The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-22
THE ALL-Monr CAR ORDINANCE
Street Car Men Say IL IL Too SweepinE,
but They WIN Comply " They Must

The passage OF Alderman Storms city ordi-
nance By the Board OF Aldermen on Tuesday,
compelling every street car line In the city to
run cars at n Roadway Of not moro than twenty
minutes between the hours OF ~ o'clock mid
night and o'clock In the morning, took tho
street car companies OF this town by surprise
yesterday. All but three OF tho main lines stop
running between midnight and o'clock In tho
morning and begin again between and
o'clock. The three exceptions are
the Third. Sixth. and Eighth avenue
roads which run all night. The new ordinance
will nightly accommodate thousands OF belated
Now Workers at the expense OF the street rail-
road corporations. The railroad companies
VIII comply with the law SO far as 1t is now
possible to discover. but It is moro than prob
able that, in the near future they will bring
action through the courts TO have the new
ordinance abrogated. They will probably pro-
coed on tho grounds that the ordinance is un-
constitutional, or that 1t conflicts with their
individual charters. None OF the companies
had any intimation OF the new law until their
officers read the morning newspapers and one
result OF the news was that the Presidents OF
all the roads we're absent from their Offices all
day yesterday.
Alderman Storm said yesterday to Sun re-
porter that he had introduced the ordinance In
behalf OF his constituents Of the Twenty first
district. The district extends as far north as
Fiity-ninth street, and includes sik-stockiuR
az well as thorough going east side voters.
Mr.. Storm represents, he sad residents along
eide OF two and a half miles OF the Fourth ave-
nue. street railroad and along the F,fty-ninth
street and Forty-second street cross- town
roads. great deal Of pressure had been
brought to bear upon him to get these roads to
run cara after midnight. He had resisted this
pressure Tor long time. but had at last
AcLarney offered resolution In the Board
that the Belt line be required to run cars all
night through Filty-ninth street. between the
East and Hudson Rivers. This was passed and
signed by the Mayor. The company complied,
Notwithstanding that no penalty for non-con-
formity was attached to the bill. Alderman
Storms. on the east, side. The only way his
tSo West sdes Is BY sons down 10 @
ninth street and crossing there to Eighth
It is more than probable that the street rail-
roads will generally yield to he new ordinance
from the moment that Mayor Grant signs it:
said last night:
When Gansevoort Market was placed up
We9t ds All d
when the Aldermen passed an ordinance 10 the
effect that we must run all-night cars on Fifty
ninth street. We complied. twas dead loss,
but we made no complaint: but now when we
night. where we don't have one passenger a
trip we object. We will fight this matter from
beginning to end"
Henry s. Har,. President OF several east side
lines. said that, while the Second avenue line
paid q handsome dividend, the First ayonue
and Eighty-siNth street lines lost money in the
daytime. and IT was more than unjust 70 com;
Del those lines to run cars all night. H." said
a man who could justly be said to represent
many surface road interests in this city yester-
day. the Aldermen had consulted Us before
they passed this resolution. they might have
made an equitable law. AZ Il Is, thew are in for
a long and obs tinate legal contention"