St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-03
STREET CAR ACCOMMODATION.

The street car company of our city. FORM
ing as It does the great vein of transit for
our citizens. on business or onpleasure bent,
can scarcely escape criticism, be it in words
of praise or of reproof. Existing as the
only organization of the kind in our midst,
and with all the benefits that its valuable
franchise from the city has conferred on it,
it is looked on with universal interest, and
its advantages or defects form matter of
eager comment by all. 1t is to be remem-
bered how great gift our city offered to the
car company in its valuable franchise; the
RESPONSE to that benefit should be, and
probably is, spontaneous on the part of the
company, and its appreciation of it would
naturally take the form of efficiency, expe-
dition and ample accommodation. 1t is to
be remarked, however, that assertions to
he contrary of these qualifications have
been heard. And more especially in regard
TO the number of ears employed do these
complaints arise. Take the hour OF p. m,
when business throws books away to seek
its rest. At the same hour several trains
are due, and discharge their passengers at
the depot to seek further transport to their
homes: the street car is the natural con
veyance of the majority. But what
is the case? 1t is hardly posi-
bile at the above-named hour to find a
place in the cars, unless it is by hanging at
the end of a strap. You perform the jour
new as an unwilling athlete, inconvenient
alike to Yourself and your fellow-passen-
gers. Again. at the later hour of the even
ing when many employ them in their re-
| turn from visit to the town, it is their
hard lot to find no place in the crowded
cars, each one as it passes displaying its
strap-clinging. standing passengers, and its
posse of platform dodgers as it jingles slowly
by. AS regards the time of the night SER
vice of the cars it is possible that a bylaw
extending its service to somewhat later
hour would be profitable alike TO the
company and the public. At present the
St. Anthony Hill line quits service at 1880
| u. m: it would seem that an eXtentiOn TO
II d. m. or midnight would prove an i'm
mense accommodation to the town transit,
and the alienation of the press at 6 p. m.
! will naturally be found in an increase in
the number of cars. The st. Anthony Hill
line, where the stress is particularly felt,
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and there is no doubt that it would win the
thanks and commentator of many grateful
citizens. 1t is undoubtedly the wish of the
car company to accommodate and satisfy all
its passengers, but an insufiiciency of cars
and the necessary crowding that arises from
it is anything but an inducement to ladies Il
trust themselves to them, and the same
crowding defeats its own special bylaw
printed in all the cars relative to keeping the
platform at the back of the car clear from
obstruction. How often or rather how sci
dom that platform is clear those who view
the st. Anthony Hill car traffic of an even
ing can judge; not only is the back platform
crowded but passengers stand in front b!
the driver. The remedy, as before stated
is not far to seek. 1t is probable that thu
company only wants the slightest indication
of feeling from the public to employ tina
remedy, and the citizens, naturally jealous
of the well being of their fine car line, vii
welcome any effort that facilitates thei
| transit.