New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-19
SERVICE THir MIGHT BE IuPRorED.

SERVICE That MIGHT BE InPROlLD
The trolley roads are now doing their best for
the CONVEYANCE of passengers between Manhat-
ian and BROOKLYN during rush hours. Tint may
bc conceded The service Is abomnably bad.
The crowding AZ the Manhattan terminal and
on the ears j. indecent and unsafe and oh" RAT"
of transit is slow. But those matters are Ice
vond the present control of TIA" companies. The
fault lies in the fact that the Bridge is not
! sufficiently commodious for the traffic that is
| forced upon IT, Until new bridge j. built con
ccstion will continue and VIII increase. That
fact may lust rs well bc recognized now as
hereafter This exculpation j.. however. 10
vindication Of existing methods Of marlborough
transit ~ we shall see nor T. II Ia be- recorded
10 the general credit of the companies con
corncd
For while the trolley companies are FOR the
sake Of gain doing their best AT rush hours. II
IS seriously 10 be- doubted whether they. or all
Of them are doing their best AT all hours and IL
| Is equally 10 he doubted whether the elevated
roads are doing their best ~ any hour Let H.
note a few examples, trustworthy reported
from actual experience. one night this week
number Of passengers had 10 walt M Park Row
| lust half an hour for car on one Of the most
! important trolley lines I'm Brooklyn II was
| little after midnight, but travel was heavy and
ears on Other lines We're running at intervals of
only five 10 ten minutes. ON Sunday. in mid
afternoon and early evening. II was a common
| experience for the patrons Of another important
| line to be compelled 10 wait fifteen or twenty
| minutes on the street In Brooklyn before a car
came along 10 carry them downtown or 10 Man
haitian: 'he explanation being that most Of the
ears on that line had been transferred for the
day 10 another line run by the same company
10 accommodate lis Concy Island traffic One
! afternoon this week In the busy hour between
3 and o'clock, passengers had 10 wait nearly
| fifteen minutes for an elevated train on one Of
the most important lines in Brooklyn. with the
result that the platform dangerously
throngcd before the train came in, and The train
went out crowded 10 q degree violating all de
ccncy and safety, and leaving about rs many
more passengers on the platform 10 wait per
| haps fifteen minutes more. for the next train.
| These and similar Incidents are not cxcep-
| tional They are of daily and nightly occur
renee. And they indicate disposition Of the
companies that is not rcgardlu of the convcn-
fence, comfort and rights Of the public. Let il
| be granted that at certain hours IL is physically
impossible. in present circumstances. to provide
a seat for every passenger who seeks trans
| pOrtaiOn across the Bridge and from one part
Of the city 10 another II Is AT leas, equally
| true that AT other hours when ii is possible and
easy 10 provide seat for every passenger, the
companies wliully neglect and refuse To do So
| Everybody who looks into the matter knows
that the outrageous crowdlng and physical vlo-
lencc that now prevail daily on The Bridge rail
road might be obviatcd by running trains more
| "A
compelling people 10 stand, packed and hcrded
| like cattle. In troIley-cars AT hours when these
are run ten or fifteen minutes apart, is utterly
| ineXcusable II Is such things as these that
give so hollow sound 10 the corporate protesta-
ton, 1--WE are doing the best we can They
are not doing their best. and they know it.