The evening world., 1912-01-24
CENTS TO C0NEy
PROMISED At ONCE
IN THE RUSH HOURS
B. r. T. Announces Partial
Compliance With Evening
Worlds Demands.
AT WORK ON
Hearing Before Service Board
Abandoned After Promise
Is Made.
AT WORK ON SCHEDULE.

The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
announced TO the Public Service Com.
mission through eounsei hat . modified
plan for . nve-csnt fare between Man
haitian Md coney Island Will be
adopted AZ soon A. the details can b
worked out. This plan v to enable resi-.
Ssnts Of Brooklyn IN the o n beyond
kinEs Highway to make the round trtv
between their homes and Manhattan fos
zen cents.
meeting Of the Commission CALLED 10
hear the complaint Of the Van sicklsu
TaxpayGs' Association which has been
aSitAtinG for . .nve.oent Cmey leland
sAr. Tho hearing had been adjourned
several umss At the request Of the
.. r. T.
Hx-J6Ass Owen F1ssrty. representing
the Van Sickien Taxpayer Association.
haA gathered . lot Of Information on
the hve-cent fare question. which has
been asitatsd by The Evening World
for years. Judge Flnsrty. through the
persistent campaign waxci by this news
paper. was equipped with facts and
figures which mad the II. u. T. man.
aEsment take notice.
Before the hearing Wa called Judge
Finerty wal Informed that the n. n r.
was willing 10 make an opening which
may lead TO . nve-cent fare arrange
msnt most Of the day the ear round.
t. .,t.w. - .cuc>.s,ous ~eA~ 500 Oh.
company. Judge F1nerty and counsel
representing other complainants with
drew their complaints.
FivE.ceNT FARE At ONCE ron
THE RUSH HOURS.
Counsel for the u. II. r. said the com.
pany would establish . hve-cent fare
north-bound bet wcen q o'clock and .
o'clock a. N. and south-bound between
Z o'cloch Ind ! O'Clock r. N. The rate
viii be put into effect within n few days
and will apply until May Is. when the
coney leland season opens. by tina,
time Il IL expected somc way OF extend.
ing the plan for the benefit Of those who
live in the Coney Island district will
nav been evolved.
The plan 10 primarily meant TO relieve
those who live In the Consy Island dis-
trici and work In Manhattan and covsvs
the rush hours OF the morning and owe
ming, School children will he given a
fyc-cent fare all day during the months
when school In In session. Communication
%round-trip tickets, good only In the pre-
scrlpcd hours. will be sold at the ate OF
twelve for ST. ~. but signed round-trip
tickets viii be sold at 10 cents at the
c0ncy Island terminals. good only on the
day OF issuance ms during the hour,
prescribed, The concession applies ri
present only to the ~ lines.
II r. supposed the coney Island and
Brooklyn Railroad will fall In line Win
the II. II. r.. In The case OF the former
company some notifications viii bs
S'an,'d because Il operates surfacs
lines only.
The i've cent Communication plan vii
arpiy only on business days. ON sun
DAYS ana holidays the old rate will =,
enforced,
Gsndually, hut surely. the Il. Il. r
10 COMING around to the Jivc-cent far,
.des. The operating officials woul,
hav. IS soon thought OF suicide as IA,
slls n'est concession IA that direction
hvo years ago when The Evening
Word began to force their attention 81
To the public demand for relief fron
their cxactions,