New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Midday Bargain
Sales Urged to
Relieve Subway
,vobbIed' Matinees and 10
O'clock Suburban Express
Service Other Remedies
Considered to Lessen jam
Check Women Shoppers
gvlan and Board Members
to Attend Transit Bills
Hearing at Albany To-day

4 HcdFIuG oh tsADdsly Quay
yidday bargains, shoppers 10 o'clock
.,rrssses from the suburbs and "wab
gsd matinees" are some Of the meas-
...s which the Transit Commission is
! ss.ussiug in the hope of finding a way
:, keep women out of the subway dur
| - the rush hours.
The appeal to the presidents of 200
1 ,,men's clubs, sent out last week, will
!, followed by appeals to the depart
aent store heads and theatrical mana
[Nrrs, if plans now under consideration
nature The commission is awaiting ~
,omplete report from the statisticians
no have been stationed at the en-
nance to department stores to count
As women shoppers. When it has
hsa demonstrated with Geld figures
hat it is shoppers and no. women en-
uoyed in Offices who swell the subway
congestion then the commission will
act.
Many AdtS shoppers
"we do know enough shout barpa;,
crowds to warrant us in saying that
thousands of shoppers travel in the
subway at the rush hour" said Com
missioner Leroy darkness yesterday.
The figures complied at one store on
Thirty-iourth Street, for example.
show that more women enter the store
after o'clock III the afternoon than
N the hour preceding o'clock. 1t is
proved that women do not leave the
store before the o'clock subway rush
begins, because our statistics show
that fewer people leave the store at
4:45 than at any period after that
until just closing time.
another way of checking up the
rush hour crowds is to notice the num-
ber Of women with parcels. I see them
on the trains going to Brooklyn. No.
hey are not stenographers who have
stopped to make a purchase on their
way home from business: you can tell
sy looking at them that they are
s'usekeepers and home makers.
Our appeal is to be to these women.
Iiey are not obliged to punch time
sck. II makes no real difference to
I'm if they board the train before
3casands of them who needlessly ard
'sedlssslv swell the congestion in the
tsns. Each woman probably says to
ssself, 'Qh, can stand being crushed
.or once, and I'll run to the other
iDres to see what they have in hats
lns woman Ike that wouldn't matter,
,ai this s big city and that one
yonan multipies into thousands. We
.epe to teach her that every person
vro travels unnecessarily in the
.nvded hours is g menace to public
'ealth and is committing an anti
lsg!c act.
Midday Bargain Sales
! Understand that the bargain hunt
Ing women feel obliged to hurry down
'avu early IN order to get the best Of
tue bargains the minute the stores
open. We hope to remedy that by ask
ing the CO. operation of the stores in
arranging their sales FOR the middle of
the morning and closing them. say, at
o'clock in the afternoon. A serious
art Of the shopping problem is the
ack Of express service from the sub
TBS, except in the early morning and
ate afternoon. Women shoppers must
take the early morning expresses with
he business men or else travel in slow
and inconvenient local trains.
AT Times Square the congestion is
the worst in the city, and the worst day
Of the week is Wednesday, when the
matinee crowds swell the home going
hOrdes II We could 'wobble the matt
ness' it would help tremendously. By
'wobhle' | mean distribute the matinees
through the week so that the crowds
would not be 50 great on Wednesday.
THE travelling public increases at
the rate of 4O00 day. We are now
running express trains at the rate of
'hlrty-thlee all hour; that is almost
every two minutes You see that we
cannot run any more trains. More sub
ways are to be built, but construction
VIII tase at least FIVE years. In the mean
time, the shoppers can help by keeping
out OF the subways at rush hours"
Transit Hearing To-day
Mayor Hylan and his associates in
the Board Of Estimate. with the ex-
ceaption OF Murray Hubert, president
OF the Board os Aldermen, plan to go
70 Albany to-day to attend the hear
ing this afternoon before the Public
service Committee on the transit bills
~hlcn increase the power of the Tran
Slt commission. Chairman McAneny,
OF the Transit Commission, also will
DC there to urge the passage of the
measures. One OF the amendments
empowers the Transit Commission to
continue the operation of lines of diff
.e,ent ownership where the five-cent
''qe Is continuous and adjust the fares.
\. IN view Of the imminence OF break
pe."een the lnterborough and the Man
.aVtah Elevated Company over the
s Inns m OF the lease by the lnterborough
y. Vne old Manhattan company, the pro
posed amendment is deemed of first
Importance by the Transit Commission.
As 1t viii enable them to prevent the
opposition of an extra fare over two
ntSerlocking systems.
~, me transit Commission tomorrow
VIII resume hearings on the service
TOs ~" supplied by the various companies.
~. "s commission has made it plain to
;r r~s companies that the service must be
fpIosed, without much regard for the
snc'a sm a. features involved.
~. ehree commissioners insist that
~ s' .si Sniei motive of the managements
rstb 'ne various lines shall be service,
Of fsf ,sl 'hsh profits. The representatives
will 'Is l ihterborough and the B. r. 7.
0, - e," Os examined by Clarence ]. Shearn,
pest.a oansei for the commission. 1t is ex-
Of a tha mat Frank Hedley, president
C,,,.a ,ae interborough, and Lindley M.
haya receiver for the B. R. T., will
what an an opportunity to tell in detail
hevs .n .iey are planning in order to re-
cons.e ene rush-hour and non-rush hour
"sestion on their cars.
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