Year: 1876

DObbLE DAChEho MANIED.


To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


Your efforts TO break up the abominablc mpositions
forced upon the public by the city railroad corpora
tions deserve the hearty cooperation OF all citizens
For many years have wondered that the railroad and
stage companies did not adopt the doubIe deckers"
they do. so comfortably for male and female passengers
IN Paris. There the upper deck is first sought "a
there the light and air better. l TO John
Stephenson, the noted builder, and asked
why he did not introduce the 'double deckers" He
said the railroad corporations would not have them,
they were more expensive and they could make more
money as they now carry passengers There you have
II In nutshell Nothing remains but to attack
the enemy In 'front.' and beat hIm by enacting laws
TO compel him TO give seat 10 all passengers In
Paris the penalty for taking any who cannot be
seated tine seats parttoned by rails they
are IN our ferry boats is was by timing the driver
and conductor 100 francs for each carried above
the legal number | once endeayored to stand in
Paris omnibus, and was obliged to get out during
pouring rain because the conductor afraid of
rest and ine. The outrageous imposiuons practsed
by our railroad companies are only equalled by the
simplicity OF their dupes. Why should / pay eight
cents to ride rom Forteth street 10 Forty Nth
when only six cents is demanded from Foreth street
to the new Post onicey Why should not railroad
panies having more than terminus be forced to
give transfer tickets to either terminus
20 all who demand them? II hve persons
in haste get into Broadway at Amty street
TO go TO the Astor House and pay twenty five cents
and that turns and goes to tho Broadway and
Broome street terminus, thero is no redress,
transfer tickets given So with East Twenty third
street and Thirty fourth street ferry and all others
You are right TO cry out mo seat no farein In ad
dillon demand that transfer tickets shall be gwen and
that the Fourth avenue company give passage to
Eighty-sxth street for six cents How long would the
people Of London Paris endure that vile stencil ars
ing from the urine and excretons soaked into the earth
OF the Fourth avenue tunnel thirty yearsy The
earth should be removed and earth put in and
covered with bumen-or else endure the stencil. The
interference of the Board of Health causing the re-
mova Of the carpets and cushions which covered the
seats Of cars land still allowing the filthy mating
the bottom of the carl was most absurd and wrong.
During these cold mornings and nights say nothing
OF the days lot any delicate person who is
warm from from fire enter and sit upon
one OF those wooden seats and against the wooden
back OF the In few moments he will get a
chill, and during lengthy ride IN these cars many
people have ndoubtedly got pneumonia pleurisy,
lumbago or inflammation OF the kidneys, neuralgia
sciaca or perhaps, hip disease has been caused from
such exposure Nearly always children very thny
covered over their seats and hips and being seated
upon those icy cold wooden seats and against those
backs their lives endangered all healths


Let the seats and backs be carpeted throughout the
year, and remove the nasty disease breeding mating
Enforce ventilation Of cars and insist that there shall
be no windows IN ventatcrs, but holes always open,
unable 10 bo closed Then give carpeted seats and
backs and let the cry be, Nc fare 20 with
ventilated and comfortable aud healthy cars


A SUFFERER.