The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-10
IN A NUTSHELL
Extracts From Letters VoIclng Views Of
Streetcar Patrons.

This past season I was walking to my
office one morning and at Wesley church
I passed car we'll filed, and when the
car reached Fourth street l was within
one-half block, and many times while
walking the cars would not gain on me
for blocks. While we ask the company
for rapid service we as citizens can aid
very much in being prompt In leaving the
car at our destination and not wait until
the car stops and then have to walk
the full length Of the car, keeping a car
full of people waiting. Promptness Is
the life Of busness.--C. W. Wells. T.
I doubt whether the streetcar company
saves as much by having gates as they
lose through the wear and tear on the
machinery. when the cars are brought
to a dead stop for every passenger. In
creasing the speed Of the cars by elim1-
mating the gates would enable a less
number of cars to transport a greater
number Of passengers, and this would
mean profit to the streetcar company
A Minneapolitan. ~ ''
|. If the T. c. r, T. will take off the
gates it will have our everlasting thanks.
Howard Hulander. Carl Hulander, 62s
Fourteenth avenue S.8l~N 3"1 -.
The gates should come off, as their
use is an insult and an injustice to up
to-date people.-Not a Crank.
Please do all in your power to remove
the gates. They, are an insult to. the
public.-A. c. e. @.F@ :
Only one wise man has mentioned the
great safeguard the gates are to the
boys. AS a mother Of girls I want to-
| mention them, too Surely every parent
should bless the gates--A Woman's
View.
TIL jour- Is most serious argu-
ments upon this really important ques-
| ton are strikingly illustrative Of two of
the most unfortunate characteristics of
our new world and, especially. Of our
new west civilization; viz, a deplorahly
low estimate Of the value Of human life
and an absurdly exaggerated valuation of
mere t1me.-Richard Gliding Beard.
Is safety OF life and limb not worth
more than saving Of a few seconds of
| time once or twice a day "A Woman.
Keep on the gates. We are not taking
pattern from Chicago.-M. V. kits.
Being a traveller and having missed
trains many times on account Of gates,
| inaccurate schedule and other Twin City
Rapid Transit Incidents conder 1t my
duty to join the up-to-date antistrap-
hangers antibullpen league and assist in
the good work. Count my vote "gates
OFF, and Irregular time. ''-Traveler.
The gates now in use are very dan
gerous, I being caught in them myself
The east may be behind in many ways
at the present time, but you all will
smile sooner or later when they have
come out ahead at last with gates on
their cars, which will be In the near
future, and far superior to the ones now
In use In Minneapolis Observer.
The point has been made that the gates
being on the cars is by city ordinance;
If so, Is there no alderman with moral
courage or backbone to rise up and see
that the company be compelled to remove
the nutsances.-A. w. s. ~
Take 'em off, and the sooner the quick
err. We could dive off Of any of the cars
i going at their snail's pace and not even
rattle the change in our pockets.-A. J.
There may be ways of shortening the
stops. but I cannot see that removing the
gates would do 1t. I can see no reason
why the gates should not be opened in
stantly when the car stops. At the trans
fer points it might help some II the
signs of exit and entrance were reversed,
so that people would pass out by the
short way and enter by the longer way
w. H. Haight.
BY all means let us continue to have
the gate system for the sake of the young
and old. Let the ones who are in a
hurry get up little earlier in the morn
ing.-J. M. Griffith, Jr.
During ordinary travel Of the day when
there is no rush it little matters whether
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, games, state fair, the different parks on
Sunday, o'clock in the evening, when
from two to five hundred want to get into
one car-there would always be some one
that would crowd onto the steps and
, "hang on to those further in, and about
the time the car is we'll under motion
whole bunch would be crowded off,
to the danger Of life and limb-H. H,
Z Wasen1, e Twenty-slxth street.
have been riding on the Bloomington
carline for twenty-one years, but most
strongly object to ride anv farther than
!, want to go. I want to get off on Nfcol-
? let avenue twice a day. but the company
l compels me to go to Hennepin avenue
: either on the Bloomington short or Plyn-
t outh and Bloomington, forcing me daily
!. twice to walk back to Nicollet, and my
8 time is limited every day-A Reader OF
The Journa al for Twenty-one Years
Retain the gates, by all means The
money received In damage suit against
the Twin City Rapid Transit company
could never repay me for the loss Of 9
II dear relative, wife or child, nor coult
! it buy me more than a wooden leg o.
false arm.-A Subscriber.
: :, Why don't you get the opinion of tht
:. conductors ?4sLs ana sure they are 80 PEI
: cent in favor -of gates; they know tn,
: reason why. OF course, the motorma1
thinks different; it saves him work.
2 ]. M. Schilling.
Let us not commit the crime of aban
g doning safety for the sake OF saving th'
9 mere tribe Of time that might be rnad