The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
GRAFT ON CITY CAR LINES.
Freight Tranic That Subways and Surface
Lines Must Bear.

Lines MuSt near.
Getting about town is hard enough
with every condition favorable: It's 'hard-
ships are greatly increased by the diff
culties that so many travellers try to throw
in the way of their fellow men. 1t Is done.
Of course, to save money. t-
Take the case of the two girls from the
upper West Side. They are going to a party
in Mount Vernon. In the old days they
would have taken the train at 125th street.
It's easier now, however, TO get on the
express and go down to the Grand Central.
SO they pack the two suit cases n set
out. A suit case, 30 long as it was the
property of man, was clumsy enough
Now, in the hands of a woman, it Is twice
as deadly. 1t can trip up more men and
leave its mark on more shins than ever
seemed possible. ~.r.-,.rf-
Mamie and Emma take the two side
seats in a car, and on each side Of the narrow
a suit case Is deposited. Manila
and Emma serenely see the car fill ,pp.
They watch the providing passengers
stumble over the bags. They hear women
protest and men swear, but they are never
disturbed. a.-. 1gn.
Such ~nuisances on the subway are. only
types of a class. Just as disturbing ttQ
the nerves of overweight New Workers.,
always in a hurry, was an incident, at the
Grand Central station yesterday afternoon.
When the express pulled in the local was
already at the station. Passengers ip the
last car Of the express wanted that local.
They were on their feet, eager TO run across
the platform when the doors opened. sea,A
The guard threw back the gate and
the crowd instinctively moved forwards
but there was a delay. On the front Plat
form of the car were two wooden boxes
about two feet square. Two passengers
at Fourteenth street had put them there
The two men lifted out the first box and than
the second. They did it as quickly as they
could, but the boxes were so heavy that
the gates of the local train were closed
before IL was possible 10 allgnt from the
ex press train. ;
There was much suppressed profanity
from some of the men and q great deal
that was frankly spoken. There would
nave peer more II all the passengers who
mi ,sed the train had known that the two
boxes contained porcelain tiles intended
for a new hotel. The managers could, OF
course, have delivered the goods in wagon,
but it only cost ten cents on the subway: l%1
You can't get on this car, little Girls
the conductor said SIM athetioally! TITS
too crowded. You'll have to wait for, tina
NEXT one 100
She was a rale. tired looki clip OF d
| child, almost hidden behind a rae age OF
five boxes she carried. Zach bore the name
Mason Btatrice," which was as good a.
an affidavit that the contents of each boy
were worth at least $50. The tiny messen-
ger delivering 5000 worth OF goods, was
sent out in this wav because il cost only
Ave cents to the firm. 1t was the same
snirit of econom that s67t the little girls
from the ~dressmaters to deliver their goods
from the Fifth avenue stages. Goods that
cost $500 were carried by little girls getting
% a week in a stage at an expense OF 10
c.nts, This has recently been stopped by
the manager Of the line. . =
The other morning shortly after 0 O'Clock,
when the ~Rr7adway cars were fu1l up TO
the last s1uare inch, a rorter bearing on his
can the name of a larre hotel was helped
on to the car by an assistant from the same
hostelrv. Between them thew placed on
the platform a leather hat box, dress SUIT
case, shirt boH, two hand tacs and a bunch
Of canes and umbrellas. When the back
platform wac so crowded that 1t could
hold no more the front Platform was called
into reouisition. The srace allotted to four
Passengers was occupied by this luggage,
but there was no protest hevond the re-
fusal to let all the luggage be piled on the
bacS platform. f.l- -
The g. m~athv of the conductor with tho
man who mrst work often accounts for the
| strange excess luggage that passengers
have been a la rge hearted conductor who
allowed a rainter on the Fiftv-ninth street
car to carry his ladder on the tack Plat
form. These cars are always CROWDED
at night. 1t is difficult even to find stand-
Ing room; but on the rear platform were
three buckets llled with clothes. brushes
| and the usual Tararhernal'a of a FAINTER.
The rainter himself stood closG against
the railing Of the car with each arm around
a ladder, so long that it could not be kept
under the roof.
And he had all this accommodation for
Ave Giants.