Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-19


Indignant citizens are asking: Why
this discrimination? If It is possible
in Jersey City, why not in Newark :?
Is the Public Service railway showing
good faith in claiming that 1t could not
afford the contemplated retransfer
system? If the trolley company is
afraid the privilege would be abused
in Newark, why have they so silently
suffered retransfers in Jersey City? Is
the company making fish of Newark
and flesh of Jersey City?
The letter which brought this
peculiar anomaly to the attention of
the Evening STAR, is as follows
TO the Editor of the Evening Star;
There being SO much talk and trouble
over the trolley transfer situation In
Newark at the present time thought
| would, with your permission, use
little of your space to call attention
to the fact that a person can board a
Turnpike car at the Prudential build
ing, ride to Jersey City. get transfer
to the jackson avenue car; from the
Jackson avenue car you can get an
other transfer to the Union Hill car
and from that car you can get another
transfer to the Palisade car. thereby
getting altogether, three transfers on
the ten cents paid on the Turnpike
car
'why is 1t the Public Service allows
this privilege to the citizens OF Ho-
boken and refuses It to the people or
Newark? Is 1t fair?
"HowARDLYN."
I'm to Board Today.
The whole transfer situation was
placed before the BoarG of PUBIC
Utility Commissioners at Trenton to-
day Both Philander C. Belts. chlei
inspector for the commission, and Troll
ley Inspector w. b. 1ngham have gone
to Trenton to present the report OF
their investigations.
Inspector Ingham was detailed by
Mr.. Belts yesterday to collect evidence
as to whether the Public Service rail-
way was providing retransfers as d.
rectly required In the order of the
Public Utility Commission. This mass
of data, which indignant citizens have
made, will be submitted in the Su-
preme Court hearing upon the writ of
certiorari granted to the trolley COM
pany.
The return date for the writ, how
ever, has not been announced by Chier
Justice Gummere.
Inspector Ingham made several trips
on lines where retransfers had been
refused He first went over the route
which many factory workmen are
forced to take from Frelinghuysen and
Watson avenue to the southern end OF
the Bergen line. He boarded an
Elizabeth line car northbound at
Frelinghuysen and Watson avenues
and got transfer to the Clinton line,
westbound. On presenting his original
transfer to the Clinton conductor he
asked for another to carry him to the
southern end of the Bergen line. and
was refused
Tries Springfield Avenue
He then boarded a Springfield car
at Eleventh street, west bound, ana
asked for a transfer to the Clifton ave-
nue. line. east bound at Irvington cen
f-e. He was again refused This trip
is often made by residents of the "Hllr
section, and scores of complaints
against the ten-cent fare for such
short ride have come to the city trolley
inspector Joseph Crawford.
Another trip of investigation was
made from Forest Hill to. Fairmount
Cemetery. 1t cost ten cents. The in
spector boarded Mount Prospect car
at Mount Prospect avenue and rode
south to the northerly end of the Cliff
ton line. His original transfer was ac-
cepted for passage to the South Or
ange avenue line, but he could not get
a transfer.
When the original order of the Public
Utilities Board was put into effect Sep
tember the Public Service Corpora
ton complied with only the specific in
stances mentioned in the order. al
though, according to William Mungle.
president of the Board of Works, 1t
had been agreed that whatever the
decision was in the specific instances.
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