Evening journal., 1910-11-05


car for all this stuff at some hour
early I'm the morning.
The Stanton trolley schedule is a
very close one and requires a great
deal Of effort on the part of the
motorman, and the conductor as well,
to run on time, and in this connection
older employees should be given easier
runs and these particular cars man
ned by younger men with the nerve
TO keep the cars going at top speed,
for this is necessary. When this line
was originally opened and the half
hour schedule adopted, there was no
occasion for stops, with possibly one
or two exceptions, from Maryland
avenue to DUPONT road. Now there
are houses all the way up the long hill
leading to DUPONT road. Where, when
the line was opened, there were four
or five houses scattered around the
cross roads of Newport pike and du-
| Pont road, can now be found Rich
ardson Park, thriving little town of
nearly a hundred dwelling houses,
with its own postofiice, on the one
side, with Ashley, another settlement,
on the other, each contributing its
quota of daily riders. Likewise, the
/ population of Newport has increased
any many houses have been built and
are now occupied at other points
along the line. all of which has meant
much additional business for the
I trolley company with absolutely no
! exertion or effort on its part. With
all this growth In population, Che
original schedule and the original
number of cars operated (two) have
remained the same. the management
making no apparent effort to properly
handle or accommodate their greatly
/ increased traffic. To be sure, a trip
per Is now run to DUPONT road, leay-
/ ing Fourth and Market streets about 5
o'clock p. m, with a later trip, but this
seems to serve more as an accommo-
datiOn for Maryland avenue people
! (already supplied with fair servicej
I than to anyone else, as the trippe IS
time seems to be inopportune for sub
urban travel homeward. For exam
| pie, on Monday evening of the pres
ent week, when the 5 o'clock triRper
reached DUPONT road there were Est
two passengers aboard for that point
On the othe- hand. the regular car
supposed to leave Fourth and Market
streets at 5.45, as well as the regular
car preceding and the one following
II, are invariably crowded to che
limit, so much so as to render them
often unfit for women to travel upon,
and the 5.45 car is late with startling
regularity. For one specific illustra-
tion, last Thursday night, November
3, this car left Fourth and Market at
exactly five minutes past six That is
TO say, for more than 20 minutes per-
sons desiring TO use this car had 10
stand out I'm the beating rain and
snow. or huddle in door or alley
ways, some catching severe colds, and
when the car finally arrived, what
mad rush and fight for seats. OF
course the car was jammed, even to
the front platform, and when il reach
ed the city switch, just outside. of
town, there was another unnecessary
delay Of more than ten minutes out
! in the open storm. due to the improp-
er throwing Of the switch lights by
/ the inexperienced crew on the tripper
On holidays, circus days and the like,
there seems to be no effort whatever
TO provide even standing" accom-
mediation.
Another cause for. complaint is the
way some of the cars make only part
Of a trip. Owing to the little time al
lowed by the schedule. a car occasion
ally fails to reach one of the several
switches In time TO throw the signal
light. meaning a wait which of course
puts that car from ten to fifteen min
utes farther behind, and in such case
the crew does not hesitate to run the
car as far as Newport and then turn
and head for Wilmington, thereby
making but part of the trip, leaving
the Stanton passengers to either await
the next car or get home as best they
can, and this In particular is likely
to occur If il happens to be the last
trip of the day for that crew. Such
action as this: Running a car plainly
marked In large letters at the front
with the name OF its destination "Stan-
ton" only so far as Newport, and then
starting back would be almost laugh
able, if it were not for the extreme
discomfort and Inconvenience Il al
ways produces. Certainly strict orders
should be given that every trip be
made complete, even If tardy.
striking example Of the way the
patrons of this line are cared for, or
rather the absolute disregard for their
accommodation or convenience always
shown by the roads officials, was that
of last December. when the road re-
mained at a standstill, the cars not
being operated for nearly a week.
simply because sufficient men were not
hired to promptly clear the tracks of
snow, although all the other lines of
the company We're cleared and Oper-
ated with prOmptness.
Considering the excessive rate Of
fare demanded, it being two fares to
Newport, a distance Of only between
, and miles, and three fares to Stan
ton, between five and six miles las
compared with the Peoples line, which
charges but one fare to Brandywine
Springs, a distance of approximately
seven miles) coupled with the many
unnecessary and un-called for discom-
forts and Inconvenience which the
daily patrons of this road have to en-
dure, growing out OF the insufficient
accommodation provided by the man.
agement to handle the ever growing
passenger traffic. It certainly seems
the time has come when the people
compelled to use this line should get
! together and by concerted action en-
deavor 10 secure reasonable consid-
I Grafton from the officials OF the road.
Complaints from any of the other To-
cal lines usually result in due recog-
milton and generally such betterment
as is asked for, but the patrons of the
Stanton trolley. which is regarded as
one Of the best paying OF the local
lines. have always asked in vain. There