The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-29
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Avenue, would not support in habitual
use n train with n locomotive heavier
than from eighteen to twenty-five TOM
anu drawing four cars each containing
seats for forty.four persons, moro or less.
During the busy hours ofthe day trains
run from tho City Hall at tw8-minute In.
~lervals, and from South Ferry with the
same frequency. When they reach Chat.
ham Square. Station thoy alternate ut In.
teryals Of only ono minute, and trains are
besides run out from this point quite OF.
ten, SO that, from Chatham Square up,
three sets Of trains arc running ut tho
same time on the structure, all going the
same way with tho average Of less than 4
minute between trains. This Is OH tho
Third Avenue line, tho most crowded OF
A similar condition OF things Is seen on
tho other three lines Of the system.
Tho conclusion is that no inore trains
can DO run with safety, and tho problem
OF rapid transit in New York with com
Tort has not yet been solved.
INTERESTING OUTLOOK PROM THE TRAIN.
On these dark winter evenings during
tho five cent (commission) hours, 1t is in.
teresting to ride at tho extreme end OF the
carand watch thetrain ncxtbohind, which
comes into the station one has Just loft al
mostatthe momentof ones departureirom
1t. Looking down longstrctch OF railway
a procession Of trains appears, while ever
ana anon rush past rs many going in nm
opposite direction on the track at tho other
side OF the street.
Under these circumstances tho belief
that every train is under absolute control,
being provided with n perfect system OF
brakes, is a comfort to tho nervous pass.
enger.
GOING TO THE TRAIN.
Travelling on the Elevator" induces
greater hurry in n people apt to DO in too
great Il hurry before its introduction. An
ingenious writer has attempted to show
that its use has increased tho number OF
persons suffering from disease OF the heart,
A man starts to catch q train. Ten TO one
before he has half reached the long flight
OF steps leading to the station, he hears
md sees one coming. Whereupon he
hurrles to catch it, thus increasing the
fatigue Of his ascent. lilo ncrvously gets
mis- ticket, PUSHES on to the platform,
probably forgets to throw his ticket into
the box, and is called to the performance
OF his duty by tho uniformed Official whose
duty lies in seeing the tickets deposited and
in cancelling them This he does by
working species of p%ump.handle
which is the most prominent feature of
tho box Mt which he presides. The sides
OF the top portion Of this box arc OF glass,
the other two OF wood. The ticket IS 70.
ceived into o wedge.shaped interior Of
glass, not closed at the bottom but allow
ing the ticket to iall on n movable glass
bottom. When tho official moves the han.
die OF the box this bottom is lifted up,
throwing the ticket or tickets into the un.
seen interior, where the motion OF tho
handle tears the ticket, rendering it use
less until relnade. The whole concern is
about four feet high. A timid passenger
returns to the box, and thereby loses his
train. The experienced traveller keeps
his ticket and jumps on the train, to DO Off
in an instant.
HuNoRs OF THE cAECELLrSa-Doy.
These are not the invariable incidents
OF nervous hurry. Very funny things
happen ut the boxes. There is no au-
thenticated case OF n woman, throwing her
baby into one Of them, but both men and
women not infrequently tumble money
into their interior, handfulls Of change
and sometimes whole pursefulls of cash.
Umbrellas are jammedinto the receptacle,
much to the annoyance OF the %cold;blood.
cd canceller. What is a man TO do with
a mouthiull OF tobacco-juicc, under the
circumstances, but void it into this con-
venient vessel? The secrets OF the can
celling-box have to be exposed not seldom
to oblige the passenger who in his haste
has depc sited in it what he can spare less
than the tiny bit Of pasteboard for which
he paid 4 second before.
The substitution OF elevators for stair
cases would DO a desirable change, max
ing access to the station easy and COM
pnratively comfortable. This too would
prevent the nervous hurry which, in the
case OF passengers suffering from it, begins
on the weary height OF steps they are now
necessitated TO climb before they can pro-
cure tickets.
THE CARS AND TIE ADVERTISEMENTS Dis
PLAYED IN THEM.
Cars on the elevated roads are hand
some and spacious, but heavy, most Of
them probably weighing not under six
teen thousand pounds. They are divided
Off into comfortable seats, extending in
perhaps most cases, the full length OF the
car. But there are cross seats in the mid
die part Of some Of the cars used on all the
lines.
Suitable reading matter is provided by
means OF panneled exhortations to
insurance against accident. The pass.
cnger is .e1horted to purify his
blood, to take certain maya
zines, to destroy his corns, to buy hats OF
a particular maker, and what not, and the
railway company assures tho advertiser
that the best way Of reaching the public
is to make his announcements in the name
exhibited on ali sides Of him. The pass.
enger is cautioned against putting his feet
on the seat, and, whi..e perfectly Mt liberty
OF making a spittoon Of the mating, he is
politely requested not TO e1pectorate out
OF the windows. Conductors on the plat
form have charter free rs air in this par
%ticular, ald sprays Of tobacco juice, drop
ping oil, hot cinders, SCOT, bolts and iron
dust arc descending fayors which accom-