The evening world., 1894-06-09
THE Law
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.
CITIZENS MAY TAKE ACTION.

II IN charged that the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railway Company is openly violat-
ing the provisions OF the F~ive-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 we'll be misconstrued, that
messengers riding on the east-side lines
between the Battery n 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 IL 1t can be avoided.
The law distinctly reads:
"Section /. Any passenger upon the
Manhattan Elevated Railway who has
paid the far required for passage from
any point on said railway east of Broad
way, between the Battery and One
Hundred n Twenty-ninth street, not
exceeding five cents, shall be entitled to
q 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, ia
connection with said Manhattan. Ele-
waited Railway from One Hundred and
bTwenty-ninth street or other m 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
payment OF additional fare; and n
passenger on the Suburban Rapid-Tran-
sit Railroad. or any, Elevated railway
the Manhattan Elevated Railroad. with
ward to One Hundred and Twenty.
Manhattan Railroad, who has paid the
fare required on said Suburban Rapid
Transit Railroad to One Hundred and
York, not exceeding 1--WE 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
the Battery. without the payment OF
asestion 2. This act shall take effect
The above law was signed by Gov.
Flower May p. 1894. and became a law
from that day.
The upper terminus Of the Third avenue
n the lower end Of the Suburban
Q almost meet at Third avenue and
One Hundred and T~wenty-ninth street,
That Is, there are only a few feet OF
space dividing the two lines. Instead
OF building in a switch at the point
n continuing trains up and down
over both roads, passengers are COM
PEELED to change cars at One Hundred
n Twenty-ninth street and crowd
Through the narrow confines of the sta
ton.
Frequently those who are compelled
%. get downtown to business at a GER
tain hour are delayed twenty minutes
or more by the great crush, the ineyita-
BILE result of the congested passenger
traffic at this point.
All this could be avoided II the Com
pany fulfilled the letter of the law.
but unless some stringent measures are
utilized to compel the corporation To
obey the statute the same nuisance will
continue to exist.
When a reporter Of ''The Evening
World. asked Col. Hahn. General Man.
ager OF the Manhattan Company, what
had been done in the way Of construct.
ing the missing link between the two
roads he. appeared greatly surprised.
pated anything Of the sort. and NOR,