Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-05
OWL CAR
PLEASES
WORKERS
Toilers of the Night
Grateful for the
improvement
New Service Especially
Benefits the Night
Telegraphers
General Satisfaction Expressed In All
Quarters Where Men Have
Long Felt Need of
Later EIectrics

To the toilers of the night late cars
dreds of men whose work keeps them
employed until long past midnight are
looking forward to the beginning of
owl car service September 10.
Yesterday number of night work.
ers personally expressed their thanks
to The Herald for its steadfast advo-
cacy of late cars and expressed their
appreciation of Mr.. Huntington's com
pliance with the wishes of thousands.
Few realize the number of men whose
work begins in the early evening and
ends at / or o'clock in the morn
ing.
The list embraces patrolmen, walters,
bank clerks, newspaper men, tele-
graph operators, night watchmen, JAM
itors, firemen, clerks in railway Of
fees, hotel employees and many others.
1t has been the experience Of many
that their work kept them beyond the
l~eving time of the 1890 o'clock cars
and they either walked home or else
engaged a room at some downtown ho-
tel or lodging house.
At the present time the promised
late car service will not benefit hun
dreds of men who work in the mechan-
ical departments of the three morning
papers, but the men hope for a 8
o'clock car to be added after the sue
cess of the o'clock and 2 o'clock cars
are demonstrated.
Teegraphers Are Pleased
Persons who receive or send tele-
grams from either the Western Union
or Postal Telegraph offices seldom
realize the number of men employed
taking or sending messages to all parts
of the country during the night hours.
On the night shift at the Western
Union about two score men are busy
until long after midnight.
When the wires are heavy" many
of the operators are compelled to miss
their last car and remain over night
at some hotel. The addition of the 1
o'clock and 2 o'clock cars will prove of
advantage to these men.
e. E. Nye, night chief operator at
the Western Union, said last night "I
was very much pleased to read Of the
success of The Herald in securing owl
cars. 1t will help us wonderfully. AS
it Is now, many a night / dismiss at
l6dSL IeI Ut IuOTe Iii0l III llIIlt u CATCH
interfered, of course, with the work.
crowds heavily upon the others left
p in the office. Often the men are COM
PEELED to secure a room at a hotel and
the price of a room eats heavily into
ones salary Toward the end of the
nights work the operators naturally
become nervous when the time arrives
for getting the last car home. 1t has
interfered, of course, wit hthe work.
with the beginning of the two late
Sars on the principal lines the oper-
s(tors can generally make the l o'clock
AR. If they miss that there is another
caA, one hour later"
H. ]. Thompson. assistant night chief,
remarked II am sure the owl car
service will pay AS soon as people
realize that they can catch the 1
patronize them more and more. 1t will
enable night workers to rent or buy
little homes in the suburbs instead of
being cooped up in some downtown
room. The men here in the Western
Union are more than pleased at the
action taken by Mr.. Huntington and
they have watched The Herald cam
= paign with interest.
"I feel sure additional night cars will
be put on later and possibly later cars
run to places like Colegrove and Hol-
lyWood"
PedIey Also Approves
The owl cars will benefit fully a
score at the Postal Telegraph office.
The inability to reach their homes
after the 1890 o'clock car has greatly
Inconvenience the night shift and
worked great hardship.
c. NJ. Pedley, night chief operator at
the Postal said the owl cars would
help wonderfully the operators en-
ployed at night.
"1.s 1t is now" he said, "either the
men who live some distance from the
center of the city must be dismissed
In time to catch their last car or else