Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-16

vile. Policeman King is a very intelli-
gent citizen. you see, said he, 81 don't
pay any fare. being policeman; but may
to pay. / am thinking OF going into busi-
ness down Sharpsburg way, but Mrs. King
won't hear to leaving East Liberty, where
many Of her friends live. So 1 am much
interested in this new idea sprung by THE
DISPATCH. Not only the peoples interests.
but their own ought to prompt the Citizens
traction people to give us those transfer
tickets. The first line that gives me the
cheapest way to Sharpsburg I'll stick to in
the big fight that the lines are going to
have, sooner or later. 1 think most people
out here will say the same" =.
j. H. Arthurs, clerk in Wanamaker &
Browns establishment, was in favor OF
smaller fares 10 Pittsburg. "If the Citizens
line will not reduce their fares now, he
said, "they will have to do so later on.
They may as well reduce with q good grace.
am not personally interested in the trans
fer ticket plan, but 1 think it is good one,
and feel sure that all the laboring classes
whose work lies in the Allegheny river d.
rection will support it."
Out Lawrenceville way the same feeling
prevails. DR.. c. V. Buvynger, of Butler
street, has occasion 10 make many journeys
to the East End 1T find the traction car
rides switter and more direct than the
buggy driving used to do. The charging
of 10 cents for trip from Lawrencevllle to
East Liberty is little too much. The two
branches which separate at the forks OF the
road belong to the same line. What diff
Guilty then can there be about creating a
transfer system between them, and charging
five cents for the journey"
A REGULAR PASSENGER.
Andrew Patterson is shrewd Scotch
gardener, living on Fortv-fourth street. He
works in the gardens of several East End
residents, and makes four trips on week days
between Lawrenceville and these points II
ken veil laugh at me, for being a canny
auld Scot" he said, "fond O. the bawbees,
an a thai; but tell ye that there's mair
than me wha wants the three-cent fares, an
the transfer tickets Ny wife teaches mil
linery, down town, and going in every day
the three-cent fares wod be big reduction
for her. too. Gin someane or other III get
up petition to the directors, I'll sign it"
Mr.. Walter j. Grifiths, of Forty-sixth
street, a well known and representative resi-
dent, said: "It would be really splendid
notion, that Scent fare idea. The transfer
tickets will, am sure, he agreed to by the
company without any trouble. 1t was posi-
lively unjust to ask people to pay double
fares on that trip. When they reduced the
1o-cent fares they ought to have given the
transfer tickets, too"
OTHER TRANSFERS WANTED.
The residents of Oakland are still agitat-
ing the transfer-ticket idea on the Atwood
street feeder of the Pittsburg Company.
The electric cars will probably be running
by tomorrow, and nobody knows what ar
rangement has been made by the company
about the short distance fare. If any at
tempt is made to collect an additional fare
the people say they will boycott the cars
and continue to walk.
The track sprinkler of the Pittsburg COM
pany arrived yesterday, and was run out on
the road attached to cable car. 1t will be
run at intervals during the day over the road.