The evening world., 1894-06-09
the LAW
'''- III i IGNORED,
81" Road Should Give a
Continuous Passage Across
the Harlem.
BUTT DOESN'T AND WILL NOT
That Is, if the Directors and Col.
Hahn Are Allowed to Have
Their Way.
CITIZENS MAY TAKE ACTION.
Many Interested People Ready to
Go Before the Grand Jury and
Demand Their Rights.

1t Is charged that the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railway Company is openly vloint-
ing the provisions Of the Five-Cent-Fare
law, passed by the last Legislature. and
has been doing SO ever since the law
went into effect.
The law provides specifically, SO that
IL cannot well be mlsconstrued. that
passengers riding on the east-side lines
between the Battery and the further
terminus OF the Suburban Rapid Transit
Railway in the Annexed District are en-
titled to a continuous passage without
change of cars for a five-cent fare.
On the contrary, however, the Man
haitian Company has not even pretended
to afford passengers the continuous ride
| without changing cars, and, moreover,
| the hungry corporation, through Its rep
resentative, has declared emphatically
that the provision referred to will not
| be regarded II 1t can be avoided.
The law distinctly reads:
Section l. Any passenger upon the
Manhattan Elevated Railway who has
paid the fare required for passage from
any point on said railway east of Broad
way, between the Battery and One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth street. not
exceeding five cents, shall be entitled to
a continuous passage, without change OF
cars, on the Suburban Rapid Transit
Railway or any railway owned or OPP
esated R w .he the eisy Of N New ! York Som IN
connection with said Manhattan Ele-
waited Railway from One and
Twenty-ninth street or other termini OF
the lines of said Manhattan Elevated Rail-
way south of the Harlem River, to any
station of the route OF said Suburban
Rapid-Transit Railroad. or such other
BY the Manhattan railway Company
north of the Harlem River, without the
payment of additional fare; and any
passenger on the Suburban R~apid-Tran-
owned or operated by the Manhattan
Railway Company In connection with
the Manhattan Elevated Railroad, with
ward to One Hundred and twenty
Manhattan Railroad, who has paid the
fare REQUIRED on said Suburban Rapid
Twenty-ninth street. in, the city of New
York, not exceeding five cents, shall be
entitled to a continuous passage, with
out change Of cars. over the Manhattan
route east of Broadway. between One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth street and
aSd,t hIas.sfT is;re without the payment OF
Section 2, This act shall take enec,
Immediately"
The above law was signed by Gov
Flower Nay a. 1884, and became a law
The upper terminus Of the Third avenue
l. and the lower end of the Suburban
road almost meet at Third avenue anc
That is, there are only a few feet o
space dividing the two lines. INSTEAD
OF building In a switch at the poin'
and continuing rains up and dowr
| over hnfh roads nG0anunru I'm nnrr
PEELED to change cars at One Hundred
and Twenty-ninth street and Grove
through the narrow confines of the sta
ton.
Frequently those who are compelled
to get downtown to business at a Ger
ain hour are delayed twenty minute
or more by the great crush. the inevita
BILE result of the congested p~asscnge
traffic at this point.
All this could be avoided II the Com
Pany fulfilled the letter of the law
utilized to compel the corporation I
obey the statute the same nuisance wi
continue TO exist.
When a reporter of The Evenin
world asked Col. Hahn. General Mar
ager OF the Manhattan Company, wha
had been done in the way OF construct
Ing the missing link between the tw
row %Why " s sPIa he. " Srea hsve SG n5. ssiic,
than that, We don't intend to build /
anu run through trains
But the law. Col, Hahn. states tina
YOU Company shall furnish a throug
passage TO all who care to so ride, an
pay the fare. without change OF cars?
That may be. but the public is bein
accommodated. n that's all that is r,
CURED" was the reply.
Then, when the matter OF the crus
and delay at the One Hundred an
ITwenty-ninth street station was brougt
to Col. Hams attention, he contende
that II was all due to the draw-bridg
over the Harlem River.
IT'S the bridge that causes the trou
BILE. 1t is open a great deal of the time
and we can run our trains over tn
gap on air." he explained. rather sar
"But are you going to disregard tn
law entirely In this natter" wa
, THE public is being accommodated,
} Col. Hahn replied. eyasively, and" h
went on, abruptly, "it is impossible I
connect the two lines In the way mer
toned. In the first place. the roads ar
80 situated that II could not be don,
and, secondly, there would be so man
rains passing the point over the bridg
hat traffic would always be congesteC
two roads!'
|. Corporation Counsel Clark had nc
read the law detailing the Manhatta
Company's duty In furnishing a contir
] nous ride to it's passengers. A copy {
} IL was shown him.
! Yes" he said. III Q law seems to
} \ clear. and points IA the duty OF III