Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19

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fused 10 stop more OF their trains at this
Inportant junction point Twenty-one trains
| thunder through this town daily ana nj
| teen stop The city Fathers say the entire
| thirty-six ought to stop But the Phiadel-
phia and Reading officials can't see Il that
way What is TO be done therefore to bring
the Philadelphia and Reading Railway to
its senses? why. the "Whoa-boy system
as II Is called down here.
At the meeting Of town council last night
an ordinance to prevent Reading trains
from passing through the town at speed
of more than ten miles an hour had it's hrst
reading It undoubtedly will be passed, for
IL has leaders of civic movements such as
Albert James, president OF Councils, and
Mayor Thomas Crawford behind IT,
wen give the railroad until July L.
said Mr., Crawford. TO settle up its affairs.
Then wen make It step right lively, or
rather. slowly What believe in is tit for
tat II the railroad won't give us the proper
number Of trains, why, wen slow up ltS serV-
ice five minutes a train. our citizens are
being nut to great trouble now some OF
them have TO arise in the wee, small hours
and go to Atlantic city in order to get
started for work. The Pennsylvania electric
service il all right for those who are not
commuters But those who go to work every
dav must have quick service.
"They seem to think this is one-horse
Mace They want it to be local station
there anything local about this place
mo" the admission was forced, the
place looks limited from here
We've been after better train service Tor
a long time" put in another citizen who
had been waiting around with purposeful,
CHEEKY eve we wrote 10 the superin-
tepdent Of the road about it, lie wouldn't
come to our town himself but sent MS
chief clerk II took one hot afternoon Tor
the chief clerk to agree TO stop the tram
leaving camden at II o'clock at our sta
tion lust think Of 1.-THE last train at
night We were all waiting for the chief
clerk TO decide to go and ask when train
left Finally he did. and we all told him
all together that the next train left in two
hours What do you think that fellow and
his friend did? They tagged the NeIlle
BIv and were taken aboard. Can you beat
such impudence? Flagged train that we
never hardly sec-only hear"
(The Nellie Bly, is a fast train leaving
the scashore late in the afternoon)
II is planned on the evening Of Juno 30
to hold a sort Of watch meeting. The hrst
train coming laundering along miie
minute after - o'clock is to be sued Yes
"sued" That is the word, according to
Mr. Crawford.
"If they won't stop. we simply sue them
saws Mayor Crawford
Wen flag EN-, that's what We'll do
said the clerk i'm Mr.. CrawfOrds corner
pharmacy. Wen simply have our Chief OF
Police Clarence krewson at one end Of the
town with a stop watch and a man with a
red flag at the other end. If the train goes
too fast, Krewson can give the signal to the
other fellow and he can flag the train with
something red. You don't catch us piling
logs or stones on the track. Were too slick
for that--Ill say n little too foxy. Get
them by legal methods is what we say"
The city Fathers who listened to the
Whoa boy" bill read last night were Ed
Maloney Frank Blaclman, Jacob Derr, w.
w. Adams Waiter Anderson. Michael Lutz.
Albert r. James and Mayor Thomas Craw-
ford.