"It will be found more profitable to the traction companies to put the street car systems on a low fare basis," said Miss Addams. "The results obtained by the operation of postal systems in this country show the advisability, from an economic viewpoint, of reducing fares."
The other need of the working people, which Miss Addams explained to the committee, was that for street car facilities which would enable a laboring man to work in any part of the city without changing his residence.
"A man may work one year in the Stock-Yards and the next in Deering," she said. "Street car facilities should be such that he is free to accept work where he can find it without necessity of changing his home. With the extension of lines to different parts of the city and the establishing of a universal transfer system he would be able to reach his work in any section."
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