Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-11-09
BETTER SERVICE WANTED
Train Schedule Between ST.
George and TOttenyilIe 10 Be
Greatly Improved Soon.
IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS Also
Stations Must Be Sufficiently LigIf-
ed-Engines and Cars are Look
ed After Better Conditions.

eu HIt6F-b b6ItcF C00uIIl0u9.
Important orders for the betterment
of surface car service on Staten Island
We're issued yesterday by the PubIia
Service Commission of New York The
orders. however, do not compel the
companies TO make improvements inn
mediately, but arrange for hearings,
when the companies can give their
objections before final formal orders
are issued. The orders were compre-
hensive and embraced all of the NUM-
erous items brought out at several
hearings recently given before Com
missioner Mc<,arroll
improvements that are demanded Of
the Staten Island Railway Company
are:
That additional precautions be taken
at all grhde crossings of highways on
lines operated or controlled by the Stat
en- Island Railway Company adequately
to protect the public and employees o4
the company, the nature of the addj-
tior!s or changes Of equipment and
method of installation and operatf0n
to be determined by the commission.
That changes be made in the pran~
tfce of switching cars and engines
iacross Bay street Clifton. at the grads
crossing and that changes. repairs and
improvements in tracks. switches and
other property or devices be made at
or near that point. the method and ex-
tent OF the changes improvements and
1 repairs TO be such the commission
may determine TO be just. reasonable
and Necessary to promote the safety
and convenience of the public.
THAT the practice of switching pA4-
senger or freight trains in the tunuei
/ leading from st. George to Tempkfns-
Vile be abandoned and that all switches
| lying in the tunnel be permanently re-
moved.
! That all trains be run so as to con-
meet with municipal ferryboats at St
George
That the staten Island Railway
Company prohibit and take necessary
steps 10 prevent all unnecessary and
unreasonable noises and smoke nuis-
ances from engines or shops under It
scontrol at Clifton. St. George. Totten-
willie and at all other points where en-
] gines run or are allowed TO stand.
! That all cars. stations and platforms
/ ~ adequately lighted
! That adequate train signs be con-
I icuously and continuously displayed
! / the st. George terminal, the nature
and location of the signs to be deter
mined by the commission
! THAT tickets fof all steam passenger
trains operated by the company be Of
fered for sale in a booth to be placed on
the esplanade Immediately outside the
ferry house at st. George at least for
| ten minutes prior 10 tne depaFtuTe Oi
| each train advertised in the official time
/ table of the Staten Island Railway
! Company.
! That the following additions
changes and readiustment of service be
| put into effect without unnecessary de-
| lay:
| Changes of Service.
| Prompt readjustment and increase
of service. as follows:
! Additional train between Nos. 3 and
| s to leave Tottenville at 6:45 a. m daily.
except Sunday and legal holidays, and
make all stops to Grasmere- the stop
at Whitlock to be on flag. and from
Grasmere to st. George to be express.
arriving at the st. George terminal OF
the municipal ferry at 1925, to connect
with the 7:2o boat for Manhattan.
Tn the afternoon. daily, except Sun
days and legal holidays. train No. 26.
! at present scheduled to leave st. George
at 5:sS. is to leave there at 5:25 instead.
connecting with the boat leaving Man
haitian at o'clock, in order that this
: train. which is a local, shall no longer
hold up the train known as No. 2s limit
ed leaving 81. George at that point at
or about 5:Sa.
Train No. IS. leaving ST. George at
1853 on arrival of the boat leaving
Manhattan at $3.50 is 10 haze an addi-
tional stop on flag signal, at Grant City,
due to arrive there at SOS p- M.
Train No 80 leaving ST George at
6:0S, on arrival of boat leaving Man
haitian at 5:45. is to make Grant City ON
a regular stop instead of a flag signal
at 6:23 p. m.
Train No 50. leaving st. George at
e.3s, on arrival Of boat leaving Manhat-
tan at 6:iS. is to make Grant City on =
flag signal at or about 6:52 D. m.
Additional train between trains num-
bered S4 and Sc. leaving st. George at
-l7:25 on arrival of boat leaving Man
haitian at I o'clock, and to make all
stops beyond Cirasmere except lakewood
Heights and Whitlock, and to arrive at
Tottenville at or about Sis p m.
Train No. "A, at present leaving ST.
George at 1883 a. m, on arrival of boat
Leaving Manhattan at 1890, is TO be
ed instead two trains. the earlier one
leaving st. George at 12:25 a. m. on
arrival of boat leaving Manhattan at
L. o'clock. and making all stops, either
Irregular or on flag signal. beyond Cliff
ton, arriving at Tettenvi1le at or about
i1:15, the later one as follows:
additional train leaving st. George
at 1:25 a. M, on arrival of boat leaving
Manhattan at 1 o'clock. making stops
the same as the train Immediately pre-
ceding, and arriving at Tottenvil1e al
: or about 2:10. instead of 1888 a. M.
. which is the arriving time of No. a. Of
the present schedule.
THE foregoing changes are to be
= imade without unnecessary delay, and
the revised schedule is to be continued
! in effect until further notice from ths
commission"
e When others reduce their adseftisinJ
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