Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-14

up with another surface car that may thread
miles away into the Middlesex Fells.
And your original nickel does it all. There
! Is only one place where you may not go for
nickel on the Boston system. 1t is ingeniously
designed. even diabolically contrived to de-
feat the cheat or the 'overthrifty person. 1t
Will not take you into town, and then take
you back home again, for your miserable
cents The interacings Of the system ara
wonderful. 1t is truthfully said that you can
start anywhere and land at any other place
In Boston, for cents-proyided you know
where you are going, and what Is more how
to get there. To that end you are furnished
innumerable maps and diagrams But you
cannot get back home for your nickel; they
have seen to that
AT one time, several years ago, the Boston
Elevated was figured to have stacked up
against 1t over S4O,O 200 OF improvements
For years the service between Cambridge and
Boston had Jagged behind the requirements.
FOR years there was clamor in Cambridge for
an elevated and quicker service. But Cam
bridge In spite Of its reputation. is a know
ing place and before an enlightened age and
docile street-car corporation could draw
up plans for an elevated road Cambridge
had hit upon the underground idea After
that nothing would please Cambridge but a
subway, In vain were pleadings on the sub
iect OF expense.
A Model of Service
The subway is there. not quite SO nickel
plated as the Metro in Paris, but otherwise a
model of service, that takes the Harvard
student from Harvard Square and the tedum
OF college career TO Park street and Mrs
Fiske. three miles. in minutes.
The remarkable effect OF that three miles
OF tunnel upon real estate dcve op,rent over
the whole north OF Boston, not To mention
the change 1t has wrought in the morals of
Harvard, would make a novel And there is
another subway building, longer one, TO
Dorchester And subway connecting the
old fremont street subway with the singu
lary faraway convenience OF the south STA
tion-that. too is building So are other ex-
tensions building.
Ferhaps you would even like few figures.
The Boston Elevated operates 5I1 miles OF
traekase OF all eleyations-surface elevated
ana suDterranean. 1t runs $685. cars 10 nj
various overhead or Underground reouira-
ments. In one year Q9l2-19 II carried s2s-
sozseS passengers Possibly 500. 900 600 OF
these passengers were entirely satisfied. pos
slDy SooOoO OF the unsatished were merely
chronic ,,l Aiekers' Every now and then Brook
- ,.'e s'o"s extremely fussy at having 20 wait
80 minutes Tor particular car A surpr.s-
a
grievance against the service Possible 20
strangely, the Boston Elevated doesn't
own any OF It's underground ways; It rents
mem rrom State and city. Does that account
.or the general absence OF political joekeyine
or s.fset franchises and the llke7 Possibly.
put IN the main. no. Boston has an excel
eht transit system-whyf Because Boston
Insists upon having It. and having It right.
shy el'y could have the like Il It would. The
.sSaon Elevated mas commodity 70 SELL
fansportation. II your hardware aeaIer
hs@.s you there Is hardware 70 be bought
lss%heFe' When there Is only one company
So i you transportation, ana when the laws
., ot yourself make give you the right to In
~ upon getting honest transportation.
those fault Is IL If you don't set IN Youm.
n. Citizen.
nos.oh le@Fned that long ago Ths Boston
..p-N .-',ss system represents simply the ever
srss.s. ser mess ne. o. Boston mind and Beston
.,i siaeser But there Is no patent On H
iiiaaelphlA may e0Dy a will