[PRCo] Re: Anti-Streetcar Anne X. Alpern

[Schneider Fred]

What I typed makes no sense at all!    Three days running trolleys  
will do that.   Brain dead.

See correction below:   fourth line changes from lower to increase.    
Condemnations would
be based on the amount of money a company earns.   The more the asset  
is worth in earnings,
the more the county would have to pay.

On Nov 30, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Schneider Fred wrote:


Keep reading.   You will get to the part where her successor, Mrs.
Finkelhor (a great name) admits that she opposed allowing Pittsburgh
Railways convert any money losing operations until after the county
condemned it in 1964 because it would increase the amount that the
county would have to pay.    Her object was to force the company to
lose money. One example were the abandonment hearings for the Castle
Shannon Incline which dragged on for months with Mrs. Finkelhor
opposing it.   Of course, within perhaps days after PAT took over,
that incline quit running.

Jim Shuman was remarked to me that the Post Gazette had an impeccable
talent for photographing Charles Palmer with a frown on his face in
order to stir public sentiment against the Railways Company.

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