Arizona republican., 1917-01-19
An Unreasonable Tourist

The Republican is in receipt of letter from WISH
who affxes the signature of Tourist and threat
shake the dust COR rather the mud from his
or and leave Phoenix forever carrying away
an impression of the town which of literature
descriptive of our climate, eternal sunshine and
our marvellous resources cannot remove.
Though the letter intended for publication
we have refraned from publishing it for the reason
that we believed the writer had prepared it in heat
of spirit and would modify it when he or she had
somewhat cooled off: 1t unreasonable ar
raignment representing the conditions described as
continual and perpetual rather than temporary or
unusual
The deepest grievance of the writer caused by
of crossings and the next deepest
against the street car system which was grimly
described Joke" though we know the writer in
his her nnermost soul. knew that to wait ten or
fifteen minutes for an overdue car thus engthen-
ing an already absurdy long period since the passing
of the that line. joke at all but
tradegy. 1t the kind of joke the thoughtless play
and have said, such jokes not jokes. The
company does not joke it is serious and
intent corporation
We would say the Tourist" that he she is
unreasonable. We do often have need of street
crossngs-not ofteper usually than three four
times a year though years. distinguished by
more frequent rainfas-we could use the crossings
oftener. But since the Tourist" has been here,
suppose has been raining of the time and it
is the height of unreasonableness to ask the city
put in crossings in the rain 1t is equally unreason
able to crossings to be put in when doesn't
rain for then do not need them, and Phoenix has
money throw away for things it does not need.
AS to the street car system the Tourist" should
know that it's schedules arranged solely with
reference to the favorable conditions. perfect
conditions of weather and traffic, such usually
have. If the weather is nice; if the normal number
of passengers line enter and leave the and
if no untoward thing happens
may pass accustomed point within few
of the time it is expected But when the
rails get muddy when people ride than
usual, requiring greater loss of time for stops the
system naturally suffers arrangement The street
company cannot be blamed for the weather for
the sudden and wild desire of persons to ride who
have hitherto walked.
Even against such odds the street company
endeavors manfuly to keep its schedules straight
When handicapped by weather and traffic it gets
than fifteen minutes behind it abandons
that it again time There
not many companies that would do that. On
the contrary they would blunder along somehow try
ing to catch up with the schedule
1t is unfortunate for the fair fame of Phoenix that
visitors do always understand these things
They come here with preconceived and often ILL
conceived notions. They have from towns
where lavish city governments have wasted the
payers money street crossings and other fripperes
and frills of municipal existence and where street
systems, either at their instance under
tyrannical pressure maintaining themselves for
the accommodation of the public
These tourists have been pampered and spoiled
in their own home towns 1t is well enough for them
to spend period in Phoenix and get right per-
spective and then they will be reasonable.