Evening journal., 1911-01-18
FARE RAISE HITS
THE WORKINCMEN
Richardson Park Writer Says
Increase Means $ll.96 a
Year for Company
Editor THE EVENING JOURNAL.

Editor THE EVENING JOURNAL.
The Newport trolley fare received
what amounts to another boost on Sat
urday last by the withdrawal Of the
rate made only last month by the
trolley company between the city
switch, dupont Road and Newport, and
II looks as though the low rate was
permitted to be in effect for a few
weeks simply to serve as stepping
stone to get more money from the
Newport workingman
The new officials claimed when ar
ranging the new basis Of fares that
Newport people would enjoy a much
lower rate under the new system. DO
they? A goodly number of Newport
people who must use the trolley are
workingmen. many Of whom are en-
ployed at the machine ana other shops
along Maryland avenue, aud under the
old ticket fare schedule, working
man could ride from Newport to Beech
street and Maryland avenue, and from
that point TO their homes in Newport
in the evening, using tickets, for ex-
actly fifty cents a week Under the new
lower rate so philanthrOpically ar
ranged by the new management, Il will
cost the Newport worgingman coming
TO Wilmington to work and returning
home provided he uses a ticket on the
Wilmington end of the ride. exactly
13c per week, an increase for him of
Sll96 year, or more than a weeks
wages for some of them. The new
management evidently intends to get
the money. irrespective Of where it
comes from.
So far as the Richardson Park (du-
Pont Road increase in fare is con-
cerned, if ever there was a deliberate
stab in the back by a public service
corporation. that was the case here.
for practically all who have saved and
built themselves homes at this point
are workingmen who were induced,
because of the one-ticket fare accord
ed TO them by the trolley company in
getting TO and from their places OF
employment, to settle at this location,
and a reasonable rate of fare is a far
greater item to them than being pro-
vided with seat, which they do not
get anyway.
The new schedule of running the
cars on the Maryland avenue, dupont
Road and Newport line, presumably
carefully planned before adoption by
the trolley management, has been in
operation for several weeks and is
bowling success--sometimes. As a
matter of fact the day Is rare when
some of the cars, simply unable to
make their schedule time. are not
compelled 10 turn" somewhere along
the line, before making the complete
trip, and then start on the new one
Some days this happens many times.
and this confusing turning of the cars
irrespective of schedule or compile
tion of trip, coupled with the operators
so often seen in charge Of the cars
who are entirely unfamiliar with the
Newport line, signal lights, ETC., means
sooner or later an accident probably
resulting in serious injury if not loss
of life to some of the passengers. But
Of course the trolley officials and com
pany will not be 10 blame. Oh no.
Didn't they make a new schedule. and
didn't they turn the cars over to their
employees to run properly and on time
If they can?
AS long ago as November last. we
read in little reading notices in the
local daily papers (said notices Of
course being given out by the trolley
offcials) of the large number of fine
new cars that had been ordered" and
how they were expected in about ten
weeks and how everybody would then
be provided with accommodation. &c.
Similar notices of the new cars "or-
dered' were again seen in December
last. Last week the new cars" notice.
now getting to be a staid, respectable
"come-on,' again appeared. but this
time IL was stated that the new cars
ordered" had not yet been ordered, but
-(presumably) will be some time
when the railway officials get good
and ready to give the people compelled
TO use their different lines reasonable
accommodation. 1t is just such bluffine
as this, as we'll as their arbitrary stand
in the matter of fares. &C, that is fast
putting the new trolley management
in a more unfavorable position than
was ever filed by the old management
Respectfully,
William Tinsman
! Richardson Park, Jan. H., 1911.