The herald., 1913-01-23
THE FERRY COMPANY.

| The Algiers people are extremely in
| terested in the outcome of the meeting
which is shortly to be held with Mayor
Behrman and the members of the AL
giers Improvement Association, regard
| ing the violations of the franchise of
the Ferry Company. While President
LennOX of the Association, has not up
to the present time arranged a date for
this meeting, it is looked forward to
with a great deal of interest. There
will be present at this meeting large
number of representative business men
and citizens of our district
We read in one of the daily papers
where City Engineer Hardee is quoted
as saying that the Southern Improve
ment and Ferry Company have lived
up to the requirements of their fran
chise. We are unwilling to believe that
Capt. Hardee made such a statement,
for it would only take short time for
the different members of the Associa-
ton to point out to Capt. Hardee some
very conspicuous violations, and no
doubt Capt. Hardee will remember his
meeting with the members of the AS
ISOLATION in Algiers a few months ago.
when some forty or fifty of our business
men met our City Engineer and point
ed out to him at the time what i'm
provements were asked for and Capt.
Iiardee knows well, up to the present
time, these improvements have not
been made. We can look, of course,
for excuses from the Ferry Company
very much in line with the farmers
barn that needed a roof When it
rained they could not do the work and
in dry weather they did not require
roof, so it will only be short time
now when the Ferry Company will
again give to Capt. Hardee the excuse
that the river is rising"
We are also unwilling to believe that
Capt. Hardee has approved of the re
arrangement CD OF the Terry house
interiors on either side of the river
We thought that Capt Hardee agreed
with us to simplify the handling of pas.
sengers so that the crowds might be
taken on and discharged from the ferry
with dispatch, but the arrangements
now (what might be termed by the
ferry company an Improvement are
far from such and in fact the condi
lions are worse than they were before
they built the coverings for the pom
toons and erected a few feet of wooden
picket fences.
What Algiers wants is as follows:
That the people boarding the ferry
shall not encounter or be inconveni
enced by the people disembarking
That the ferry houses be so arranged
that they will be able to take care OF
a large crowd with dispatch and in
keeping with the importance of this
avenue where thousands of people cross
daily from one side of the river to the
other.
1t can readily be seen why the Ferry
Company has not made the changes
asked for. Instead of placing the tick
ct seller on the right-hand side of the
ferry house going toward the boat or
the Algiers side of the river, the ticket
seller is placed on the left so that she
may also, besides selling tickets, check
the wagons as they come off and go or
the boats. This arrangement necessi
tates passengers recrossing one an
other in going to and from the ferry
True, the Ferry Company has left gate.
in between these different partitions
and these gates are always open so a.
to give the passengers an opportunity
if they so desire, to interfere with ra
pid transportation. We only ask those
in authority to visit the Algiers ferry
house about the time the passenger.
from the Grand Isle train are going t
the city or any time in the evening OF
in the morning when there is a rush O
patrons going to and coming from thei
work. This will be tolerated only be
cause Capt Hardee has not awaited
himself of the opportunity of seem.
these inconvenience which subjec
: the patrons of the ferry to hardship
: daily.
The double door flappers on the Al
giers side of the river are terrible
; nuisance, and when we say terrible w
mean what we say, for on several oC
casions young children have beel
knocked out of the arms of mothers b.
these doors. 1t was only after differ
ent articles in The Herald that tn
company condescended to cut out par
: of the blind panels of these doors an
substitute glass.
: The patrons of the Ferry Compan
D come from our district. Ninety pc
D cent of the nickels are paid by Algier
! people. Are we not, therefore, entitle
! TO consideration at the hands of
= heartless corporation, whose only in
. terpSf iS tho Da yment of q stated div