The morning call., 1893-07-02
CHEAPER CAR FARES.
Communication Tickets for Workingmen.

without paying anything like what these
permits are worth. Some companies are
rapidly amassing great fortunes by carry
ing passep gers through the cty'S streets.
Others are giving fair dividends. while
paving heavy interest on bonded indebted
ness of millions. and still others are paying
interest on bonds that seem out of all
reason.
In face of these facts complaints are
made that these corporations are not re-
munerative investments for shareholders.
and that is the only argument offered
against giving people reduced fare.
Only quite recently the transfer system
was put in operation very much as an ex-
pertinent. And what is the result?
Balances made by every line transfer
ring passengers show an increase OF ousi-
ness that is quite astonishing. feople
began to travel more generally on the
streetcars as soon as they were given
transfers.
just step further to give Scent or 27a-
cent communication tickets would bring
about results at once beneficial to the cor
porations and the multitudes who travel
to and fro daily For there are many
thousands who walk to and from their
work now who would buy coupons or CON-
mutation tickets and patroniZe the cars.
The mechanics and workingmeD, the
overworked factory girls and boys are en-
thusiastic over THE CALLS proposition 10
give them cheaper ear fares.
Merchants and manufacturers are unan-
imous on the question. There was hardly
eser movement that appears to nave
of mi n
pert IS this
IL The factory district they are all talk
ing bout it now after The CALL set the
3ah rolling. In day or two expressions
III public opinion will be offered on every
hand, aud it will 0e an appeal for con-
sidey zion by the carving corporations.
-'Fhe men all want it" declared the
xe.1sgsr of the Risdon Iron Works. They
X ild 90 in favor of reduction of course
rs very dollar they earn is wanted for
fh families. and a saving of a few dollars
g Re onth would mean a great deal to them.
Iha-companies could afford TO do some
thifg, and | do not believe they would
lose by giving communication tickets.
J. Many of the men walk many blocks to and
from their work now to save paying nickel
fares. 4 nickel looks small to many of us,
bot it is more than thousands of working
mer can afford to spend on streetcar fare
syery day."
l. a foundry on Main street Edward
GeR1an. workman. Strengthened his back
for L minute to tell pathetic story.
y have four in family" he said, land /
earn 50 day working in this foundry.
live at Fifth and Folsom streets and | walk
time when l was in the Fulton Foundry |
gyai ked thirty-two blocks a day to save
oarIlre. | couldn't afford to pay cents
every trip. a man can't do it al the wages
IN oyers give the men nowadays.
IF | go out to the park on Sunday
With my family it COSTS 40 cents for fare,
md that is too much for a poor man to pay
for D breath of fresh air and get away
from the foundry. And a man likes to get
tha smell of the trees and the smell OF the
sowers- 1t is good after the black and
dusty foundry. But we cannot afford to
pay fares every Sunday. So what is a
poor man to do but live in dirt all the time,
rraled in the house of a Sunday and
.vort; again Monday. That's how the poor
citizen is treated five had cheap rates
pa We out where the children could play
round aud could take my family out on
Sualays and holidays.
There should be something that way
for he poor man."
We paid fare every day for thirteen
yes without missing day." added a
mo Ter who was listening 10 the converse
tioa "Cheap fares would be welcome to
csc man who is in my position. They
m m
ceu would be a square business propo-
Bis M
z brass-finisher who lives in Richmond
gave very common-sehse view of the
proposition.
1T would bring people out to our dis
tTci," he said. where cars are now run
pir almost empty. and at the same ex-
peuse as if they were full of passengers
] ink the ride is cheap with tie present
STATE of travel, but if decrease in fares
would take people out to where they could
have little homes with gardens and fresh
sir 1t would pay the companies to give
&sErates."
IL satisfactory on Market street a
young woman named Byrnes said she was
nos afraid to tell how she had to struggle
&c make ends meet.
u live with friends in the Mission and
TAXA the car down to work every morning.
But 1 have to walk home in the evening. +"
Why?" was asked.
70 save the nickel" she replied. bush
ipE to the roots of her hair.
Girls who have to work for living
.doB't make more than So to SIS a week as
q gsnerai rule. When you pay living ex-
Bsnses and save a little for clothes yol
have not enough left to pay car fare"
Induce people to go out and build home.
OF i've where RENTS cheap" said jeremiah
Dsisey in shoe-factory, where he wa!
buying footwear.
Induce them to go out there and the re
snit will be beneficial in the long run to the
city and to the streetcar companies. 1
there were cheaper fares on streetcars
travel would be increased, because tina
uld be the main incentive for men OF
IS lilly TO move to the outskirts. In a very
saort time the centers of population would
be changed, and then the streetcar com
panies would be sure Of steady patronage
rom the people who were induced to move
on account Of Communication rates"
Labor Commissioner Waits is of the
. MON that a reduction of srreetoa,