Word: streets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...secured at the Co-operative, Amee's, Leavitt & Peirce's, Brine's, Wright & Ditson's, and at the office of the Athletic Association. Harvard Union, or at the box office on the afternoon of any game. Tickets may be obtained in Boston at Wright & Ditson's, 344 Washington street. The price...
...Bussey Institution dinner, to which all past and present members are invited, will be held this evening at 6.30 o'clock, in the Crawford House, 83 Court street. E. W. Morse '97 will act as toastmaster. Tickets should be obtained as soon as possible from G. L. Wilson 1B., Ware 39. Before the dinner a reception will be held in Ware 27 at 6 o'clock...
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 valuable as a franchise, and the operating company will be less powerful. If the city assumes the burden of operation then the opportunity for this kind of corruption will be entirely eliminated. The possibility of petty graft within the department itself can be avoided by adopting civil service rules, such...
...closing, Matthew summarized the affirmative case. The people of New York, he said, are at the mercy of a gigantic monopoly, which conducts the street railways not for the public benefit, but for private profit. The service is utterly inadequate, and unnecessarily so. The companies are deriving an extortionate profit, and they constitute a prolific source of political corruption. We can expect no relief from competition because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has invariably proved an inadequate remedy. Municipal ownership will mean a better and a cheaper service for the people because the system will be operated...
...closing the debate for the negative, H. D. Smith dwelt upon the actual detriment to service which would result from the policy of municipal ownership. He showed that in the street railway business success is impossible unless the management has continuity and efficiency, and he pointed out the fact that in New York City with its frequent upheavals and constant political uncertainty, these qualities could not be preserved. He cited the failure of the Staten Island Ferries, recently taken over by the city, as an example of the inability of city officials to cope with undertakings of this nature...