The Washington times., 1911-05-04
DEMAND Of PEOPLE
FOR BETTER CAR
SERVICE IS MADE
Ballots Sent From Times to
Office of Representative
Anderson.

Anderson.
At II o'clock this morning a messen.
ger boy entered the office of Represen.
tative Carl c. Anderson of Ohio at the
House Office Building. In his arms he
carried large, square bundle.
What have you there, boy?" asked
Mr.. Anderson.
"A package from The Washington
Times" said the boy.
Mr.. Anderson cleared the newspapers,
letter files, correspondence, old copies OF
the Congressional Record and other
miscellaneous articles off the top of a
long table, and opened the package
From it burst a stream of clippings
from The Times, each bearing a sigma
ture and an address.
People Heard.
Thus the voice of the people of Wash
ington, demanding universal transfers
and half-fare tickets for school chill
dren, reached the author of the bill to
establish these improvements In street
railway service.
Il am mighty glad to get this" said
Mr.. Anderson, to a representative of
The Times who was present. 1T is the
first time in my knowledge that the cit
iznes Of Washington have been given a
chance to express themselves on a pub
lie question. l am delighted at the re-
spoHse.
The action of The Times in throwing
open it's columns for the recording of
public opinion is highly commendable,
and I m uI1l he NJ riuI
assistance to congress when action is
taken upon the transfer and school chill
dren's ticket bill. We want to know
what the people of Washington desire,
but our means of ascertaining are un-
satisfactory. A ballot through q news
paper is the nearest possible approach
to an expression through the ballot at
the polls.
Il shall lay The Times ballots before
the District Committee when my bill
is considered and shall communicate te
the facts shown by the ballot to the
House when the bill comes to the floor
for passage or rejection"
Flood of Ballots.
Another flood of ballots reached The
Times office this morning as a result
of yesterdays announcement that the
last chance to vote had been presented.
They were still coming in when the
package containing the expression Of
hundreds of citizens was sent to Mr..
Anderson. Those received this after
noon and this evening will be sent to
the Capitol tomorrow.
Again today many of the ballots were
pinned to letters, in which citizens ex-
pressed themselves more fully on the
two street railway questions. and or
other questions pertaining to public SER
vice. S. N. Lane wrote as follows:
81 inclose ticket expressing my view
on the street railway questions. I also
wish to express my gratitude for the
work and interest of your worthy paper
in behalf Of the Government employe.
read your paper every evening with a
great deal of interest, and hope the time
is near when you can make effective
your efforts to have regulated the tele-
phone company of Washington.
81 think telephone rates are no less
than robbery. What we pay 81 per
man for here we get in other places
for $3.50 per man. Why this differ
ence? The system is no better here"
NJ. Paynter, writing from Room
443 House office building, says:
from The Times relating to the uni
versal transfer system. l am heart
lily in favor of this and trust Mr.. An
derson will be successful in secur-
ing the passage of his bill"
Reams' Letter.
n. n. Reams, 7O9 Tenth street north
west, sends the following letter with
his ballot:
81 am glad to have an opportunity
to express myself in favor of uni
versal transfers. l have felt for some
time that it would be only fair and
right for the people of Washington
TO have them. l hope you may be en-
tirely successful"
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Miller, 1867
B street southeast, send the follow
ing memorandum on the margin of
their ballot:
Success to you in your undertaking.
We think you will win out
William Laurie 1908 Gales street north
east, writes from the heart. He says:
my work takes me all over the city.
have to walk or pay two fares sew
eral times every day. Please help us
to get interchangeable transfers."'
A well-known Washington woman,
employed in one of the departments,
sent the following vigorous letter with
her ballot, but asked that her name be
NllilItlu.
"I take great pleasure in availing my
self of the means which you place at
my disposal to express to Congress my
very decided opinion on the subject of
universal street car transfers and half
fares for school children. Being OBJ
liged to use the cars twice a day
sometimes oftener-I feel it is great
injustice to be forced to pay two or
three fares to reach a given point, when
the companies can so well afford to
transfer US to some other line without
extra charge.
Cars Crowded.
THE cars are dreadfully crowded.
both in the early morning and again
at 4:3O p. m., and the companies profits
are enormous. 1t would seem as if pub
Nc opinion might force these companies
b do the honest thing. They would
soon have to do it If we had few
more newspapers like The Times, but
the spunky Times has to go 1t alone.
when 1t is a question of fighting tie
rich public service corporations. Fer
this reason there ought not to be a
bread-winner in Washington whose
name Is not found on the subscription
list of The Washington Times.
"How do wish that The Times could
get hold of some of the high officials of
the Government, with their suites of
blue satin and their private elevators,
that nobody but them can enter, while
just outside their doors are women
clerks, sitting in dark Railways, where
they can scarcely see to do their work
"T thank vorI most sincerelv for the