New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-10-21
TRYING TO FOOL ?. s. C.
Transit Companies Improve SerTice
While Inspectors 1re Near.

Inspectors employed BY the Public Service Com
mission 10 report the number Of cars operated on
different rapid transit lines and the number Of pas
sengers IN each car find that they an object Of
much interest TO traction employees As soon rs
their presence IS observed by conductors or motor
men it is at once reported 10 the headquarters Of
the company. and frequently leads TO an immediate
and material increase in the number Of cars
It IS understood that employees have orders to re-
port the presence Of these inspectors in order that
the companies may increase the number of cars in
operation, and thus make such good showing that
any possible orders by the commission for an in
crease in service may be forestaled. This has led
the Public Service Commissioners 10 make a
further investigation to show what schedules We're
IN operation before the commission took up its work
and subsequently,
'Of course" said an official Of the commission
yesterday all the Public Service Commission
wants do is to obtain for the public adequate
service Now, if the fact of our having our IN
spectors taking data along certain line viii have
the effect Of inducing the officials OF that line
put additional cars, why that is perfectly salts
factory from point Of view. Only we are going
to take pains 10 ourselves that this increase
is made permanent, and not Just for the time
inspectors happen to be around
Public service commissioners were amused over
the action of Brooklyn transit line which not long
aEo the subject of investigation by the com
mission. The commission had posted inspectors
along the line 10 gather information about the
service. Hardly had they begun work when their
presence was reported to the officials of the com
panE. The result immediate increase in the
number OF cars operated on that line
Cars We're taken of other lines under the same
management and run on it. The company overdfd
IT, however. for over the tracks Of this particular
line il ran cars belonging to other lines without
changing their lettering. AT the same time the
company sent out a force Of its own inspectors TO
watch the commissions inspectors and gather data
which in all probability will be used 10 prove to the
commission how good a service is furnished the
public.
This is simply one Of the many lodges that arc
being used to blind the commission in its work OF
giving better transit facilities.
This VIII be another busy week for the commits
sion The Interborough-A metropolitan COMPANY IN
Vesugation viii be resumed before Chairman Will
cox at o'clock tomorrow afternoon and contfn,Ia
through the week Besides this the following hear
ings have already been arranged:
This afternoon at O'Clock a hearing on the ado
quacy Of service and equipment Of the Conev Island
and Brooklyn Railway Company before Cornrrts-
sioner Bassett.
Tuesday October o. at $780, hearing IN the
subway route from Union Square TO Jamaica before
Commissioner Bassett
wednesday. October 3 at . a bearfre ~, a.,
Brooklyn Heights Railway Company before CON,
missioner McCarroI
Other hearings VIII be arranged for the 1a.+o~
part Of the week