The evening world., 1889-06-29
LAW DEFIERS, too.
Why Hot Make That HuCklsberIy Road
Repair Its ROadbed
An Obligation Imposed by Its
Charter Flagrantly Violated.
Mire and Filth Outside Added 20 Otbs,
Discomforts OF Passengers.

The crusade of TIKI EVENING World in N.
interest Of the much-abused citizens of tha
Twenty-fourth Ward. is warmly acknovl.
edged by these great sufferers from every IN.
convenience which the Huckleberry surface
road offers them.
Complaint after complaint against this two
horse road, with q one.horse management
have arrived in every mail, together with
words of commentator for The EVENING
WORLDS taking up of the cudRels in their b.
half.
These are supplemented by the verbal nj.
terances of many other Of the suffering and
indignant inhabitants of the Annexed Dis.
trict.
Game one of these to The EVENING Wos1D
Office this morning. and thus did he give
vent to his indignation ut the parsimony and
indifference of the railroad management and
praise for the newspaper champion of the
rights Of him and his n%eighbors:
THE EVENING WoRLD has accomplished
some wonderful things. but il il, through the
efforts which it is at present making, shall
prevail in reforming the beastly management
of that Huckleberry road, il will have per.
formed a task positively Herculean in its
magnitude and difficulty.
The officials of that road evidently deem
themselves all-powerful, for their treatment
of the public is equivalent to the public be
y of q certain other railroad mag
nate, and the what are you going to do about
it.?' Of Bill Tweed, rolled i~nto!ons.
Not oniy are they careless OF the public
comfort In the character and cleanliness OF
their cars. and the time schedule on which
they run them, but they seem to be quite as
Indifferent Of life and limb. Not that they
have occasloned a death recently, though
that they have not is no fault Of theirs.
By their charter or franchise they are
obliged to keep the roadbed between the rails
of their track in good repair at their own ex-
pense.
=" What do they do in this regard =
The EVENING WORLD has answered this
question n portrayed the terrible condition
of things, but not in language sufficiently
strong,
rails of the road from One Hundred and Sew
entieth street to Fordham o filthy canal,
through which the horses wallow in mire or
dust, according to the weather, but this fail
ure of the railroad Company TO keep the
danger.
This deep canal is the menace to life and
property. 1t IS in some places almost impos-
sible to cross the street with q loaded wagon.
Vi luOh WAbhOub IAbhiuR HI DroAklQR OF IQOl
vehicle or worse: and who can tell the dan
gers that lurk in this uneven street surface
on a dark night? 2"
Secretary Charles De Forest Burns, Of the
Department of Public Parks, which has ju-
rlsdiction over the streets in the annexed
district, when asked If the H~uckleberry road
is required by law to keep the roadway be-
tween its tracks in repair, showed a most
remarkable Hs al n ignorance me- Of the question;
exists some such provision of law, but
thought if there is. that Engineer Myers, of
the annexed district, would know all about il.
Secretary Burns's ignorance Of this pro-
vision show at least that the Park Com
mlssioners never attempted to Inforce it.
Here is a tale an employee of the road has
10 tell:
The lHuckle3erry Railroad A better lame
would be the H. b. NJ. and Sewer Railroad TO
have been, employed as conductor on this
broken-backed railroad since February last, and
l must say it takes the cake for bad manage
On a rainy day the cars look as If they had
been driven through the sewer from One Hun
roofs, cars without buttons and the curtains
without loops, passengers have to hold the cur
t =, : down tn tG try and keep dry: and nine cases
being ditched, when the p~assenaers have to
get out to right the car, on the track and walk
knee deep in the mud and mire to the car again,
don't like it.
On u Wet uny the mud 10 from one to TWO teet
deep from the depot to Fordham.
One could go grabbing in q tiatboat between
the tracks.
The horses are deaf. blind and lame. and look
as II they had been fed on barrels. You can see
the hoops in their sides.
The lamps are put in the cars by an italian,
and are covered with oil and slime. He will
push in between the passengers Mt the depot TO
put the lamps on the boxes, and II they do not
get a dash OF oil on their clothes they have es-
capped very lucky.
Go as you please is the word when you pass
the depot. "H. Pr
Other of the abuses which are laid ct the
door of this railroad company are here men
toned:
l have read every article on the Huckleberry
road and have seen nothing in them but what l
know to be true.
A short time ago. in going to Fordham, the
car l was in jumped the track three times going
up and four times coming down., and when the
rails are nearly q foot above the road you will
get pretty well shaken up.
There are several other abuses that have not
been mentioned.
When u Fordham car has passed fremont and
has no passengers, the driver will hitch. his
horses to the reaItand jumping the track, will get
OH the down track, and go back regardless OF
Nice, isn't, when the cars run every hour?
Then again, l have jumped on cars late o.
night the driver refusing to stop and been
told to get off and wait for the next car (another
hour as that was his last trip and his car was
going in and II l stayed on 1 would have to pay
twof fares. ANOTHER SUFFERER.