Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1915 — TROLLEY LINES ARE HURT BY CUTTING IN OF JITNEYS [ARTICLE]

TROLLEY LINES ARE HURT BY CUTTING IN OF JITNEYS

Earnings of Connecticut and Rhode Island Systems Shown Seriously Reduced in April. Hartford, Conn., June 6.—Jitney buses have reduced the earnings of the Connecticut Company and the Rhode Island Company, the New Haven trolley systems. If earnings fall off for the rest of the year in the same proportion as in April, the annal income of the Conneticut Company will be reduced about $360,000. The income of the Rhode island Company, which, operates the trolleys in Providence, where there are numerous jitneys, fell off $90,000 ;n April; so that the the New Haven’s trolleys in the two

states is being reduced at~the rate of $1,500,000 a year. Traffic experts figure that, although the jitneys will not be such active competitors in tbe winter, they will be even greater factors against which to contend in the summer months than JU .-\pni-