The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-07
FIRST or "PAY-AS-
YOU-ENTER' CARS
ARRIVES IN CITY
Received at Plank Road Barns.
Others Ordered to Fol-
low Quickly.
CRAWFORD MAKES REPORT
TO BOARD OF WORKS
Recommends that Company Be
Compelled to Sell Six
Tickets for Quarter.

The first of the new "pay-as-you-
enter cars which the Public Service
is to use on its Newark lines arrived
at the Plank road barns yesterday.
The cars are being constructed in en-
c%innati. and it is probable that all OF
the order will arrive here within six
weeks. The car which arrived yester-
day will be tested in a few days.
Joseph Crawford, trolley inspector
of the Board of Works, who with Pub
lie Service officials last week made an
inspections in New York and Canadian
cities of the new type of car. yester-
day submitted his report to the board.
He recommends that the trolley COM
pany be compelled to issue six tickets
for quarter and that the Montreal
system of ~transfer be adopted. There
are no designating points on his style
of transfer, and it is good on all lines
except the one upon which issued.
Passengers can thus select any line to
ride upon other han hat which they
have just left.
Mr.. Crawford declared there was
nothing found in conditions at Roches-
ter, Utica and Syracuse to recommend
to Newark. In conclusion Mr.. Craw-
ford stated:
THE advantages of the pay-as-you-
enter cars over the others are many.
In the first place the platforms of the
cars are SO arranged that three passen-
gers can board them abreast. In this
tanner / have seen forty-four persons
set on a car in fifty-one seconds. This
is really remarkable compared to the
slowness in this city, where but one
passenger can get on at g. time.
CAS- the front door is the means of
exit. every passenger tries to get as
near to that point as possible, instead
of cllnging to the rear door as We do,
and by going to the from the car can
carry more passengers n with a
greater degree of comfort.
CAS- the conductor has no reason to
enter the car there is none of that
jostling that a passenger gets when the
conductor on our lines forces his way
from the real to the front platform to
get a fare.
push buttons, placed at a point
above the head of the passengers, Sig
nal the motorman and conductor, and
the motorman brings the car to a STOP
at the first crossing. ..,r -
"Bs1 placing these buttons in a posi-
ton as on the Buffalo cars. the trouble
that we had here. hat of boys ringing
the bells, is obliterated, rs any one
ringing the bell can be seen by the
conductor. To ring the bell %unneces-
sarily would be q violation of an ordi-
nance in khe city of Buffalo.
81 had expected to find some trouble
on the cars when a passenger offered a
large coin to the conductor, requesting
change, so that the fare could be de-
posted in the box. / offered a con-
ductor a twenty-five-cent piece, being
second in a crowd of thirty passengers
He politely requested me to step aside
for a second, and when the other pas
scngers had all entered the car he gave
me the change, n when l entered the
car every seal was taken n l had to
stand. Out of 220 passengers that 1
counted entering the car but three
asked for change. This smSsl percent
age is probably due to. the fact that a
great many tickets are used, the com
pany giving six for a quarter, and the
public takes advantage of the reduced
rates"
General Manager Danforth, Superin-
tendent of Transportation Bolen AMI
other Public Service officials inspected
the new car yesterday afternoon.