Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-14
LISTEN TO SOME GRIEVANCES
BRIEF SESSION OF DISTRICT
ELECTRIC R.R. COMMISSION.
Complaints Against W., B. and A.
Road and Anacostia Line-Trans-
fers and Overcrowded Cars.

Executive business and the matter of
two complaints, one the refusal of the
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
railway 10 stop TO take on passengers
within the District limits at Chesapeake
Junction. and the other the Overcrowding
of the .Anacostia and lie Droit Park cars
at the nth and G and the 18th and r
streets functions, occupied the brief ses-
sion of the District electric railway COM
mission Yesterday afternoon.
The complainant in the case of the
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
railway was advised that the interstate
commerce commission July last promul-
gated a regulation which requires that
no motorman or conductor shall refuse
to stop to take up a passenger unless all
the seats in the car or train are occu-
pied' and that this regulation applies to
street crossings and regular stopping
places on the line of travel within the
advised that it was presumed that pas
sengers having grievance of this kind
would take it up with the. railway com
pany. and falling of satisfaction there.
would take the action provided under
the act of May %. 1898
In the overcrowding case the COM
plainant who also put up protest
because a transfer ISSUED on the LIE
Droit line on the passage from the bureau
of engraving and printing to the f street
cars at 9th street was refused when the
passenger offered il at 18th and F streets,
was informed that the commission has no
control over the matter of transfers, eX-
cept their refusal at junction points. He
was also advised that the commission
had given careful thought to the sub
ject of Overcrowding of cars and had
referred the data collected to the inter-
state commerce commission with the rec
concentration that it be sent TO the United
States district attorney for proper action
before the courts.
Communications were also received and
read from the Pay-Within Car Company
of Philadelphia as to the cost of cars
and of converting the present type into
the new: from a complainant who thinks
that transfers should be accepted by the
galway companies if offered within a
block of the junction point for which they
are issued, and from prominent lawyer
protesting against through service over
the Tenleytown line to the heart of the
city, because it would rob the Tenley-
town route proper, which has only q
limited supply of cars, while the cars
dNdlldbe lOT IL HOW NtIt DSlHS "
the Union station or other points in the
city where they were not needed.
Important action concerning the reSula
ton of the street railway systems wa.
taken at the meeting of the intersta I.
commerce commission Saturday. which
has just been made public by the commits
sion. a policy of action was agreed upor
for the treatment of various matters thai
still remain unsettled
Overcrowded Cars.
The District electric railway commission
was directed to take up the subject o.
overcroWded cars with the several railway
companies and to call upon them to Sug
gest or provide a plan TO meet the re
| uuirements of the act of May %, 1908
| The District commission was empowered
| to call upon the railway companies, in thu
name of the interstate commerce commits
| sion for any data it might require tt
assist the former in carrying out the pro
visions of the act mentioned.
Regulations were passed requiring al
| cars running to and from the Union sta
| ton to bear suitable route signs within
| ten days from the PRONUNCIATION of thu
order.
The commission also agreed upon thu
| special report to be submitted to the Con
| q ess in relation to the operation of thu
! street railways in the District of Colum
| bia 1t was stated at the commission to
| day that this report will probably b.
submitted to Congress Monday next