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
,atching with increasing interest the
4 .cgress of Z" The Evening WORLDS
hit against the street railroad compa-
8. which overcrowd their cars and
lect to give decent accommodations
their patrons.
ne correspondent writes that he Is
to see THE Evening World" Is
ng about all the stops which occur
| the Third Avenue road, and suggests
a regular schedule of such occur
les be kept Just to see what the
I'D would be at the end of the week.
nat would be next to impossible, for
,ing from the number Of complaints
are received from indignant trav-
RS, there must be about score OF
ese a day on different parts of the
ate. The frequency with which such
ishaps occur only shows the indif-
renee of the management to public re-
.irements, and is the result, no doubt,
the economies which have been
actlsed by the Company in equipping
8 road with cheap and defective ma
hinery.
1t is not an unusual thing for the cable
n one or the other divisions of the route
o be stopped fo- an hour at a time, and
his happens somewhere very nearly
VERY 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 most shame
full manner by this corporation;
Another correspondent, who has mace
some personal observations WIN regaIru
TO the number OF fares collected on ,ne
SAYS that instead of averaging S35o a
trip each way they take In fully 70 when
Is enough to pay the wages or poth the
conductor and gripman Tor the oay' anu
The following letter, which came In
this mornings mail, would tend to snow
that the estimate given above Is not
any too high:
Open car No. a45. OF the Third avenue road
which arrived at the Post-oaice at 10 80 A. NJ to-
day had l3q passengers on its down trip. and no
trailer either This speaks volumes for your nght
for better accommodations for trayslleIs ,n,sr
As may be seen by a simple arith-
metical computation this means that
the car in question took In 1886 on It's
down trip alone, which Is nearly "
above the estimate given by another
correspondent. &c. -
many readers of THE Evening world,
urging that the fight be kept up that IL
would be impossible to print them all.
Here 10 one to the point
Keep Up the Fight.
10 the Editor: .,,r .H.!'. -...... ...
hav> become greatly interested In your fight
against the street railroad corporations l hope
YOU will keep 1t up, as you said you would. until
The next Legislature meets. l am steady patron
Of the Third avenue cars, and liberal patron
lzer OF the broadway also, and want TO ASK the
II the otRcals OF the above named roads are 80
ignorant or so thick headed that they cannot see
that the system OF relays and trailers, II carried
out as suggested by your readers, would beneht
them well as the people They are not thick
headed or ignorant either, which Is shown by the
way they rake in the money from the people. who
must either patroniEe 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 a chance. That the people have become
aroused to the Importance OF this matter is con-
clusively shown by the many letters which you
publish every day, and II Is no wonder, FOR we are
way behind other cities In this matter We are
1 -the laughing stock not alone OF the people who
no have occasion to visit this city from our
ruwing Western towns. Why. do you suppose
hr instant that the people OF Chicago or Den
would put up with any such thing as the
1 breaks ad stops which we have had to put up with
on the Third avenue road every day for the past
month? Not be a 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. ID.