The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 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.

r,op,s on the east side have been
catching with increasing interest the
prcsress Of THE Evening Worlds"
ngrt against the street railroad compa-
mics, which oyercrowd their cars and
neglect to give decent accommodations
TO their patrons.
one correspondent writes that he is
glad to see 1.-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 shows the indif-
ference OF the management to public re-
quirements, and Is the result no doubt,
of the economies which have been
practised by the Company in equipping
it's 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.
OF 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 q most shame
full manner by this corporation.
Another correspondent, who has MADE
some personal observations with regard
to the number OF fares cabeG r,ssb On o ,ne
says that instead of averaging 1880 a
trip each way they take In fully .. which
is enough to pay the wages OF 6oth tne
conductor and gripman Tor the DAY, anu
leave something oyer.
The following letter, which came in
this mornings mail, would tend to snow
any too high:
To the Editor: .,
which arrived at the Post ONCE at 10. So A. NJ to-
day had iss passengers on its down trip and no
trailer either This speaks volumes for your fight
for better accommodations for 'T nNTsHRp1NE
As may be seen by a simple arith-
metical computation this means that
the car In question took In s69o on rs
down trip alone, which ,a is h Nearly spntbsr
correspondent.
MANY readers of 1.-The Evening World,
urging that the fight be kept up that 1t
would be impossible to print them all.
Here Is one to the point:
Keep Up .the Fight.
To the Editor:
hsvs become greatly Interested In your tight
ssainst the street railroad corporations hope
you will keep II up. as you said you would until
the next Legislature meets ! am steady patron
Of the Third avenue cars. and liberal patron
izer OF the Broadway also. and want to ask the
n the ofncials Of the above named roads are 30
ignorant or % thck-hsaded that they cannot see
that the system Of relays and traiers, u carried
out a. suggested by your readers would beneht
them a. well a. the people They are not thick
way they rake in the money from the people, who
must either patroniss their cars or walk and In
the way they try TO skin the city treasury out OF
all tho interest and taxes they can whenever they
get . chance That the people have become
aroused 70 the Importance Of this matter 10 con-
elusively shown by the many letters which you
publish every day and It Ii no wonder. for We are
way behind other cities In this matter. wetare
the laughing stock not alone Of the people who
. como here from European cities. but also those
Who have occasion to visit this city from our
Fowing Western towns. Why. do you suppose
br one instant that the people Of Chicago or Dem
yer would put up with any such thing as 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-
ntions OF those cities show some respect to the
people who enrich them, and with no compulsory
law either. T. A. d.