The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-12-20
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uhanrrs THAT win ne Made to tnsarc
Greater safety Tor Travellers.
The competition OF the eastern rail.
ways on passenger business has become
largely question Of time and attractive
equipment Rates have fallen TO 20 low
n basis that the public hardly expects
concessions In this direction except In
isolated cases The force of public
opinion. however, Is constantly driving
the roads to the adoption of means for
increasing the safety and comfort of
travellers One Of the most recent in
ventions pointing to this end is the pass.
enger CIR designed by Leslie p, Farmer,
recently the general passenger agent OF
the New York. Lake Erie and Western,
and now the passenger commissioner OF
the Trunk Line association. The novelty
of the invention is the substitution of
side openings in the center Of the car
and the abolition of the end platform
and steps.
The car is entered through double
doors at the center. the car door sill be,
ing just above the platforms of stations,
while the steps up to the floor of the car
are wholly within 1t, and extend close
to the aisle or passageway. Door open
ings at each end of the car are provided,
but only for passage by vestibule from
one car to another The cars will be 80
close together that vestibules are not
positively needed. Among the advan-
tages ON the side of safety in the new
style of car is that, with the center side
doors closed, it will be impossible to get
on OF off the car when it is in motion.
The riding of passengers on platforms
is impossible, and it is not many months
since the son of well known merchant
was blown off platform and killed
while attempting to go from one car to
another on rapidly moving train. The
steps are four feet wide, and the cars
can be more easily emptied than in the
case of the present style. As rule, nine
men out of ten in passenger car will
crowd to the front exit in getting off,
even If they thereby traverse a distance
of two-thirds of the cars length.
With side openings the stream of pas
sengers pouring out would be directed
from end to end toward the centre of the
car, thereby facilitating the employing
of the car with more comfort to passen-
gers. The gradual rise of the steps from
the station level to the floor of the plat
form affords convenience to the egress
of old and feeble persons and children.
The passage directly from the covered
steps to the station platform also enables
rain to be avoided, as it is impossible to
raise umbrellas when passengers ON or
binary cars, with open platforms on each
side, make their exit, while the new in.
vention also averts the danger involved
in the slipperiness by wet and ice which
the open steps suffer from in rainy Oh
wintry weather.
Not small advantage maintained fol
the new car is that it shuts off the drafts
rendered necessary when in the ordinary
car the brakemen open both end door
and yell out the names of stations in un
Ineligible language. Brakemen being
wholly within the car, perhaps their an
nouncements may be more easily dis
tinguished. AT least they will be de
prived of the excuse of saying that hal
of their remarks were blown by the wine
through their whiskers.
The steps and station platform will b
well lighted in the new car without
special outside light. The seating ca
pacity is also increased above that of tn
common car by two seats. Heaters
brakes, toilet rooms, ETC., are all inclose'
in the new STYLE It is expected tina
three cars made after Mr.. Farmers de
sign will soon be placed for trial upol
one of the branches Of the Erie road
New York Tribune.