Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-20

typfst to COPY your uanuscflpt Or write
your letters on q typewriter; In America
you have e typewriter write them on her
machine; submit that the former is more
ish are very clumsy in their expressions
Some of them are very amusing. The other
day In front OF a store Of dealer in sport
ing goods I saw cardboard sign amour
cling that he had formulated fsh bait'' for
sale. Upon taking the trouble to inquire
round that he meant trout flies and other
fixed bait. The other morning one of the
papers referred to the arrest Of an "ha-
bitual misdemeanant." Upon reading the
context 1t appeared that the person al
luded to had committed several mfsde-
meanors. But 1 was never quite satisfied
what was meant by a writer in another
paper who referred to IAN ambulatory pic
ture."
We frequently see funny names on the
ssignboards along the streets of London.
Spicy Slipper is a dentist on Holborn, Mar
garet Barefoot keeps q huckster's shop on
Kings road, and eddy & Giddy, Decays
and Eeiapidatfons, is a well-known sign
IN Waterloo place, Regent street. This
means that the gentlemen named are pro-
fessloEal appraisers and adjusters Of dam
ages to real estate committed by tenants,
and oversee the repairing Of business houses
and residences.
Contract Awarded to Germans
But to get back to my subject, the motor
bus is improving all the time and is already
so popular and so profitable that a new
company has recently been organized, with
a capitai of 100000, and after competi-
ton open to the world has placed an order
with German company for 800 gasoline
buses at total cost off 81, 625, 600, or an
average of $3.50 EACH To have this con-
tract go to Germany has created decided
sensation, but the competition was fair and
among the bidders were representatives of
English, French and Belgian manufacturers
"a nich he 20
cheaper than anybody else, and that was
the only reason that they got the contract.
1t will have good effect, however, by
stimulating national pride and improv ement
In England.
. Notwithstanding the very large increase
In facilities and in the number of trains,
the underground service Is always over
crowded in the morning from to 10 and in
the evening from to 100 O'Clock During
those two hours at least 1000 600 people de-
mand transportation between their homes
and their places of business, and, although
Yerkes built several new lines through the
most popuous portions of London and
doubled the capacity of the old ones, the
"tuppenny tubes are not nearly sufficient
to handle the traffic. In the middle of the
day there is usually plenty of room In the
hrst-class cars. but the third-class accom-
modations never seem to be excessive. Peo-
pie VINO want seat should always take
a first-class ticket. There is no second
class Yerkes abolished that as superf1u-
GUS He saw that more than half the peo-
pie who rode second class habitually would
take the frst-class cars If they were COM
PEELED to do so, and while the first class
cars were running empty.
All OF the cars are good. There is no diff
ference whatever SO far comfort is con-
cerned between the first and third class.
the busy hours Of the day the third class
cars are filled with what are termed
- erkes strap-hangers" The people Of
Chicago will appreciate the significance Of
the term.
Strap-Hangers Organize.
There is such public Indignation over this
lack Of accommodation that no less than
three societies of strap hangers" with
several thousand members each, have been
in different sections of the city
for the sole purpose of compelling the rail-
way companies to put on more cars during |
the busy hours of the day. Each society I
has employed legal counsel and is carrying
on litigation, but has not yet compelled the |
to relieve the pressure.
The lawyers went first to the board of |
trade, which has general supervision over |
facilities, and presented
formal and respectful petitions setting forth |
the impositions suffered by their clients be-
cause of the parsimony of the railway man
agement. The companies replied that they |
would be very glad to increase the service |
II 1t were possible to do So because they |
would thereby increase their revenues, but |
it was physical impossibility. They rep |
resented that motor could haul only so |
many cars to train, and that trains could |
be only run with safety at certain intervals. |
Therefore 1t an absolute impossibility |
for them to put on more cars or more |
trains. If the whole population insisted |
upon coming down to the city at the same |
hour in the morning and going home at the
same hour at night they would haul as |
many of them possible. but their limit |
had been reached, and they could not fur /
nish additional accommodations without en-
dangering the safety of their passengers.
The board of trade appointed an inspector
to lock into the matter, and his report |
rather sustained the railways than other
wise; whereupon the strap hangers 3"
ISOLATION brought test cases before the
court Of railway and canal commissions
presided over by Lord Gotham
with a salary of s25, 600 year. If the court |
decides against them the compliments pro-
pose to go to parliament. But it is diff
fcut to see what they can accomplish.