Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-29
COLD WEATHER PARTIES.
They Kick Their Heels at the Corner
Waiting for Belated Street Cars-Wail
From One Who Has Been There and

They Kick Their Heels at the Corner
Waiting for Belated Street Cars-Wail
From One Who Has Been There and
Then Been Left.
"Even the noise and rattle of the motors
cannot drown the walls and complaints to
say nothing ofthe execrations that are COM
ing from the East End patrons of the Du-
quesne electric road" said prominent
gentleman who resides on Highland avenue.
During the summer the many inconven-
fences and annoyances were borne with as
much complacency as could be expected,
but the biting winds of winter have caused
the determinations to be more forclbly
called to the attention of the patrons, and
the result has been that general rebellion
against the methods and manner of conduct
ing the road has been begun. High
land avenue patrons are longing for
the days of old when Martin and his
rickety coaches did service on that thor
oughfare. They were slow, but they were
at least sure. The old methods had some
good features The Negley avenue branch
has perhaps the worst service OF all. From
10 to 80 minutes wait for car In such
weather as it has been the past few days is
not an experience that would tend to make
a persons temper even and unrutded.
People along the Williamsburg branch are
holding corner parties. 1t is no unusual
thing to see five or six people on each cor
ner along Penn avenue awaiting the pleas
ure of the cars to come.
SIT seems to be the policy of the manage
ment to not let their right hand know what
their left hand is doing. 1t is seldom you
can find conductor who can inform you
when you will have to change cars, or at
what point you will land if you stay with
him. The running arrangements are
changed almost daily, and no person has an
opportunity to get accustomed to them.
know gentleman who stood for 30 minutes
on Highland avenue waiting for car. You
can imagine his anxiety, as he was about to
catch train for the East. After waiting
for that period, becoming tired, he COM
menced to trudge through the snow down
the avenue to get Fifth avenue car. He
had gotten about half way down when he
at last discovered car approaching. He
waited patiently for it, but it ran past him
like q shot, the motorman pointing his
thumb backward IN an autoeratic way, in
dlcating for him to take the next car The
next car came, but ten minutes more hao
elapsed before it arrived. The result was
that the gentleman was forced to postpone
his trip until a later train.
''The habit that conductors and motormen
have of running past people after they have
been waiting a long while is to say the
least extremely disagreeable. Alady with
two small children waited for a Highland
avenue car for ten minutes in pouring
rain, then had this same experience, except
that when the next Highland car did come,
the motorman went through the same pam
tomime, telling her to wait for the next
one.
"a real estate dealer who sold large
tract of property for residence on Negley
avenue told me to-day that the gentleman
who bought it had come to the Office and
offered to sell it for 81 900 less than he has
paid for it He said he would not live on a
street that had a railway on it which was
run like that one. He added that whoever
was responsible for the management
couldn't run sled going down hill.
''To go into the details OF the numerous
made would be to talk all day.
You can scarcely converse with anyone who
travels on the line, who cannot give one or
more instances of the bad management"