Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-12
WINTER STREET CAR
SCHEDULES HELD UP
Commission May Grant Exten-
sion of Summer Time, Due
to Light Business.

Winter schedules on Washington's
street car lines, which annually go into
effect September Is. may be postponed
this year.
The railway companies have petit
toned the District electric railway
commission to grant an extension of
the summer schedules to October L.
The matter has been taken under ad-
visement. and. it was announced to-
day, the request may be granted with
respect to certain lines where the traf
fic has not picked up sufficiently to
justify an increased Roadway being
maintained.
Investigation by the commission of
the cause Of the accident on the 10Th
and II street line of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company. Satur-
day night. when thirty-one persons
were injured. continued today. H. C..
Eddy. secretary of the commission. who
returned to Washington yesterday from
Ocean Beach. where he was spending a
vacation. when the. accident occurred.
is personally conducting the investi-
cation. His findings will be contained
in report to be submitted to the railway
commission and, later. in all probability,
to the interstate commerce commission.
Although local street car companies are
required to abolish snsle-truck 'trailers."
i'm accordance with an order OF the COM
mission, which IS to go into effect the
first of next January. it is probable that
the trailer is rot entirely doomed.
Secretary Eddy today said that there is
nothing in the order to prevent COM
panies from operating douhle-truck trail
e.s'' and that lie is Of the opinion that
the trailer, plan is the most practical
foi. ha ndlirE excursion crowds.
In Norfolk Secretary Eddy observed on
his recent visit that trailers' are used
for transporting crowds to and from
pleasure resorts and other places of in
terest 1t is his belief that the railway
companies could we'll afford to purchase
double-truck "trailers' and follow the
same method here.
Few "Trailers" Remain.
The Capital Traction Company during
the mast few months has greatly reduced
the number of "trailers'' it formerly op-
Grated on Pennsylvania avenue, and as
soon as new equipment which 1t has or
dered arrives it is probable it will begin
replacing the trallers that arc operated
on 18th street.
There is believed to be little doubt hut
that the companies will be ready to COM
ply with the order abolishing sinsle-truck
"trai,ers" January l, and. unless 1t is de-
cided to operate double-truck 'trailcrs"
on certain lines, this type of car will
soon become extinct in the capital.
The suggestion that express cars be run
from the city to suburban points has
never been considered seriously by the
railway commission, 1t was stated to-
dav The plan Is impracticable. it is said
for the reason that it would be inpossi-
BILE to operate an express car over line
that already is burdened with a heavy
local schedule.
1.-The complaints by suburban citizens
that the cars crowded can only be
adjusted by all the citizens cooperating
in the matter said Secretary Eddy to-
day. For instance. if persons living
al long 9th street would wait for 9th
street car rather than take Bright
wood avenue car the citizens , OF tn, that
canse for comp,aint about crowded cars.
The same applies to other lines"
Secretary Eddy said the railway com
mission will endeavor to see that a SUI
ficient number of cars are operated over
the various lines, but that the citizens
themselves will have to be more con-
siderate of one another il they would
solve the crowding problem.