The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-26
NEW TRANSFER
SYSTEM TODAY
Passengers Must Now Get Aboard at Ger
tain Points.
COMPANY is PROTECTING ITSELF
And the Claim Is Made That Transit
Transfer Is Issued the Passenger
Must Board the second Car--Two
New Light Wheel Cars of the Steam
Railroad Type Are in the City.

Beginning with today the Scranton
Railway company will institute new
transfer rules and will issue new
series of transfer tickets. The arrange
ment differs very little from the trans
fers in use for the past six months.
Superintendent Fox stated last night
that the change is made with the single
idea OF making the transfers recently
in vogue more easily understood by the
travelling public. The rules as posted
in the dspatchers' Office of the Railway
company yesterday bear out Superin-
tendent Fox's statement. The time
limit-one-half hour-will be retained,
as also Will the custom of issuing trans
fer tickets at only certain points on the
line.
AS will be remembered, the cause of
the change six months ago was born in
the practice of clerks who live in oppo-
site parts of the city. The scheme was
for one clerk to ride into the city and
upon paying five cents receive a trans
fer for a certain other part of the city
where her companion lived. This trans
fer would be given to clerk No. 2, who
would ride home on a Traction car
gratis.
TWO ARRESTED.
Two young lady clerks, one from the
West Side and one from the South Side,
were arrested as examples" Soon
afterward the new transfer was sent
out. This was that curious-lo looking.
many-shaded ticket with a row OF
faces along the top edge. These trans
fers were issued at only certain points
on the lines and have worked with
much satisfaction.
But now comes another step. Several
weeks ago young man named Gurrell,
living on Ninth street, was ousted from
a North Main avenue car because he
had a transfer punched Hyde Park"
The rules of the company stated that
a transfer good for North Main avenue
must be stamped North Main" Hyde
Park" would not be accepted. Gurrell
did not know this and boarded a North
Main avenue car. Gurrell made objec-
tions, with the result that he was fore
IDLY elected from the car. He brought
suit against the company, but Alder
man Wright, after hearing dismissed
the case. 1t was to do away with SINH
lar Observation-Disclosures that the new
transfers are issued.
In form they are similar to the old
one, only the familiar faces are not on
it. The marks, the solving of which
was known only to conductors. will be
eliminated and instead the transfers
will be marked with the names of the
several lines. The line giving the
transfer. as well as the line to receive
it, will be punched, so that there can
be no mistake made by the passenger.
THE NEWEST WRINKLE.
The claim of the Traction people that
the new transfers are wholly for the
benefit of their patrons is counteracted
by one of the rules which makes 1t i'm
perative for a person with a transfer
to not only leave a car at a certain
point but to also board the other car at
the same point. conductor receiving
a transfer will then know that the
passenger has at least boarded the car
at the point where the transfer was re-
Ceived. This reduces to a minimum the
charceS to beat the company" Last
night the old transfers were removed
from the dispatchers' office and the
new ones will be ready for the con-
ductOrs this morning.
Saturday two of the new street cars
arrived and are now at the Linden
street barn to be equipped. The new
cars have two trucks and wheels and
are a great advancement over the old.
In point of beauty they equal any car
in the country. Each is about thirty
six feet long, the body being twenty
eight feet. On each side there are
eleven windows of fine clear-cut glass
and the seats, nine on each side, run
in the fashion of railway car seats.
Each seat is cushioned with cane bot
tom and backs and will seat two per-
sons. The seats are reversible so that
the passenger may face the direction of
the moving car.
In the centre of the car is a two-foot
aisle. The bell cord is hund in the
centre as in passenger coaches. At
night the cars will be lighted by nine
electric lights. The platforms on each
end are Vestibuled and are large and
spacious. The car can easily run the
tracks now in use.
MORE NEW CARS.
Yesterday they We're equipped with
general electric motors of an advanced
pattern. They will be placed on trial
in a few days. Eight other cars sim
liar in construction will arrive within
a month.
L. |. AND S. co. PIG.IRON.