Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08

the establishment of owl cars.
Says Public Demands Service
'I frequently have trouble in getting
home" said Mr.. Nye. II know that
several of our men are in the same fix.
l live in Hollywood and I know that
many of the other men in the office
want to get out into the country but
what is the use of them trying to do
so when they cannot get home.
"In consequence of this their chill
dren are now cooped up in apartment
or tenement houses. l believe that the
public demand for such cars is now
so strong that the railway companies
can no longer refuse to establish
Them
Councilman Smith Is Active
Councilman "Uncle George" Smith of
the Fifth ward, now has a fight on
hand to compel the street car COM
panies to stop cars at the corners OF
intersecting streets in the business dis
trict instead of in the middle of the
block, as now is the case, but when
he gets this fight satisfactorily settled,
declares he will look into the PROPOSE
ton for all-night cars.
at may not be necessary to run cars
them upti at least 2:30 or o'clock in
the morning." said Mr. Smith yester-
day. "As it is now it is impossible to
attend a banquet or take party to the
theater and have a little supper after,
without having to hurry to catch the
last car. This city is big enough and
important enough to have a late car
service. When 1 succeed in my effort
to make the street cars stop where
4 chr ifnef Of it1rr al
a block past the street intersections.
I'll look carefully into this question of
late cars.
"The street car companies have run
this city to suit themselves entirely
too long. The citizens are worthy of
some consideration from their hands,
and / propose to do what | can to see
that they get it.
Lankershim Makes Statements
Col. I.ankershim of the well-known
himself as decidedly in favor of the
owl car service throughout the city.
Like several other hotel proprietors,
he complains of the necessity of al
lowing much of the hotel work to go
over until the following day, because
the employees are unable to complete
their duties and make connections
with the last cars. He said
Los Angeles should have the owl
street car service. The necessity isl
and has been felt by every citizen of
Los Angeles on several occasions. The
city should rise as one in the matter
of securing this attention from the
street railway companies. Los Ange-
les will not be a thoroughly metro
politan city until this feature has been
added to the municipality.
Says Tourists Are Also Sufferers
81 have on several occasions heard
from many of the tour
lists that have come here regarding the
absence of owl cars in Los Angeles. |
The trains often arrive late and the
absence of owl cars has at once given
the visitors an unfaVorable impress |
sion of the place.
Los Angeles cannot hope to be a |
city that is in every sense of the word
a metropolitan cit until the railway
have put on owl cars.
"In our own business we have often |
been handicapped by the absence of owl |
cars. Our help has been obliged to |
leave work half finished until the fol-
lowing morning so that they might |
catch the last cars home. A great |
many of them live at some distance
from the hotel and cannot walk or
afford carriages or other means of con-
veyance.
1.-THE sooner that the owl system is
installed the better it will be for Los
Angeles. 1t will be one of the greatest |
in the city. To prove
this we need only Cite other large .citiesJ