Word: railway
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...question for debate was: "Resolved, That it would be for the best interest of New York City to own its street railway system; the term street railway system being taken to mean elevated, surface, and subway lines." Harvard supported the affirmative from choice, and Yale the negative...
...argument of the Harvard team was that the street railway system of New York City, upon which the people are very dependent, is in the hands of a great corporation, which, while making enormous profits, is rendering very inefficient and inadequate service. A remedy is demanded and is needed. Competition can furnish no relief because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has been tried for the past 15 years and has invariably failed. Municipal ownership is the only remaining alternative, and the experience of European municipalities and our own political wisdom argue for it. It will bring about cheaper...
According to the Street Railway Commission's report for 1904, 33 per cent. of the surface cars on Manhattan Island are horse cars. The service is not only antiquated, but it is absolutely unsanitary. In many cases, the cars are dirty, poorly lighted and heated, and greatly over-crowded. This is the essence of scores of complaints from associations of citizens representing all sections of New York City, which appear in the Street Railway Commission's reports year after year, but yet the condition has been little improved. Elder then cited several other evidences of popular dissatisfaction...
These bad conditions of the service, he continued, are not due to lack of funds, for the street railway companies are paying dividends of over 24 per cent. on their actual investment...
Harvard has decided to uphold the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, That it would be for the best interests of New York City to own its street railway system," in the debate with Yale at New Haven on March 30. The Harvard team, composed of A. H. Elder '07, G. W. Hinckley 3L. and A. P. Matthew 1L., is being coached by R. T. Parke...