The Washington herald., 1909-02-20
PAY-AS- YOU ENTER
Cars Will Be Put in Service
on Sunday Morning.
FOURTEENTH STREET THE LINE
Traction Company Seeks fe Provide
Additional Comfort Passengers
Can Enter from Rear End Only.
Innovation Promises to Be POpu-
Harlow TO Obtain Transfers.

Tomorrow progressive departure VIII
be made by the Capital Traction Com
pany in the character Of cars running
over its lines.
Il viii be an innovation that promises
Immediately 70 be popular. Il has stood
the test in other cities. and once estab-
lished here VIII tend TO give a primitive
appearance TO an equipment heretofore
regarded ss quite up-tO-date.
Pay-as-you-enter cars viii go into serv-
ice on the Fourteenth street line Sunday
morning.
The object OF the adoption Of this type
Of car by the company IS 10 provide add
tional comfort. and at the same time re-
ducs the danger Of street railway travel
10 the minimum. All the company asks
IS that the public will cooperate by IA
miIiarizing itself with and giving due re-
gard 70 the regulations incident 10 the
change.
Rear End Only.
First Of all. passengers enter the car at.
the rear end only The step is low. han
dle-bar within easy reach, ard the plat
form commodious.
The passenger viii have his fare ready
end hand It to the conductor upon enter
ing TIE platform. Then he viii move 10
the forwsld end Of the car
Transfers will be issued only al the
tine Of paying fare.
Transfers should be handed 70 the con-
ductOr unfOlded.
Passengers having entered by the rear
door viii leave by the front door, thus
avoiding any crowding al the exit
IN order 70 avoid congestion on the
rear platform. the passenger who pre-
sents a bill 20 be changed viii be re-
CucsJed 20 step aside until others on the
platform have passed into the car.
By following these simple directions and
irsJTuci ions, the company believes thai
the public viii at once appreciate the
enter CnT, and give cordial approval 10
the change
Cars VIII Be Green.
Another innovation, subordinate 70 the
change proper. IS that ali cars Of the Cap
ital Traction Company hereafter viii be
green, that hue supplanting the yellow
that has formerly marked Fourteenth
street cars.
An initial trip Of one Of these new and
handsome cars was yesterday made from
the companv's barns az Fourteenth and
Decatur streets 10 the Union Station and
return President George T. Hamilton.
Vice Presidents Henry Hurt and n. 8
CARL. OF the Capital Traction Company,
Clarence F. Norment. president OF the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany; z. J. Stellvagel, NJ J. Adler, J. s.
Larcombe, Ward Thoron, H. d. Crampton.
R. Ross Perry. G. Thomas Dunlop. repre-
sentatives Of the press. and others were
aboard.
With the advent OF these new cars
transfers will be issued az the following
points:
Fourteenth street line southbound:
A. Fourteenth and [ STREETS, east o. west
A. Fifteenth street. ard New YORK avenue no-th-
west. 70 Gs0rzetOEu.
A Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue north
vest north Or south. except 70 those presenting
transfers az Fourteenth and streets OF FYftseutb
street and New York sTenus
At Peace Monument, 70 navy yard and from /
Pssce Monument csrs 70 Union station ard Cartel
AZ Delaware srenue and e street north OF south !
AZ Union Station. 70 nOrthbourd New Jersey ave |
uue cars. except 10 those presenting transfers AZ
Fourteenth and streets o. Fifteenth street nd /
New York aFen1s
Fourteenth street Hne northbo,-nd:
At DelaERre aFenus and C street northeast, south /
o. north
At Peace Monument. TO navy yard
At Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue no-.h-
west, north Socth.
Al Fifteenth street and New York avenue ro-th- /
At Fourteenth and L streets ezss o. west. excspt
10 those presenting transfers ~ Delaware avenue and
street q Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue
At Decatur street. 70 Piney Branch road.