The evening world., 1894-06-09
IHE LAW
IGNORED.
Road Should Give a
Centlnlous Passage Across
the Harlem.
DTIT DOESN'T AND WILL NOT
hat L. igthe Directors and Col
Hain Are Allowed to Have
Their Way.
$lTlzENs MAY TAKE ACTION.
lany Interested People Ready to
n g Before the Grand Jury and
Demand Their Rights.
|DTIT DOESN'T AND WILL NOT
elTIzEHs MAY TAKE ACTION.

II 10 charged that the Manhattan Ele-
&sfed Railway Company is openly yiolat-
LIE The provisions Of the Five-Cent-Fare
Nv. passed by the last Legislature, and
has been doing SO ever since the law
vent into effect
4 The law provides specifically. 80 that
cannot well be misconstrued. that
asnengers riding on the east-side lines
&stween the Battery and the further
<erminus OF the Suburban Rapid Transit
Railway IN the Annexed District are en-
|ae1ed 70 q "continuous passage without
&hange OF cars" for a five-cent fare.
( on the contrary. however. the Man
<attan Company has not even pretended
n afford passengers the continuous ride
Without changing cars. and, moreover.
.he hungry corporation. through its rep
F4eentative, has declared emphatically
hat the provision referred to will not
~ regarded II 1t can be avoided.
The law distinctly reads:
e6ection !. Any passenger upon the
Manhattan Elevated Railway who has
aid the fare required for passage from
my point on said railway east of Broad
bay, between the Battery and One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth street. not
Dxceeding five cents. shall be entitled to
y continuous passage. without change OF
BARS, on the Suburban Rapid Transit
Railway or any railway owned or op-
1rkted by the Manhattan Railway Com
Danys within the city of New York. in
2onuection with said Manhattan Ele.
xated Railway from One Hundred and
wenty-ninth street or other termini Of
&he lines Of said Manhattan Elevated Rail-
Eay south Of the Harlem River, to any
!sticn q I'll. the Jo, ronts q said Suburban
Elevated railroad as may be operated
|Dy the Manhattan Railway Company
north OF the Harlem River, without the
payment Of additional fare; and any
'bessenger on the Suburban Rapid-Tran-
pc railroad, or any Elevated railway
wned or operated by the Manhattan
{eilway Company In connection with
~ the city Of New York. running south
4xq to- One Hundred and Twenty
mtn street, or other termini of the
enhattan Railroad, who has paid the
X1nutt Railroad to One Hundred and
kWenty-nfnth street In the city of New
oik. not exceeding five cents, shall be
5Ss change Of cars oVes the sIdsr Msnbnttan W1n,
1tSlevated Railway to any station on Its
9use east OF Broadway. between One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth street and
ne ,, Hattery. without the payment of
Section 2. This act shall take enec,
The above law was signed by Gov,
from that day.
The upper terminus of the Third avenue
and the lower end of the Suburban
<oad almost meet at Third avenue and
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street
That ,s, there are only few feet OF
1pace dividing the two lines. Instead
.nt building In a switch at the point
Hnd continuing trains up and dowr
over Doth roads, passengers are com.
PEELED TO change cars at One Hundred
md Twenty-ninth street and crowd
through the narrow confines of the sta.
Frequently those who are compelled
20 get downtown to business at a Ger
tain hour are delayed twenty minute,
&Pr more by the great crush, the lneyita
[ple result Of the congested passenge,
|lr1mc at this point.
All this could be avoided if the Com
Pany fulfilled the letter of the law
Ipus uniess some stringent measures ar,
0uuxed 10 compel the corporation I,
|coex the statute the same nuisance vii
IqQntinue TO exist.
When a. reporter of 1.-THE Eyenin,
World" asked Col. Hahn, General Man
ser OF the Manhattan Company, wha
"a been done In the way OF construct
- the missing link between the tw
s@37 ne appeared greatly surprised.
afed anything of the sort. and NOR