New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
COUGH DROPS DROP
Price Falls as Station Signals
Reach the Tubes.

y mere man. who wanted TO go TO
Hoboken on William McAdoo's II O'Clock
train from sd street yesterday morning
poked his head down the entrance to the
tunnel. gave Wild start and rushed away
westward.
It's convention OF women's clubs he
gasped. i've heard about their rows at
tie Hotel Astor. It's me for a ferry
But it wasn't a convention. II was
peaceful aItruistic. saving the-nation ex-
petition. The public safety committee of
the New York City Federation of Women's
Clubs. after working a whole year 70 sue
cor the travelling public from the dangers
Of subway trips with one TO tell one
where one is but guards who yell &c 'steenth-
street-l-Out-ere-f'r-nin had per
suaded the accommodating Mr.. McAdoo to
install indicators in his cars. and the
women were on hand TO celebrate
It's the proudest day of my life" said
Mrs. Robert Francis Cartwright chairman
of the public safety committee as. with
z. T. Munger. general superintendent or
the Hudson & Manhattan Railway system,
holding her I'D on one side. and J. r.
O'Rourke. traiumaster. steadyinS her or
the other. she stood the platform Of
one Of tine cars and pushed the button
that operated the indicator. There was
click in the middle of the car. and down
dropped four little block boards. one above
the other. bearing these words in white and
scarlet letters:
This train for Hoboken. The next stop
Is Fourteenth street
Now. isn't that nice and quiet and re-
fined? So much better than having guards
yell things you can't understand said
Mrs Cartwright. beaming. why. the other
day I was going to a meeting of Minerva
and because 7 thought the guaru SAID
18th street when he meant 42d street-"hat
he said didn't sound like anything got
carried to The Bronx and missed most
,rnportan, election. The guards aren't to
blame. poor things.
IT'S enough 70 ruin anybody's speaking
voice TO veil above the roar of the train,
and I've heard that the guards simply ruin
themselves in cough drops.
Mrs. Cartwright wasn't selfish about
pushing the button. She let Mrs. Clarence
Burns, president OF the Little Mothers Aid
Association. take a turn at punching It.
and Mrs William Cumming Story, hon
orsry president Of the Fed" Mr.. Story.
who had come along with Mrs. story, was
invited TO play with the button. too. but he
was busy talking with the inventor of the
device. Thomas Small, and declined
The Federation sent a large contingent
to celebrate the triumph of its public safety
committee There were Mrs John :.
Crosby Miss Florence Guernsey, Nine
Marie Cross Nevhaus, Ms. Eugene Put
nam. Mrs. John Francis Yawgcr. Miss
Florence Gildersleeve. Mrs. William Grant
Brown and many others Mrs. Belle de
Rivera was TO have come, but did not. The
road was represented by Mr.. Munger, Mr..
ORourke, O. T. Boyd, general passenger
agent and Wilbor Fisk The company
which manufactures tho Indicator was rep
resented by It's president, Major Charles
W Johnson. Of Cleveland
Three OF the indicators were put in the
McAdoo cars yesterday. and ten more will
be installed IN the course OF the week. If
the public takes 20 the idea all the Hud-
son Tunnel cars VIII be fitted with the de-
vice ultimately.
| As for the ELECTROMAGNETIC now I'm
| going 10 attack Mr.. Hedley,'' said Mrs.
| Cartwright firmly. as she led the delega-
/ ton from the car at the end OF the return
| trip from Hoboken. ComIniss Toner Eustis
/ of the Public Service Commission sent
/ word TO Mrs. Cartwright that he was going
10 take a look at The device in the course
OF the day II is the first time the indi-
Gator has been tested, except on a surface
| line in the West.