The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1903, Page 7

' HOW OUR STREET CAR MEN LIVE. Robert Erskine Ely Describes to ' the League of Political Educa- tion the Grinding Conditions Under Which Such PeopleWork LONG HOURS, SMALL PAY. Conditions of His Existence Degrad- ing t> Himself and a Disad- vantage and a Loss to Society as ‘Well. —— “Street-Car Men" was the subject of @ lecture delivered yesterday before the League for Political Education by Mr. Robert Erskine Ely. He put this much- abused individual in a new light, which may make him a more Interesting fig:tre before the public. This ts what Mr. Ely had to say about the street-car man: “Of course Mr. Ruskin ts right, Real fealth Goes not aonsist In things which have exchanged values, as the Political economist puts {t. All wealth fs life, and that community {s ricnest in which reside the largest number of healthy, happy people. If a man's 9° cupation makes it practically Impossible for him to rear a family of healthy, reasonably well educated children, then the conditions under which that man does his work are not only degrading to him and his family, but are also in s0 far a disadvantage and @ loss to s0- clety. “In examining the lot of the employees of the trolley and elevated railroad sys- tems of this city, of course the effort must be made to avold a sentimental blas in favor of the men and against corporations none of us deeply love. But while the public is complaining | bitterly of its sufferings from the over-| | Chairman of the Committee on Law and crowding of the electric and elevated cars, it is quite possible that the “trolley conductors and motormen and the elevated train men and ticket chop- pers also have grievances which ought to be understood and remedied. Hard Lot of the Street-Car Men. “How can any human being engage in eny form of rather monotonous manual Jabor twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and perhaps three hundred and sixty or even more days In the year, without the blunting and stunting of his; But that/ mental and moral faculties? 4 what these men do. To them Sunday @oes not mean cleanliness, one's best clothes, a religious service, the enjoy- ment of social intercourse, The small Proportion of trolley and elevated rali- road employees who have regular hours of duty during the daytime can seldom have an evening free for any kind of entertainment except by taking a day oft and losing a day's pay. The church id the theatre ars allke impozsible to em, As to a summer's vacation, that fe Hkewlse a practical impossioilivy, “Phe movement for shorter hours of labor has reached the sirect-car men, but they are sill! not nearly so well off in’ this respect as men in the vaclous mechanical trades. Hspecially true of the organized, as compa: the unorganized men. The and the firemen, where steam Is still Used as the motive power on the ele- vated, belong each to his own labor union’ As a result of the unions these men work reasonable hours and are paid reasonable wages. They have a Hine-hour day's work and are paid, the engineers $3.00 a day and the fremen §2 Twelve Hours for These. “In contrast with this is the unhappy fate of the luckless tic stiek: y must wor and by th Wy, are absolutely to leave Ubelr posts for any cause dur: ing that period. As a tick ‘It's up to you whether you eat’ or The men ‘carry such @ lunch as thev can in thelr pockets and take a bite when they get a chance. During this winter they have seriously suffered trom -the added discomfort of unheated sta- twelve e rules of forbidden tone. “The trainmen on the elevated are bet- ter off than the ts choppers po far oncerned. ‘They after six months thon to the position of conductor. The conductor is the trainrain between the! first and second cars; his pay Is §2 for the first year, with a subsequent in- crease Up to $2.30. are conductors on the Mana’ levated who have been on the road twenty years and more, fome of them on the Sixth avenue ine ever since the road was opened. Give Them an Honest Day. “The legal limit for a day's work is hours. As a matter of fact, train- in Are laid off during the hours of the lav when travel is light, and jn conse- Quence their hours of work are so split up that they may be on duty from twelve to fourteen or fifteen hours, with | Unocoupled intervals which are of little use for rest or recreation, “An honest ten-hour day. if granted with equal propriety to other wage- earners, should be granted with equal prooriety to these. If not granted, the re is evident—unrighteous dividends tbe eared on stock +o watered the original capitalization 1s like a Island in the middle of a great ~NEW TRIAL FOR CONVICTED BOY Peter Squazza Gets Another Chance to Show He Didn’t Mean to Kill Kerrigan Baby, Judge Newberger granted a now trial to-day to Peter Squasea, the eleven- year-old* boy who was convicted two ‘weeks ago of manilaughter in the Art degree, This etep was taken on motion of Lawyer Louis Stuyvesant Chanler, who has taken charge of the Squazsa Mby's case without hope of reward other than the consclousness of righting what) fi" fie believes to be « wrong. Little Squares is accused of throwing brick from the roof of a tenemout 0 and kill jot~Atiorney Rand not the ji ut, that the boy at wy 4) 2 ; General Cunneen, with a view of having hopper and | viding for @ local reiiros Ty THEY MAKE WAR ON INTERURBA. Scores of Complaints Continue | to Pour In Against the Street Railway Company, and Char- ters Are in Danger. THE COMMITTEE IS BUSY. Members Wil! Put to the Test Every Franchise that Is Included Among Those Under Which the Various Lines Are Kept in Operation. Many personal complaints were ro- ceived to-day by Prof. Barl B. Lovell at Columbia University from residents of the upper west side who have griev- ances against the Eighth avenue branch of the Interurban Street Railway Com- pany (the old Metropolitan). Just as socn as the evidence of specific vioia- tions of the charter: granted to this line 1s In shape it will be submitted to the Corporation Counsel and Attorney- the charter rights revoked, The citizens of the upper west side are also on the trail of the Manihattan Elevated Railroad for violation of it charter provisions, The Attorney-Gen- eral now has under consideration the contention of the association's Law Committee that the ‘charter should be | revoked’ because It provides in one | clause that a seat must be provided for | every parsenger or the persons com- pelled to stand may refuse to pay fares. An Unremitting Warfare. Tho movement will not stop at the fight against the Eight avenue line. The next move will be against the Boulevard or Broadway branch, where | few cars:are run after midnight. “On that line,” James 8. Lehmaler, Legislation, at No. 122 Nassau strees, said to-day, ‘very few cars run after midnight, so that if one has been to| supper after the theatre he must 60) home by way of Tenth avenue, “In our fight now we have the hearty co-operation of the Brooklyn Manufac- turers’ Asosclation, which has been fight- ing the Brooklyn. Rapid Transit Com- pany. This association has indorsed our ‘lil now pending in the Legislature {ur the appointment of a local railroad com- mission. If the bill becomes a law the problem will 2 solved very easily. A. Strong Committee. ve we have such 2dward B, Whitney, formerly Assistant Attorney-Genei.i; John De! Witt Warner, John D, Kernan and Prof, Kirchwey, and other or eminence in the legal world. Our griev nees against the sath avenue line | are part!culatly demonstrated on Sun- day mornings and Sunday afternoons. 4 presen: “urs tall- way Company As the final comb.nation of sories of mergers that brings inte one company various franchises and , charters dating as far back at 1890. Our work 3 the examination of all sand franchises, of all the, en the various ‘subsidiar: as well as of the vartoui decisions. t We have found diMculty in gath ar} great ing the data necessary, “The charters and franohises are to-be found in no single pl Ww no bureau, | tem on’ the Iinesh now in oo THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1903. [CLERKS TAKE NOVEL TEST. [~~ 1 Applicants for Stenographic Places | Have to Know nook Typewriting. Union Railway Makes Vigorous Objection to the Provision for the Underground System in the Proposed Franchise. STICKS TO OVERHEAD WIRES.| | Mayor and Comptroller Declare It Is a Step Toward Doing Away with a Nulsance, but the Matter Is Post- poned for Further Consideration. Another hearing was given to-day by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment on the application of the Union Railway Company, of the Bronx, for a franchise enabling the company to lay tracks across the bridges and viaducte of the Bronx. he conditions of the franchise already submitted to the com- pany require the payment of a fixed annual sum to the city and provides that at the expiration of thirty years the entire plant shall be sold to the elty. This provision for municipal owner- ship has already been accepted by the Interborough Rallway Company, walen also seeks a franchise to operate in the nx. awycr Page, representing the Union Company, tn his argument to-day before the Board of Estimate d while his company was reconciled to the munielpal ownership plan, there . conditions in the franchise which wero odjectionable. He objected to the clause requiring the com) to install the un- derground instes he overhead trol- liey suystem on the new I'ne, “Such a change would involve the equipping of all our cars with an under- ground attachment,” said Mr..Page, the sole purpose of boing used over only | half wa mile of new track. Such a change would involve a duplex type of cars and tremendous expense, We enjoy the legal right to use the overhead sys- tlon."” deal with “Well, how the quest!on? “Only by. using the overhead system I sce no other means,” answered Mr Page. “But there is an aversion to the ex posed overhead wire,"’ interrupted Comptroller Grout, “and the public de- mands a Letter system. 1 belleve it to be the duty of this board to do all in Its power to compel, in time, the removal of overhead trolley wires. This clause in the franchise requiring underground connections is a step in the right direc- UgWell. that matter can be adjusted by_ legislation and tt raid “If the ove found no pl: , , separate department in our city charged wita securing and preserving inform: t such as the committee requéi concerning the street surface raiiroads. | “We urge the creation of such a| branch of our local aity government. If the bill now before the Legislature pro- ‘commission en enacted into law before we our jabor would have, had began our w | Deen less -shonjer! NEW HOLDUP BY CROWDON ALT Passengers Again Refuse to Get Out and Force Company to Haul Them to the Bridge Af-| ter Long Delay. ONE CARRIED AN OIL STOVE., Association Formed During the First. Hold-Up Will Meet To-Night with Largely Increased Memberehip to Arrange for Damage Suits. Coming up the bridge from the #en- sonhurst and Coney Island sections of | Brooklyn via the Culver route In the | morning rush hours {s a regular battle | these days. Morning after morning the | half-frogen and indignant passengers | are held up at Thirty-sixth street for | from twenty! minutes to half an hour because they refuse to get out and transter to Bay Ridge trains, which are | already orowded to the platforms. | A tow days ago a car loaded with } wengers’ was run back to Coney Island. The pagséngers formed an association | onthe oar and the first meeting to de- vise means for obtaining satisfaction from the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com- pany will be held to-night in Foresters’ Hail, in Fortieth street, South Brook. | lyn, The aseociation ts determined to seoure better transit facilities The Car that should have left Coney | was twenty- | th street there seventy-five passengers aboars ad an oil in full op- | on, which he had taken on the car pite Of the protests of the conductor. ‘At the Tairty-sixth street station th ere ordered out to ere ay ! ‘ck % Re bee won ed the he t last Sain "ind histled to the Pikes ALL Jared that. | §s found to be Board of Health has the power to take BRONX TROLLE FIGHT COES ON the Initintive to require nyste! ri Ware son River {5 frozen from Tarrytown to Peekskill the ice in so t that arrangements are th hold horse racing on the Ice A public nuisance the m for who ¢ PLAINS, Fel | spring models, blouse and long coat effects, 14to iS years, — $24.75 GIRLS’ LOOSE BACK COATS, new Spring models, | | in tan, blue, red and brown; i 4 to 14 years, $4.90) | GIRLS’ RUSSIAN AND SAILOR SUITS, { 1] in b.ue, brown and red serges; 3 to 14 years, $3.85 and 4.95) \| GIRLS’ WOOL DRESSES, in high neck, $ | guimpe and sailor effects; 4 to 14 years, 1.98 | Second Floor. | and typewrite can quatify Hi nding the innovation, Att the examinatio i announced for several and at t Kk typewriters, candidates for Stern Brothers To-morrow, Timely Offerings in Misses’ Suits, Girls’ Reefers and Dresses MISSES’ TAILORED AND WALKING SUITS, ances as stenogr An Interesting examination took place S to-day at the oMcos of the Civil Service! Commission, For the first time an ex-| aminatie called for applicants | phere | i} L More Pertinent Offerings from the Newly Enlarged Boys’ Clothing Section RUSSIAN SAILOR SUITS AND NQRFOLK SUITS, hussians in serges, Norfolks and Sailors in mixtures, homespuns and serges, 3 to 16 years, LONG TROUSER SUITS, for boys and young men; our entire stock of finest grade mixtures, plain cheviots and serges, ages 15 to 20, finest grades in belt and box back styles, 6to 16 years, “STAR” BLOUSES AND WAISTS, Second Floor, Annex. New Spring Styles in Regularly $6.95 to $12.90 Usually 87c to $1.23 Boys’ Girls’ & Infants’ Shoes of ‘‘Ideal’’ and imported Patent Leather, Calf and Kidskin, | selected materials, careful workmanship. EOYS & MISSES $2 to $3.50 First Floor, Annex. CHILDREN $1.50 to $2.50 INFANTS S51 to $2 § With extra | trousers \ 58c | Usual price $12.90 to $16.95 $9,.75| | BOYS’ OVERCOATS. our entire stock, including West Twenty-third Street || oll Outfitters to 279 Broadway, near Chambers St, 47 Cortlandt St., between Church and Greenwich Sts, 211 and 219 Sixth Ave,; between 14th and 15th Sts. 125th St., corner Third Ave. Four Convenient Stores: End of the Scason Sale of Men’s and Youths’ Business Suits. _Two weeks and our Spring Suits will be ready, so we have made two groupings of every fancy Business Suit in our four stores, and they will ' be sold at just two prices. prices ought to clear out every suit i Lots of them are of a weight that you can. wear during that we have. the Spring. Every one of our $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00 fancy Sack Suits, either single or double breasted, no suit reserved, in either youths’ or men’s size, from a 16-year-old boy up to a 200-pound man, now poling, ug the way of right good prices. $7.90 Every fancy Business Suit of whatever style or pattern that we have in the house, at either of our four stores, that has been sellingat $18.00 a AQ and $20.00, none re- served, will all go at $ e This, in connection with the clear- ance sale of Overcoats which we are ht to put you in ly-made clothing at j We lose money on these sales—lots of it—but we add customers every year who in this These way ar¢ introduced to our makes ff) and styles and remain our custom- §! ers thereafter. piu We Brotleers Men and Boys. ADVERTISE IN THE, WORLD. 2 i Shop Saturday, US"h17°STS. Wen’s Fine Yeckwear. Balance of the Great Lot Made from the Famous Fisk, Clark & Flagg Company's Beautiful Imported Silks. We Offer Ohese Beautiful Yew Spring Oies at About 1-4 Ghetr Value. 100 DOZEN TIES that were not included in the big sale. held last week will be offered to-morrow. Many splendid bargains. Many of these Ties would readily sell at $1.00 at an exclusive haberdasher’s. English Squares and 4-in-Hands, Gach, 29c World’s Sreatest Srocery. Goodness of Quality and Low- ess of Price Go Hand in Hand. There's a.certain charm and pleasure about buying your Eatables and Drinkableshere. Every- thing is so clean, fresh, appetizing and nicely ar- Shield Bows, Gach, 5c (tain Floor, 18th St., Centre.) Confectionery. Extra Spectal Saturday Only, ' 60c. Ib. box Bonbons and 4S8e Chocolates for For to-morrow only we are featuring “Myo- . sotis”” brand of fine assorted Chocolates and Bonbons. Choicest Jp confectionery of its kind now in the market. Pure and whole some. Never sold less than 60c. per Ib. Your choice of the following assortment of Chocolates : Almonds, : Belmonts Caramels, ranged for your easy choosing. Apricots, Berlins, Not Caramels, A few Saturday specials: PNecch air thin tee acti: Drs Wafe Filbert: VF SWEET, JUICY Entra Fancy Florida se Gree || Reman wate’ Ginett is Ginger, bey eter ee de PINEAPPLES, large Ice Cream, Pecan Maple, per and sweet, fine Lady Fi Nougatines. doz., 15¢ flavor, each, 10¢ And veel retiels , (tain Floor, East, 18th Bt) Fancy Canada Lamb, Per fb., Cutlery. Rarors, Pocket Knives and Shears at Startling Price Re 10c Forequarters, LAMB, HINDQUARTERS—Fancy Canada Lamb, ib. i a 4c nono BEEF—Finest quality Native Prime Rib, per 15e low ground; 2 very special patterns with das celluloid or fancy inlaid; regularly $2.00, EO. WOSTENHOLM & SONS’ IXL. RAZORS, made in Sheffield, England; fine quality steel, fully guar- 50 anteed: st gtaditcy ‘ POCKET KNIVES, 2, 3 or 4 blade; handles of stag- 5 horn or bone; finest quality steel; regularly 75c., SHEARS; good quality steel; 5 to 8 inches; grades up 25 to $1.00, (dain Floor, Front, 18th St) Saturday's Sreat Cigar Sale. Prince of Wales Kay West Clear Havana Cigars—Introductory Ofter. 4 Starting to-morrow and to continue for a limited period, we offer the above high- ; grade brand of clear Havana Cigars at regular factory prices. The superior quality of tobacco used in the manfacture of these goods, combined with strictly Cuban workmanship, places this brand on , a level with the finest imported cigars. Connoisseurs smoke them, and our prices place them within | STEAK—Fancy cuts Sirloin Steak. per Ib., MUTTON—Legs fancy Canada Mutton, per Ib.. PORK—Loins fancy Jersey Roasting Pork, per Ib., SIRLOIN ROAST—Choice quality. per Ib., PEAS—Early June. sifted, Honey Sweet brand, per can, CRACKERS—Home-Made Fig Bars, per Ib., 15e 10c 130 12%e 980 10%e (Fourth Floor.) the reach of all | Other Exceptional Values for Go-Mforrow. PRINCE OF WALES Key West Clear Havana Cigars in the| LA VIENTA, Key West Clear Havana, Cuban-made; fresh sh fo llowing sizes: “a pene just received, in two sizes, offered at art IRITANOS FINOS; box of 50, 3.50 © PETIT PERFECTOS; box of 25, 1.78 CONCHAS ESPECIALES: box of 50, @10B|. CLEAR RUAN N RoTR Crabs: on eae PURITANOS ESPECIALES; box of 50, PH e betteard Wier aunry fy 4.00 PURITANOS FINOS; box of 50, BsBa |= fonenin pensiease ose oF oler ec) 2. 20 ‘ AREMATICOS ken eso FLORODORA. CIGARS ; box of 100, £70 KEY WEST EXTRAS; box of 50, PERFECTOS ESPECIALES: box of 25, MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. (Main Floor, Bast, 18th 6t) Sporting and Athletic Szpplies, Special Sale of Garly Spring Consignments, How this announcement must tingle the blood of the enthusiastic sportsmen, coming as it does with the opening of the Sportsmen's Showl New stocks just received from the factories. Elaborate assortments of Shot Guns and Rifles and all sporting paraphernalia. To add eclat to this sale we have marked every article at a striking introductory price. ¥ GUNS. BALL-BEARING CYCLE SKATES, extension style, 2, SHOT GUNS; fine double-barrel breech-loading gun; fa. ary size shoe: for boys or gals: special, per pass SOME. FENCING FOWS, the iol extensi ib, figured twist or Damascus assortments of best imported rel priced eluewbere at $12.95; special, 8.75 ‘ SHOTGUNS; single-barrel breech-loading Shotgun; top No. 200 FOIL, cord-wound handles fisure 8 6 59 No. 210 FOIL, red leather, wire-bound handles, 95e' figure 8 guard each, No. 235 FOIL, the most popular for women, 32 inch, light Blade, bell guard, 145 *" 195, 2.25 & 2.50. BROADSWORDS, ltalian style per pair, 5.25" | FENCING MASKS, plain, $1.50 grade. FENCING MASKS, with ear guards, each, FENCING MASKS, with head and ear guard FENCING MASKS; broadsword masks, each, FENCING PLASTRONS ; plain can finished; for men, women or ¢ Qe: JES AND FENCI MAETNOSSES ARE 'Dlss GAUNTLETS. fr Full line of Chest Weights Gy NoOy- ) Each “ Plasfe » one, two t a foes ea Teas SWEavle: sizes in { 4, 00) BOYS’ SS . lever; pistol grip; genuine twist barrel; a fine-looking and serviceable arm, 4.95 We have in stock a full line of the finest makes of shotguns such as the Parker, Lefevre, Smith, Syracuse, etc., at lowes possi- ble prices, RIFLES. STEVENS MAYNARD 22-CAL. RIFLES; « neat 50 ligt all-round target or amall game rife ° Pull lines of. Winchester, Marlin and Savage Rifles at low prices. SPORTSMEN'S CLOTHING. CORDUROY REVERSIBLE COATS; warm and 5. 25 SWEDISH DOGSKIN COATS fo oporung ’ s for sporting use or diving: special a 12.00 STORM TEGGINS, canvas. per pair, 40c LEATHER LEGGINS, knee size, of fine black Z 45 grained leather, finely finished, A ] AMMUNITION, CLAY BIRDS AND TRAP ¥,| SHOOTERS SUPPLIES AT LOWEST PRICES IN THE CITY. ATHLETIC. SUPPLIES AND. CLOTHING, 1,25 EXERCISERS; STYLE O. WHITELY; $2.00 grade; each, special, io 4 4? MEDICINE BALLS; extra well made throughout; my Ack pas Zgch ‘ iF i H . fears, beau- \ fed Napa Kid gymnasium requisite; covered with BOYS ys 4, 00 fi eee) ee) et ee) 9 =n spree sees Each The, 145 LIS 2.95 3.45 BOYS’ BOXING GLOVES; every boy should have a set and learn the ‘manly ast; prices are very low for such Al goods at 175, 145, 1.25, 95e. & 75e ME \S BOXING GLOVES; per set of four: 6.00, 5.25, 4.95, 3.95, 2.95, 1.95, 1.45 & 95 ROLLER SKATES, Hemacite wheels, both all clamp and 7Se eara ore elects wig OVER- Each 4.9 Rein, pak $6,00 qualities RS. 3 13 ou t RK, WOMEN'S BLOUSE SWE” 788 fancy patterns and colors; « “fan Reh Sg oe a dor it desires DOSeMenES To Base Ball Club A ace. rorders for club) CHILDREN'S ROLLER SKATES, black wheels $06, 300 yond for samples oes 4 Se