Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-16

This continual irritation seems TO
emanate from the fact that the Public
Service Railway took its conductors
into its confidence Without taking the
trouble to explain its stand to the pub
lie
A notice was posted up in the car
barns instructing conductors in regard
to certain details of the transfer situ-
alton 1t explained in detail at what
places they were to issue and accept
transfers.
The only notice of the new regulation
given to the public was brief and
mandatory notice which stated that
transfers would henceforth be accepted
only at the transfer point on the first
car that could be taken by the pas
senger
Such a general proclamation, with
no other explanation or purpose given
1t. is considered by many on the face
of 1t absurd There is no possible way
in which a conductor can tell whether
a passenger has taken the first car or
not. IT merely gives him the privilege
to question anybody's transfer at will,
and when he does reject q transfer he
can give no reason for il which the
indignant passenger can accept as rea-
sonabIe.
Change Transfer Points.
The Public Service Railway contends
that transfer was always
intended to be used only al the furthest
intersecting transfer point on the first
available car This rule is for the first
time being adhered to by the conduc-
tors, assert the complaining passen-
gers.
For instance. man taking a Clinton
avenue car to Broad street cannot
transfer to a Roseville car at the cor
ner of Bank and Broad. but must wait
until he reaches Broad and Orange
streets, where the transfer will be ac-
cepted
The clause in the order Of the Board
of Public Utilities Commissioners that
passenger must be carried to his
ultimate destination even if a retrans-
fer is necessary is the point at
which the company and the city troll
10y officials are at loggerheads.
An example is shown in the CONF
plant of one passenger that he boarded
an Orange car at Roseville avenue and
Orange street and he wished to get to
South Orange avenue and South Eighth
street According to the passengers
view of the order, he was entitled 10 a
transfer on the Bergen street line to
South Orange avenue, where he should
have received re-transfer west on
South Orange avenue TO South Eighth
| street.
Toll
way Company contend that they are
living up to the order of the commits
sion which went into effect on Septem
Der s. as they understand 1t. OF course,
they do not read the double-transfer
meaning into the order.
When the complaint of the Roseville
avenue residents cited above was pre-
! sented to Public Service official to-
day he declared that the South Orange
avenue line does not become a connect
ing line with the Orange line until they
| practically meet each other at the Four
! Corners.
Asked if the Bergen street line did
not make the South Orange avenue
| line a connecting one with the Rose
vile car In Orange street the official
declared that such was not the case
The retransfer problem apparently
rest with the two different interpreta-
tions Of the word connecting The
South Orange avenue and Roseville
cars are not connecting lines because
| the Bergen line intersects both, con-
tends the company; but the Bergen
line itself is a connecting line with
4 either one.
Below are few of the latest letters
received by the STAR on the transfer
| question
FOrty-minute Transfer Horror.
To the Editor OF the Evening star
This transfer proposition has go,
everybody going, especially myself.
after what happened TO me today
rode down on a Springfield car and
transferred on Washington street (Kin-
ney line). The ear was full, as usual,
and when / arrived at Washington
street | had trouble in reaching the
front exit, and the car kept going
down to Broad street before l could
say Jack Robinson" When | got OFF
1 lust had time TO make Kinney car
at Broad and Market streets that was
going up. l jumped on. and the con-
ductor, according to rules, refused the
transfer and told me it was only good
| at Market and Washington streets
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