The evening world., 1904-01-11
"coId Storage Vans" CIowded
Until Many Succumb to Pres
sure, While Others Plead to
Be Allowed to Get Out.
LEADING MEN CONDEMN
THE POOR SERVICE.
Declare that Many Cases Of
Pneumonia Have Been Con-
tracted by Riding in the Poor
Iy-Heated Cars.

son county. New Jersey. is worse now
thar 1t has been in years.
Thousands upon thousands OF people
had good cause for complaint Yesterday
over all lines the cars were run with
apparently no regard for schedule. At
the terminals and transfer stations peo-
pie were obliged to wait. in many In
stances an hour for n car. When the
cars did arrive the usual crowdlng &C.
Cured.
The Union Hill and Summit and Cen
trail avenue cars leaving the Delaware
and Lackawanna ferry, in Hoboken,
were packed so densely that many
women tented while others cried to get
out. One of the Union Fiji cars was
crowded to the extent that 1t broke
down when ascending the incline that
leads up to the heights.
Few cars were heated. People riding
on the Bayonne cars complained more
about the heat than others. These cars
are now called cold storage vans and
people before boarding them generally
button up their listers and fasten on
their mittens.
Many cases OF pneumonia reported In
G~reenville and Bayonne are said to be
the result Of riding on the Bayonne line.
President McCarter's
President Thomas N. McCarter. OF
the New Public Service Corporation.
which controls all the trolley lines, a y
that the reason why many OF the cars
are not properly heated is because cleo
trlcity has to be used and most OF the
available supply is necessary to keen
thu IN p q IN r,ntt~, ~
there Is more a than one of heating
cara n suggests the hot water pro-
cess and good stoves.
President Jacob Rlngle, Of the Jersey
City Board of Finance. and one OIL
Mayor Mark NJ. Fagan's advisers, saws:
The trolley company must heat its
cars better and IL steps are not taken
very soon in that direction the city will
take the bull by the horns and demand
that they be heated"
When told by an Evening World
reporter that the trolley
claim 1t will be impossible to heat cars
to meet the requirements of the pub
lie until more power houses are built,
MIR. Ringle laughed and said: There
are more ways han one OF heating
G trolley car. Coal heaters can be nut
In a c Car aud hot water pipes ad-
1usted to the heater. The cars run
ming from Jersey City TO Hoboken are
heated this way. Why can't other
cars?
B~usiness limos Ruined.
Mr.. Ringle is one oil the biggest hard
ware dealers in the city. and when
asked IL his business Cas very much
anected by the poor trolley service
be said ii was to the extent OF many
hundreds of dollars Il day.
Mr.. Frank Mullins, manager OF a big
trolley service: ut is simply out
rageous. Day after day customers are
Saving us and going to New York.
They are the Heights people, who.
20 the ferry n car to New York
sooner than come uowE to our store
and when done buying go out and walt
u. S. Commissioner Michael l. Fagen
says: Tine new Public Service Cor
polation gives US the worst trolley ser
vice in the country. ride on the
Greenville cars to and from my home.
and l guess no one puts up with more
harlshlps than do. My friends called
my attention to the cartoon in Satur-
days Evening World, which paper, by
the bye, deserves great credit Tor show
ing ~ these trolley managers
Former Finance Commissioner Henry
Le%1 se1z a nrsw, head 2d shs h hsd rnis
10 say. Il have abandoned the use OF
the trolley cars because they are never
properly heated. and now always use
my carriage. l reside IN
Enough said"
No Relief for Two Years.
Police Captain and Former Postmas-
ter John +. Kelly says II am told
from private sources that the new Pub
lie Service Company does not intend to
dc anything for the public In the way
- -s,,t.- a haitian. frnllnV Cnrtrtra for
rbout two years. II this Is r IL It Is
certainly a fine state of affairs. I have
been one of those people who has been
vice, but for my efforts to bring about
some good all i got from the trolley
was n jolly.
The. system in Hudson County is sim
ply rotten. / should like to call attention
to the transfer station at Henderson
street, in Hoboken, the station, on the
incline leading mp, to the heights. 1t
is not Enclosed and In stormy weather
people have to wait there hour at n
why hours at n time? Because the
cars le,ye the Delaware and Lack n5
tho motormen refuse to stop at the Hen
derson street station, Then again the
station Is poorly lighted and on a dark
women have been interfered with by
: rufians at the station late at night
when they transferred from n Grove
street car. III " pCllce Officer n 1
know I'd. never stop off at that station
late at night"
Joseph Perlmuttar. for n dry
Fooda m millinery house on Newark
ven
Only a Farce-Comedy.
1.-THE trollev service in JERSEY CITY is
the biggest farce-oomedy IN the State.
Newark Is not oomple,nlng much, nd
whv? Because MI. Thomas N Nc
Carter. nreSident o. tho New pvh'ir
s.--!oe Corn:ny, resides there. Jersey
CITY I'm wait"
Former Mayor Edward Hos. now In
the furnitur~ business on Newark ave
nue.. SAYS: ar was Mayor ~ Jersey, CITY
for four wears. Pad during my whole
term OF once 7 could never got Tho
trolley companies to improve their sys-
tom, and II eyer a man tried tn. &c.
cornplish anything II vas myself. I
called meeting after meeting between
n,vseif, the Street ana Water Commits
sloners and the trolley managers. and
each meeting resulted in niomises-
that was MI. The trolley service of
this city u the worst I ever encoun-
tered. The cars are run few and far
! between. are cold. and always, when
they ooanA along. too croMded. I've he.