The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 7

Eraday Morning. Ttbnaary 2, 1941 THE NASH VIEEE TENNES SEAN 'A-J-SEVEN' of City Trams Portrayed; Radnor Makes Last Run VICHY SHIFT SEEN FORCED Communist Plot Stated Nipped as Arms Are Seized FINAL if a Finer Quality VICHT, Feb. 1 ONS Reports that an organized Communist revolution against his regime had been nipped in the bud coincided tonight with multiplying indications, that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain may shortly feel compelled to yield to Germany's pressure and thoroughly revise his government Symptomatic of increasing internal troubles in vanquished France, rumors swept Vichy that a large cache of hidden arms and ammunition had been discovered MEIJ'S FURMSHMG'S MEN Here's a real opportunity to enjoy great savings on high grade haberdashery We are clearing the decks for new Spring merchandise and prices have been drastically reduced for a quick sell out! 462 $2, $2.50 and S3 Shirts $1.45 47 $7.95 to 1 4.95 Robes now $4.95 63 $3.95 to $6.50 Sweaters now $1.95 5 1 2 35c, 50c and 75c sox now .29 li Ik It fCti although one man Insisted he'd still rather have a "good streetcar" thana He didn't class Nashville's trolleys as "good," however. Tor DhotM by Staff Photogrwher Ed Cluk These pictures art a graphic portrayal tha history of public traniportation in Nashville. Tha aaga of tha treet railway, begun 52 years ago with appropriate ceremonies, ended last night without fanfare when the last streetcar line was suspended, giving way to the advent of gasoline busses.

The Radnor line car, left above, is shown leaving tha Public Square on its last regular run at midnight last night, and this morning Its creaking, rattling, bumping along the rails is stilled here forever. Tha passengers, right, seemed to feel no regrets, I vl VAk. 1 ROOSEVELT SMS NAYY CRAFT BILL near Perpignan on the French-1 Spanish frontier and that this was to have been used in an organized Communist uprising to overthrow the Petain government With France facing dire hardships to its people among whom the Communists are active despite alltpolice attempts to repress them, the 84-year-old Petain was reliably understood considering the reinstatement of the ousted Pierre Laval as foreign minister. The chief of state, who dismissed Laval from the vice premiership and foreign ministry last December 13, was reported contemplating the establishment of a so-called directory of five men to exercise concentrated power over the nation under Petain's leadership. If created, this directory would be in accordance with German conceptions as to the pre-requisites necessary for the completion of French-German "collaboration." Amid Vichy predictions that the prevailing French-German crisis would 'reach a head within a few days, reports said that a new "pro-collaboration" regime may include Gen.

Charles Huntziger, present national defense minister, as head of all France's armed forces of land, tea and air. The approaching climax is the French-German crisis was clearly foreshadowed today when the German-controlled press in Paris and the Paris radio rose to new heights in verbal onslaughts on the Petain regime, demand speedy alteration of the latter's composition and policies. WINTER TERM Modem Counts Capablo Teachers Coed Quarters Dependable Placement Service Fall's Business Collegt Fully Accredited by The Nat'l Assn. ot Commercial Schools EICHTH AND ROAD NASHVILLE Arrange Your Enrollment Now 429.85 to $15 Leather Jackets, now $7.85 Authorizes 8909,000,000 For U. S.

to Build 400 Vessels, Enlarge Shipyards Feb. 1t-INS President Roosevelt today signed a bill authorizing expenditures of $909,000,000 to build 400 small naval craft, expand naval and private ship yards and increase ordnance production facilities. Enactment of this measure lifted to $1,209,000,000 naval expansion authorized by the new congress Another bill signed yesterday al lotted $300,000,000 to strengthen combat warships against air power as a result of lessons learned from Europe's war. In medieval times, the horny cmioHiiy, or -cnesmut, found on the inner side of a horse's legs, was used in medicine. .59 .95 3471.00 neckties 841.95 to 3.50 scarfs now 99K sT hi 209 Sixth North Thru te Capitol when state It was 'a great day for Nashville and city dignitaries gathered at and Broadway for this picture.

ert L. (Our Bob) Taylor, Mayor McCarver, Chief Burk of the Police Department, Kerchival and Judge Robert Ewing of Public Works." The line ran from (First Avenue) along Broadway to limit. April, 1889, and the occasion Was the inauguration of Nashville's first electrically powered trolley. A moo at he people In the picture above, according to currrrKewpaper accounts, were: "Qov. Rob- Blvd.

no SubAiihiisLl JhsL ShtewdMt SuipAL, JOwiv ihat Qualify 2(aL Here is Great Savings on Great Clothing '1 I S.L idi C. E. Little of Peabody College, conveyance when he first came to school 55 years ago. Electric streetcars running on tracks were an unheard of marvel of the future when Nashvillians rode out to the Normal School on the mule carline In 1885, This picture Is from the stereopticon slide ities Commission, said "the increase In the company's patronage" because" of this "has far exceeded expectations." Shortly afterwards agitation to drop the old streetcars entirely, in favor, of trackless gasoline vehicles, was begun! There followed a long period of wrangling, in which the merits of at least four proposed franchises were argued, and during. which a bitter controversy raged between the City of Nashville and the utilities commission over authority for granting such a franchise.

On April 16, 1940, the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission ordered TEPCO to make an inp mediate substitution of busses for 'streetcars, with a five-cent fare, and held, that the city of Nash ville had authority to grant a street transportation system fran chise. The ruling Was made in the suit which soughtlmodernization of the streetcar syslem and which was filed by a grup of taxpayers, later joined by UjA city. PROPOSAL MADE With reference to the ruling, the TEPCO later issued a statement in which it said that since it was in a process of liquidation it proposed, among other things, that a corporation under the name of the Nashville Coach Company4 organized and chartered to operate the bus lines and make the changeover. This company was to have an authorized capital stock of $1,000,000 and be represented by 10,000 shares of common stock at a par value of $100 each, the entire value of which would be subscribed by the TEPCO by the conveyance to the ne'w corporation of property of a value of not less than and $644,000 in cash. The petition was signed by Jo Conn Guild.

Chattanooga, as president of both the Tennessee Electric Power Company and the Tennessee Transportation Company. H. H. Bailey was made manager of the Nashville Coach Company, and the first busses were put into operation on August 3 on the Hills-boro-Sunset Park line, with 14 40-passenger busses usurping the streetcar routes and the Sunset Park bus line. Then in rapid succession came changeover on other lines in Nashville, until only the Radnor line remained.

Last night it, too, changed over. TWO TAKES PLACE Substituted for the Radnor street car was both a local and an express bus. The local will carry passengers along Nolensville Road as far as Tutwiler Street only. The other bus will be labeled "Nolens-ville-Radnor Express," and will start at Fourth Avenue, North, and Deaderick Street; South on Fourth to Tutwiler; east on Tutwiler to Second Avenue, south on Second to Ensley Boulevard; from Ensley to Nolensville Road; thence to Raymond Street; along Raymond to Keystone Avenue; along Keystone to. Veritas Street; 'thence back to Nolensville Road; thence to Ensley; from there to Second Avenue; from there back to Tutwiler; thence to Third Avenue; on to Deaderick, and from there to the point of origin.

The local will run from Fourth Avenue and Deaderick along Fourth to Tutwiler, from there to Third Avenue; thence to Deaderick, and along Deaderick back to the point of origin. A feeder bus, officials said, wfll run from Raymond Street and Nolensville Road along Raymond Street to the Louisville and Nashville shops. Officials said the entire South High Streetcar line which runs out Sixth Avenue, South, to Oak Street, will be removed, and' asserted that passengers who have been using this line will use either the Radnor busses or those on Eighth Avenue, South. When Poisons Slow KIDNEYS and Irritate Bladder Flush Them Out For 35 Cents Must Satisfy or Money Refunded Go to your druggist today and get this safe, swift and harmless diuretic and stimulant ask for Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules and start at once to flush kidneys of waste matter saturated with acids and poisons. That's a quick and effective way to help bring about more healthy kidney activity and relieve that bladder irritation with its scanty passage with smarting and burning as well as rest-less nights.

Rmmbr tht IMnm oten atti flofcMnc well the bow Is, and torn symptoms ol kidney weakness msr bet setting; up a ten during the. night puffy eyes backache. But be sure and get GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsulea the original and genuine tha price is small (35 the good results will fulfill your expectations. Don't accept a substitute. Demise of Radnor Street) wV Marks Final Theft of City Sleep; Modern Busses Take Over Eighth Avenue The time was to have more than 60 passengers before he completed his run.

"Guess I'll start driving a bus now," he said, "but I've sure enjoyed my years steering a streetcar." Last night's change marked the demise of streetcars as a means of transportation, started 82 years ago by the old Mt. Vernon and Mc-Gavpck Street Railway Company. was, however, when the streetcar lorded It over all methods of city public transportation, thumbing its nose so to speak at the clumsy mule-drawn "taxis" and "coaches" which It superseded. GLORIOUS DAY That was a glorious day back in April, 1889 when Tennessee's Governor Robert L. Taylor headed a passenger list of some 40 city officials and company representatives to ride Nashville's first streetcar.

The streets were lined with people, there was confetti and rejoicing and holidayish spirits, and not even the fact that the cars jumped the track and were put back on with great difficulty disheartened the occasion. On that date, Nashville became the second city in the United States to get electric trolley service. Richmond, had beaten the Volunteer Capitol to the gjn by an eyelash as such things go. Nashville's street railway system really began in 1866 when a sweating mule hauled the first car of the old McGavock and Spruce Street Railway, up past the Maxwell House Hotel and the Public Square. That was the city's first public conveyance system.

MULES WERE USED Afterward, several mule routes sprang up, drawing their patronage from among Nashville's 15,000 residents. The Public Square became the terminus for most of the routes. Among the first systems was the South Nashville Street Railroad, which was four and a half miles long. In 1869 It was valued at owned eight cars and 43 head or horses, and employed 19; persona That year it hauled mere than Clack and Captain and T. A.

the Board of Front Street the corporation collection of Dr. who rode this Nashville to I No longer will residents of any vlt 'ree' 'n Nashville awake at mid- 1 night, or toss in disturbed slum-ber, as' the iron wheels of a late ty atreetcar clang and creak over I Nashville's streets. iTt For at last mirinicht thp aat II rffifSa-A3' VIS operating streetcar in Nashville that serving Woodbine and Radnor where the L. and N. shops are located made its last regular run and gave way to busses.

From now on the modern busses, CUSTOMIZED CLOTHES CONVENIENT CREDIT comparatively noiseless and speedy 1 transports, will glide to their -trtna" in evprv Arpn nf tha cftv Your Choice of Entire Stock of Both Suits ond Topcoats ot GREAT REDUCTIONS Choose one of our four plans with no down payment You have the privilege of paying monthly, semi-monthly, weekly or our popular "third-in-three" budget in Feb. Vi in MAR. i in APR. be' away and not an eyelid will JL flutter between wakefulness and f- aleep because of them. KA'a he streeicar a special run lor a iate snow crowa, ana a soii- 4rv rpminHpr nf nobler rinvs SPECIAL CLEARANCE pulled out on the Radnor line last I i nlo-ht.

carrvinar with it Ddsseneers who were taking their last atreet- car ride In Nashville. 177 WINE SUETS and TOPCOATS A steady but alow rain held the nassenger list down on the street- car, but with' W. M. Payne, who President Cleveland visited Nashville in the early 1880's, and the city placed a mule-drawn vehicle at his disposal. After 1889 when the Mt.

Vernon and McGavock Street Railroad Company had been granted a permit to operate an electric trolley line in Nashville," others conceived similar Ideas. Many new car lines sprang up. LINES ELECTRIFIED In February 1890, the United Electric Railway, having taken control of various mule car lines, electrified them. In 1893-94, the Nashville Street Railway absorbed the United Electric Railway, and consolidated what other companies were operating in 1899. In June, 1903, the Nashville Railway and Electric Company grew out of a combination of the Nashville Street Railway and the Cumberland Electric Light and Power Company, and this organization eventually became part of the Tennessee Electric Power Company which was formed May 27, 1922.

Later, TEPCO became a subsidiary of Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, which was presided over by Wendell L. Willkie. As late aa July, 1937, TEPCO retired $485,000 six per cent mortgage bonds of the original local horse railway company. With the purchase of local Commonwealth and Southern properties Ain early August, 1939, by the TV A and municipalities, the TEPCO ceased to exist aa a separate entity, but the Nashville Coach Company was formed to take over Its local street railway properties. The change to busses came after a long editorial campaign by The Tennessean urging that busses would more effectively and satisfactorily serve the rapidly-growing transportation problems.

On January 1, 1939, streetcar fares were reduced from seven to five cents after extensive public urging. Only July 22, Leon Jourol-mon, commissioner of the Tennessee Railroad and Public UtU- yerB Bl lne conirois, me final car yesterday pulled out from Fourth and Deaderick at 12 clock. Odds and ends yes, but the fact that they were this season's best sellers made them so One, two and three-of-a-kind, but 'the group as a whole offers a good selection in most all sizes. The suits are smartly styled fine worsteds and tweeds The top-coalre tweeds, coverts, and rich 'warm, fleece fabrics. "They never grbw old at Frank's" so regardless of their superior qualtiy out they go at one low price.

The owi special was to run a littla Jater. J. Goldberg, patrolman on the division superintendent for the i rA i 41 SMART SPORT COATS Hollywood styled; good colors good sizes; some were $25.00 NOW 86 PAIRS ODD PANTS snd sport slacks from our regular $6 to $10 stock. Most sizes NOW fc '3 1 'Va '7 4 f- 51 WEAR short distance. Among the last passengers to ride a streetcar in Nashville were Ralph Holton, 1121 Second Avenue.

South; Tipton, Reneau. 2218 Winford Avenue; Emmitt Kephart, 4404 Park Avenue; Eugene Gunter. 2806 Nolensvilla Road; Hubert Bell, 502 Napoleon; Mfls Mary- Bottoms, A100 MAN'S 3 FLOORS OF FINER MEN'S Goodwin, Donelson; Carl Manning, MKA ILTT-. Hffi 1502 Fourth Avenue, South, all white; and Willie D. 1248 Third Avenue, South; Isaac, Perkins, 1227 First Avenue, South; and John Thompson, 401 Moore Avenue, Negroes.

HUB) 209 Sixth Ave, North Thru to Capitol Blvd. i Conductor Conductor Payne said he expected 400,000 passengers..