The attorneys held a conference
with Judge Banks in his chambers
from 9 to 9:40 when the judge ap
peared on the bench and Attorney
Klein commenced his argument in fa
vor of making the injunction perma
nent. Attorney Klein said that he rep
resented 475 owners and drivers of
buses who did business in this city,
owning 275 buses engaged in local
traffic and 75 on suburban lines.
These buses carried 110,000 passen
gers a day and on the Stratford avenue-Ash
Creek line and on the State
street-Barnum avenue line they car
ried 75 per cent, of tho entire num
ber of passengers carried each day.
On the North and South Main street'
line 50 per cent., on the East Main
and Boston avenue lines 50 per cent,
and on the Brooklawn-Beardsley
park line 25 per cent.
That 250 of the buses averaged in
value over $2,500, most of which Is
I being paid in installments of $100 a
month and that the banks of the city
held chattel mortgages on many of
the buses.
He said that before a man could
operate a bus he was obliged to pay
in license fees, taxes and for permits
$377.25, besides paying the usual
taxes.
The bus associations pay nine
starters, who are special policemen,
$35 and $40 a week each and a chief
starter, $50 a week.
City Attorney Comley said that he
would admit that certificates which
were then offered in evidence would
show that the bus men would re
ceive irreparable injury if the ordin
ance were enforced.
