ï~~I----, P. R.'T. Wants a Vote - ievei. as a result or iegrsiation now Interstate Commerce Commissioi for m sLU Te R.panT.forlat e m pending before Congress and which re- determination. The commission might terday ug Thetcrnpany dfrmulated even more ceived, the support of the oard of Di- also bear com plaints. by shippers or the Pregiden put the of the Chambeterriotionotnmprttheheearnd by athoitktorailroads ar r(lI(-tjon of- skip-stops up to thetray- rectors of the Chamber of Commerce pther, a to prescribec ntrol, haeb elers on t he- various82'lines of the city, at their monthly meetingesterday. minimum as well as maximum rates..Congress thtgh it did not explamn just what Action taken by the ' Philadelphia "the statute itself should provide the at ur t o mnetho d of balloting woutld be' used, or Chambrsoftute-ming, soldpovd.theathsw o it prop< t seure thenpe Chamber of Commerce iA reconciling rule of rate-making, and should require iresentation of the wishes of the gar-. differences of opinion ove legislation that rates be not only what has been r*iders. Subject in the action of the proposed to validate ora lcontracts called reasonable, but adequate and suf- Questioned l'ublir- Service ('onitnission. the com- with the government. ' is resulting in ficient to enable the carriers to provide said future pany said,, a vnte on rech 'line c ould progress toward the enactnent by Con- safe, adequate and sufficient service, to returnd to he taken to 'determine whether skip- ress of a law for this purpose. accord- protect existing investment and to at, pend traa stops would be retained or discarded. lng to a report made to te Board of tract the new capital necessary in the that the rail The company admitted that many of the Directors of the ihai l~er at their puble interest." -do buginess corners now skipped were wrongly lo- monthly meeting yesterday.I $t was declared further that "the control with rated, and intimated that these wouldj A substitute measure. prepared by statute should provide that existing wages and c be revised by popular vote on lines representatives of the Wa# Industries rates, put into effect by the Directpr "I think where skip-stops were maintained. Board and others interested is now be- General of Railroads should be contin- higher rate Admitting that one-third of the car- fore Congress. The Philadelphia Cham- iud in effect until changed by the In-.the govern riders are inconvenienced, the 4ompany ber. realizing that the diferences of terstate Commerce Commission as pro- rates soon c-laim that the saving in time and sere- opinion existing in Washington between vided by law," or through initiation of Senator 'I ice to the other two-thirds.' wastifi- members of Congress and representa- new rates by roads. Express rates Director Ge: rient to justify maintenance of the tives of the manufacturer, imperiled should be dealt with in. the same man- fled that the system..the passage- of any law, eceeded in ncr as freight rates.. be able' to I At the conclusion of its lengthy argu- having otb sides agree o. e bill pro- Regional Federal rate tribunals, aaid Kellogg inter ment the P. It. T. made the statement posed; the Wit Innu'tles Board. Mr. Cuyler, might be created in thbs his..indleates that skip-stops w'ere of no -mterial Wlth ('ertkin modificatio*, and this manner: - '"them':" advantage to itself, but,.in addition to measure. the board was t id, is now "The Interstste Commerce Co - "Hav'e'.th its belief that skip-stops were a von- in a fair way tonard its ssage- mission should divide the Unit d rector Cen venience,to the traveling publi- be cause they shortened the time. the re-______ ultirg economies allowed maintaining WILL GATHER 'FLI)' DATA. the wage scale of 'employes and keptAc the fare.down to the present rate. The To Determine if Sufferers Still Need answerThwas-signed by'Ihomas E.,Mit-Ti ten, president of the Philadelphia Rapid Help Transit Company. A survey of the homes o, more than Abbott Calls It Evasion 4000 men, women and childtrn. who hadnInstant__ReliefoSi Uonreceiving the repjy of the P. suffered from influenza dui ng the re R.TMi-. Abbott. chairman of the Law cent epidemic to determine hether any a SO in 00d pe Committee of the United Business of them are still in need f medical /tas, souringf,dy Men's Association, immediately r attention, will be started i a few days Wh meals' nounseed it.on-a parity with the report by members o'f the Emerg ey Aid. A 7 of the Committee of Thirteen, as far Inquiries will be made the work- lumps of lead and you bejch as evasio of the real facts were con- ers relative to the health 4050 per cerned.. vr..Abbott. made the point sons, who were ill from in tenza dur- gases and feel sick andUp thbat the vote on car lines ras in itself in h ot fOcoe, dwr t the most unfair proposition that could ing the month of October, d were at- g san elt be sug ested, as that one-third of the te,e by e-e asr 'ridera whom 'the P. R. T. admits Nurses' ociety.turn- Instat nrelpef 'to be victims of tbeskip-stops Thedata collected will t en be turn- The moment'Pape's Diape he: very likely outvoted by theo luky ed over to the Visiting Nur es' Society..wo-thiudlikeholvonearb"stop" eor- he att rganization wil then decide reaches' the stomach, dist ners. He pronounced it'a.elever scheme, what persons are again a need. goes: but one which - would not -hoodwink Philadelphia citizens when they real-' FINED R CILD LABOR No waitingY Misery enis ized. the true facts.,**. FINED FRunCHfILD L BO Commenting 'upon the case last nightC s et Mr. Abbott said:- Magistrate 1mposed Sente * on Seven Costs so little at drug si, "This answ'er relys uphn the report Violators Makes stomachs feel fin of. the Committee of-Thirteen on elim- - inating the. dangerous clement of skip- First steps were take yesterday a top. The Committee of 'rhirt een toward making a general clean-up -of ' T made their report upon''the evidence violators of the childeis r laws in UP Sg T?!al submitted before them.: No evidence Philadelphia. - Magistrate Stevenson, - of deaths or essualties were submit- at Forty-first. street an Lancaster L_________________________ - avenue, had before him t -five vio ted,.ob their report' was the.onlyvnelators 6f the Compulsory cbool law te ogpd.'k ut hcitize - and seven persons accuse. of having ly potproen. But the -itizens wh violated the Cild Labor w..still beieve the system dangerous can Each of the, violators f the-Child pproduce an-y testimouny they. have be- Labor law was fined $1 - and costs. fore the commission, Wihen they hear The- fines for those violati g the Com-j-thea case. The -Philadefiihia Repid pulsory Sc hoot laiw range fromi $5.5 a ontbuaton of their:denial If the few were discharg'd. -FU D -I --C-J.H pp -r, I:o' _2. ".C"." -.-af 'Ga 't 4".Â~'.Q4'%.r[j [j 'w 't '