Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — WANTS TO PUT ’EM OUT. [ARTICLE]
WANTS TO PUT ’EM OUT.
Traction Lines, Feeling Seriously Effect of Jitneys, Want to Oust Them as Competitors. Indianapolis, July 23. —The public service commission will decide the fate of the “jitney’’ bus at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. While the commission has given no intimation of what its decision will be, the indications are that the “jitney,” though attacked from every by three skilled lawyers who occupied the commission’s session yesterday with their arguments, has been the victor in its first cgmbat with the streetcar interests which seek to “regulate” it and, if possible, put it out of the running as a competitor.
