her- 
 old, of the Pacific Coast Liability In- 
 surance Association; E. A. Neel, of 
 
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 Third Issue 
 
 Kansas City; Roane Waring, Memphis. 
 Tenn., and George E. Crosse, of La 
 Crosse. Wis. 
 
 Time was not available for the pa- 
 pers on "Women Jurors" and "Jury 
 Systems, and the Need for Their Re- 
 %ision." 
 
 T. and T. 
 Proceedings 
 
 THE first item on the program of 
 the Transportation & Traffic As- 
 sociation was the presentation of the 
 report on one-man car operation by 
 C. E. Morgan, chairman. He stated 
 that the committee had brought the 
 rules up to date, changing only in 
 minor details to adapt them to one- 
 man or two-man operation. The re- 
 port was adopted. 
 
 S. P. Pope read his paper on "The 
 Llght-Weight Interurban Car." after 
 which V. E. Duffy read for himself 
 and H. S. Sweet, their paper on "The 
 Turnstile Car." 
 
 Mr. Duffy, in closing his paper, said 
 that the chief engineer of the New- 
 York Public Service Commission, 
 which has just approved of the opera- 
 tion of the turnstile cars, says that 
 this type of car is as safe as any 
 operated in the State of New York. 
 In Rochester the company is also op- 
 erating two or three routes using this 
 turnstile type of car. 
 
 W. E. Thompson read his paper on 
 "Development of the Turnstile Car on 
 the Third Avenue Railway System. 
 New Y'ork City." He told how they 
 had developed a double stream exit 
 using an automatic turnstile for those 
 who had the exact fare and a fare box 
 for those whom the operator had to 
 make change for and issue transfers. 
 The cars have proved somewhat 
 slower in operation than the two-man 
 double-end type of car. 
 
 James F. Hamilton. New Y'ork State 
 Railways, told how he was not much 
 of an enthusiast at first for the turn- 
 stile cars, but now he is convinced 
 that it is the successful solution of 
 one-man car operation and was con- 
 fident that this type of car was here 
 to stay. He said operation would have 
 been started earlier in Rochester but 
 the company had no money and time. 
 Plans now are to extend operation lO 
 practically every line in Rochester 
 and also on a 40-mile interurban line. 
 H. H. Adams, Chicago, referred to a 
 statement made at one of the Atlantic 
 City conventions that one passageway 
 would not do on the one-man type of 
 car, but that it was essential to have 
 a passageway wide enough so that the 
 passengers could get on and off at the 
 same time. He also told how the Chi- 
 cago type of car was developed and 
 how the automatic door was con- 
 trolled. He believed that a barrier of 
 any kind in the passageway slowed 
 
 up operation and it was the reason for 
 his development. 
 
 G. H. Clifford. Fort Worth, Tex., said 
 that the light weight one-man car had 
 made more frequent headway possible 
 and that one of the fundamental ideas 
 of using it was to improve service. 
 He pointed out also that the cost of 
 rebuilding cars for one-man opera- 
 tion was not justified, and for that 
 reason that they were doing very lit- 
 tle of this kind of work at present. 
 
 H. H. Brown. Duluth, told how^ out; 
 line had been equipped for the past 
 two years with eight cars having turn- 
 stiles and how by means of a railing 
 he had succeeded in eliminating con- 
 gestion on the rear platform. Regis- 
 tering turnstiles are used and they 
 take care of ticket fares. He said that 
 the turnstile t\-pe of car would not be 
 successful unless it had a front exit. 
 E. A. Roberts, New Y'ork Transit Com- 
 mission, said that all economies must 
 be practiced on account of the 5 cent 
 fare in New Y'ork and that the turn- 
 stile cars in operation there by the 
 two companies were not in use long 
 enough to draw definite conclusion. 
 The attitude of the commission, he 
 said, was to encourage such develop- 
 ments. 
 
 John F. Ohmer told how ten years 
 ago the first installation of turnstiles 
 was put on the Riverdale line of the 
 Peoples Railway Company in Da>i;on 
 and the reasons that led up to their 
 being prohibited. While in operation, 
 thougti. they had proved successful 
 and had materially increased the re- 
 ceipts. 
 
 1922. Mr. Datz has been acting as 
 chief engineer of the^Iemphis Gas « 
 Electric Co. and the Little Rock Rail- 
 way & Electric Co., now under the 
 supervision of the Electric Bond <!c 
 Share Co. 
 
 Datz To Be Elected 
 
 Engineering President 
 
 LT NLESS unexpected opposition de- 
 ' velops today the next president of 
 the Engineering Association will be 
 L. C. Datz. of Memphis, Tenn. That Is, 
 the nomination of Mr. Datz has been 
 made by the nominating committee and 
 as the election will be held after the 
 last Daily is out it is necessary to tell 
 something about him in advance. 
 
 Twentj'-one years ago he graduated 
 from Tulane Tniversity in mechanical 
 and electrical engineering, for a 
 couple of years thereafter working 
 with a contractor in New Orleans de- 
 signing and building dredge boats and 
 dredging machinery. Then for more 
 than seven years he was chief drafts- 
 man and assistant engineer of the 
 New Orleans Railway & Light Co. 
 
 After short periods, first with Tu- 
 lane University as secretary, then 
 with Ford. Bacon & Davis, and finally 
 with the New Orleans property again 
 he took a real job as engineer of 
 Southern properties, I'nited Gas & 
 Electric Corporation, also acting a 
 vice-president of Southern properties 
 of this corpoi-ation toward the end of 
 the period of five years. Then for 
 three years he was chief engineer of 
 the American Cities Co. Since April, 
 
 Meeting of Public Relations 
 
 and Advertising Men 
 
 UNANIMOUS approval of the pro- 
 posal to organize a Public Utility 
 Advertising Association was registered 
 in the round-table discussion of the 
 public relations and advertising men 
 yesterday afternoon. W. P. Strandborg, 
 Portland Railway, Light & Power 
 Company, chairman of the committee 
 on organization, presented a prospec- 
 tus for the organization. This in- 
 cluded a tentative draft of a consti- 
 tution and tentative standards of 
 practice necessary before such an or- 
 ganization can apply for membership 
 in the National Advertising Commis- 
 sion and the technical division of the 
 Associated Advertising Clubs of the 
 World. 
 
 The present meeting was the second 
 ing taken place at a meeting held in 
 Milwaukee on June 13. 1922. This 
 first meeting was attended by repre- 
 sentatives of the electric railway, gas, 
 light and power and telephone utili- 
 ties and the same interests were rep- 
 resented on the organization commit- 
 tee appointed at that time. The com- 
 mittee on organization was formally 
 continued by action of the meeting 
 to continue the work of organization 
 and those in attendance at the meet- 
 ing pledged assistance as they are 
 called on by the committee. Among 
 those who spoke in favor of the pro- 
 posed organization were John F. Gil- 
 christ, of the Commonwealth Edison 
 Company; John Spellman. for the Bell 
 Telephone Companies; Chas. Persons, 
 National Director of the American Gas 
 Association: B. J. Mullaney. of the 
 Illinois Committee on Public Utility 
 Information; George F. Oxley, Di- 
 rector of Publicity of the National 
 Electric Light Association, and L. T. 
 Starr, of the Georgia Railway & 
 Power Company. 
 
 Go Home by Motor Bus 
 
 The White Company is going to take 
 its Pennsylvania-Ohio Electric Com- 
 pany's deluxe coach and two of its 
 twenty urban coaches back to Cleve- 
 land over the road. They will leave 
 Friday afternoon immediately after 
 lunch. The route will leave via South 
 Bend, where a stop will be made over 
 Friday night, continuing on Saturday 
 to Toledo, where Saturday night will 
 be spent; then via Sandusky to Cleve- 
 land on Sunday. The White Company 
 extends an invitation to any one of 
 the delegates present to go along. See 
 F. E. Triebner at the White Com- 
 pany's exhibit on the pier. 
 
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 Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 (Continurd from f>ngc 38) 
 ence of the association as it exists 
 today. There is no question, he said, 
 that there would have been an asso- 
 ciation, but it was a question how 
 large and how broad its scope would 
 be. There has been considerable 
 doubt as to the advisability of the 
 re-organization and during the few 
 years following that period the asso- 
 ciation had many trials. Looking 
 back, however, the speaker said he 
 believed it was fortunate that the 
 re-organization had taken place at 
 the particular time that it did. Mr. 
 Brady also made a tribute to the later 
 secretaries of the association, Messrs. 
 Swenson and Donecker. 
 
 General Harries then introduced 
 Thomas N. IMcCarter, president 1911- 
 1912, in the following words: 
 
 "When President McCarter sallied 
 forth In 1912 — accompanied by a pri- 
 vate car, Charley Peirce and sundry 
 other representatives of the so-called 
 'interests' — predatory interests — he 
 gave to his high office an apostolic 
 air. Not that he journeyed without 
 
 THOS. N. McCARTER 
 
 scrip or purse, giving no thought to 
 the morrow — (suggesting unnecessary 
 hardships) — but because he went forth 
 to preach our gospel to the end that 
 our wicked traducers be shown the 
 error of their anti-corporate ways. He 
 out-traveled De Soto — for De Soto 
 only got as far as the Mississippi and 
 was not an apostle anyway — and 
 spread abroad the doctrines which 
 sprang from our creed. If Mr. Mc- 
 Carter had never done anything more 
 for the association than to make that 
 voluntary pilgrimage (in such com- 
 pany) we would ever be indebted to 
 him, but he did very much more. 
 
 "Like Mr. Brady, Jlr. McCarter is a 
 lawyer. I state this without preju- 
 dice. He left Princeton (after grad- 
 uation) for the law and still obeys 
 even the statutes, although what he 
 thinks of some of them is not here 
 of record. If he was on the bench 
 now — as he was four years before the 
 utilities commandeered him — he would 
 probably (in the light of twenty years' 
 non-judicial experience) be a great 
 'constitutional' justice of the Su- 
 preme Court of the United States. 
 
 ".Mr. McCarter's entrance into the 
 transportation department of daily 
 life strangely parallels what happened 
 to Mr. Brady. Chosen one of a com- 
 mittee of four to devise a plan for 
 the rehabilitation and development of 
 public utility properties in New 
 Jersey, there followed the organiza- 
 tion of the Public Service Corporation, 
 with Mr. McCarter as president. What 
 he has done for that great and grow- 
 ing public servant is, among us, com- 
 mon knowledge — a series of magnifi- 
 cent achievements. What some of the 
 duly (or otherwise) constituted au- 
 thorities in New Jersey have endeav- 
 ored to do to him would be an all- 
 night story. Havin.g mentioned New 
 Jersey two or three times in my re- 
 marks, I should tell you that it is the 
 first place where the zone system was 
 first tried on an extended scale, and 
 where there are now more jitneys to 
 the square inch than any other place 
 on earth. 
 
 "Mr. McCarter may well be loved 
 for the enemies he has made. We 
 know him to be a sincere, forceful 
 and fearless personage; a friend to 
 his friends; a redoubtable antagonist, 
 and a tower of strength in the asso- 
 ciation structure." 
 
 Mr. McCarter said in his address 
 that he had been educated under the 
 Calvinism of Princeton college, of 
 which he and Woodrow Wilson were 
 two products. The similarity ceased 
 there, as the education had affected 
 him one way and Mr. Wilson another 
 way. He said he was no optimist in 
 regard to the industi-y nor a complete 
 pessimist, but that he believed it was 
 wrong to fool ourselves or think that 
 the future of the industry would be 
 free from trouble. One thing to over- 
 come was public hostility. He sr.id 
 that his company was doing every- 
 thing that it could think of to satisfy 
 the public, such as good service, cour- 
 tesy of employees, some speechifying 
 and advertising. It is attempting to 
 gain the favor of the public by every 
 legitimate means and that most com- 
 panies were doing this now, but it 
 doesn't seem always to attain the re- 
 sults sought. For example, the New 
 York electric railway companies were 
 giving the finest service in the world, 
 yet the present mayor was re-elected 
 on the platform of a 5-cent fare. Nev- 
 ertheless, the work must go on, not 
 that railway officials and stockhold- 
 ers necessarily were to benefit but 
 that the public comfort and conveni- 
 ence be attained. 
 
 The next past-president introduced 
 by General Harries was Charles L. 
 Henry. President 1915-1916. Of Mr. 
 Henry he said: 
 
 "Full of honors — yet always to be 
 honored more — was Charles L. Henry 
 when he became our official leader in 
 191.5-1916. With him he brought a 
 great store of experience, for he had 
 record of success in the practice of 
 
 law, had owned the Indianajjolis 
 Juunial, served usefully as a member 
 of the Indiana State Senate and as a 
 member of Congress (refusin.g more 
 than two terms) and nationally rec- 
 ognized as one of the notable pioneers 
 of interurban electric railway de- 
 veloiiment. Incidentally, he gave the 
 word 'interurban' to our language; a 
 word which still affects adversely a 
 number of investors who plun.i;ed so 
 deeply into the depths of interurban 
 idea that their money is still away 
 below the once-alluring surface. 
 
 "For thirty years he has been fore- 
 most among the keen-visioned in com- 
 munity building by amplifying rapid 
 transit facilities. He is now presi- 
 dent of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati 
 Traction Company — notable as one of 
 the earliest successful single-phase 
 systems in the country. 
 
 "Just what the association would do 
 if Mr. Henry took a year's vacation 
 is something I am not going to dis- 
 cuss. The mere thought of such a 
 happening distresses us selfishly. 
 Wherever work abounds, there is he; 
 
 A. W. BRADY 
 
 calmly industrious; conscientiously 
 productive; a wise counsellor; fric- 
 tionless, yet very far from offering a 
 merely passive resistance when prin- 
 ciples or good practice are at stake. 
 He keeps us straight federally and 
 tries to keep the federal authorities 
 straight — with gratifying success. His 
 personal charm and our gratitude 
 bind us to him, and always will." 
 
 Mr. Henry said in reply that It 
 seemed only a few years since he was 
 president, and this shows that the 
 years go swiftly by. The first con- 
 vention which he attended was that 
 at Niagara Falls. He had seen the 
 association in many difficult ways, 
 but it was here to stay. During- the 
 year which he served as president, 
 the most delightful experience which 
 he had was that he received the co- 
 operation of all. An import?nt step 
 taken during that year was that both 
 the manufacturers' companies and 
 the railway companies were united 
 in the organization. The message 
 which he wished to leave was "Strong 
 and United work in service of a Unit- 
 ed Industry." 
 
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 Third Issue 
 
 General Harries then introduced L. 
 S. Storrs, president 1916-1917, as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Mr. Storrs, a Geologist of Note 
 
 "If the encyclopedias of biography 
 do not exaggerate (and I see no 
 reason why, in this instance, they 
 should), Lucius S. Storrs was a geol- 
 ogist of note before he entered the 
 electric railway business. One of his 
 dear friends was moved to say that 
 nothing other than an intimate knowl- 
 edge of geology could have kept the 
 Storrs' properties off the rocks dur- 
 ing the last few critical years. The 
 simplicity of the method by which 
 things were kept afloat will appeal to 
 each one of you. All Mr. Storrs had 
 to do was to convince the commis- 
 sions and the public in his communi- 
 ties that he needed higher fares, re- 
 duction of taxation, and the abolition 
 of all jitneys in his territory. He got 
 what he wanted — with New York and 
 Its five cent fare and municipal buses 
 only a few miles away. In spite of 
 this feat he is still president of that 
 New England electrified network 
 known as the Connecticut Company. 
 "The period of Mr. Storrs' service 
 included most of the year when we 
 belatedly entered the World War. 
 Only those of you who know how the 
 forthcoming past-president served as 
 chairman of our Association Commit- 
 tee on National Defense — having 
 charge of electric railway co-opera- 
 tion — can fully appreciate the value 
 of his willing contribution to the 
 great cause. 
 
 "Deeply, liberally, interested in all 
 association problems, engaging of 
 manner and a winner through tech- 
 nical fact and diplomatic logic, Mr. 
 Storrs will probably tell you how 
 much he thinks of you." 
 
 Mr. Storrs said in reply that the 
 Industry was in a critical situation 
 when he served as president, but 
 whether this was a case of cause and 
 effect or of coincidence, he could not 
 say. The same period was marked by 
 a gradual abandonment of the 5-cent 
 fare, and conditions were so bad dur- 
 ing his administration that the an- 
 nual convention had to be abandoned. 
 He said he also had a message to give 
 to the association. It was just the 
 opposite of the motto: "Cheer up, the 
 worst is yet to come," but was: "Day 
 by day. in every way, things are get- 
 ting better." 
 
 Chairman Harris then referred to 
 the fact that W. Worth Bean, one cf 
 those who had been present at :.he 
 original organization meeting at Bos- 
 ton in 1882, was present at this con- 
 vention, and that he understood ibat 
 Mr. Bean had maintained his member- 
 ship connection with the association, 
 first through his company being a 
 member and later through being an 
 individual member since the original 
 meeting in Boston in 1882. He ex- 
 tended the congratulations of the as- 
 sociation to Mr. Bean. 
 
 Letters were then read from four 
 past presidents who were not able to 
 be present, namely, Julius S. Walsh, 
 president, 1885-86; D. P. Longstreet, 
 president, 1892-93; Joel Hurt, presi- 
 dent, 1894-95, and Charles S. Ser- 
 geant, president, 1898-99. 
 
 Chairman Harries then said that the 
 association had been served for two 
 score years by Thomas E. Grossman, 
 as oSicial reporter, and who was still 
 the reporter of the association. Mr. 
 Grossman had taken down discus- 
 sions, serious and frivolous, for forty 
 years, and after it was written out, 
 he had so treated it that it was read- 
 able. He originally was connected 
 with the Atlantic Avenue Railroad 
 Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., of which 
 company W. J. Richardson, the first 
 secretary of the association, was the 
 secretary. 
 
 Through this connection he under- 
 took the reporting of the first regular 
 meeting of the association in 1883 at 
 the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, 
 and continued to report the subse- 
 quent meetings, being present at all 
 meetings. He presented to Mr. Cross- 
 man, in behalf of the association, a 
 gold watch fob with the emblem of 
 the association. 
 
 Mr. Grossman expressed his thanks 
 for the gift, and said that the work 
 had never been a grind, but was fas-, 
 cinating to him, and that he appre- 
 ciated the opportunity of meeting 
 many friends. He said that he had 
 observed two distinct groups of rail- 
 way men in attendance at the con- 
 ventions and that a third group had 
 become active in the affairs of the 
 association, and that in time even this 
 group would disappear, he with it. 
 The meeting then adjourned. 
 
 Illinois Central Decides on 
 
 1,500 Volts D. C. 
 
 Long-Awaited Announcement Made 
 
 After Studies Covering Many Years 
 
 and Involving Advice From 
 
 Leading Experts 
 
 Should the Company Pave? 
 
 The Missouri Committee on Public 
 Utility Information issues a bulletin 
 which has rather wide distribution. In 
 the issue of July 29 it takes up that 
 everlasting subject of dispute, the jus- 
 tice or injustice of making a trolley 
 company pave in some instances one- 
 third of the roadway on which it has 
 lines and in others the space between 
 the rails and a foot or two beyond 
 the rails. In addition to the paving it 
 does, the trolley company must keep 
 its part of the roadway in repair. 
 
 But trolley cars run on steel rails 
 and do not wear and tear the road- 
 way. 
 
 Why. it asks, should this paving 
 cost be put on the trolley company 
 and by the trolley be passed on to the 
 trolley rider instead of upon the 
 owners of the motor vehicles and 
 horse-drawn trucks? 
 For it points out: 
 
 'Tis not th' 'eavy 'auling 
 That 'urts th' 'osses 'oofs; 
 'Tis th' constant 'ammer, 
 'Ammer hon th' 'ard 'ighway. 
 — Philadelphia Public Ledger. 
 
 Al,500-volt D. C. system for the new 
 electrification of the Illinois 
 Central Railroad within the city limits 
 of Chicago was announced yesterday 
 by President Markham. The plan was 
 adopted as a result of recommenda- 
 tions made by a committee appointed 
 in 1920 to study the subject. This 
 committee, composed of several emi- 
 nent heavy traction electrification en- 
 gineers, made a most thorough study 
 of existing systems in this country 
 and abroad before rendering the deci- 
 sion as to whether direct or alternat- 
 ing current should be used. 
 
 A Precedent Established 
 
 The adoption of 1,500 volts D. C. 
 practically determines the system to 
 be used in all future terminal elec- 
 trification work in Chicago. The an- 
 nouncement of the committee's deci- 
 sion was somewhat delayed by the 
 loss of A. S. Baldwin, vice-president 
 in charge of terminal electrification, 
 who died on his way to Chicago alter 
 having made a detailed survey of Eu- 
 ropean installations. His duties have 
 fallen to D. J. Brumley. 
 
 The Illinois Central problem in- 
 volves a heavy suburban passenger 
 service, freight transfers between 
 yards, switching in congested yards 
 and eventually through passenger 
 movements, all within terminal limits 
 only. It is quite different from any 
 electrification so far undertaken either 
 in this country or abroad. The sub- 
 urban passenger service will cover 
 the main line from Chicago to Matte- 
 son 28 route miles, the Chicago 
 branch, 4.5 route miles, and the Blue 
 Island branch, 4.4 route miles. The 
 track miles involved are 125. 
 
 Many Electric Cars Needed 
 
 In a short time after the electrifi- 
 cation is completed it is estimated 
 that 240 cars electrically equipped will 
 be required. The Illinois Central has 
 had in operation in its suburban serv- 
 ice for over a year a number of steel 
 coaches, which can be converted for 
 multiple unit operation merely by the 
 installation of motors and the other 
 necessary electrical equipment. The 
 number of trains per day will be about 
 350 and the total suburban train 
 movement will amount to about 5,000 
 train miles per day. 
 
 The freight service north of Roose- 
 velt. Road, next on the program will 
 cover more than 40 miles of track, 
 and as this is mainly yard trackage 
 it involves difficult problems to elec- 
 trify it. 
 
 A feature of the system adopted is 
 that overhead trolley will be used 
 rather than third rail. 
 
Oct. 5, 1922 
 
 Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 47 
 
 Letter from Chas. S. Sergeant 
 
 Former President Points Out How Con- 
 ditions Have Improved in the Elec- 
 tric Railway Industry 
 
 AMONG the letters read by Gen. Geo. 
 H. Harries yesterday at the Amer- 
 ican Association meeting, the following 
 one from Chas. S. Sergeant, Boston 
 Elevated Railway, is selected for 
 publication because Mr. Sergeant was 
 president when the association last 
 met in Chicago: 
 "Dear Mr. Emmons: 
 
 "Your favor of the 9th inst. has 
 only reached me today and it is pos- 
 sible this letter may be too late tor 
 your purpose, which I regret. 
 
 Recollections of Former Days 
 
 "It is surely with great regret that 
 I relinquish my expressed intention 
 to be present at the Chicago conven- 
 tion. All the more that it was in Chi- 
 cago, so many years ago, when I had 
 the honor of presiding over the con- 
 vention there. 
 
 "Those were the simple days of the 
 old association, with no headquarters 
 except at the annual meetings; no 
 allied associations, all the worli de- 
 volving upon the executive committee. 
 I recollect that a standard classifica- 
 tion of expense account engaged much 
 of our attention there; also, that the 
 association had. in the previous year, 
 been rescued by the executive abilii.v 
 of President H. M. Littell from being 
 almost bankrupt and in dissolution. 
 But the vital spirit was there, and 
 the constant efforts of successive man- 
 agements have developed our feeble 
 beginnings into an effective and use- 
 ful organization with, I believe, a 
 bright future full of accomplishments 
 and promise; an organization for 
 which I shall always feel a loyal in- 
 terest. 
 
 "I have always regarded attendance 
 upon the conventions and the meet- 
 ings of the executive committee as a 
 great privilege and cherish delightful 
 recollections of the able men whom I 
 have met at so many of these meet- 
 ings. 
 
 "I question whether any message 
 from me will be of value to the 
 younger men who now attend con- 
 ventions, and who practice an art far 
 advanced over that of the earlier days, 
 when it was perhaps more of a prob- 
 lem to secure the right to use an 
 overhead trolley than of the use wbi''"" 
 would be made of the franchise, 
 'when, and if obtained. 
 
 ^f.\NY AdV.\NCES M.\DE in R.MLRO.MIING 
 
 "Advances have been made. Few 
 now protest the overhead trolley. No 
 one growls over the depreciation ac- 
 count. Sound financing- has replaced 
 watered stock. Accounts are kept on 
 the uniform, recognized system. 
 Standardized equipment and trades 
 have replaced the early and crude 
 constructions. 
 
 "Better service is rendered and 
 more closely adjusted to the traffic 
 
 needs. But no catalog is needed. 
 You all know what has been done 
 and are studying further improve- 
 ment. However, some problems re- 
 main the same. The manager still 
 has to consider and to serve that old 
 trinity so often spoken of at your 
 meetings — the public, the employes 
 and the company. The problem still 
 remains almost insoluble. Official 
 and legal recognition has been given 
 to the right of wicked capital to be 
 kept intact and to receive reasonable 
 return from the revenues of the com- 
 pany, but no royal means of doing 
 this has been universally accepted. 
 
 "The public is still unwilling to 
 refuse to pay the most of service. The 
 increased cost of labor must be met 
 from the receipts, which continue to 
 suffer decreases from the automobile 
 and other competition. 
 
 "Invested capital still requires a 
 magnifying glass to disclose its 
 profits. Adversity has taught man- 
 agers continually to introduce new 
 economies, so that a highly efficient 
 management is now a commonplace 
 and yet the problem continues un- 
 solved. 
 
 L.NBOR Problem Deserves AIore 
 Attextion 
 
 "The labor problem becomes in- 
 creasingly difficult. Has it had suf- 
 ficient attention? Admittedly it is a 
 problem of essentially local charac- 
 ter. Can it ever be solved by dealing 
 with national or international unions? 
 Remoteness from the scene of action 
 surely does not conduce to happy so- 
 lutions of these local difficulties. The 
 strike is a crudity, damaging to the 
 men as to the employer. Its avoid- 
 ance by the payment of wages which 
 the industry cannot produce is but 
 temporary in effect and disastrous for 
 all. The apparent success of the 
 Philadelphia plan, enlisting employes 
 in co-operative effort for the good of 
 the public, themselves and their em- 
 ployers, seems to point the direction 
 tor future effort. If loyalty to the 
 undertaking for which they have 
 elected to work can be substituted for 
 loyalty to a remote national organiza- 
 tion, great may be the gain. 
 
 "Local organizations of employes 
 are, I believe, beneficial and likely to 
 bring about real co-operation and in- 
 terest in the undertaking. Recent 
 events have certainly shown the un- 
 wisdom of attempts to regulate these 
 matters by government tjoards and 
 national craft organizations. Em- 
 ployes want and should have the 
 human man-to-man touch with the 
 business and this can only be obtained 
 by local organizations'. 
 
 "With apologies for presenting 
 these views at such length, and again 
 expressing my deep regret for my 
 inability to be with you, I may add 
 a hope for the continued success and 
 prosperity of the association. 
 "Very truly yours, 
 
 "CHAS. S. SERGEANT." 
 
 See the A. C. Feeder Automatic 
 and Supervisory Control Ap- 
 paratus in the G. E. Exhibit. 
 
 THE outstanding feature of the G. E. 
 exhibit this year is the wonderful 
 development in A. C. feeder automatic 
 control and supervision from a dis- 
 tance shown in their booth. All rail- 
 way power representatives should see 
 this equipment and get a detailed ex- 
 planation as to its operation. Provi- 
 sion is made so that if there is an 
 overload or a short-circuit on the line 
 the feeder circuit is opened automat- 
 ically and is again closed after a time 
 interval. 
 
 Two different types of delays can 
 be used for obtaining this time inter- 
 val. One provides for the reclosing 
 at short intervals of a maximum of 
 30 seconds. The other is designed so 
 that the sequence of reclosing can be 
 adjusted for different time intervals. 
 Thus the first can be short, the second 
 long, and the third still longer or any 
 other combination as desired. An A-C 
 feeder notching relay provides for the 
 locking out of the breaker in case the 
 overload or short-circcit still exists 
 after three successive closings. The 
 A. C. motor mechanism for closing the 
 breaker is unique in design and should 
 prove of extreme Interest. 
 
 No.x-Teciinical Visitor Interested 
 
 Non-technical visitors have shown 
 much enthusiasm in the manner with 
 which their nickels are increased in 
 size apparently so that they can be 
 viewed from a distance as they are 
 dropped into the fare box. which auto- 
 matically opens the turnstile. The 
 turnstile exhibited is the same as that 
 used in the Interborough subways in 
 New York, and its great feature is 
 the saving in space accomplished by 
 the use of the same turnstile for both 
 entrance and exit. The magnifying of 
 the coins is a safety measure for de- 
 tecting any slugs or other articles 
 which might be used in payment as 
 fares, and assures the operating com- 
 pany that all fares are collected and 
 an automatic record made. The 
 mechanism is open so that visitors 
 can see just how the turnstile works. 
 All patents for this mechanism are 
 now controlled by the General Elec- 
 tric Co. 
 
 62,000 Feet of Space Sold 
 
 Secretary Welsh reports that over 
 62,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space has been 
 sold. This is probably the greatest 
 amount ever sold at any A. E. R. A. 
 convention. This speaks volumes for 
 the excellent work done by the exhibit 
 committee, of which E. J. Blair, Chi- 
 cago Elevated Railroads, was chair- 
 man. It also indicates the returning 
 confidence in the industry and the 
 value of the central location and re- 
 sulting large attendance at the con- 
 vention of the association on the pi»r 
 in Chicago. 
 
48 
 
 Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 Third Issue 
 
 C. D. Emmons Elected President 
 
 Able Baltimore Executive Honored Willi 
 
 Highest Post Association 
 
 Can Confer 
 
 CD. EMMONS, the new president of 
 • the American Association, was 
 elected to that office on the year of 
 his attaining his majority in attend- 
 ance at A. E. R. A. conventions, this 
 being his twenty-first. For be it 
 known that Emmons has been as 
 faithful in attendance at conventions 
 ever since he became an electric rail- 
 way man as he is in everything he 
 does. 
 
 A Civil Engixef.r by Profession 
 
 He started life as a Hoosier and 
 then studied civil engineering at the 
 University of Pittsburgh, where he 
 graduated in 18(i2. His first railroad- 
 ing was in the steam field, on the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad, where he 
 worked for nine years, finally becom- 
 ing supervisor of signals en the 
 division which includes the Broad 
 Street Station. Then he went to 
 Lafayette, Ind., where he operated, 
 and did some construction work on 
 the Lafayette street railway. From 
 Lafayette he went to Fort Wayne as 
 general manager and then in 1911 to 
 South Bend with the Chicago, South 
 Bend & Northern Indiana Railway. 
 
 In 1916 he became vice-president 
 and general manager of the Boston & 
 Worcester and in 1918 went to the 
 Boston Elevated for a few months, 
 only to leave for his present position 
 of president of the Baltimore Com- 
 pany in August, 1919. 
 
 The association is deeply intebted 
 to Mr. Emmons for the tireless and 
 conscientious work he has done as the 
 chairman of the meetings and papers 
 committee this year. To him is due 
 much of the success of the midyear 
 conference and of the program of the 
 present convention. 
 
 Mr. Emmons has always been active 
 in association work, principally in the 
 T. & T. association in his earlier days. 
 He was also an active member of the 
 C. E. R. A. when he was in Indiana. 
 
 Mr. Emmons is one of the soundly 
 progressive executives of the industry. 
 He has sold the Baltimore people on 
 his company and the dependability 
 and completeness of its service to suit 
 their every need. 
 
 In Close Touch With Public 
 
 Mr. Emmons is a member of almost 
 every civic and other similar organi- 
 zation in Baltimore. He keeps in 
 touch with his public. And he has as 
 loyal a crowd of officials in his com- 
 pany as can be found in the whole 
 country. ^ 
 
 The association may safely look for- 
 ward to a year of real accomplish- 
 ment and progress, with Emmons on 
 the job. 
 
 Wilkie and Cast Score Great 
 Success 
 
 < < A N Interrupted Operation," the 
 ■^ playlet written by J. E. Wilkie 
 and presented before some 1,600 rail- 
 way people last night at the Marigold 
 Gardens was enthusiastically received. 
 The dinner which preceded the play 
 was a hilarious success, but the crowd 
 responded to the persuasion of Gen- 
 eral Harries and kept quiet so that 
 the play, acted by local railway talent, 
 could proceed without interruption, 
 except for that in the operation on 
 Ellick Traxion. 
 
 P>om beginning to end the playlet 
 was enthusiastically received and 
 thoroughly enjoyed. The work of the 
 characters was excellent — profes- 
 sional, in fact. The insistence of the 
 audience brought Mr. Wilkie to the 
 platform for a curtain speech at the 
 conclusion. 
 
 The Marigold show girls enter- 
 tained part of the evening and danc- 
 ing completed a most successful "fea- 
 ture night." Great credit is due 
 Frank Johnson, Ohio Brass Company, 
 chairman of the feature festival com- 
 mittee, for his tireless effort in put- 
 ting this evening over with such per- 
 fection. Harry W. Spingold, Chicago, 
 served as producer and contributed 
 materially to the professional charac- 
 ter of the play. 
 
 Major Burpee Here 
 
 Major B. P. Burpee, president of the 
 Canadian Electric Railway Associa- 
 tion, was in attendance at the T. & T. 
 meeting yesterday afternoon and was 
 much interested in the proceedings. 
 
 President L. H. Palmer gracefully 
 called attention to his presence by 
 inviting .Mr. Burpee to occupy the plat- 
 form with him during the session. 
 
 The past year or so has shown in- 
 creasing co-operation and contact 
 with our Canadian associates and we 
 hope this will continue into the 
 future. 
 
 Tenshun 
 
 Pa. R.R. Ticket Holders! 
 
 Dont forget that the return Red 
 Special en the Pennsylvania will 
 leave Chicago at 10:30 a. m. Friday. 
 Up to last night some eight carloads 
 had been signed up. 
 
 North — Knee length skirts have re- 
 duced street car accidents 50 per cent. 
 
 West— Wouldn't it be fine if acci- 
 dents coul d be prevented entirely? 
 
 ^E EMTER-YAWIAIG l-APY 
 VMOSE HI6M-P1TCHEP 
 ACCOU/JT OF THE LATEST 
 AlElSHE-OR^IOOC? SCAWPAL 
 
 Keeps the whole, car. 
 
 AMUSED 
 
 Courtesy Always 
 
 The London General Omnibus Com- 
 pany has issued the following circular 
 on courtesy: 
 
 PEBBLES IN THE POND 
 
 Do you realize the "broadcasting" 
 effect of one little "please?" 
 
 One little COURTESY acts like a 
 pebble dropped into a pond — rings, 
 more rings, and wider rings until the 
 edge is reached. 
 
 One little discourtesy — one passen- 
 ger's "grouse" — one letter to the 
 press. 
 
 One million readers, and ONE BIG 
 BUNCH OF MISCHIEF. 
 
 Make Y'OUR pebbles "Pleases." 
 
 Courtesy Always. 
 
 W. R. Alberger's Birthday Cake 
 
 W. R. Alberger, "of Oakland. Cal., 
 had a birthday yesterday and last 
 night at the dinner he had so»ic birth- 
 day cake presented to him by so»ic 
 pretty young lady. 
 
 And the California delegation pre- 
 sented him with a wonderful sterling 
 silver engraved folding desk clock. 
 
 It pays to be loved by your asso- 
 ciates. 
 
 Automatic Substation in Opera- 
 tion on the Pier 
 
 Besides hot coffee at the Westing- 
 house exhibit, considerable interest 
 has been shown in the complete auto- 
 matic substation which is in opera- 
 tion and tied in on the surface lines 
 trolley. An installation of super- 
 visory control is also demonstrated 
 and the machine is repeatedly sub- 
 jected to short circuit to show the 
 operation of protective devices. Two 
 types of high speed breakers are in- 
 cluded in the equipment set up to 
 care for the "fireworks" on the short 
 circuit demonstrations. 
 
 Atlanta Journal 
 
 That racket that proceeded from 
 Claims Hall on ^Monday afternoon was 
 not made by the mechanics repairing 
 the floor. C. G. Rice was simply try- 
 ing out the sturdy gavel presented by 
 his admiring friends in the Associ- 
 ated Bureaus, of which he is the grand 
 mogul. 
 
 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
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 Oct. 5. 1922 
 
 Electric Railway Jouknal Convention Daily 
 
 THE PLAYLET YOU SAW LAST NIGHT 
 
 AN INTERRUPTED OPERATION* 
 A Playlet — In One Act as Produced at the Marigold Gardens 
 "FSG? '^ '- By JOHN E. WILKIE 
 
 ^■^\r.!' 
 
 Vice President Chicago Railways Company 
 
 CAST : 
 
 Ellick Traxion, the Victim. 
 
 Prof. The Peepul, M. D., Superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 Dr. Comish, Dr. Borde, Operating 
 Surgeons. 
 
 Hon. G. D. Politiks, 0. Lemme Fixit, 
 Visitors. 
 
 Hortense Horsesense, President So- 
 ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty 
 to Utilities. 
 
 Miss Dividends, niece to Traxion. 
 
 Nurses, Attendants, Policemen, Etc. 
 
 THE PLAY 
 
 Stage empty at raising of curtain. 
 30 seconds for audience to "get" 
 signs. Orchestra to continue to 
 play during this 25 or 30 seconds 
 interval, pianissimo. Music cres- 
 endo to march time, and 
 Enter Nurses. 
 NURSES' CHORUS: 
 
 The Nursing Staff you see in us 
 Employed by Doctor Peepul 
 Our tasks are quite lu-gu-bri-ous 
 But we are always g"leeful 
 We help the Doctors while they cut 
 We handle sponge and lancet 
 You'd thir;k our job a sad one — but 
 We love to sing: and dance it. 
 Just before dance closes. 
 Enters Doc Peepul (watches fin- 
 ish, claps hands). 
 Peepul: "Very nice! V-e-r-y nice! 
 young ladies. Glad to see you so 
 full of pep. By the way, I suppose 
 you have taken up the usual volun- 
 tary collection from the patients, as 
 a contribution to our little political 
 war chest?" 
 Chorus: "We have." 
 Peepul: "Let me see, you were paid 
 
 this morning?" 
 Chorus: "Yes, sir." 
 
 Peepul: "Then don't overlook the 
 receptacle on the right as you go 
 out. (Indicating.) Another thing, 
 don't forget that next Tuesday is 
 election day and that I am a candi- 
 date for re-election as Superin- 
 tendent; and remember that 
 A vote for Doc 
 Is coin in your sock 
 
 In Municipal Operation." 
 
 Chorus: "We're strong for you, Doc!" 
 (Chorus dances off, repeating last 
 two or four lines of song. As they 
 approach door each makes a swift 
 swoop to the "Lyle National Bank" 
 and as they pass tin pan on pedestal 
 
 •Copyrighted by John E. Wilkie. 
 
 It isn't often that a raihcay 
 executive has such hidden talents 
 as were rez'calcd last night in the 
 production of the playlet by John 
 E. Wilkie at the Marigold Gar- 
 dens as interpreted by a cast of 
 raikaay people. It is too good, 
 and too appropriate for the use 
 of any railway company in a shoiv 
 of its ozt'n, to be lost. So the 
 Electric Railway Journal takes 
 this way of preserving it. — Editor. 
 
 at door drop metal washers and 
 phoney paper money in same. 
 Peepul follows to door, then picks 
 up pan, goes to desk, empties con- 
 tents on desk, splits in two piles, 
 puts one in his pockets, locks the 
 other in drawer of cabinet.) 
 
 Peepul: "That's 50/50 with Old Man 
 Politiks." (Turns to desk, has 
 second thought and turns to drawer, 
 unlocks it and takes a handful of 
 notes, puts them in his pocket, lock- 
 ing drawer again.) 
 
 Peepul: "No use overdoing this split 
 thing. I will make it 55/45 with 
 the long end to Peepul. I have 
 troubles of my own and lots of 
 things to look after." 
 
 DOCTOR PEEPUL: 
 
 Old Doc Peepul in me you see 
 Something more than a plain M. D. 
 For I am the guy with a massive 
 
 brain 
 Who cures your ills and eases your 
 
 pain 
 And more than that I'm free to say 
 I'm the Boss of the World today. 
 I settle questions of every sort; 
 I am the court of last resort 
 You know the saying you learned in 
 
 school 
 "In ev'ry crisis the People rule" 
 Well, I'm the Peepul — my word is 
 
 la"\v 
 Though some of my words perhaps 
 
 are raw 
 But fakirs who say they speak for 
 
 me 
 Are feeding you "bunk" and are all 
 
 "N. G." 
 
 Telephone rings. Peepul crosses 
 to phone. Picks it up. 
 
 Peepul: "Yes, this )s Dr. Peepul. 
 Oh, yes Dr. Comish, how are you. 
 Dr. Labor Borde is with you? That's 
 good. I have been waiting for you. 
 Come right up. One of the attend- 
 ants will show you the way to the 
 6th floor. No, I am sorry to say 
 the eleva1:or is not running. We are 
 Municipally operated you know and 
 
 the elevator operator is out with his 
 Precinct Captain, looking after a 
 delinquent contributor to the Cam- 
 paign Fund, but you will find the 
 circular stairs quite comfortable. 
 All right." 
 (Comedy circular stair stunt) 
 Enters Nurse as Peepul hangs up 
 phone. 
 Nurse: "Excuse me Doctor, patient 
 in 610 is off his nut again. I think 
 you had better look at him." 
 
 Peepul: "I am right with you. 
 (Opens drawer of desk. Takes out 
 
 large S-wrench.) Off his nut, eh? 
 Maybe he is trying to bolt. Just 
 a bad turn I suppose." 
 
 (The comedy circular staircase 
 stunt continues during the foregoing 
 dialogue and for a second or two 
 after exit of Doctor and Nurse), 
 then 
 
 Enter Comish and Borde, shown 
 in by attendant who immediately 
 exits. Business of extreme exhaus- 
 tion after climbing stairs. Mopping 
 faces and heads, back of neck, etc., 
 — meantime looking curiously about 
 room. 
 
 (Comish discovers skeleton. Artic- 
 ulated skeleton backstage left) 
 
 Comish: "Good Lord! Look here!" 
 (Grabs Borde — comedy fright 
 stuff.) 
 
 Borde: (Recovering first.) "Say, 
 Comish!" 
 
 Comish: "What?" 
 
 Borde: "I don't suppose that's Doc 
 Peepul, what? You know they 
 told us when we left for Chicago 
 that Doc was something of a bone- 
 head — not so dusty, eh?" 
 
 (They laugh, recovering their 
 equanimity.) 
 
 Enters Doc Peepul. 
 
 Peepul: "Well, here we are. How 
 
 are we?" 
 Comish & Borde: (Jump nervously. 
 Turn to meet Peepul as he ad- 
 vances.) 
 Peepul: (to Borde) "You're Dr. 
 
 Comish?" 
 Borde: "I'm Borde." 
 Peepul: "Not by me I hope." 
 Borde: "Oh no, you don't under- 
 stand. This (pointing) is Dr. 
 Comish. I am Dr. Borde." 
 
Electric Railway Journal Convention Daily 
 
 Third Issue 
 
 Peepul: "Oh yes. I suppose you 
 have both your credentials." Both 
 produce papers from inside pockets. 
 "Here they are." 
 
 Doc. Peepul takes papers. Cross- 
 es to desk. Seats himself. 
 
 Peepul: "You'll excuse our having 
 only one chair. Our chairs were 
 all controlled by members of the 
 Legislature and have been removed 
 until after election day. as they 
 wanted to make sure of retaining 
 their seats." 
 
 Comish: "That's all right." 
 
 Borde: "We don't mind." 
 
 Comish: "We only hope our standing 
 will be good enough to obtain these 
 appointments." 
 
 Peepul: (Opening and examining pa- 
 pers.) "I suppose you both under- 
 stand just what we have in hand. 
 We have opened a surgical depart- 
 ment to care for utility cases and 
 you are to do the operating." (To 
 Comish) — "Now Doctor, let me see — 
 what is your regular business?" 
 
 Comish: "Well, I am the leading un- 
 dertaker in our thriving little 
 town." 
 
 Peepul: "Ah. you are the leading 
 undertaker. How many undertakers 
 are there in your thriving little 
 town?" 
 
 Comish: "One." 
 
 Peepul: "What do you know about 
 transportation?" 
 
 Comish: "Well, I personally con- 
 duct an excursion to our beautiful 
 cemetery once a month, and some- 
 times oftener." 
 
 Peepul: "That's good! That's good!" 
 To Borde: "That's your regular bus- 
 iness?" 
 
 Borde: "My wife runs a boarding 
 house." 
 
 Peepul: "Know anything about labor 
 conditions?" 
 
 Boi-de: "Well, we haven't had any 
 trouble yet. The old lady is still 
 able to do the cooking, wash the 
 dishes and keep the place slicked 
 up." 
 
 Peepul: "Fine! I notice from the 
 endorsement on here that you have 
 been operating in another jurisdic- 
 tion in labor and utility cases." 
 
 Comish & Borde: "Oh, yes, we know 
 the game." 
 
 DR. COMISH 
 
 LABOR BORDE 
 
 COMISH: 
 
 My specialty I'd have you know 
 Is cutting fares from high to low. 
 
 BORDE: 
 
 And mine is raising rates of pay 
 To every traction employe. 
 
 COMISH: 
 
 When lower fares and rates I fix 
 I please my old friend Politiks. 
 
 BORDE: 
 
 Through boosts in pay I'm free to 
 
 say 
 I hope to \vin a boost some day. 
 
 BOTH: 
 
 It's pretty smooth the Game ^ve play 
 For lower fares and higher pay 
 "How do "we get that way" you say? 
 Ask-of-the-stars-in-the-milky-way 
 But don't hold your breath until they 
 answer! 
 
 CCMISH: 
 
 A profit's something quite accursed 
 And that is what I look for first. 
 
 BORDE: 
 
 My sympathy I can't control 
 
 When working on a workman's roll. 
 
 COMISH: 
 
 I never heed my victim's cries 
 I never mourn although he dies. 
 
 BORDE: 
 
 I cut the hours or raise the pay 
 I get results in either way. 
 
 BOTH: 
 
 It's pretty smooth the Game we play 
 For lower fares and higher pay 
 "How do we get that way" you say? 
 Ask-of-the-stars-in-the-milky-way 
 But don't hold your breath until they 
 answer! 
 
 (Racket outside — Automobile 
 horns, ambulance gongs.) 
 
 Peepul: "That sounds like an emer- 
 gency case." 
 
 (Voices and shuffling of feet out- 
 side, and 
 
 Enters Traxion on stretcher, borne 
 by two policemen, and accompanied 
 by Fixit, Politiks and Nurses. 
 
 Fixit: (Running around stretcher 
 bearers, and backward and for- 
 ward). "Now boys, bring him right 
 down here." (Leading way to cen- 
 ter) 
 
 Fixit fussily directs exact spot 
 for location of stretcher. 
 
 (In the meantime Politiks and 
 Peepul have shaken hands, Politiks 
 pointing to patient on stretcher, 
 whispering to Peepul. Business of 
 back-slapping, more handshaking 
 and laughter. Peepul gets money 
 from drawer and slips it to Poli- 
 tiks.) 
 
 Peepul: (Addressing first stretcher 
 bearer) "Well, Officer, what have 
 we here?" 
 
 Fixit: (Putting up restraining hand 
 to stretcher bearer) "Just a min- 
 ute" (Interrupting, and rubbing 
 hands) "this is my case. Dr. Pee- 
 pul. I am bringing this patient 
 here. I found him out here in the 
 street" — 
 
 Politiks: (Interrupting) "Yes, and 
 he was occupying the streets with- 
 out any rights or authority" — 
 
 Fixit: (Restraining hand again) 
 "Just a minute" — 
 
 Peepul: (Interrupting) "Pardon me, 
 but who are you?" 
 
 Fixit: (Astonished) "What, you 
 don't know me? Listen" — 
 
 FIXIT: 
 
 I am Fixit the fixer they sa.v I am 
 a pest 
 
 Although I assure you I am doing 
 my best ^ 
 
 My nerve is colossal and great is my 
 gall 
 
 For what people say I care nothing 
 at all. 
 
 To President Harding I give my ad- 
 vice 
 
 And keep on advising, though cut- 
 ting no ice, 
 
 I write to the papers; I speak at the 
 Clubs 
 
 I'm told I'm a nuisance — the Prince 
 of the Dubs 
 
 But I've nothing to do but set every- 
 thing right 
 
 And that is my job in the show here 
 tonight. 
 
 Peepul: (Shaking hands with Fixit) 
 "Glad to know you Mr. Fixit. I 
 suppose you know my old Friend, 
 Politiks?" 
 
 Fixit: "Oh, yes. I have had quite a 
 good deal to do with Politiks. He 
 hasn't always known it, but I have 
 been responsible for most of his 
 successes. 
 
 Politiks: "Yes, and listen here — you 
 'Fixit guys' are responsible for 
 most of my troubles too — but I don't 
 see that we are getting anywhere 
 with this case. Here's election 
 coming along, and we have got to do 
 something with this Traxion guy." 
 
 G. D. POLITIKS: 
 
 I love an operation on a public Cor- 
 poration 
 
 I like to see 'em bleed by heck! 
 
 And there's heaps of satisfaction 
 
 When the patient's name is "Trac- 
 tion" 
 
 And they stick their gleaming lane- 
 let in his neck, neck, neck! 
 
 And they stick their gleaming lancet 
 in his neck! 
 
 Do you happen to remember how 
 
 along about November 
 When election tinie grows nearer 
 
 day by day 
 How I show supreme ability 
 In slamming some utility 
 Without a word of truth in what I 
 
 saj\ say, say 
 Without a word of truth in what I 
 
 say! 
 
 To a secret now I'll wise you and 
 
 I'm sure it will surprise you 
 When christened I was named Adel- 
 
 bert G 
 But after years of bossing and 
 
 adroit double crossing 
 I'm known throughout the land as 
 
 plain "G. D." — Big D! 
 They cuss me with a big "G 
 
 Peepul: "Let's get busy with this 
 operation, boys." (To Comish and 
 Borde) — "You will find your operat- 
 ing gowns in the hall outside." 
 (Exit Comish and Borde) 
 
 (Directed by Peepul and with Fixit 
 fussing around, the operating table 
 is moved to stage center and Trax- 
 ion is transferred from stretcher to 
 table.) 
 
 (Re-enter Comish and Borde, with 
 long white Butchers' aprons, — 
 sleeves rolled up.) 
 
 Comish: "We're all ready." 
 Borde: "Where are the tools?" 
 
 (Peepul crosses to desk. Picks 
 up telephone.) 
 
Oct. 5, 1922 
 
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 Peepul: "Send the tool man in right 
 away." 
 
 (Enter comedy attendant with 
 small wheelbarrow. Makes circuit 
 of stage to cabinet, which he opens. 
 Takes out collection of tools, drop- 
 ping them noisily in wheelbarrow, 
 then retraces to back of operating 
 table, where he leaves wheelbarrow 
 and exits. In the meantime busi- 
 ness of getting patient ready for 
 operation. Comish and Borde nerv- 
 ously paw over tools. Borde ex- 
 amines chisel. Tests edge. Crosses 
 to bench. Uses hammer and anvil 
 in adjusting chisel satisfactorily. 
 Then returns to operating table.) 
 
 Traxion: (Sitting up on operating 
 table) "Haven't I got anything to 
 say here?" 
 
 Peepul: (Soothingly) "Now, now, 
 don't get excited." 
 
 Traxion: "I am not excited, but I 
 think I ought to have a chance at 
 least to identify myself before those 
 fellows get busy with their saws 
 and axes." 
 
 Fixit: (Interrupting — holding up his 
 hand) "Just a minute." (Takes 
 hold of Politiks. Peepul. Comish and 
 Borde, drawing them to one side for 
 momentary conference, with heads 
 together.) 
 
 Traxion: (Hopelessly) "Fat 
 . Chance!" 
 
 Fixit: "We have agreed that it will 
 be all right for you to identify 
 yourself." 
 
 Politiks: (Warningly) "But be 
 v-e-r-y careful what you say." 
 
 Traxion: "I don't want to say any- 
 thing. I want to sing. Let these 
 men push me down where I can 
 have a fair show." 
 
 (Politiks, Peepul, Borde, Comish 
 and Fixit take hold of the operating 
 table and run it down stage.) 
 
 Traxion: "Thanks!" 
 MR. ELLICK TRAXION: 
 
 Ellick Traxion is my name — busi- 
 ness, transportation 
 
 Pretty widely known to fame up and 
 down the Nation 
 
 Once I looked like other guys — nor- 
 mal circulation 
 
 Took my three squares, proper size 
 — never missed a ration 
 
 Then one day some busy nut got 
 an inspiration 
 
 Said I seemed quite healthy but — 
 needed regulation 
 
 Since that day I've pined away — call 
 it inanition 
 
 That's another way to say lacking 
 in nutrition 
 
 Everything I want to do blocked by 
 Politician 
 
 Now I'm down to "82 — mighty poor 
 condition 
 
 Here I am, just take a glance — 
 pipe this aggregation 
 
 You'll agree I've not a chance dodg- 
 ing mutilation 
 
 And when they're through this cruel 
 sport — cutting, blasting, sawing 
 
 Old Pilitiks will go to court and then 
 there'll be more lawing. 
 
 (At close of song Traxion re- 
 sumes position on operating table, 
 which is run back to original loca- 
 tion. Business of administering 
 anesthetic. Noisy business with 
 tools back of operating table. Sound 
 of metallic filing, sawing) — then 
 
 Comish: "By gosh, here's some- 
 thing!" 
 
 (Comish and Borde, after comedy 
 exertion, produce small tin jitney.) 
 
 Fixit: "One moment!" (Stepping in 
 and taking jitney from surgeons 
 and crossing to Politiks.) "Say 
 G. D., this may have caused a lot 
 of irritation and Inflammation, but 
 do you agree with me that we better 
 let it stay where it was." 
 
 Politiks: "Surest thing you know." 
 (Both up to operating table, re- 
 turning jitney to Doctors.) 
 
 Politiks: "Boys, you better put that 
 back." 
 
 Fixit: (To Comish) "You can put 
 it back, can't you Doc?" 
 
 Comish: "Sure, we can put it back 
 but of course it may cause serious 
 congestion." 
 
 Politiks: "Oh, well, that'll be all 
 right. We should worry." 
 
 Borde: (Who has been continuing 
 his work on the patient) "Hey, 
 Doc!" (To Comish) 
 
 Comish: "What is It?" 
 
 Borde: "Darned if I know, but here 
 is something unusual. Where's 
 your glass?" 
 
 (Nurse secures large reading 
 glass. Hands to Comish, who, with 
 Borde, comes down front and makes 
 careful examination, Fixit vainly 
 trying to look between their heads 
 over their shoulders.) 
 
 Comish: "I give it up." 
 
 Borde: "iSIe too!" 
 
 Fixit: (Hands up) "One moment! 
 Allow me!" (Takes small object 
 from between Borde's fingers. Ex- 
 amines it critically. Face lights up 
 with smile of recognition.) "Why 
 gentlemen, I recognize this at once. 
 This is Traxion's surplus." 
 
 Comish, Borde ) 
 
 Politiks, Peepul ) "What!" 
 
 Nurses, Attendants ) 
 
 Everybody. ) 
 
 Fixit: "That's what it is — unmistak- 
 ably." 
 
 (Politiks, Peepul, Borde, Comish 
 get together Ri,ght) 
 
 Peepul: "This will never do! Never 
 do!" 
 
 Politiks: "All wrong. All wrong. 
 Traxion ought never have been 
 permitted to develop a surplus. 
 (Very sternly to Peepul) "What 
 do you mean by allowing Traxion 
 to develop a surplus, eh?" 
 
 Peepul: "I — I " 
 
 Politiks: "You have had enough 
 chance at this fellow in the past 
 to clean him up. I am surprised. 
 Eh-er-er — where's that surplus?" 
 
 Fixit: "Here it is, G. D." (Passes 
 small object to G. D., who takes 
 out pocketbook and carefully stows 
 surplus away in it.) 
 
 Politiks: "I'll just take care of this 
 for awhile. Go ahead with your 
 operating." 
 
 (Comish and Borde return to pa- 
 tient and start in further comedy 
 hammering, sawing tactics, etc.) 
 
 Loud noise outside. Confused 
 voices, among them that of a 
 woman is discernible. 
 
 Hortense: (Off stage) "I tell you I 
 will go in! I am the President 
 of the Society for the Prevention of 
 Cruelty to Public Utilities, and this 
 officer has warrants for Peepul, 
 Politiks — and all the rest of those 
 highbinders." 
 
 (Hortense enters with Officer and 
 Miss Dividends) 
 
 Hortense: "There's your Uncle, 
 
 child." 
 
 (Miss Dividends rushes to operat- 
 ing table and throws her arms 
 around Uncle.) 
 
 Miss Dividends: "Oh Uncle! Uncle!" 
 
 Hortense: (Disengaging Miss Divi- 
 dends' arms from Uncle, and ad- 
 dressing all.) "Tell them who you 
 are my child." 
 
 MISS DIVIDENDS: 
 
 I am little Miss Dividends tattered 
 
 and torn 
 I often have wished that I'd never 
 
 been born 
 You'd scarcely believe that I once 
 
 was quite fat 
 And rosy and happy and gay and all 
 
 that — 
 But that was before Uncle Ellick 
 
 grew pale 
 And old Doctor Peepul got most of 
 
 his kale 
 For years I've been living on Bunk 
 
 and Hot Air 
 Just waiting the time when the 
 
 fares would be fair. 
 
 (Interruption by Chorus) 
 "Them Days is Gone Forever!" 
 
 After the song. Miss Dividends 
 crosses over and stands by Traxion 
 at the operating table again. 
 Hortense: "No, 'them days have not 
 gone forever.' I'm on the job and 
 things are going to be different, or 
 my name is not Hortense Horse- 
 sense." 
 HORTENSE HORSESENSE: 
 
 I am using all my energy, combined 
 
 with some ability 
 Preventing any cruelty to any sick 
 
 utility 
 I've kept a watchful eye upon this 
 
 bunch of busy fakirs 
 ■\Vho seek to do a Doctor's job with 
 
 butchers and with bakers 
 If someone doesn't stop their work 
 
 the patient's booked for paradise 
 And I'm the Jane to block the game 
 
 of this misguided pair 'o' guys 
 There's been too much of rank 
 
 abuse of cutting and of cursing 
 While what the patient really needs 
 
 is good old-fashioned nursing. 
 
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 (At the close of song Hortense 
 opens handbag and extracts large bot- 
 tle, and crosses to operating table.) 
 Hortense: (To Officer) "Officer, 
 serve your warrants." (Busies 
 herself with patient.) 
 
 Officer: "Now then, youse guys, line 
 up!" (Reading from list)— "Doc 
 Peepul" 
 
 Peepul: "Here." 
 
 Officer: "Come across." (Peepul 
 crosses to point indicated by Offi- 
 cer.) 
 
 Officer: "Hon. G. D. Politiks." 
 
 Politiks: "That's me." 
 
 Officer: "Come across. Dr. Cornish 
 Dr. Borde" 
 
 Cornish & Borde: (Together) "That's 
 us." 
 
 Officer: "Come across. Theyse an 
 additional charge of false pretenses 
 against youse guys, and you'll get 
 yours ! " 
 
 Fixit: (Who has been moving about 
 restlessly, watching proceedings.) 
 "I suppose I'm next." 
 
 Officer: "What's your name?" 
 
 Fixit: "O. Lemme Fixit." 
 
 Officer: "Not with me. Not with me 
 
 Tell it to the Judge!" 
 Fixit: "Isn't my name on the list?" 
 Officer: "I don't see it." 
 
 Fixit: "Well there's going to be lots 
 of publicity about this case and I 
 must get in on it somehow." (Pause, 
 Fixit in deep thought— hand up)' 
 "One minute." (Crosses to operat- 
 ing table to Hortense) "One min- 
 ute, lady, one minute. I'd like to 
 fix this thing up, if I can." 
 
 Hortense: "I'm busy. Talk fast. 
 What's your proposition?" 
 
 Fixit: (Traxion begins to show signs 
 of life) "I see the patient is com- 
 ing to. Now, If he recovers, and 
 I can fix it with old G. D. here to 
 restore his surplus and allow him 
 a little something for that poor 
 niece of his, won't you withdraw 
 your charges and give us a fair 
 chance?" 
 
 All: (Leaning tensely toward Hor- 
 ■ tense.) "Oh Lady," (Pleadingly) 
 "Lady!" 
 
 Hortense: "Well, you don't deserve 
 any consideration, but wait a min- 
 ute and if I can pull poor Traxion 
 around I'll consider it." 
 
 All: (With a long sigh and soft ex- 
 piration.) "Thanks!" 
 
 Hortense: (As Traxion shows signs 
 of reviving.) "Take another dose of 
 this. It's doing you good." 
 
 (Business of drinking contents of 
 bottle. Complete return to con- 
 sciousness. Stretching. Feeling 
 body. Stretching legs, arms, etc.) 
 
 Traxion: (Sitting up and swinging 
 around sideways on the operating 
 table.) 
 
 All: (Murmurs) "He's coming to." 
 Traxion: (Expression gradually 
 changing from extreme dejection to 
 happiness, throwing up arms and 
 kicking legs.) "Gee! Wow! Say 
 that stuffs got a kick in it. What 
 is it?" 
 
 Hortense: "Just a little 110 Proof 
 Extract of Fair Play." (Solicitous- 
 ly) "You're feeling all right now?" 
 
 Traxion: "You said it." 
 
 Hortense: "Do you think vou could 
 walk?" 
 
 Traxion: (Sliding off the operating 
 table and taking a few little steps.) 
 "Walk! I can do better than 
 that — I can dance." 
 (Dance— Hortense and Traxion) 
 
 Fixit: (After dance) "Fair play is 
 a great thing." 
 
 KN.SEMBLE FINALE: 
 
 Fair play! Hoorah, Hooray — better 
 
 by far than political bluff! 
 We'll say that's the way— cut in the 
 
 decency, cut out the rough! 
 Play fair — play square — We'll drop 
 
 all our hammers and get us a horn 
 And boost for old Traxion as sure 
 
 as you're born 
 Drop all our hammers and blow 
 
 Traxion's horn! 
 
 Fixit: (Moving out in front of as- 
 sembled Company and lifting hand.) 
 "One moment. We seem to be for- 
 getting our hosts tonight. Let's tell 
 them what we think of the Ameri- 
 can Electric Railway Association." 
 
 FINAL SONG: 
 
 A. E. R. A. to thee 
 We pledg-e our loyalty 
 Thy name we praise 
 We love thy sturdy fight 
 Valiant for Traction's right 
 Dark days will soon be bright 
 A. E. R. A. 
 
 A. E. R. A. tonig-ht 
 
 Let every heart be lig-ht — 
 
 Joy unconflned 
 Let music's magic fill 
 Each human soul until 
 All hearts with rapture thrill 
 
 A. E. R. A. 
 
 A. E. R. A. we hope 
 
 You've liked our brand of dope 
 
 Soup, fish and play 
 We of the Middle West 
 Gave you our honest best 
 Now let our players rest 
 
 A. E. R. A. 
 
 (The words to this song should 
 be reproduced on a slide, and after 
 the company on the stage have 
 sung the first verse, the words 
 should be thrown on a screen, or 
 some point visible to the audience, 
 and) 
 
 Fixit: "Now then,— Everybody!" 
 (THE END.) 
 (CURTAIN) 
 
 NOTE : 
 
 In producing "An Mterrupted Oper- 
 ation." there were displayed on the 
 back drop the following signs on 
 cards approximately 20" x HY' : 
 
 "Cutting Out Competition. $100." 
 
 "Getting Into a Purchasing Agent, 
 $250." 
 
 "Reducing Expense Accounts, 
 free." 
 
 "Stimulating Consumption (Per- 
 formed for Supply Agents Only), 
 $500." 
 
 "Opening the Public's Eve (Very 
 Difficult), $1,000. 
 
 "Grafting— Special Rates by Ar- 
 rangement," etc. 
 
 At the upper-right of the stage was 
 an articulated skeleton. Upper-left, 
 an operating table. Left-center, a ta- 
 ble and chair. Right-center, a pedes- 
 tal holding a metal receptacle, and 
 right-center, down-stage, another 
 table. 
 
 Center, right and left entrances and 
 exits were used. 
 
 The other essential "props" were 
 a stretcher; a wheel-barrow for the 
 tool man; miscellaneous collection 
 of tools; large monkey wrench, or S- 
 wrench for the use of Dr. Peepul in 
 looking after the patient in 610; an 
 ambulance gong; automobile horn; 
 telephone set for table, L; one of the 
 sausage-shaped balloons to be used in 
 anesthetizing the patient; a tin jit- 
 ney; a reading glass; a collection of 
 stage money— both paper and metal 
 disks, etc. 
 
 Of course if we had had the facil- 
 ities it would have been better to have 
 set the stage completely as an operat- 
 ing room, with white furniture and 
 all the other conventional hospital 
 appliances. 
 
 If by chance any clubs or dramatic 
 branches of utility companies through- 
 out the country wish to produce this 
 playlet, locally, it is suggested the re- 
 quest for permission to produce 
 it should be forwarded to the author 
 at 105 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, 
 who will be glad to act favorably 
 without delay, and without charge, in 
 answering all requests made to him. 
 
 -Mr. Yagle. the composer, has been 
 asked to have the music of the songs 
 published in sheet form. In case 
 those wishing to produce the skit 
 wish also to have the music, and they 
 will so indicate in their letter to Mr. 
 Wilkie, he will see that Mr. Yagle 
 is properly advised. It is understood 
 that there will be a nominal charge 
 for the music, if it is furnished, by 
 Mr. Yagle. 
 
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