Arizona republican., 1906-12-01
SUSPECT CONSPIRACY
 10 SPREAD DISEASE
A Complaint From Patrons of tn. Brill Addition Car Line of the Polar Conditions Forced Upon Them.

People who patronize the Brill addi-
 ton car line are beginning 10 suspect 1 that the motormen on that branch. or else the management of the entire sys- tenn, has entered into a modus vivendI
 with the doctors for the increase Of illness which has spread throughout | the addition in the form of influenza, | bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy and ' incipient consumption, creating what
 may be called modus non vivendi for the travelling public.
 To the ordinary mind it would not seem that the street ear company is working to its own best interest in en- tering into such an arrangement unless it gets princely commission from the doctors on the cases whose origin can be traced to the company's cars. 4 considerable part of the population is now laid up and incapable of travelling on the branch line so that the compa- ny is deprived of their fares.
 Without any reasonable explanation, all the motormen on the Brill addition car keep the front door open and part of the time, the rear door Is also left open so that the freezing air rushes through in a furious blast, chilling the occupants into rigid mummies.
 It is not carelessness on the part of the motorman, though that would be bad enough, that the door is left open, but there is the most evident method and malice against the health of the patrons of the road. The door is fas- tened open with a strong copper wire, which defies the efforts of the travel ing public to remove it and close the door. Now and then when the weather is little more than ordinarily severe. the box car is replaced by an open summer car. That might be attributed to necessity by reason of an accident and a shortage of cars, but that wiring of the door open is accomplished with malice aforethought, and with criminal intent.
 It was at first thought that it was the work of the motorman who was too lazy to open and close the door, but on second thought it appeared that a mo-
 torman who had no more sense than to leave the door open for his own con- venience and to the inconvenience and peril of his patrons, would not be pos sessed of the devilish ingenuity dis l open. So. the Brill addition people have decided that they will have to look to some one higher up and who has a deeper motive for disseminating disease among the people of that addi- ton.
 Superintendent Mitchell has power to regulate this matter and to confer upon the people the meager comforts possible | in the Brill addition car at this time of the year, but it is charitably thought that he has been so engrossed with oth- CT matters in connection with the sys- tenn that this conspiracy with the doc tors and the undertakers is being car ried on unobserved by him.
 The Brill addition people suggest that he make a daily study of the weather i bureau reports and each day decide whether the meteorological conditions for that day would not warrant the company in keeping the door closed; say on days when the thermometer runs doyn. or threatens to run below sixty degrees Fahrenheit. it should be permissible to close it. On days and nights when the thermometer ap- breaches Summerheit, the door may be wired open again.