New-York tribune., 1906-08-13
either side Of the road stretching along for over
ROAD THROUGH GARBAGE.

ROAD THROUGH CARRIAGE
Part 0s this road had for months been used
as a public dumping place. Dead animals.
garbage from households and restaurants and
all the casfoff rff-raff OF city spread thick
-un6er foot and 10 either side. Through this
women and children had struggle, their nos
trils assailed and their health threatened at
every point.
Kings Highway is where the conductors start
20 collect the second fare on the Culver line. A
few blocks. perhaps half a mile. away is the
Neck Road where passengers are dumped Off
without ceremony if they do not pay Beyond
this is the causeway which leads the marsh
20 the island. The block began at Neck Road
and the cars ran back without break long past
Kensington. Long before the conductors backed
by the huslSiest of special patronen. appeared TO
collect the second fare more than three-quarters
OF the passengers on each car jumped out to
walk the remaining distance-anywhere from
TWO 20 five miles
The guards and conductors jeered at the pas
sensers as they passed.
ITS - OF long walk" sneered some.
NO stop between here and COney," yelled an
other.
Your Of a sport" sneered the third.
''why don't youse put Up yer nickel an be a
man."
This is a picnic" said one woman as she
climbed off streetcar In disgust. But they
don't charge us single cent walk" eaid the
child with her
Borough President Coler reached the Neck
Road some time before noon. with him was
Mrs. Coier. Indignant at the treatment Mrs.
Coler received from one of the inspectors Of the
road. the Borough President spent much time
advising his fellow passengers TO refuse 10 pay
the second fare, and then went on TO Coney ISL
and in a carriage.
Different lines entering the Culver terminal
were affected at Kings Highway. Those who
went down 10 the island on the trains arriving
az the West End station were held up, but as
they were already at Surf avenue, much less in
convenience was caused At that station. in
stead Of the conductor taking up the second fare,
the second half of the ticket is dropped into an
ordinary ticket box presided over by a ticket
chopper. When the passenger arrived there he
found two rOundsmen and score OF uniformed
patrolmen standing guard over the boxes and
forcing everybody to pay the second fare. II
any passenger. believing that the order would
be respected had bought only a single ticket
which had been deposited in the boxes at the
bridge he was forced 10 buy another ticket at
the booth inside Of the station before he was
allowed 10 depart on the cars. # he refused
and persisted in riding. there were the police
ready 10 hurry him off to Coney Island cell.
~ 6t1O& Ot FOkNAE.
All through the day these passengers meekly
submitted to the show Of force and paid their
second fare almost without objection. Early in
the day three men refused TO do this, and OBJ
strueted the way past the boxes until the police
threatened 20 arrest them. Finally they paid the
second fare and were allowed to leave the sta
sion
The lines which use the road at Kings High
way are the Nostrand avenue, Ninth avenue.
Lorimer street, 18th street, Union street, Reid
avenue, Court street and the Culver terminal
elevated trains from the bridge. Many Of the
surface lines enter Manhattan over the Will
iamsburg Bridge. draining the East Side. each
car taking down between 100 and 150 passen-
sers-some Of them more
Before 1l:30 a traffic as usual, was light.
The few persons who objected 20 what most of
them called hold up were disposed of quick
~. Then Car No. psi. Of the Nostrand avenue
line came along. laden down with men with pro-
jeeting Jaws and big hard fists. At Kings High
way the conductor started 70 collect the second
fare. When the Neck Road was reached he had
collected none. The car stopped there The
passengers stayed and their money stayed
with them. There were fully 125 persons on the
car, Of which more than a score were
women.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit special policemen
and the inspectors tried TO force the passengers
10 pay, but they We're rolled hack as the British
fell back on the first charge al Bunker Hill
Then they adopted a Fabian policy, nursing
their wounds meanwhile
At / o'clock the passengers were stin ;here.
and the cars behind stretched hack fer nearly
two miles. with hardly room enough between
them 10 pass a sheet OF paper Every man on
board the first had a plentiful supply Of to-
bacco, the wind blew cool across the marshes.
and all were content To wait as long as the road
demanded. Then the railroad officials decided
that they would have - yield and the car was
allowed TO proceed TO Coney Island the one VIC
tory won by the passengers Until Deputy Com
missioner O'Keehe acted
Fifteen minutes Ia .er another car started
from the Neck Road through to the island The
passengers Of this were tust as determined
bat the railroad officials had been reinforced by
men with just big jaws and just as big
and hard fists. The objecJors were quickly
pulled off and rolled in the dust-the city
police gaining n,ucn amusement thereby The
remaining passengers were properly impressed
and paid their fare. obeying the railroad in
spector's beEcst TO be sports"
One scene Of rufianism on the part OF the spe-
cial railroad police, in which the regular police
aequiesced. succeeded another with great regu-
Iarity
GOT OFF AND WALKED.
Realizing the ho2elessness of their position,
even IL they we're willing TO pay the second fare.
passengers piled from the cars and trains the
moment they stopped and started on the weary
walk 10 coney Island Al infrequent intervals.
after the belgerents had been weeded out a
car would start down the line 10 Culver ter
minal In the mean time from five 10 seven
more cars would have been added 20 the line