South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-27
OUR SPLENDID CAR SERVICE,
Editor News-Times:

Editor News-Times:
If a person has a good nickel and
has waited for a Lincoln way w.
street car for 25 minutes and has
never done anything to the street
car company of this city but ride
on their bum street cars, is there
any reason in the world why said
person should not be allowed To
ride on that car when it finally does
arrive? Especially on a rainy day.
Further: When the night is cold
and dark and dreary and the snow
is coming down in great drifts and
otherwise. is there any reason why
person should have to be glared
at by an irate aud entirely grOuchy
old conductor just because said per-
son had nothing but five coppers in
his pockets? Especially when you
live is blocks from the center of
town.
ON Monday this said person,
weighted down with a large market
basket waited on a certain corner
for Lincoln way W. street car
for - minutes Ii was raining and
SO ii was impossible TO set down the
basket of groceries. Two cars came
from the west part of tgwn and
Went into town but for % long wet
minutes no street car came out.
Finally it rounded the corner Of
Washington and Main SITS. and came
down the street. The person with
the heavy market basket went out
To the middle of the street with the
intention of boarding the street car
but the motOrman put one over
on her and drove the little old four
wheeled soap box on down the
street. The conductor on the end
of the car looked out OF the back
of the window OF the car and made
no effort TO stop the car. but just
stood there and looked just like a
becoming idiot would look at some
thing that he thought was funny.
Daresay a person standing out in
the middle of a puddley street with
a huge market basket under arms
is "a funny looking spectacle. Try it
and see
But i'm all fairness 10 a resident
stood for late cars. delayed cars,
worn out ears. bumps and jars and
grouchy and unaccommodating con-
ductors. why should anyone have TO
suffer such a jibe as this. Surely
the Northern Indiana doesn't con-
slider itself SO exclusive. does it. that
folks who desire 10 go marketing on
rainy day cannot ride i'm its wet.
cold. miserable cars
Somebody said that the South
Shore was going TO buy the Northern
Indiana and have regular city
street car service More power 10
them il they do The south Shore
is a regular railway company any
how They aren't afraid 10 run
three cars between here and Chicago
or between here and Hudson lake
when they know that they are goine
20 handle a crowd Of people that will
/ til three cars Neither do their
trainmen glare al YOU il VOL don't
happen 10 have the right change
And on rainy DAYS and all other
{ days they will stop and let YOU ride
on their ridable cars when you are
waiting at the station And their
fuses don't burn out and they don't
have 10 stop and screw in the bolts
and pull out the extra wires that
! are part Of the makeup OF the rail
| way. erily, the Northern Indiana
/ is "A rotten street car service and
/ I hope all the owners. heads and
! superintendents start someplace
\ some EBAY when they're IN an awful
slam bans OF a hurry: that they have
/ To- so out = Michigan St. that q
is y. G freight train with ,b- en-.