Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-07
lexington and Soldiers Home RI

lexington and Soldiers Home R.R.
To the Editor OF The Evening Star:
Some Of the resider is of West lexington
management of the above named road and
addres sed a communication to the Com
missioners of the District on the subject
As Vice President Schoepf of said road
has seen fit to reply to our complaint to
the Commissioners through your paper of
Saturday last in an article headed: Get
Up Earlier" will you please allow space for
reply to his denials of complaints, some
of which he says are falsehoods and others
are made through ignorance. Not satisfied
with denials he proceeds to make insulting
remarks about the people who are not
pleased with the condition of his road.
He says If we had energy enough to
crawl out of bed ten minutes earlier" &C.
What right has he to tell the public about
our lack Of energy? He don't know how
energetic we are, for some Of US crawl
out of bed early enough to walk to office
sooner than hang on a car step, and get
there fifteen or twenty minutes before g.
Why not run two or more cars on some
schedule or put trailers to the motor cars
or hold some of the 5th street cars until
the crowds are going and send them down
full instead Of empty? If more cars were
run at certain times the road would make
more money, but I am inclined to believe
he don't care a d-n" whether people ride
on his cars or not, as / have heard he said
to a kicker not long ago.
Yes, ignorant as We are, we realize
there Is difference between changing the
gauge OF thousands Of miles OF southern
railroads in one day and rebuilding eight
blocks of electric railroad in one hundred
days and operating CD 1t at the same time
% and the only comparison that can be
mo 10 10 hot in fhA fraf
sufficient number of men were employed
and in the latter case there were not.
He says the statement that the cars of
his company are in need Of repairs is
false Twice within a month have been
in a car or cars on the main line when the
drop ventilator over the forward door would
stay closed to keep out the rain only by
wedging IL with transfer tickets or paper
and some of the side venti;ntors would not
catch. and on one occasion / saw an UNI
brella raised toward the forward end of the
car to keep off the rain that could not be
kept out, and have been told the same thing
being done on another occasion. Also, in
one OF the 9Th street cars, on a damp. chilly
day, the entire sash was gone from one OF
the forward windows. Possibly such small
matters he does not regard as indicating a
need OF repairs, but the majority of people
including railroad managers do. Regard 9
connections at 9Th street and New York
avenue, persons who ride on the road Know
whether his statement is correct or not
he says the rebuilding of the line on New
York avenue is being done under a permit
from your honorable board" and the En-
gineer Commissioner has not complain ed
Wei. he should have complained and re-
quired that the force employed be multi.
piled by at least ten.
He does not deny that New York avenue
the portion over which his road runs--has
not been cleaned in three months, but "can
hardly see how that affects the residents of
r street between 1st and I'd northeast, over
a mile away" Is it that far, FIR Schoepfr
Then your line must be about fifty miles
long. We walk to the 7th street end o,
your line in twenty-five minutes Are Won
satisfied II only the street in front of YOU Is
clean? We walk on that avenue good
deal, for reasons given above and a dirty
dusty street is disagreeable to walk on and
to look at. And Fight here would call the
attention of the Engineer Commissioner 10
the amount Of dirt from this railroad which
with the fallen leaves, has accumulated IN
the cutters and win rot the asphalt. We
would like to hear from lexington and
Brookland on this subject
WEST LEXINGTON.
The New York capitalists will deyelor
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