New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-17
WRETCHED TROLLEY SERVICE
wEsrcHEsrER PEOPLE SUFFER INcoN-
vENIENCs AND DELAY.
IMMACULATE POWER ONE GREAT CAUSE OF AN
NoYANcp--c1TIzENs BEGINNING TO REALIZE

INADEQUATE POWER ONE GREAT CAUSE OF AN
NoyANcp- CITIZENS BEGINNING TO REALIZE
THE MISTAKE THAT HAS BEEN MADE
During the balmy spring weather. when most
every one is enjoying trip TO the suouio'
some watering place. the people OF Inc n.o'N o..
Westchester County are TO be pited. ii 'ney """'
10 +ravol comfortably they must go by boat, as
there is no pleasure be had in riding on inc 'V'
OF the Union Railroad. ..
On the contrary. as one RESIDENT eNP.
such a ride is not only torture. but II is III realty
q cause of acute mental and physicai suie'i,e
The service is the most wretched In all OF 'ne
history of the reads shortcomings instead VI
be,ng able TO handle and furnish cars for the ihiuN
of neople brought by the extensions OF the mes
and the cheapening of fares II has failed mis-
erably.
on Sunday last every car from Harlem bridse u
Mount Vernon. New-Rochelle and Yonkers was
orou,daa With neople. and the roads patrons were
transnorted In a worse fashion than the law per
roits cattle TO be used. Women and children were
forced 10 stand for the entire distance OF their
Journeys.
The service was made even more exasperating by
the breaking down Of the power plants when lett
cars standing for hours all over the system
above the Harlem River, While people were a'iNou'
to get to their homes
The electric plants are wholly inadequate 10 nam
die the hundreds of cars required 10 transport the
pcople who desire to travel Sunday. and the
conditions will be worse when Glen Island ana the
other Sound summer resorts are opened
One man. who went from the Harlem River 10
New Rochelle on SUNDAY evening told reporter
for The Tribune that 1t had taken him more thah
four hours TO make the trip. and that the power
had given out and the car had stopped and whteu
seven times At times when they were not wait
ing for power they compelled to wait at SIDE
tracks for cars running in the opposite direcuon-
rf,a 4c
on the Union cars. said yesterday: There is no
other place in Chrlstendom where such ouuaeeouD
treatment would be tolerated. III we are 10 en-
dure this OF affairs much longer the
of the Union Railroad should be lndlcteo ioi NJ.
fully destroying human life and happiness rive
and eight cent fares have been talkeu aDout % %
tremendous boons. but instead, we are nhuhs tieri
to be the most cruel and heartiess hodh. Ia GA
anguish OF mind we compelled 10 endure.
Other residents express the BELIEF tnat the atteh
ton OF the public authorities and State RalIroau
Commission should be called 70 the "a""e' III
President Edward Maher Of the Union hairoad
Comnany recently set forth his views at an mag,
nation meeting of the residents OF van Nes S ha n
West Chester He said that the company had peeh
handicapped by fire In It's power-house w.on
had destroyed the cars He thought, also that !, II
a double track could be laid from west Farms 10
New-Rochelie, a much better service could De
given IL this is compiled with twenty-five miIes
OF the leading highways will be practcaly useisss
to the public. The people are oeginnlng 10 pe,, III
was built that II should have been compeIed 70
purchase its right of way. Then double or even
triple tracks could have been constructed ioig
ago and the company could be giving an express
service to New-York. AS It is now. unless the
people surrender the doubletrack idea the SER
vice will never be any better