The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-09
Her Foot was Crushed and She tainted.

duty at both bread and narrow gauge doors.
They might keep and onght 10 keep those
doors open all the time, that passengers
might pass through as soon as they arrive,
and wait in the inner room for the big doors
to open. But the doOrkeepers have TO re-
main at the narTOw-gauge doors until that
boat leaves and then rush 10 open the broad
gauge doors for five minutes scramble of
w0uld-be passengers.
Then after the grand rush and you have
got on board you are not safe Amid the
mass of trucks and freight of all kinds little
mshaps are constantly occurring. Only n
short time ago a heavily laden handtruck
came plunging down the gangplank right
into group of passengers on the lower
deck. One of the wheels ran over the foot
Of a lady. She tainted and had TO be car
RED onto the upper deck. Her friends
took care of her. / do not know whether
she sued the company or not, but she
should dc SO, as she was entirely blameless
in the matter.
Another outrage IS the local train that
meets the boat at the mole. Passengers for
Oakland, who have paid their fares and are
entitled 10 decent accommodations, are
packed into about half as many cars as are
needed aud transported like so MANY cattle
The trains after half-past four are simply
damned full, hardly standng-TOOm in the
aisleS. and, mark you, as ii that wasn't
enough, every window in those cars are
nailed Shut. the trainmen insist upon shut
ting the doors, and in less than a minute
after the train starts the air IN each car is
rank poison. That is the broad guage-and
this spring l notice the naIrOW-guage car
windows are equally immOvable We used
TO be able TO raise those"
Why are the windows kept fastened 2"
asked the reporter.
You tell. The story goes In Oakland
that one of the railroad officials-a brother
of Superintendent Wilder, | belieye-took
trip over the road once. and man in front
Of him kept window open and lie took cold,
which made the officia! so mad that he or
dered every window nailed down. What
the passengers ought TO do is to smash the
glass. No corporation, even If ii is blood
sucking one, has any right to suffocate peo-
PIE. Why they provide ventilation even
for the cattle-cars.
That would seem 10 be enough; but even
that isn't all" continued the narrator.
That SeveDth-street local train is a regular
man-killer. / have been on the train three
times since last September when human
being was run over or struck by train, the
result In two instances being fatal; and l
have been In sight on the street when two
other such accidents have occurred. and
there have been plenty more besides these.
There is very bewilderiDg arrangement of
the tracks on the street. The rule for vehi-
Giles there, as elsewhere is to keep to the
right This tacit understanding of every
community the Seyenth-street road violates.
Every other track In the city abides by IL,
and when man Is crossing a street he
knows on which track each train will be Of
two coming in opposite directions. Now
the train coming from the mole. which would
naturally be on the right-hand track, comes
up On the left, the train from East
Oakland goes down on the left.
and. as consequence, more than one
pedestrian has walked directly across
The safe track In front of an engine
approaching on the other and met death
while sspposing lie had escaped it. /
stepped in front of an engine that way N.Y.
self when stranger in Oakland, but was
pulled back 10 time TO escape.
Robinson or Alameda is being a good
deal congratulated on his recent victory
over the company. Don'y let the people
fool themselves into the belief that