The San Francisco call., 1906-11-29
JUSTICE JOSTLED.
ON PACKED CAR
Beatty Tells Arbitrators of
Personal Experience in.
Role of Strap-Hanger'
CARMEN'S TESTIMONY

1Ah hMEN - Il ES1 NUN /
Motormen and conductors gave their
testimony before the arbitration board
yesterday on the difficulties of operaf-
Ing poorly equipped and overcrowded
streetears- Even a Chief Justice had
been 5ostled and he has been doing
little research work in the recesses Of
the court.
L counted the passengers on a Sut-
ter-street car this noon" said Judge
Beatty at the afternoon session, and
there were nineteen passengers on the
front platform and twenty-one on the
rear steps.
Father Yorke also counted noses in
the crowd.
The register on the particular car
mentioned showed eighty three. But
counted them-I had plenty of time
and there We're many more than that"
he remarked.
1t was explained on behalf Of the con-
ductor in the case that he had not had
time TO go through the entire car up TO
the time Father yorke left it
Thomas Leach. a conductor on the
Fillmore-street line. told the court that
the cars would hold 125 passengers.
How Is that2" asked johnson, at
torney for the carmen
i mean 125 on the Inside of the car
We often carry more"
Il can testify that they often carry
more than the car will hold" inter
polated Chief Justice Beatty.
oh yes" said the conductor; they
ride on the outside and on the top
Who puts the trolley on when il
comes off the wireg' was asked.
Well the conductor does that He
is supposed to do il But If the pas
sengers are in a hurry one of them
often does it
The man who sits in the rear win
dow does IL. you mean!r asked Father
Yorke-
Yes: or the man who is standing
outside on the drawhead."
Don't you find that it gets on your
nerves operating cars under such con-
ditions2" asked counsel
Well 1 feel rather irritated some
times at night" he replied.
The passengers do, too" explained
Justice Beatty.
they should be paid more for working
under these conditions than they were
when cars carried only a normal num-
Der Of passengers.
HIGH COST OF LIVING
More testimony was introduced as to
the cost of living. Letters were read
from merchants. Newman & Levinson
wrote that the wholesale price OF goods
had advanced from 10 TO 20 per cent
Prayers department store wrote that
the uniforms worn by platform men
and sold for sI7.75 now cost slS.75 and
sold for $40 The average advance, they
said, was per cent Charles Lyons
wrote that woolens had gone up 20
per cent and cotton goods 10 per cent
while the wages he paid employees had
increased 10 per cent.
The advance in the cost of living is
q strong argument advanced by the
men in support of their request for
the stand yesterday said that their
rents had been raised One man said
that all the other tenants in the
building in which he rented e fat
had been increased by Thomas E Cur
ran. the owner. but as he had painted
the walls OF his fat his rent had not
been changed
4 hear there is TO be another
raise" he added.
Then I would advise you TO get
busy and do some more painting" re-
marked A A. Moore.
All the witnesses had more or less TO
say about the cars being in need OF
repairs P. L Francis. notorman
on the San Mateo line. who has worked
told of an accident in which he figured
recently, when three ears were in coll
hsion owing 20 the sand boxes on two
OF them being out ef condition. His
was a narrative OF broken brakes, de-
fectiye wiring and guard rails broken
of by passengers standing upon them
as they clung TO the outside of the
cars. all Of which. the motormen said.
made II extremely hard TO mote"
with comfort or safety.
W H Ewing said that il pained
him 10 be compelled 10 run by people
standing in the streets waitins for a
car and that the company could carry
FIVE times as many passengers If there
was room TO get them on the cars
Your anxiety on that matter is
part OF the nervous strain, / suppose
interrupted Counsel Moore.
Another witness testified that the
company was carrying the city on
Gals and that the list of deadheads
was long one--between five and ten
OF them on each trip
Evidence was brought out to show
that prior to the recent threats OF the
Grand Jury proceedings the company
had been operating nearly all of its
cars without tenders Several wit
nesses said that the tenders were now
in q bad condition and often got
doubled up under the cars c. f.
Cordes said that prior to the fire
cars had been kept in good condition,
but that now they Were kept on the
road until they couldn't run any
longer.
Adjournment was taken at the close
Of the afternoon session till one week
from Friday. as Judge Beatty will be
in Sacramento in the meantime
IRRIGATION AND FORESTRY
CONVENTION TO BE HELD