The evening world., 1905-09-11
VICTIMS OF II"
ROADS FORCED
OUT OF HOMES
Compelled to Move IN Order
to Stay in Their
Jobs.
CONDITIONS %EXECRABLE.
PETERBOROUGH Company Blind to
Demands of Overhead System
( Since Subway Opened.
CONDITIONS EXECRABLE.
TNe tons OF thousands Of persons who

WIG tens OF thousands Oh persons who
are dependent upon the Third avenue
L road to get to business during the
Early morning rush hours and home
In tho evening found conditions oven
worse to-day than they have exper-
ienoed heretofore.
In spite OF the fact that thousands Of
men and women who have been away
for the summer have returned to the
city. the officials OF the road have not
added one train. The consequences Is
that scores of persons are left standing
on every station after they have paid
their fare. because they are unable to
And even strap-hanging room.
In former years It has been tho ous-
tom Of the Third avenue to put on extra
trains when the fall set In. but this was
before all official attention was given
to the Subway. That tho PETERBOROUGH
Rapid Transit Company Is neglectinS
tho east side elevated roads and that
they have been doing SO for months
has been apparent. It seems to arc
nothing about the overhead system. and
this neglect runs TO sud- en extent that
property Is being damaged in rentals
on the upper east side. tenants declnr-
ing that they can no longer live in dis
trtots move from the Subway.
Many complaints are received daily
by Tho Evening World about the Third
avenue. Some mon ana women have
lost their positions because OF lateness
at their Offices due 70 the slow and In
frequent running of trains. Sons have
been injured In the great crush. others
have had their clothes torn, and stiH
others have been compelled to seek
homes ON the west side, where they
arc convenient to the Subway.
Hero arc a few complaints:
no the Editor of Tho Evening world'
have been living in upper Madison
avenue for ten wears. I have become
acquainted with the people and 1 love
the neighborhood. but am compelled to
move because I con no longer get to my
oflos In anything Like the time I used to
before the Subway was built.
In tho past few months tho Third ave-
nue hns become impossible. Often the
crowds on tas cam are 30 great that
my Clothes are torn and. after breath
ing the air in n OF those crowded cars,
I know that my health has suffered. I
an only ono OF hundreds Of thousands
Of taxpayers who ave suffered because
OF tho indifference of the officials of
the Marlborough Rapid Transit Com
pany. have complained n com-
planned, but my complaints have not
had the least effect. I have written to
tho company, but my efforts were
wasted. I am now discouraged and will
change my address. I therefore sign
myself DEFEATED,
To the Editor Of Tho Evening World:
Let me as only one of the thousands
OF working women who have been SUBJ
5ected to oil sorts OF ~indignities on the
crowded Third Avenue Elevated Rail
road indorse your efforts to show I'D
the officials OF tho road in their proper
light. 1t is getting so tina a modest
m does not like to ride on tho Ele-
waited during the morning rush hours. |
Let me tell of my experience q few
morning. ago:
l boarded a local train at Eighty
fourth street Mt $50 o'clock after wait
ing on the station for fifteen minutes.
because srain Ioc same, u T. did not stop.
hours do not make stops except at al
ternate stations. Ny train was crowded
70 the platforms Of every car, l went
men &c closely that l could bardiy
breathe; 1t was fearful. My clothes
were aisarranged and even torn. and
Inen, IN scrambling for positions. laid
nands on me more than once.
These men did not mean anything
~ rhis. Ihey were simply fighting for
get to be gallant. BY the time / Got
10 Forty-second street / was in n state
q collapse and I managed TO get of
the car. then went to the Grand Cen
ITAl station and tnnlr n
down own ! now take the Lexington
avenue surface car down TO Forty
second street n then get on the sub
way, IT. costs me two fares to get to
than go through a crush on the elevated
again. A STENOGRAPHER.
70 the Editor of The Evening World:
Your expose of the conditions on the
morning hours Is not news by any
means. but II is most timely, and there
are hundreds OF readers Of your paper
many or them women readers. as I am
who believe that some immediate ac-
tor should be brought about. On one
by a great crowd on a local train
fore / could %Sd rise ras I had .io BEEN my Stepped sepe, s on
sSo ss'T &. g so dss'; and g ssa S sc isa STa's sSs
train and 80 home. I know several
Sfains and I know Others Who have
been compelled to desert the Elevated
am employed IN the once Of q cor |
Poration lawyer and must conceal my
Identify from him. Did he know that
had complainei about the Inter- |
borough Rapid Transit Compsny I
would lose my position. HI
Those three letters are typical Of the |
complaints contanlod In the protesting
letters received every day at the edi- |
torisl rooms Of this paper.