Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1926 — Page 3

MARCH 9, 1926

STREET CARS' SURPLUS LESS Report Shows Increase in ® Transfer Passengers. Due to the establishment of a number of feeder bus lines last year, 17,285,280 transfer passengers were hauled In 1925 by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, an Increase of more than 200,000 over the year preceding, according to the company’s annual report on file today with the public service commission. Straight-haul passengers, however, fell from 83,230,100 in 1924 to 75,861,873 In 1925. Gross earnings of the company likewise fell from $6,658,176.60 in 1924, to $5,536,360.78 last year. With operating expenses and taxes sutracted, net earnings for 1925 totaled $1,116,924.43. The company closed the year with a surplus of $41,175.02, as compared with a, surplus of $54,965.08 in 1924. In 1926 the company paid out $1,149,666.99 for maintenance, approximately $2,000 more than was spent for this purpose in 1924. New bus equipment $210,366.36. Hoosier Briefs j BASKETBALL, played in j J-% i hob nailed shoes by meml J bers of the National Guard, at Evansville proved to be a "hard and fast game” for the soldiers. A run down the floor was easily •tarted, but hard to stop, the. oldiers said. Friday, although not coming on the thirteenth of the month, was bad luck to two Marion husbands. They were fined on assault and battery charges placed against them by wives. A hen laying a double yolked egg each month was sold by a Sharpsvilla woman to a poultry company. Thieves played a mean trick on a Bloomington man when they stole his new car which was only one day old. The automobile was found the next day, however. Senior High School girls have a monopoly on education at Alexandria, observers say, since twentyfour of the twenty-seven pupils on the honor roll were of female persuasion. A Bloomington man tells the fish story. While on a fishing trip Rt Sarasota., Fla., he Is said to have landed four man-eating sharks. A farmer near Gnawbone, Brown County, refutes the statement that the farmer needs Government assistance. He recently bought a sixtyacre farm, and besides producing his regular crop, raised a three-acre tract of tobacco, which he sold for $l,lOO. City workmen at Evansville, in an effort to open a clogged sewer, found several tons of plaster of parls obstructing the passage.

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TOO MANY IN SENATE RACE Noblesville Democrat Tells Why He Dropped Out. B 'nobLElVll ?LE, Ind., March 9. William V. Rooker, who announced as a candidate for United States Senator on the Democratic ticket, revealed today why he failed to file his declaration within the Secretary of State. He said there were so many aspirants in the field that he did not believe any of them would receive a majority of the votes 'ks required by law. Rooker indicated he might be a candidate for the nomination in the event the contest was carried to the floor of the State convention.

BUS GROWTH SUBJECT Cleveland Service Man to Address Engineers Society Thursday. Raymond F. Buckley, secretary of the Indiana Section Society of Automotive Engineers, announced a “bus development” meeting, following a dinner at the Severin Thursday night. A. J. Scaifs. chief of factory service of the White Motor Company of Cleveland. Ohio. will speak on "Bus Development—lts History and Future.”

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