Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-28
NEW YORK LETTER.
Street Cabs and Cars-A New Inyen.
tlon-C0llecting Pew Rent.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
New York, April 23.-In former
letter to The GAZETTE / remember to
have said that this city was not nearly
supplied with passenger transportation
facilities. The elevated roads carry
100000 passengers day the surface
lines on the same streets run Just as
many cars and as often as they did be-
fore the l. roads were built; the Broad
way, Fifth avenue and Twenty-third
street BUSES all do large business.
and now since writing the letter above
mentioned the New York Cab compa-
ny have put on twenty-five cabs to
carry two and four people for limited
distance at twenty-five cents for one
person or the same for two people, and
If four persons use the cab the fare for
the four is fifty cents. These cabs
have been SO well patronized that the
company have decided to put on 100
more at once. Even then the city will
not be provided with travelling facili-
ties. for which there is crying de-
| mand.
Speaking of street travel convey
ances brings to my mind new inven-
ton recently patented called the Au-
tomato Fare Collector, for use ON street
ears. In cars equipped with this at
tachment, passengers can deposit their
lares wherever they sit or stand, even
on the front or rear platforms, without
moving, and they are carried along
and dropped into the money box. III
practically does away with conductors.
but If conductors are used, it effectual
| ~ prevents them from "knocking
down. fares. The inventor, Mr.. Jas
III. Small, was the inventor of the bell
punch now so universally used, and
out OF which he made Il fortune. He
went TO England some years ago and
while there was large stakeholder i'm
ana manager of the London Tramwav
company. He conceived and put In
operation on his street car line penny
two cents fare for one mile or less.
His company became alarmed, beliey-
ing IT, too great an innovation. Mr..
small, confident that he was right,
with Yankee pluck, sold his stock and
resigned his position rather than
go back to the old way. And
now, after four years, the company
have resumed the penny fares. and
late London papers pronounce the line
great success and give Mr.. Small the
credit which was then his due. He
has got his automatic fare-collector on
street cars in Pittsburg, Louisville.
Minneapolis, st. Paul, Baltimore and
some lines in this city. The new cars
OF the Fort Worth Street Car company
only need this attachment to make
them perfect. 1t is simple and orna.
mental, and enables the driver. or anv
one In the car for that matter, to tell at
glance If any passenger has failed To
pay his fare. "
was ON the front platform of a
surface ear the other day, and we were
slowly making our way down West
broadway under the l. road, SIX
cars were strung along just ahead of
US, ana the street was so full of teams
dnat we were stopped most of the time.
me driver had most difficult task i'm
keeping his horses from being TANNED
between cars or run into.
why don't you get u position on
.ne broadway line up town ?" asked.
~ would certainly be lighter work .
tax" '"n" Tue
What do you mean ?n 7 asked
why, have big family and T
cannot afford to give the sunerin.
tendent of the line five dollars month
out OF my wages"
Would you have to hand him five
pay?" 'o"'
He take money from me! Not NV n
lug-iuli. He is not such fool. He's
been investigated and reported too
him. 'a'on
How does he manage It ?p 7 in.
CURED, thinking the driver was prob.
apiy fomancer there are lots Of ro-
mancers OF wonderful and ingenious
originality who don't write books.
GU see, " he answered, "when Won
send IN AN application at the Office
you inciose In an envelope a five-doliar
; nn, ana a piece Of paper with your
iu,'n.is on y, ana drop the envelope In
ans ans piavate ietter-box; and every pay
Gay you must do the same. or the neyt
day--iook for u job.n
probably he uses the money to nay,
ms pew-rent," facetiously remarked n
iellow-passenger.
One morning going down town In
vro"uea car l gave the conductor a
.wo.doiiar bill. When he had finished
taA'1g up Iares, he handed me a whole
handful of change. For ocel,nstion
more than anything else, / proceedad
70 count II. Not being satisfiei H.
mrs time, l started TO count N AGAR
out mad TO get Off before Finished
Ionnd was right the first time: had
9nly one dollar and eighty-fiye cents
should nave had ten cents more
- tw 40 mornings after that l handed IN
" ~, uue conductor one dollar, and after
aha n..,e while he gave me back the
and ion NJ peh me l counted them,
The co ru /. nad eighty.eight cents.
said; us your change ~rn , ana
"fes,.n ! said. II want sevsn ,ong
more.n Without word he eava o q y
me, ~ ! had put the change In nv ~
pocket without counting il. M :" my
auctor could have added seven cent? "
% ILLS sinking fund to liquidate 'h his
-" 'sAr .. VIC.
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