Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Elder then interpreted the question. By ownership is meant absolute ownership; but if the city should own the street railways, it could operate them itself or lease them. In either case, the affirmative will try to prove municipal ownership desirable. The question is one of practical benefit, not of legal...
A. P. Matthew, in closing the main argument of the affirmative, summarized the advantages that would come to New York City through municipal ownership. He first considered the effect it would have on the politics of the city. The franchise-holding corporations are responsible for by far the greater part...
Regulation is not an effective remedy because it does not remove the cause. Municipal ownership strikes at the very root of the evil. If New York owns the street railway system and leases it to private companies, the incentive to corruption will be weakened because a lease is not as...
No hurdling has yet been tried upon the track, since it is still too soft to give sufficient spring. If the frost does not set in, hurdles will probably be placed on the track the first of next week.
The Stadium track will probably be in condition for use by the end of this week or the first of next week. The snow has almost entirely disappeared from the track and if the water drains off rapidly, the track will probably be rerolled and brushed within a day or...