El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-11-19
EDITORIAL VIEWS.
Have you read about
the recent catastrophe,
in the Brooklyn Sub
To THE P. r. r. L. & p. Co.

.@ way? For the benefit
of those of YOU who do not know anything about it here
are the facts in nut she'll Some six hundred mOtormen
and conductors went into strike, and to replace them
greenltofns neXperience hands put to manage
underground trains that flying at the rate OF say
sixty miles an hour carry much twelve or fifteen
hundred passengers Naturally enough it did not take
very long of those recruits OF the srlkebreak
ing army to his train into concrete WALL or rather
to smash against that obstruction with the result that
YOU imagine The papers say that when the ponce
men and so forth clearing out the wreck and taking
away bags full of legs, heads and other svndry
parts of human bodies, the mad relatives OF the Victims
at the entrances to the subway made regular bolshevik
meeting out of the affair assaung the "Reminiscences
with the hopes of finding at least some limo OF the dear
ones gone 1t that the directing officers of the
company have been put in JAIL and it is to be hoped that
unlike in the case of the General SlOc crime and the
Triangle Shirt Company justice will be DONE
We have in Spanish adage that goes: "C"ondo las
barbas de ta oecio 0cGs fdpdf pom las tuy0s en- reno
TO-" which Porto RcanS understand but as the direct
ING officers of the Porto Rico Railway Light Power
Company probably not familiar with the EXPRESSION
we suggest that they have it translated and take good
notice of it. On purposey we do not make the transla
ton ourselves you always understand better the mean
ing any word by looking it yourself Ill the dlctlon
ary, than by being told it by anyb body.
OF course in San JUAN Porto Rico, we can not afford
the luxury of railway accident where eight or nine
hundred people put out of commission either killed
or mamed but proportionally to our small population
at any time could beat that record, though we earn
esty wish it will never be done.
Evidence that at any time something very serious OF
that nature is going to happen here is not lacking Last
Saturday, for instance the writer himself had a hint
Electric car number a. in which he going at noon
time to Miranlar, against steam-roer number 49,
at Puerta de TERRA the Wireless Station and it
was by yeriabIe miracle that only few of the passen
gers sustained INJURIES when twenty or twenty-five
persons might have been killed or seriously hurt The
whole left side Of the woodwork glass windows wire
guards, etc. went off, ripped like piece of muslin In
our opinion it is the otoran the who is immediate
y responsible for he went at full speed regardless OF
the obstruction ahead; the roller standing right
close the track and many of what was coming
But if investigation is made, it should be made
perhaps it will be found that higher up should
get the blame the otorman, after all is an imperfect
human being, and such is apt to be overtred with
work handicapped by many circumstances that we can
not go into right
' The Porto Rico Railway Light Power Co. does good
deal of advertisng and do not doubt that they are
sincere when ask for suggestions from the general public
as to how to improve the service If we had at our oil
sposal the necessary statistical data should be glad
study the subject ourselves and although we are not
railway experts would venture to suggest some I'M
provements, guided only ~ good faith and plain horse
sense For the present simply call the attention of
the company to above accident and certainly trust that
something will be- done TO guarantee the life and health
of those have to make Of the trolley in this city,