The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-13
CAN PASSENGERS SUE !
A Reader Says the Law Provides
Against 0vercrowding.
Those Who Pay Fare Entitled to
Enjoy a Seat with Comfort.
Citizen Train and Others Make Sug-
gestions for Relief.

One of the readers OF 1.-THE Evening
World" believes that passengers on the
street-car lines of this city who are put
to discomfort and annoyance by the
overcrowding of the cars have a legal
redress.
His argument is that II a person once
pays his fare and takes a seat In car
the duty Of the conductor of that car is
to see that he is not interfered with In
the enjoyment of that seat
Referring particularly to the Third
avenue open cable cars. he asks what
comfort passenger who has secured
seat can have when the conductor al
lows others to crowd in between the
seats and stand up where there Is evil
IDENTIFY no more than enough room for
one person to sit.
This Is an outrage" he says, (Which
is daily practised upon passengers on
the Third avenue line, as every one
who is obliged to patronize 1t knows.
ut is not of any advantage to get n
seat, because you are crowded into
corner and trampled upon by those who
are allowed to come aboard before you
have occupied your seat for five blocks.
Now, l contend that every passenger
who is thus deprived OF the right 70
his fare and taken his seat can sue
the Company in the District Courts OF
the city to recover the amount OF the
the Compp ny has given him no eauiva-
lent !1E,o .ooovorv =, evo oo,ts would not
be the object but It would % 20 eo dn t for
each case that went against II, ana
If my idea Of the law is correct the cor
pooration would lose eyer, every time srrosst,on
for what It is worth, and call upon some
of your readers versed In the law TO
give their views. Surprising a hundred
cded against the Company. 1t couldn't
stand that sort of thing long, and we
should see no more packed cars
1.-THE Evening World" who say they are
travelling statesmen, and have often WIS.,
tied the cities to which they refer:
To the Editor:
respondents, which appeared In Tuesday evening
edition, relative to the running OF trailers on the
cable ROADS OF ms city b as r nS and Third
avenue cable roads. In Chicago. st. Louis ana
other Western cities two and three trailers are
attached to a single cable car But the railroad
corporations OF those cities not 30 much on
the save Of the almighty dollar and pu, In
strong, substantial cables, while rotten, Hpllced
cables are the feature on the roads OF TINS CITY,
When the Broadway and Third avenue roads get
ready to show their patrons a little OF that
named cities las to accommodation OF seats) and
put in strong, substantial cables they can at
least one trailer with every cable car run
at present Just as easy as not. We write this
in an endeayor to help you, and sincerely hope
that It will be brought to the notice of these
corporations. With many thanks for having taken
Ny '''' '' EDWARD + zEINHAuER.
| PHIL THOMSON jr.
Citizen George Francis Train. who has
a peculiar interest in all that concerns
tramways OF whatever form or descrlp-
| ton, comes to the assistance of "Ihe
! Evening World' in its present fight with
| the following:
Personall Madison Square
| Cable land Horse Cars can Double Room with
Seats on top! Cable power at no extra cost
John Laid builder "Alabama'O Chairman Com.
Gar oD HrkenSsad " Line with Press 8" CUB opened
| Aug. 80! Let Broadway cable give Luxury to
''D0"''' anu GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN
An East Side Kicker.
To the Editor;
| In Tuesdays Evening World you ask citizens
to make vigorous kick against the railroad COM
panes Now. l want to make the most vigorous
putting in a new cable when the old one is worn
out the Third Avenue Railroad Company is splc-
ing new pieces into the old cable where worn out
Consequently we have the breakdowns which have
occurred on this road about once every other day
for the past three weeks. Monday evening the
dred and Twenty ninth street broke down The
extra cable supposed to be ready for use in such
emergencies was put into running order and lasted
about fifteen minutes, when 1t also broke down.
and |. with many other passengers. had to get
out and walk to my destination go the
expense Of another hve-cent fare on the Elevated.
After the cars had been standing about an hour
teams were brought out to keep them moving.
the law requires. They were still being moved
at ~ o'clock midnight by horses, But to cap the
climax. the Company claims the breakdowns are
caused by the extra weight OF the traiers It has
been running. OF course, passengers had to SUI
fer for this by being packed up like a lot OF
hogs. as no trailers were run yesterday and prob
ably will not be run again. In Chicago two and
three tralers attached to each cable car. so
the extra weight OF trailers cannot have anything
to do with It, as they don't have many break
downs there running cars in trains they do
here running them sngly. Are to put up
without the trailers on account OF rotten cables?
ONE WHO HAS BEEN THERE.
Don't Stop the TraiIers.
To the Editor:
The double cars. or trailers, on the Third avenue
cable road have been such a godsend to the east