New-York tribune., 1907-12-12
MUST REPAIR ALL CARS
ORDER TO THE RECEIVERS.
PS. Commission Plans Investigation
of Companies Rolling Stock.

Every streetcar operated by the receivers for the
- yorl, City Railway Company and the Metro
-o;tan Street Railway Company must be repaired
eon,uletely and put into condition to undergo the
.,r,,-fny of engineers, according to a provisional
oaer issued by the Public Service Commission yes
,n-5av 10 the companies and Adrian H Jone and
-,o,rlas Robinson the receivers. 1t is at all
certain that the hearings which will be held this
cr5er beginning December q, viii not result in
subsequent orders for the purchase of considerable
new equipment
This order, the most important OF several adopted
n the commission yesterday, the result of a
report on the equipment Of the surface lines pre-
eeuted by A ". McLimont, the commissions cleo
.-cal engineer The specific contents of this report
will be guarded with great care until the hearings
begin but the nature of the engineers findings is
sppareut from the drastic nature of the order
adopted. Ii provide. that every receive thor
ough inspection, covering body, motor and cleo
tc equipment, wiring and trucks: that all defects
he carefully noted. and the sent through vari-
ous shops and there overhaued and repaired,
when completed TO be in first class operating and
,rsctically condition.
This work the order says. should be done at the
rate Of ten a day. When the repaired
the commission is be informed and its inspectors
will go over the work TO see if it has been done
properly
The order. the language of which was based IN
great part a section of Mr. McLmont's report,
gives list of repairs which should be made, for
3lustraIon, not for specification Inspection, for
instance, means "a thorough overhauling of the
car body and entire equipment; the should
be dismantled. to facilitate close examination.
witch should be made by engineers, and not by
car house employees The car bodies says the
order first should be sent 10 the carpenter shops
10 have all the woodwork repaired; then should go
10 the paintshops TO be repainted throughout The
headlights should be put into ht condition and new
ones provided where the old ones fell below the
requisite candlepower. Pilot tenders should be
strengthened and removed and ones subst-
tuted wherever All the electrical equip
u1ent wiring commutators, field cells and arra-
tIre windings should be in first class condition
Two orders directed TO the Interborough provide
for additional rush hour service the Second ana
Sixth avenue elevated lines Hearings on these
orders will be held on December 2S The order as
30 the Sixth avenue line provides for an increase
Of eighty-four cars southbound in the morning
rush and seventy-seven northbound for the even
.ng rush The order cotering the Second avenue
situation demands eighty-seven additional cars
southbound between and a. m, and twelve ad-
oitionaI between 1870 and 11:5o a m Northbound
# calls for lo3 additional cars between and p
ra and sixteen extra ones between and /" P m
Stil another order. directed to the Forty-second
Street Manhattanville & ST Nicholas Avenue Kan
road Company, specifies the minimum nunper Oh
cars TO be run by this company ana pro'loes tlia
al southbound cars must run at least as idi d.
Houston street. and % Per cent as far as Murray
street No cars shall be run dark Is closed
10 passengers-unIess they are out Of order North-
hound cars may not be switched pack at AfIli
street.
On motion Of Commissioner Bassett a final order
was adopted directing the Brooklyn Union lie
waited 70 repair all the gates on the hne 10 lhe
Lutheran Cemetery and to install gates at Gates
avenue where none now Connlsslonef
Rassett reported regarding proposed order 1or a
stperintendent Of terminals for this company, VINO
should have charge of Brooklyn Bridge congestlon'
that the men now performing those duties were 60
tug well and because OF the intricate nature OF the
work he did not feel like recommending changes
He recommended, though, that the commission
INSPECTORS keep close watch on this SITUATION
Hearings on the order TO the lnterboTough lo1
general increases in subway and elevated service
were begun yesterday before Chairman WILCOX
i l. Turner chief inspector for the commission
rut in evidence tabuated reports on trafhc conoi-
lions in the subway. a A Gardner, OF counsel Ior
she Ipterborough made plea for joint Inspection
f,, the road and the commission, which old not
seem 70 impress the chairman
Commissioner McCarron continued the hearings
On the trolley situation in Staten Island MI NC
Iinoont testifying electrical conoltlohs anu
general disrepair, subjected 10 a gruelhs
cross-exarination by the companies lawyers "io
seemed inclined TO dispute every word which tend
ed to show that the companies were not giving
fines Of