The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-13
CAN PASSENGERS SUE
A Reader Says the Law Provides
Against 0vercrowding.
Those Who Pay Fare Entitled to
Enjoy a Seat with Comfort.
Citizen Train and Others Make Sug-
gestions for Relief.

one OF the readers OF "The Evening
World" believes that passengers on the
street-ca lines of this city who are put
to discomfort ind annoyance by the
overcrowdng of the cars have legal
redress.
His argument is that II a person once
pays his fare and takes seat In car
the duty of the conductor OF that car Is
to see that he Is not interfered with In
tho enjoyment OF that seat.
Referring particularly to the Third
avenue open cable cars. he asks what
comfort a passenger who has secured n
seat can have when the conductor al
lows others to crowd In between the
seats and stand up where there Is evil
IDENTIFY no more than enough room for
one person to sit.
This is an outrage" he says, (which
Is daily practlscd upon passengers on
the Third avenue line, as every one
who Is obliged to patrontze 1t knows.
1T Is not of any advantage to get n
seat. because you are crowded into
corner and trampled upon by those who
are allowed to come aboard before you
have occupied your seat FOR Ave blocks.
Now, l contend that every passenger
who is thus deprived of the right to
which he Is entitled when he has paid
the Company in the District Courts of
the city to recover the amount or the
fare which he has paid. and for which
the Company has given him no equiVa-
"The recovery Of five cents would not
be the object, but It would compel the
Company to, pay about $50 costs ioI
each case that went against Il, and
n idea nf the law is correct the cor
poration would lose every time.
AT any rate, ! give the suggestion
for what 1t Is worth, and call upon some ne
give their views. Surprising a hundred
cases of that sort were brought and DC.
cided, against the Company 1t couldn I
should see no more packed cars"
Here is a letter from some readers OF
1.-THE Evening World" who say they are
travelling statesmen, and have often Wis
tied the cities to which they refer:
To the Editor;
We desire to indorse the letter ofone ofyour cor
respondents, which appeared In Tuesday evening
cable roads OF this city. the best means OF
| easing the crush on the Broadway and Thira
other Western cities two and three trAilers are
| attached to a single cable car. But the railroad
corporations OF those cities are not so much on
strong, substantial cables, while rotten, spliced
cables are the feature on the roads OF this city.
When the broadway ana Thlfd avenue rOans set
ready to show their patrons a little OF that
respect shown to the patrons OF cars In the above
named cities las to accommodation Of seats) and
put In strong, substantial cables they can at
| least run one trailer with every cable car run
at present. Just as easy as not. We write this
that 1t will be brought to the notice Of these
corporations. With many thanks for having taker
up 'h'' matter Z hfSr r. zErNHAurR.
| PHIL THOMSON. IT..
| Citizen George Francis Train. who has
a peculiar interest In a. that concerns
| tramways of whatever form or descrip.
ton, comes to the assistance OF THE
Evening World" in Its present fight. with
the following:
Personal) Madison Square.
Cable land Horse Cars can Double Room with
| Seats on top! Cable power at no extra cost
John Laid builder "Alabama'j. Chairman Com
| missoners was Photod with me on top Of First
Car on BIrkenhead Line with Press Club, opened
Aug SO! Let Broadway cable give Luxury te
'"''A''' anu -'Dt GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN
An East Side Kicker.
In Tuesdays Evening World" you ask citizens
to make a vigorous kick against the railroad com.
panies. Now, want TO make the most vigorous
| kick possible against the following: In place OIL
| putting In new cable when the old one Is worn
| out the Third Avenue Railroad Company is spite
| Ing pieces into the old cable where worn ont.
| Consequently we have the breakdowns which have
| occurred on this road about once every other day
| for the past three weeks. Monday evening the
| uptown cable from Sixty-hfth street to one Hun
dred and Twenty street broke down. The
extra cable supposed to be ready for use in such
emergencies was put Into running order and lasted
about fifteen minutes, when 1t also broke down,
and !, with many other passengers, had 10 get
out and walk TO my destination or go 10 the
expense Of another fve-cent fare the Elevated.
After tho had been standing about hour
teams were brought out to keep them moving,
MS the law requires. They were still being moved
at IL o'clock midnight by horses. But to cap the
climax, the Company claims the broakdowns are
caused bv the extra weight Of the tralers II has
been running. OF course, passengers had to SUI
fer for this by being packed up like lot OF
hogs, as no trailcrs were run yesterday and prob
ably will not be run again. In Chicago two and
three trailers attached to each cable car, 50
the extra weight OF traiers cannot have anything
TO do with 1t, as they don't have many break
downs there running cars in trains al they do
here running them sngly. Are to put up
without the trailers account OF rotten cables?
ONE WHO HAS BEEN THERE.
Don't Stop the TrniIers.
To the Editor:
The double cars. or tralcrs. on the Third avenue
cable road have been such godsend to the east