Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-12
William Mungle Makes Com.
plant to Utilities Board
Against P. S. c.
SHOWS WHERE HARDSHIP
is PUT ON MECHANICS
Wants Time Limit Removed Be-
cause OF Frequent "Car
Full" PIaCards.

William Mungle, president of the
Roard of Works. sent to the public
utility commission at Trenton this aft
Public Service Corporation. this time
/ &c the effect that the trolley company
was not carrying out the recent order
oil the board that transfers must be
given at all connecting points in the
/ city of Newark
/ Mr., Mungle specifically objects to the
rule of the company that a passenger
must take the first car of the line TO
which he Is transferred. He points
out that sometimes the first car has
displayed the car full'' sign and must
wait for the next one, by which time
/ 1t sometimes happens that his trans
/ fer Is void on account Of the time
punch.
Mr.. Mungle likewise complains that
the Public Service is attempting to
restrict the use of transfers generally
! by the regulations 1t has put into ef-
j feet. MIR. Munge, In his complaint to
the Public Utility Board says:
In connection with the order of your.
board under date of August IL, 1911, re-
quiring the Public Service Railway
| Company on and after September s,
1911, to comply in all respects with the
ordinance passed by the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners on August
! l, 1894, | desire to call the attention OF
your board to certain matters pertain
ing to the manner in which the COM
pany is attempting to comply with the
| boards orders
In the first place just prior to tho
date when the order became effective
the following placard was hung up in
the cars of the company, to wit:
Transfers will not be received for
passage unless the passenger offering
the same boards the first car of the
line to which he is transferred at the
designated transfer junction.
1T will be noticed that under this
rule the company seeks to restrict the
use of the transfer to the first car of
| the line to which the passenger IS
! transferred, and no provision seems to
i be made for the situation where the
/ first car on the connecting line is
crowded and the car full sign is dis
played thereon in conformity with the
provisions of An ordinance to further
regulate the running of street cars
upon the streets of the city of New
ark, approved February 25. 1910. a copy
of which is herewith enclosed for the
! information of the board. This regula-
| ton of the company seems to be un-
/ just ard unreasonable and is provoca-
/ tive of contentious between the passen-
gers and the company's servants.
"The more serious matter, however,
in this connection seems to be the gen.
eral nom observance of the company of
the finding in your order that the
Public Service Railway Company Is
legally bound to give a transfer to any
passenger paying the fare of five cents
upon any of its cars, such transfer en-
titling the passenger to a continuous
ride in either direction on any street
line intersecting with or connecting
with the line upon which said transfer
was given, and we do further find that
the requirement to give such trans
fers may not be restricted or de-
limited to a line that may take the
passenger without further change to
his ultimate destination, but that trans
fers must be given on any intersecting
or connecting line that advances the
passenger continuously toward his ul-
timate destination, even though a re-
transfer is required to bring him to his
ultimate destination
Continuing Mr.. Mungle says that
numerous complaints have been made
of the Public Services attitude, and
that by the company's refusal to COM
ply with the order passengers have
been required to pay double fare. and
that in the majority of instances the
point of the trouble has been at the
intersection of Market and Broad
streets, the most congested In Newark
Mr.. Mungle offers to place at the dis
posal of the commission specific proof
to bear out his charges.
The penalty for noncompliance with
the orders of the Public Utility Com
mission, if noncompliance is proved, is
500 day A second remedy is a suit
TO compel specific performance.
AS an example of the Inconvenience
to which he contends the Public Service
is placing its patrons. Mr.. Mungle
pointed out that employees of a manu-
featuring concern at Springfield avenue
and the Irvington line. who live in the
vicinity of Clinton avenue and Fabyan
rlace must ride to Broad and Market
streets on a Springfield avenue car and
then transfer to a Clinton avenue car
to reach their homes by one fare, other
wise they would have to pay two fares
One of the rules recently put into
effect by the trolley company Is that no
transfers will be given on parallel lines
and another is that the transfer of
passenger from one line to another must
be made at the furtherst possible point.