Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-19
ABOUT CARS ON CORNERS
General Manager Smith critioi,,s Demand
for Waiting On FsOpls
nOTOsnm CAUSES NEW PROBLEM
Dictates TO People where they
Shall stand and Tries 90
Run Oar Too Faat
fer Them.

The question Of whether Il r. better for
car 70 wait on a corner for half or
three-Quarters Of a minute while some be-
lated passenger runs for the car or not, II
serious one and worthy Of consideration"
said General Manager Smith OF the Omaha
a Council BLUFFS Street Railway company
Wednesday. we get complaints for wait
ing and complaints for not waiting 50
what shah we do. While the car IL being
held for one passenger there may be forty
In the car who are in Just as much Of a
hurry to get to town or perhaps to catch
train. Is II right 10 keep forty waiting
for the one7 That is the question. II seems
10 me that this ls the day and age when
people are In a hurry and want as to get
the cars along a. speedily as safety will
permit II we were to keep a car waiting
for a minute or q half minute at each
transfer point, when. perhaps. there might
be a passenger TO catch the car, Il would
make considerable difference to the car
load Of people II the united time of all
was taken into consideration"
New PrObIem Arises
Right along this same line of cars wait
| ing on corners, an incident transpired Mon
| day evening about 7 O'Clock at Fortieth and
Farnam streets which sets up stin an
other question. It was more amusing than
| serious.
Some weeks ago the street car company
| had a sign, Cars Stop Here" nailed up
! on a telegraph pole some seventy-five feet
! east of Fortieth and Farnam. IL referred
| to cars going down town. People we're re-
uuired TO 60 to that spot n they wanted
TO get on a car But this plan was found
unsatisfactory, the sign removed and the
cars resumed the plan Of stopping i'm
mediately after coming around the corner.
| Monday evening as car No 14s rounded
the corner, stopping on the curve, the
motorman stuck his head out to the side
| and yelled at two men waiting beside the
post where the sign had been:
well, watcher waitin' there for; the
car amt going to stop there"
The men looked around to see who the
motorman was addressing In this manda-
tory tone. They couldn't see anybody there
but themselves and concluded he was talk
ing to them.
Il told you this car amt agoing to stop
there; II you want to git on come down
here" again yelled the motorman, evil
IDENTIFY quite beside himself.
Can stand Anywhere In CITY.
What business is II OF yours where we
standg' Tetorted one of the men. You are
hired to run that car down town. Run It.
So far as we know we have a right to
stand anywhere in the city"
That and the fact that his passengers
gave him the laugh, made the motormar
all the more angry. and he opened his
power and let his car come as fast as II
was possible under so short a distance, but
the two men managed to catch It.
Us your motormRn sick7" they asked
the conductor, a gentlemanly appearing
young man.
The men said they had not observed tina
the sign had been removed from the pos
and did not think the motorman was quite
within his rights in addressing them al
he did or subjecting his employers to liahil
ity in trying to run his car so persons
wishing to ride could not get on or nigh
be hurt IN attempting to.