The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-01
TO-DAY YOU PAY &c.
FOR EACH TRANSFER
Free System, Except at Linn
tied Number of Points,
Ended at 5 A. NJ.
CONFUSION Is EXPECTED
Trolley Patrons Must Pay on
Green Cars and B. r T.
Surface Lines.

70 Al the lick OF InlS HlOTnlnb ttio ITO
transfer system In Brooklyn and in the
greater part Of Manhattan gave up the
Ghost and another way had been found
to pad. even so slightly, the II. c. Of L.
Ir Manhattan. on the Green Car Lines.
rinety-nine transfer points were abol-
is.:cd b. order Of Lewis Nixon. Public
Service Commissioner. and in Brooklyn.
where surface car transportation lie much
more extensive and widespread, 97s
such privileges were cancelled. cents
point.
II is safe to say that both in Man
haitian and Brooklyn greater annoyance
will be caused by the Chinese puzzle
Involved in the new transfer situation
than by the necessity Of digging up
another . cents in order to get to
wherever one wants to go. Some of the
Quandaries that will be put up to the
surface car patrons are weird beyond
belief. 1t was admitted yesterday in
the receivers Office at both the New
York Railways Company and at the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company that
there are apt to be lively doings, pro-
tests and profanity to-day and subse-
qnently until the public adjusts itself
90 the new requirements. No real trou-
BILE was expected, however. as conditions
which made for rioting and fighting at
the time OF the Coney Island 10 cent fare
troubles are lacking in this situation.
Five Cents on One Line.
ut comes to this" said an official
man gets on car and pays his 8
cents to ride where he pleases on that
line. Now II he wants a transfer to an
other intersecting line he must pay 2
cents for II. He can take 1t or leave
ii. II he protests to the conductor the
conductor can do nothing snd, of course,
In ordinary circumstances cannot put
him off the car, It's up to the patron
to find out whether he cares to buy a
transfer for 2 cents or pay another 5
cents for the completion of his journey.
We expect that there will be some loud
talk here and there from natural born
kickers as well as from people who
think they are sincerely aggrieved. but
there probably will be no serious dis
turbaDce."
The same attitude was taken by 8
representa- tive OF the receiver for the
B. r T., Lindley NJ. Garrison. The stu.
car lines are concerned. Is vastly more
complex than In Manhattan, there being
30 many more lines and transfer points
But the car officials confidently expect
that the tangle will be Strengthened ou
in n few days. as soon as the conductor!
familiarize themselves with instruction,
and patrons get the hang of the new
transfer requirements.
All except thirty free transfer points
have been eliminated on the b. r. T.
where / zoos existed before. The orde
specifically exempts transfers between
feeders and trunk lines. 1t was denied
by the officials that a ride to Cone,
Island over some lines will cost ID cents
They stated that 1t would cost 10 cents
as formerly, over direct lines. and l.
cents over indirect, but that in no in
stance would the cost be 10 cents.
There are some pretty puzzles in tn
Manhattan situation. II a patron get
on a Madison avenue car. say, at Thir
teenth street. with the intention o
changing at Twenty-third street to g.
west, he must pay cents for a transfer
But II he walks north and boards tn
same car at Fourteenth street he vii
get his transfer for nothing; that is.
the conductor hasn't got his dope a.
tangled up.
One of the main transfer points
Thirty-fourth street. If one is on
Madison avenue car going north or sout
and wants to change to go to the Penn
sylvania Station or to the Waldorf on
will have to put up cents to get TIL
necessary transfer; but II you desire I
ride east instead of west you can go I
the Thirty-fourth street ferry on tn
original 5 cent fare. II you are 1
Thirty-fourth street somewhere west q
Broadway you can transfer free c
charge II you wish to go south o
Broadway; but IL you wish to go mort
II will cost you cents II you ar
going north on Broadway you can trans
fer westward in Thirty fourth vtree
without cost. but not II you transfe
eastward. That will cost you a cope
deuce. Such puzzles as these may ad
20 the gayety Of dry Manhattan.
HyInn Attacks Charge.
Anyway, the abolition of free transfer
Is expected largely to benefit the finar
cially Ill companies. 1t is estimated
the Green Car Lines people that an add
tlonal annual revenue of from 500, 90
to 100000 will be provided; while II
b. r. T. people figure on an increase
income of from 100000 to $1,000. 90
IT all depends on how many constaI
patrons will buy the cent transfers.
Mayor Hylan gave out a statemel
yesterday attacking the new system.
the course OF which he said:
ION the eve OF the outrageous tran
fer charge order going into effect wal
70 assure the people OF the city that the
law department will fight TO the vel
last ditch to upset It. 1 have instructt
inc Corporation Counsel to resort
every legal means within his power
check this disgraceful grab OF the greed
transit corporation. Even II the rehea
ing In the New York Railways case
decided against the people we will figl
TO save them from a continuation of Il
transfer toll. going into the highe
courts jurisdiction.
"The audacity OF the grating tractiC
trust in dragging an additional cen
from the pockets of the people who ga
then the rich privilege is one OF Il
most brazen acts that has ever con
under my notice. I wonder how long Il
people will tolerate such amazing imp
dence? There is a remedy OF cours
Il Is municipal ownership and operati,
advocate of such ownership and oper
tion. and would like It applied TO 6
other public utilities as we'll.
Another thing that makes the prese
effrontery OF the traction companies u
pardonable is that they are giving L
people such disgraceful Lervice. II
extent to which passengers are jamm
into cars Is nothing less than minors
Not only do the traction trusts capital
the stock. but they capitalize every 10
OF car space. for vast numbers of pa
aap0ars don't eVen get Rtran N ha,