New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-24
At THE "XEAR CROSSlN0.'
HOW WILL. THE RULE FOR TRoLLEY-cARs DE-
vIsED BY THE BROOKLYN ALDERMEN WORK
AFTER A sNowsToRM?

yrsEp BY THE BROOKLYN ALDERMEN WORK
AFTER sNowsToRM?
Now that winter lie rapidly approaching. the wis
dor, n, ,he rule devised by the Board Of Aldermen
that trolIey-cars shall stop at the near crossing
TO take on and let off passengers VIII soon DC
thoroughly tested During the summer II has not
worked badly and the people OF Brooklyn nave no"
become so accustomed to It that 1t causes httie
trouble. unless they forget when they cross the
river az they sometimes do. that the same rule
does not prevail there. Some Brooklyn women
who had gone to New-York on shopping exped'-
ton were recently heard complaining that they hai
lost a car on their way home because they eApecteo
II to stop on the uptown side OF the street, ana hao
b.cn laughed al because 1t thought they were
unaccustomed to the ways OF the metropolis oi
course the possibility that Brooklynites might %
considered green" in New-York never entered inc
heads OF the sapent Aldermen wnen they ehac'eo
the ordinance In question
The stopping OF cars before streets are crossed IS
an obvious advantage to drivers OF all KINDS az well
az 10 the riders Of bicycles. and ought 10 nave n
tendency to decrease the number and violence OK
collisions Comparisons on this point are mpoSs"i7'
hecause this rule went into effect simultaneously
with the rule reducing the speed OF cars wncn GOES
not seem TO have been enforced with sricthess' NJ
one who travels much the trolley cars can douoe
that tho eight-mie limit Is frequently exceeded AZ
least for short distances. even wnen no hece''''
exists for making up lost time
The objection to the rule requiring stops at inc
near crossing Is that It compels passengers unless
they enter or depart by the front door, 70 traVei
some distance from the crosswalk along the pave
nent to reach the rear platform. How great an oo-
lection this will be will be disclosed after the nrs'
snowfall when unless the railroad SENDS out an
army of men with shoves. the snow Will DE pheo
two or three high along the tracks making IN"
rear end Of the car almost inaccessible The greater
part of the cars in use In Brooklyn are go arranged
That the front platform and the front door can DC
used for ingress and egress, but some are bu WIN
the dashboard inclosing the platform completely
on the righ-hand side. and on some o. tne Hnes
there il a rigid rule that the front platforms snail
not be used by passengers Ior any pu'PoS'' civ
on the whole. the attempt or the CITY tath h "
brilliant success, and II Is probable tnat some
changes in the regulations prescribed last spring
Will soon be necessary. Where passengers uss 'ns
front OF car for getting off ana on. the wo.K Oh
the unhappy motorman is added TO- since Az ~ aR
pears 10 be his duty to open and close the oVor "a
addition 10 managing his cranks with ooth hanos
and working the gong with one foot -. .,.n.
AS TO the snow, which Is always heaped up ATOMS.
side of the tracks after every snowstorn IL - ~
omen question whether the companies VIII pe ,e.
o,iired to remove II as TO provide access 70 .e
rear end of their or whether the SoInn .ha
Council will assume the responsibility OF seeing '0'
II Is put out OF the way