The evening world., 1894-06-09
THE LAW
IGNORED.
II" 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
q Their Way.
CITIZENS May TAKE ACTION.
10, -
!. Many interested People Ready to
60 Before the Grand Jury and
Demand Their Rights.
CITIZENS May TAKE ACTION.

II IA. charged that the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railway Company is openly violat-
ing the provisions OF the Five-Cent7Farc
law. passed by the last Legislature. and
has been doing SO ever since the law
went into effect.
The law provides specifically, 80 that
Il cannot well be misconstrued, that
messengers riding on the east.sldc lines
tive 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
10 afford passengers the continuous ride
without changing cars. and. moreover,
the hungry corporation, through Its rep
resentattve. has declared emphatically
that the provision referred to will not
be regarded If 1t can be avoided.
The law distinctly reads:
r .Section !. Any passenger upon the
Manhattan Elevated Railway who has
paid the fare required for passage from
any point on faid railway east of Broad
way, between the Battery and one
Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, not
exceeding five cents. shall be entitled to
D continuous passage. without change OF
cars. on the Suburban Rapid Transit
Railway or any railway owned or OPP
Grated by the Manhattan Railway Com
pany. within the city of New York, in
connection with said Manhattan Ele-
waited Railway from One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth street or other termlni 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
Elevated railroad as may be operated
by the Manhattan Railway Company
north OF the Harlem River. without the
payment Of additional fare: and n
sit Railroad. or amy Elevated railway
: owned. or operated by the Manhattan
Railway. Company In connection with
The Manhattan Elevated Railroad, with
In the city of New York. running south
ward to One Hundred and Twenty,
ninth street, or other termini OF the
fare required on said Suburban Rapid
Transit Railroad to One Hundred and
T~wenty-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
Elevated Railway to any station on it's
put east Of Broadway. between One
hundred and Twenty-ninth street and
the Battery. without the payment OF
"seeaion 2. This act shall take effect
AAiiiiCulhttiy.
The above law was signed by Gov.
Flower May q. 1894. and became a law
J from that day.
The upper terminus OF the Third avenue
and the lower end OF the Suburban
I, road almost meet at Third avenue and,
One Hundred and Twenty ninth street,
II That is, there are only a few feet of
space dividing the two lines. Instead
OF building In a switch at the point
e n continuing trains up and down
owe both roads, passengers are com
PEELED to change cars at One Hundred
n Tw~enty-ninth street and crowd
Through the narrow confines of the sta
ton.
Frequently those who are compelIed
to get downtown to business ut a GER
tain hour are delayed twenty minutes
or more by the great crush. the %Inevita.
pie result of the congested passenger
All this could be avoided If the Com.
pany fulfilled the letter of the law
but unless some stringent measures arc
Utilized to compel the corporation &c
obey the statute the same nuisance vii
continue to exist. '
When a reporter OF THE Eyenine
world asked Col. Hahn. General Man,
ager of the Manhattan Company, wha,
; mad been done in the way OF construct
ing the missing link between the two
.irosas ne appeared greatly surprised.
Why. said he. I'VE have not antici
pated anything OF the sort, and NOR,