Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-14
P. s. OPEN To FINE
ON TRANSFERS


the Public Service Corporation, said
today that the railway takes the stand
that there is nothing In the order that
compels the corporation to issue trans
fers. It is eontended that the COM
pany's obligation is to get the passen-
ger to his destination, but it is also
the company's right to decide by what
route. In the case of n short line serv-
ice; that is, where a car stops at a
certain point and another car goes
further on dhe same line a transfer OF
extension trip ticket is issued.
Trip of Investigation.
In order to be sure that there was
no error in the complaints made against
the Public Service Corporation for not
granting transfers on transfers, the
Evening STAR sent a representative
on a trip of investigation today. He
had the following experience,
Boarding a Mt. Prospect avenue ear
at Mt. Prospect and Third avenues he
got a transfer to the Clifton line, at
Bloomfield and Clifton At S:55
he boarded Clifton car No. 74S, with
conductor No. 1881 in charge.
Il wan to go to Paramount Gene
terry" he told the conductor. Gan you
transfer me up South Orange avenue
on this transfer"
The transfer was refused.
This rule forces scores of persons
daily TO go around by Broad and Mar
ket streets in order to get up South
Orange avenue from the Forest Hill
section, If they want to reach the
cemetery on a hve-cent fare. The
obvious result is loss of time to the
passenger and more unnecessary con-
gestion at the -Four Corners.
The investigator then got on a Kia-
ney car, No. 1893, going north on Eigh-
teenth avenue, and got a transfer from
conducted No. 1891. He rode to Bergen
street, and transferred to Bergen line
car No. 12S, and asked conductor No.
3I03 for a r~etransfer up Clinton ave-
nue.. 1t was refused. The trip as the
reporter attempted to make it would
have taken perhaps ten or fifteen
minutes, with good connections. 1t
costs ten cents under the present regu-
lation. But the Public Service will
give you a trip from Eighteenth and
Belmont venues to Broad and Mar
ket streets and thence to your desti-
nation in Clinton avenue for five
cents, although you are getting a three
to four-mile ride, taking anywhere
from half to three-quarters OF an hour.
Among the letters to City Trolley
Inspector Joseph Crawford the follow
ing situation is outlined: A man wants
to go from his home at Fifteenth
street and Sixteenth avenue to Wallis
burg. He can make the trip In ten
minutes by way of the Plank road line
to Tenth street, thence to South Or
ange venue and thence to Vailsburg,
but he must pay an extra fare when he
gets on the South Orange avenue car.
But for a single fare the company will
carry him all the way from his home
to Broad and Market streets, thence
back to Vailsburg, a three-mile trip.
More -Four Corners congestion,
A woman who wanted to get 10 a
funeral at Fairmount Cemetery from
her home, at Bloomfield and Roseville
avenues, tried to get a retransfer
across Clifton venue and then up
South Orange, but was refused Not
! only did she have to pay an extra fare
at the South Orange connection, but
she had to get off and change a five
dollar bill, all the money she had, and
wait for the next a She missed the
funeral.
Two city officials had a similar ex-
perience. John Ostrich, of the city
clerks office, and Mr.. White, of the tax
office, were at Sixth and Clifton ave-
nue. in a hurry to get to the City Hall
They took a Clifton car and wanted
to transfer down Orange street, thence
to Broad and Bank, and from there to
the City Hall. They were told that the
only way they could get there on a
single fare was by way of Clifton ave-
nue., a ride of foul miles instead of one
and three-quarters.