The evening world., 1894-09-22
EAST SIDERS KICK.
They Demand at Least Decent
Street-Car Accommodations.
Frequent Mishaps Only Aggravate
the Difficulty.
Third Avenue Road Makes Money
and Seemingly Doesn't Care.

People on the east side have been
watching with increasing interest the
nresress of " The Evening Worlds
Auht against the street railroad compa-
nI,s which overcrowd their cars and
neglect to give decent accommodations
TO their patrons.
One correspondent writes that he is
clad to see THE Evening World Is
telling about all the stops which occur
on the Third Avenue road, and suggests
that a regular schedule of such occur
rences be kept just to see what the
record would be at the end of the week.
That would be next to impossible, for
Judging from the number of complaints
that are received from indignant trav-
oilers. there must be about a score Of
these a day on different parts Of the
route. The frequency with which such
mishaps occur only elbows the indif-
ference Of the management to public re-
ouirements, and is the result, no doubt,
of the economies which have been
practised by the Company In equipping
its road with cheap and defective ma
chinery.
1t is not an unusual thing for the cable
on one or the other divisions of the route
to be stopped fo- an hour at time. and
this happens somewhere very nearly
every day.
or course, this sort of thing only ag-
gravates the difficulty where the cars
are permitted to be crowded. as they are
during the busy hours Of the day, and
for this reason the people of the east
side are perfectly justified in feeling that
they are being treated IN a most shame
full manner by this corporation;
Another correspondent, VINO Gin, mas re snap rS
TO the number OF fares collected on tne
Third avenue cars during the rush hours,
says that instead OF averaging raging *S5 S,o a
is enough to pay the wages of both the
conductor and gripman for the day, and
leave something over.
this mornings mail, would tend to show
that the estimate given above Is not
any too high:
To the Editor ,
which arrived at the Post-onice at 10. SO A. NJ to-
day had 139 passengers on its down trip and no
trailer either. This speaks volumes for your nsht
LOT better accommodations III XNTi-sARpINE.
As may be seen by a simple arith.
metical computation this means th sas
down trip alone, which Is nearly "
above the estimate given by another
correspondent.
Letters have been received from 50
many readers Of 1.-The Evening World,
urging that the fight be kept up that It
would be impossible to print them all.
Here is one to the point:
Keep Up the Fight.
To the Editor:
havS become greatly interested in your hght
ekaipst the street railroad corporations. / hope
you will keep It up, you said you would. until
the next Legislature meets I am steady patron
OF the Third avenue cars, and . liberal patron
izer OF the Broadway also. and want TO ask the
II the onicials OF the above named roads are 80
that the system OF relays and trailers, II carried
out as suggested by your readers. would beneht
them as well the people. They are not thick
headed or ignorant either. which 10 shown by the
way they rake in the money from the people. who
must either patroniIe their cars or walk. and In
the way they try to skin the city treasury out OF
all the interest and taxes they can whenever they
get chance. That the people have become
aroused TO the Importance OF this matter 10 con-
clu.ivey shown by the many letters which you
publish every day, and 1t is no wonder. for we are
way behind other cities in this matter. We are
the laughing stock not alone Of the people who
who have occasion to visit this city from our
growing Western towns. Why, do you suppose
for one instant that the people OF Chicago or Dem
yer would put up with any such thing AZ the
breaks ad stops which we have had to put up with
On the Third avenue road every day for the past
month"; Not be long shot. The railroad corpo-
tltions OF those cities show some respect to the
people who enrich them. and with no compulsory
law either. T. A. d.