The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1905, Page 6

> aunsumenamanaaneen) fap-Hanging Army Who Suffer Under fe ful Traffic Conditions with B, R. oT. Mismanagement Welcome Even- ing World’s Campaign for Improvement. TRONS WRITE OF THE EVILS OF PRESENT SYSTEM. Waits in All Kinds of Weather for ‘Crowded Cars Which Do Not Stop—Road ‘Managed with Eye on Stock Market, va Not Needs of the People. ‘The attention of the Stato Board of Ra!lroad Commissioners {s directed undreds of complaints printed below from citizens of Brooklyn, ‘tell in their own words tho story of their sufferings at the hands of yn Rapid Transit Company, This Js no idle movement. ‘with a purpose, It means to bring results, rsons liying in Manhattan, who have three ways to travel to and from 0 son the elevated railroads, the surfaco cars and the four-track ay, with {ts fine express schedule—have only to road the letters of nt received by The Evening World to appreciate what the long-sut- | Brooklynites have to contend with, TIM OF THE COLD AIR LINE. , tor instance, | the letter from Clifford A. Schautele, of No. 28 B ctreet, who alludes’ to the cars he 1s compelled to ride in twice ( a yas “the Cold-Air Line.” Mr, Schaufele lives within three minutes’ of the terminus of the Brooklyn Bridge, so that his suffering is com- yely mild in comparison to the ordeal of other hundreds of thousands imiles under the same conditions, many other authors of similar letters, he tells of the long waits he pad for various cars that run up and down Fulton street, and how when does happen his way the motorman {,atead of stopping clangs the on more power and whirls past the halt-frozen, waiting pas- je-tenths of the complaints in the letters recetved by The Hvening 'are based upon the Brooklyn Rapid Transit’s irregular schedule, ‘Many of the writers, and especially those who live in the neighborhood Onarles B. Carr, No. 502 Greene avenue, advocate the bullding of the “Avenue subway. In his lettor Mr. Carr declares he has lost on an “of four hours datly by befng compelled to ride in the Brooklyn ‘Transit cars, Every one agrees the company’s system, as it is now ed, is hardly adequate to handle 500,000 persons, let alone the 1,600,- compelled to use it. , are also complaints about the way the motormen run the cars; of the elevated railway stairs; the lack of cars on Fulton evenue, Third avenue, and the way the guards on tho 'L” r the stations, instead of calling them out in a loud voice, But read th COLD AIR LINB OR WALK—PERHAPS BOTH. put @ live man in his , ve us warm care and feet ae oe at Ss UFE) > fo, 2% Clinton atrest, Brooklyn Subway Ae iol t y bae hye Bridge car or ele- or evening rush avenue, od ‘tell me all thi R. FE, No, 882 Quincy street, complaint against whe Brook! ‘Transit Company ts their irr yin running cats and gra ‘ere only in certain directions, I aim forced to take t line, and most of stree hing bway for reiiet of the Bhould be done as soon MORRIS MIZIKON, Who, 411 Gates avenue, @@ you have to walt xt car, INRY PRESTON, Lexington avenue, Wit for service for Three dollars would command better men, “ It frequently on my roe ork, at Heovclook Y. M. Tor a or, ‘rankin avenu My oom: ts Poor tine, No, 23 Lowia aventic, I stand on the corner of Nostrand avenue and Gates avenue every to twenty ‘m! aod piorenpciente 1s never 2 car of the iY to be had i Monee, for 664 Gat mf Never mind Winters; his hands aro Power behind the ——— rectors, yen fall to atop for passengers | throne, Go for them; no! often are Saabees dur cars| My Jaint againat the B, R. 1"? |coompany i. that Jee care are overcrowded, often unclean ventHated; many con- fo, 442 Clason avenue, it to run the] ductors «nolv! drop this dead AZING THAT BROOKLYN HAS STOOD IT FOR SO LONG. ment, or mismanagement, temptible concern during my business ‘t treats with utter disregard #olute contempt the victims that ane compelled to patronize its miserable CHARLES BH, CARR, No, 602 Groene avenue. iy rotten that the com- ‘be deprived of ite rights etretta and its officers relo- i dhlivion, It 19 elmply amazing uate to the popula- let alone a city 'm Begard to] owing Wo the NO a The B. R. 'T. gives very poor service on the Lexington aveniie Hne, Tt ts CHARLES b, IDDINGS, | run ona “come day, go day style," and No, 478 Washington avenud, | not as a railroad ought to be, Hope —_———-. for your RUDE pian, The Putnam avenue cars run to sult soon ‘ themselves. You will Nd in the morning No, 78 Lexington avenue. they are supposed to run about ten “he 4 ERERY ORE Oa r minutes apart, wile they are really, THe B. Rt. dows not run enuigh ours |ffteon or, eighteen minutes ot mores itn no heat ln ears, ‘They should keep and they have such insolent employees, [leh nv : Koon 1t takes thea one hour from New York my front doors Sloane, whieh Ey a to Bedford avenue, Bum travel, i ‘la, J. PALMER, No. 111 Madison street, | $37 Gates avenue. 'T. carries too many pas the stock market, and ts well cattea| “Brooklyn Rotten Transit,” ° The 3. R. eet Re rane HReR Teoh ager gciint| SeReerA and run too fen cate {to Fun, Pe atreot it inn about | U7 1-2 Bedford avenito j Hime HN Wont voles from atar, | The B. R. 7 does not tin enough o on the Putnam ayenite line. bide GEORGE KE. CANN, (6 Jefferson aven ——— The B. belo open cars ae AS hot ‘thelr Closed cars are too G and thelr close) Guts. WIPTEN, 1166 1-2 Bedford avenue. The men running the system of the |B. R. T. do not know how to run such! A great and large system, With their greed they have bitten off more than they can chew while the suffering pub- {He watehes the B, R. ‘T, strangling | shemselyes, RICHARDS J. FRENCH, | No, 1105 Fulton street. | i {not run on any proper headway, The stairways leading from Fulton | ¢ ‘3, Passengers are street HL" th bridwe sears show that | quae Tre Oa Tene Aba lett | jhe wrookivn Rotten ‘i don't gare &!inere for at least twenty minutes at a |d——'tor the people! "$1,000 would do the | (mn ‘A. G. DE WILLERS, | fob, J, CALVI CY. A 17%), ny ' No. 638 Clinton avenue, My complaint against the B. R, 7, Company ts that when they get down at the bridge they stand there for about five minutes before wolng in the bridge depot, and when they do, tho stairs are too narrow for an ordinary man to pass, I travel on the Fulton street "lL," JOSHPH GILMAN, JR, No, 40 St. James's Place. The B. R, T. Company {s a dlegraco, It displays whenever and wherever pos- | elble a contemptuous disrezard for the! No, 1209 Herkimer street —_ . R, Tia cars are always cold dicen tha anti winter, ‘They should ‘put some straw H3 pe Hee Wie ae cars to keep o1 5 | tom of the OeHat AN SMITH, No, 187 Greene avenue. ————se! Putnam avente Ine in the minaie oe the, BAY. I ole ay seat, jons are #0 i | the ascommonWTILLTAN SIMPSON, No, 45 Franklin avenue, comforta of {8 patrons, and fs briitant= ‘ wt unenduruable. Have Iv mismanaged all through. Tho agency ile ta ie oa tom off several Witch causes, an improvement In the) times,” Yours for the Subway under wrhilo hene= SOUIRES, Monroe street, The B, RT. Company does not run sufficient cars on the Lexington avenue, elevated road, The express service Is a humbug a8 express trans only ftop at stations not so wall patronized and lerve the bulk of the traffic to be carnled on local trains, whieh are few and far be- tween, causins all sorts of hardshins, GEORGE B, LUHRSON, No. 167 Monroe street. existing conditions Js a A factor, | Gates aventy. CHARLES H, LOUTEN, No. 520 Monroe street, T umerous to mention, pee HOWARD VLOCK, No, 455 Putnam avenue, I risk my Me over) tne go inte'¢ Bridge aa hy do guards mumble | the ations on the B. R, %. “Lr cara? | Employees of ils company treat the ssergors like antnal PR i ‘SOnN Hf, NEILSON, No, 120 Hopkinson avenue, Ag n real-estate owner on Gates aver nue, near Marcy avenue, 1 am Interested in having @ Subway station at the cors| There are not enough care on the Put ner, “go up:'"| nam avenue line and consequently ver Am satisfied renis will tenants willing to pay Increase as they) much overcrowded, which I know can be will then @ proper elling accom-| prevented by more cans, HYG, modations. DOC GORDON, No, 18 MeDonough street, No, 448 Gates avenue, —— barra Terminal factiities are abominable, in My complaints against the B. R. Co, are 60 many tiat this card does afford sufficient room for me to elte them all. Wishing you success in the cause and thanking you as a tortured | Brooklynite only can for your great efforts in helping us Aone, Tam J, GROWGANDZ, suffic'ent cars, too long to walt, apparen gross Incompetence, coupled with Indit ference to the welfare of the public, LUON HWAAGE, No. H9A Quincy street ‘There are unnecessary delays, over | crowded cars, often without heat, an jor light, M8. WILLAN, poe No, 882 Quincy street. nit No, 856 Nostrand avenue. GATES AVENUE SUBWAY THE BEST REMEDY YET OFFERED, The cars are cold, slow, crowded and) of my da‘iy experience as a patron of few. What we need Is a Subway 10) the Brooklyn Hania Transit Sor ny Gates avenue, as proposed by The! I bog to at that The\ Wonld should World, 8.8. V. | be commended for the action tt Is No, 455 Putnam avenue. | taking In the matter of better trans- portation facilities for Brooklyn, and ought to be read and snoouraged by every resident In that borough, While heartily agreeing with the Toute a8 outlined ow ithe card left at my residence, T think {t should go etill further, and advocate the extension of the syhway down Broadway ito Union “venue, tw North Tenth street, and thenco under the Past River to Bast The Lexington avenue trains are too rowded. I get on at Tomkins ave- nué, and have to stand on the platform on account of express service, EDITH M. BOYCE, No. 347 Quincy street, ‘They 4o not run enough traing on the Lexington ayenue line, You have to wait ten and fifteen minutes and then | Fourteenth street, Manhatt ‘4 stand on the platform during rush/ ing with th present Muay et the hours, They ought to run them on a! Fourteenth t station, ithus en- eof business area Of business are at and above that point | reach thelr oftices, ivior aot aon way, Gisaber, nena ey G. H, BOYCE, Jr. No. $17 Quincy street. ———— ‘There ere not enough cars in the mid- le of the day to give passengers | consnmed in seat, and the say ere noe entle- uf ae No. 16 Hancock street, abling the man} lynites whose pa ren shops !n a few minutes, Rha time now Going from Gates ay and Broadway In Brooklyn ito ‘Twenty* in Mamba‘ t= ftrd street and tan is approximately one ho ‘ur, and, the route I have outlined wo ‘Veatibuled platforms should be pro- eae of only about five mice i i vided for the motormen the same as the Jersey City cars now have on the Ocean avenue line, One has to wait for twenty minutes to three-quarters of hour, quite “evident that between these points Mallia’ he Csi tn from ten to fifteen minutes, I feel quite confident that if the above |and In consequence the jam Is some- nunmeat fon was submitted to your rend. n Brooldizn It woul ig thing flere, Mes APLIGAN ue, | hearty indorsement, ou? ™eet with « plies Rl D, C, JACKBON, I heartily secon your proposal In be- No, 474 Quincy strect, i" t line are The cara on the Fulton stree stl ICE OF BROOKLYN CALLS 10 THE STATE BOARD. OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS .. ‘EMPLOYEES HAVE GRIEVANCE AGAINST THE B. R. T,, TOO are terminus, Sands street, to Fulton ferry, the point to connvet with ferry -boats between the for the travelling pubse, and it is hours of 4 A. M. and 6 AM. and they right, tor they are the ones shat suffer sid Urey would not do tt, The petition che Most; it J8 thelr money that counts, Was sent to the State Rallroad Commis. nt did tt ovcur to you there are 10,00) sion and they acknowledged receipt of Mployeers In the employ of the B. RK. sane, but nothing has’ peen heard of tt i? When the above company makes s.nce, HH, ROGERS, any concessions to the public the em- No, 87 Putnam avenue, yloyees pay for it fn a Way; thelr hours ate paid per quarter, never Known in the hatory of raliroading, ‘Mer achedules call for so many trips, so many hours; It takes from 5.00 A. My Your editorials and all very) Well and cartoons to The B, R, ‘T, must give in, ‘The oltl- zens demand it. The traing must 60 | faster else the people will walk, to 716 M, vy iv hours per) Thorefore, I say away with the atraps. Ay aN the yy eae cents an hour | Aw lone aa there are straps the people A rule of the vompany is that no em- | Will cling to them, Down wi the ployee is to engage In any other bust-| saps, down with the eoof and up wiih ness while in the employ of the com- | the peopl le, any, In your “Help Wanted” columns | Tellow cltizens, what do you sa} Pree As an "ad" for neip every day | about collecting the fares on the trainay tor men, Mr, Hditor, tell the applicant |Mhon the conductor would call out the the Wages promised are very glivtering, | stations clearer, but they don't in years materialize. We demand that the straps be taken costs them, to start from $13 to $2h | down, Then they would not break down. | To begin wi a cap, 75 cents; badge, RDWARD HOHMAN, $3, suit of clothes, $%, and we must buy No, 43 Troutman street, our overcoats eyen If we wear non, at all Iwo ren plea, Cha yest eree ie other a week ago, for je Wi of 01 of the costs nas by a member of the Borough President that when commit- family of the management, Send a tees upon municipal affains are to be man among the men on the "L" system appointed it would be well to eee that to notice the ttle jackets they are members of such committer ‘9 not dl. wearlng this severe weather and it will rectly or Indirectly interested in ds Open your eyes and speak a word fo: or stocks of the gas or electric light the employees. If you will publish this | companies or local transit lines, letter or ask for an Interview the au- C, AUGUST HAVILAND, thor. will help you Jn your endoavor to | get for Brooklyn what you did for New | York—15 minutes to Brooklyn homes, TRAINMEN OF THB B. R, T, "L." ‘Che following are facts, under orders, on the by, Jt which went Into effec pany is furnianing to the people in on Jan, i, 10" "We need the money,”'| Preoklyn not only warrants this kind sald an official, “and at last we have} of warfare, but fully deserves jt. found the way, Just think of it-8) we) Iam one of tho sufferers, and judging obtain for a piece of aluminum with a/ from my own experience I never saw T hope you wilt est to the worthy | I have noticed the gallant fight you are putting up in behalf of the strap- hangers who come home any old tine tn the Borough of itvakiya) and T may add ehat the service the B, R, T, Com- number that coste us 8 cents, And, in any other town in the Union a trans then, again, there are the caps, which | sit company aot with more disregard to bring a an Average of $1 and|the comfort and decency of [ts pat- oh employees will haye to wean both cap rons*than the B. R. 'T, Company, and badge to have transportation to Not only tbat Uils corporation is giv> and from thelr work. Our, 8,000 em-| ing us poor, in fact the poorest, of ac- ployees at # a badge and $1 for cap) commorations, but the filthy condition will accumulate the tidy sum of $32,000. oftheir running stock 18 a’menace to But these figures are small compared | the health of the public in general, with the nickels we derive from those J. BERWIG. who will not wear our new style ‘ple- | : plates’ to and from duty,” The B, R. T, has in@ style badge and cap with “Employee” stamped upon tt, in 6 plece of metal 91-2 by 5! lyn. mn the dimensions, and compelling !n th workman to weir the same this by sendny a reporter to the bridge and depriving him of whatever title he may have had by Ay J that title on yee," nd note the Smit reet service, You will find three cars of every and all badges read "Employee AB. R, T, SLAVE, urat | I inctose a cilpping from the Brooklyn edt Hew | angle of gan, 4. You seem to be inter making | ested in the wretched service to Brook- "Mls writer does not exaggerate ba slight You can easily verity | very often five cars of most lin rrive at the bridge to one Smith street line, (Is there no law to conipel the Smith treet line to have a time-table and de- cent service? There is not a new caron the line, and f the Boar of Health ex- amined those cars that are running they would find them dirty and foul-smelling. Verify thie for yourself, A, VICTIM, My complaint against the B, R. T, Company ds that T had a petition with 250 names attached to same, signatures of residents of Brooklyn, respecting them to run a car from Brooklyn Bridge PEOPLE ARE MOVING AWAY i: EARLY TO AVOID CRUSH. Cars on both Gates avenue line and] till they al i Halaey street tine aro alwa over=| shame?’ I thine age La a cro’ |, Not enough cars run to accom. a aE I 4) modate decently half the people. People CRAB Panoe eat, ero moving away from this section as a@result, FRANK M. FATROHILD, No. 158 Reid avenue. The Evening World ts going to wake Winter up all right, The B. RT. Why not give the people transfer for | Should Tun motor trains on Jamaica traneboret BIV8 the Poop SUING, (avenue again, Why did they take the ; 2h property away from those who could No, 168 Harrlaon avenue. | se HE to build an Incline worth @ few ii emer Jew Millon dollars {f they don't use it? ere want are tonninale ie New | Let the good work fo ont ae AB PR | |. EDGERTON, No. 330 Putnam av2112, | No. 156 Nicholas avenue, Too many cars are run on the track from Navy street to the bridge, and every evening they proceed at a snail's) pace, The slightest accident blocks ihe! whole aystem, | EDWARD WHITTON, No. 174 Quincy stregt, ‘They continue to use old and worn-out cars that should be in the repair shop (some of them on the funk pile), that besides making a terrible racket with those rickety trucks and flat wheels are often the cause of many of the de- lays we have to put up with, BERGEN STRPET, Too numerous to mention; would say, = however, that this entire system, with the wild’motormen and tonauetora from aq inion ot FR a adasrsi ay Borneo,on the whale, ie oN | end! ana delaying tafe, they anould use Mat power for a few more passen- — Not Agate Court [ior cars with suffcient lant to read our : japers, T. WILLIAMS, ‘The BR. 'T. are for themselves; the| PAP! . eople of Brooklyn are never considered 19 Borgen street, y that corporation. Tho service ip in- adequate and unfit for a city of this size. WILLIAM RUDDERS. Transportation facilities in Brooklyn are the worst of any city In the United States, and the B.R. . runs cars to| suit themselves. The people are not considered in the least. USER MARCUR, T would be very glad to have the tun- nel made, hecause it takes me right |somatimes from Brooklyn to New York In ong and one-half hours, HARRY SUBERG, No, 88% Tompkins avenue, The Flatbush avenue line run #0 few ears for the traffle they have that in halt of the building of another mubway No, 116 Bainbridge street, ‘ See some cases we haye to hang on tho pulling tor i anu yacnsy ed ee care Ce) elevated and surface} ‘The service Is on the bum. dashboard, ‘This invarlably happens as fintian’ f however, hereby offer an| tong intervay ieee Ge tanta uch] HW, PINKNEY, No, Irvingplace, |ate, is 12 o'cloclt, P.M. It, shorter sions Aten P Reenua werare |geear carer fora sung on the] Have been jammed in crowded cars | for everybody, 3. Wig MANS Pan een athas Ss Hulse | cama gtSn ROR And, ey ot Eyton at Ntonaln eroded by evaclger AINE streat elove railroads, There a cannot as a ‘rule, rag (ete ork pasmengers, impossible to get inside of | Their policy ts to operate lines that way ootween Texington avenue and| but am obliged to @tand on tha plate ‘de halloo Plenty room in-|are the utmost inconvenience to the Fulton stregt "'L" roads would acoom-| form exposed to the piercing cold ot| Sid k them to lose. the. door, they | public, ‘There fa absolutely no system modate a mich larger class of residents ig the latter Litule eicle, the Aan morning hours, ‘ot Stand on the than if under Gates aven poorly clothed, frequently avenue cing only two ort blocks | platforms and shiver from ¢! pout of Lexington avenue "La road, | have lived “In Brooklyn” tore Coit JAMES JOHNBON, yente, but conditions have become no Nv, 18 Halsey street, Brooklyn. Referring to ithe Inclosed card, on which I hgve made a brief statement intolerable that T have decided to move away {in the spring and cont: more money to the B. R. T, OS 2P D, ©, JACKSON, LIKES IT FOR IT GIVES HIM PLENTY OF SLEEP. I am a poor railroad sleeper, Inid) ment. They lack pro down many, many years ago. Resting|in every department, have not enough upon me 1p 5 section of a rall owned| power, cars, ticket-sellers or platform and controlled by the B. i. ‘T. Yjmen, They cut down the rush hour nome {mplles, Iam grateful to the B.| service before the rush 1s over. R, T. 18 the absence of the heavy FRED MELLES, trains gives me plenty of time to sleep, eiota doa't disturb the company. MR, RALILROADER. management T was unable to get a continuing trip | ticket from a Reid avenue car going to Delanovy street from the Willlamsburg Very frequently the motormen will | plaza to the Brooklyn ¢orry, Also there not stop when you hall them and there |!s never heat enough on cold days in jane mab ‘enough Meld avenue ars. | the Greene and Gates avenue cars, Now Sometimes I ‘have to stam 25 minutes | is the winter of our discontent, for Agar at the forry, alte wney ie A. A. ROUSSEL, not give you en: Ime to Ket off, ' No. 143 Stuyvesant avenue, Upror i, ninpskor, J a 649 Madison avenue, I am_in buriness on ‘Twenty-third ate aay Fork city, ais are orten |In Brooklyn at 6.2 'P. M, at elovate aveniie that make no station stops from | station, and. arrive home, Rela avenue Franklin to Gates avenue, hut they | station, at 7.10 to 7.20 P.M, Having hayo a delay station between Patchen | been revident of Brooklyn since 1865 and and Gaba avenues to let off those wh | travelling avery day eliice, except Sun dosire to alight and still Ripe fers days, never saw worse conditions, echedule time. yc, Thirty years ago horse-cars timed forty minutes, now Rapid ‘Transit. fifty to sixty minutes, H. R, CHURCHILL, No, #89 Greene avenue, ‘They run express cars on Lexington B. PR, T. ja 0 overcapitallzed that thoy can't give service and make money on the capital, but could on the invest- WOULD TELL HIS TROUBLEs, BUT PAPER HASN’T ROOM. My complaints are so numerous that ous at a wns on tho Eg Nut pale. it actually would require a very large ay Dit Wve Deen competent stand cit on the platform many times sheet of paper to put down all of them. | on*anconnt of balng undo to wet {nto Your estcamed paper will doubtless carn} the oar, ‘Nhe transportation fanilities the everk sh | gratitude of every| of Brooklyn are a disgrace to a city Brooklynite and particularly the inhabi-| giorying 1h the name of a civilized and tanta of my section of the city, by ba- htened oommuns |dng instrumental in securing’ better WILLIAM & nant WEATHHR, Shame | 80 well conducted to openly defy a olt jas the B, R. T, and to cause its thouie | sands of patrons ty so often d— a cor- poration of such greed, CHARLHS B. BYRON, No, 469 Clinton avenue, » Ky ‘The Graham avenue Mnes leave too) many engers on one car, Also tha) eame fine oes not run enough cars, They do not run enough trains during over the bridge for to carry the crowds) the rush hours In the morning. I have that awalt it, The motorman and eon- | had to walt ten minutes for a train and ductor of the same line leave such @ then had_to stand. crowd that they haye to stand on plat: J, WILLE FLICKINGER, form, and then they refuse to go a step No, 430 Quincy street, WAIT FOR THE CAR, IT WILL COME ALONG SOME TIME, Apropos of your agitation for better Too long waits between trains, r 7 - ROBERT L, HOVEL, transportation service in Brooklyn per. wae { ‘ malt me to relate the experience of Tues-| Ditmas avenue and Rast Fitteenth at, day evening, The Fifth avenue "L) | st i train came into the bridge terminal |, ni¢ cars of the B. Hi are not thor with its cars dark, cold and. full of ouently Rough un fre- anow, Evidently the train had stood | We 's Mrs. M, L, GRANT, for some time exposed to the storm with all doors open and as a conse- quence the wind swept through it from end to end until the snow covered the floors, the seats, the window ledges and every projection where it could find a lodament. We walked on It, sat on it} and almost died on it As a refrigerator he car 1 occupled was certainly the Hmilt, At this Ree the chill 1s still 4, Bererer, UM Ned L, JULIAN McINTYRE, 7 Second street, elief ja that the Putnam ay ee the line most entitled to re No, 1% Quincy atreot, You should have a ttle more heat, a few more cars and make the motormen walt until passengers get on the car, KLORENCE L, MILIS, No, 14 Madison street, 1 had to wait two and one-half hours for a car the stormy morning, THERESE ENGLEMAN, Hart street, ef — ‘ HAL NC Ba r a TN Be) ct A i " iPass FeLi r " " Gi PUN ee UIE NER ca ROD" oS Wreaths ih le Ay ‘ Se Hy AER iyi HHT NA OULU aR a a aye A a W A cy hey Hi ae He ) ak Ne ae te EATERY Wi Mh SV UHR ND AND NA ii) PA tT AR ie Sf al ea THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14,1005, we 0 ea ay B jtake several blanks to detall the trou. ed 80 mam avenue car coming from Sumner | nue cars, | the Ridgewor | Istactory results To Brooklyn Homes in Two Hours Ap- peas to Be About the Average Now and Even This “Haste” Is At- tended with Grossest Discomfort, fe avenue fo Frankl avenue, and the evening ¢rom 7.30 until 9.30, me annot make {tin better time we poe 5, comertien| ly my you could wade it tn teen minutes. a. PREY MAY A. PRUDBN, * Tet him tny to boanl a No, 357 Putname avenue, iy car an: from Gates avenue to Putnam ayonue, SUFFDPRER, Your blank is InsuMficient, it would times during at eth eae, lauor used, Too idee nguece sn selection i plovees, ‘Too much economy us wrong plage le Present Rel er man ond his assistants shou Hyotem divided as ecu ae poselble bles and ¥8 Tam put to In travel fei broetennet ar iy Bay! ce z 0 passengers lin avenue, al "6, i ra a ane BR, 7 never ran @ train to my | know! ‘unleas it was packed to auffo. hy le, ; sation at7 P.M: I took altrain the other gelaFeapoatated lta all night, Was after rush hour, There | Axe to erin the public, would, ! yeas a io hand ty ie Borarben the ae) this applies to the 5 emp jengers to p Prevent them mettt OLD RAILROAD! ‘ & lone This fs a Grerpaay oe FiNeon etree bea b IL. " ALLCOCK, reie”, {nin more Bout rah ry D bn . t 0: Hh eane aren Fespecting our Ren ie never huve any acco} la in minutes on the Put- ralng the heating of thet car, ¥ » I was del f TROUBLE, TROUBLE EVERYWHERE, FOR THE POOR B. R. T. PATRON, Enough Putnam avenue cars are not twenty minutes headway in vogue oy, ‘un to late its in| the Ridgewood tmins, | CompariaeR wit the 6 ata eypeue a GHARL He DURNGT IIA imber fi | 0, en) i) | Putnam avenue line has the List ed ae So surface of passengers of any Brooklyn line, a G, COURTNEY, No. MeDonough street, “1 nough Putnam ave- Tf the terminus, which is now {n an unocecupled Heath were contin- ued northward on Wyckoff avenue to barns, much more sat- might accrue, A. SCHWEBEL, No, 415 Nostrand avenie For the last three months went downtown I had to cara @nd find myself Ra hed a every way, somelimes haying to was no room when a car would vi ‘Ten poat-earda would not hold all would like to say on this fubiee Mrs. J. W, M'G) ta rains run too seldom, making weed, ie tl the trains overoroy CHARLES V. BEARING, No, 305 Putnam avenue, No, 31 Madison Affliction t Avil Gk . ° REGINALD HARVEY, There ay +e ow panes rene cars, ie ‘orl schedule as pub- lished Jan, 7 (Kvening Edition) shows No, 440 Gates aventia, two In twenty-six minute: against a | greater number of Gates avenue cars, No seat morning and evening on Gates ALLISON G. GRANDAER, avenue cars, No cars except once & No, 280 Putnam avenue, | week on Hicks street. No heat, no vee tilation on Columbia or Hicks cara, Unheated cars, no seats, same time wait 18 mtnutes, then they will run by without stopping, dump you out, wait 10 minutes for another car, B, C, i No, 42 Franklin ave whenever the cars and platforma That they haven't got the plant and | crowded, thereby. never to get it, the service | has grown worse year after year until it 1s an outrage to-day—carrylng over one hundred passengers in one car every morning and night, aa lL. and directly In the severe draughts, JAMES |ARBHA) per shelter at the transfer station Between Fulton street and Broadway cars at Alabama avenue, also at Reid avenue and Fulton street; that Bey should transfer from surface to elevat: going to Jamaica at loop, not transfer at Hichmond Hill, but go through to Jamaica, OBERT A. FORDHAM, Xe. 9 Delap place, Jamaica, halt not and cannot give @ hel Re Pll system, they will not be- cause it pays better to jam 125 gers Ina car, they cannot because they thaven't got the street somsive ) a subway. . 7. freeze. J, M. SINGLETON, “L" Terriffie Service, HUGH CUNNING, meena, It fs not only that we need be! cost, — very seldom that you can a place and Jet you wultt aren ‘wenty minutes, . dD Many times during the last have ha had the same done. FRANCES C. SIMPSON, y complaint agadnat thi cotton Te'that'in tho. even jong for the cars an tery An supious to myself and slater, having go wane in the cars, which are 0 cold, | compel 12 8D. femyera i there are mo gate if HWS. Due par AgurotChieg dan tt ian Ses peeve No, 1415 Fulton street, pale Hideto lon it or hang on at the —— THOMAS BRUNAGEN No, 448 a ui ince care commenced running pe the new bridge the BR. has been teing nothing but emall Sonenw Heo) oars ma Daentaie cede ce anlage ft e8 on Nostrand avenue ino, an ne | near Broadway, from 0, bf 6 cars run at vals of one in ofe | avenue, and. took me Hoarly, EWP. qu hee, or its, to the great dis- | to do it, and I nearly froze to dea! comfor: and inconvenience 01 fl per- | the barxain, D, JOBS, ss sone waing this line; elm a fitteen or ‘0. 267 Greene avenue, . POOR SERVICE RULE NOT EX CEPTION, SAY SUFFERERS, morning when so many Re: often in th to the he Plo aro. ih morning aitehsronuo tation Ww Au) ents ten ay ee Vora alt, only No find It] car, thus malcing me late to work, to Walt anoth U, HARTMAN, growed > ninutes (sometimes twelve ' No, io Hutton wrest, 0) Roxt train, aly, to that Brighton Beach trains do not st Grand avenue going up sung hours—the ‘hours many —poople Ee, alte tthe ( " ina (the latter do nots Pe IRSON. down, ether), Many. set At Transit, No, 28 Greene avente, | Why not cut off Grand avenue a altogeth: —_—— Hd long strong, Incompetent employees, hired cheaply, ria the cans, and sie aa a rule, diny and inorant. Startions care are dirty, with oheap women in change of statlon , Trains and cars should be run eduled, and more cars shoul Faint iets Cee ae acre rectons }O i ut rune ing the road and less aibout stock manipywations, MOVE AWAY QUICK IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, Doad City, N, Y. Ing to work, I have hi The company tried to but the protest was ehame! CONSTANT READE) lambridge p On their aocount gay I live tn Broo cause the facilities for getting from New York are eo wretch annoying, 80 Unsatisfactory, 8o unrel: ble, 80 Aggravating—In fact, because is the hamest pero many a man's dally itoll to make t tip to or, York Remove the present Board of Rall.|hgure each Heme Avhy Riba rond Commissioners and the, Governor atv, A subway through AGRON CAVERIO TORE ovens of ay ne ‘to. Putnam Avenite 10 | ordre tian any’ Oller road in Brook: | MPpolnt men who are lookng after the i y, would fill the bi petter jon Three r evenk Y int ; road we ougn Gates avenue yo Mayan on Four eveninae t neve to gota aquare deateand there will be no Late In made unbearable, on my Jour. Ane MH BLWIN, | cna transfor to. Madison. stre nd | cauwe of complaint, Hey, home: trom New eo ty, oa) dyer Mutton wbroet, |e trans(or to Madison street. 1 tind JAMES PERRY, — | aight on a Lexington ayenue “IL” op Lace AN ine |f0" Tompkins or Suunmer avenue, n the Tompkins avenue line | 2 PAW ENCE, ron ory trremular, Nights I have na No, 413 Madison atreet, Jnutes or more In the rain se EDWARD. COLBY, No, 180 Hart street. | and cold. Too few trains are run, not only dur> ing rush hours but at other times. The Three-quarters of heating of the trolley cars 1s most Toa to ata dnd when tt compa | nsatistaotony.. they being. frequently nid exgept when the weather ty en they are overheated ALEX G, BRINCKERLOFF, 409 Put nh avenue, | ———_- " va get to| Ver {t won't stop for me, T Aye Be! | mite 4 And almost frozen | mila, school Inte an MIRA ALSON, | vacitle street. ation kervice for us. The one No, $1 Cutton place, | pho cara never run on timo, never) me servic on the # avenue line by the Bo oR 1. has re enough of them, always Ay when | trom Sumner vent it Yon Is Deon gettt worse in the r rs they appear, poorly heated, poor! worse than rotten, both from New York 1%, and’ the only Of the | ,Leamplain of the absence of competis |ANALY TI! This, poor ¢ ng ted va and B Hi York. q nent ds to cut down expenses | ton, Cc, FAWR, FREDERICK GARDERLINE } Md BCHANFLB, | fot !iscomfort of the tr an pub- No, 44 Rutland ro | No, 432 Monroe street, Ile. GEORGE L, WETE La, Tt has tought me to ewear. First, a ie No. 2A Q y strest, | jam on New York ond; second, another ol ight abou i608) : BEG Too nin nerous to Guin eras, as it le -_oooO on Unvookdyy end; thin, slowness of to get a F Lids \ Na daily complaint, regarding the above mre ot furnish enough tratna on | trains, tou busi, avenue, and atten welting twenty mint | company's service to the public Bonk Beach line to give all pag- No, 400 Madison wtrose, | Uter doo! m 5 er tn fine, or stonmy weather, me~ Soeer oh eee fet run them often enough for nervice, bs SAMUEL LEVY, (No, 128 Beverly road, Now 1s the winter of our discontent, My complaint {s that (he conductors ore over-generous in giving saliva, wi tranefers, which to my mind fa a aut arrived at my class in the Y. M, ©. A, | inutes late, Ryeim WILLIAM P, CHARLES, No, 44 Jefferson avenue, x orght to be done for the people of Brooklyn regarding thelr transporta- tion, JOHN It, PISHER, No, 851 Grog} avonie, The servico Je very slow and the cars Lie Jaren oie | iw hie tte on HAL r | Let a reporter try to mot @ car on diy heated and z badly ieAtrenNt CHARLES, the Reid avenue ine n Go lo, 1 Bpencor place, " oward Dagt New Yank any time Ao | fer to the Fulton atrest line ran a7guld tke 13 know, why the, Booker No, 469 Quincy street, light, and if by way of Fulton cars are very Irregular, Poor service on Tompkins avenue Une WILLIAM KIRBY, About half the care coming from the bridge or ferry each moming with alan marked Reid avonue aro switched off at Tompkins avenue, end the inspector orders al out, to take car ahead, which} he keeps waiting to take passengers, | TAMUS F, HENDRICKSON, No, 100 M ures to abat@ the teamaver nuisance, @ allroad train whether they will cDonough street, | there in time or not. My personal knowledge {9 that the Brooklyn Rapld Transit system {a the! generally the motrman, for ring! most annoying, exasperating to the| bell to get them off the track, polnt of violence, that I have ever expe | ASA HULL, rienced, and | have travelled far and wide in all parts of this country, . L, BEALB, No, %5A Lexington avenue, The Lexington avenue traing ar pee 'y morning, alm every Nn f atiefled with standing {nalde the trains? ae ee Having Mved Jn Bath Beach and worked at Coney Island, I had to walk a number of times from Ulmer Park to Coney. They have the people in gen- eral where they want them, and if t don't Ike it Shey. can walk, The B, ne on what G. R. T, haa never . {ts former Prosldi aig) No, 167 Lexingto iinet trey un eres Koval nate run more ls, ee ney ADDL BOYCE, Iam a don't have occasion to often, but use .th d find they run at long oa the ‘elevated’ Toate ie in avenite, Delayed on way to business several LEO EVANS, No. 974 St, Marks avenue I have experienced quite a bit of ine convenience on the bere avenue CHAS, THOMPB8ON, No, 347 Greene avonug 7 eas alt for half an hour, only to be told there It js an absolute disgrace and a sore J. A. ENNIS, / The doors of the cars on the Lexinge ton avenue elevated dine are kept open endangerii health of those who are compelled Pt) No, 60 Madison street. | Through the cars not running om They do not give the passengers A) scheduled time I lost my position, for if I caught a car in time some negi- gence on the cross lines would cause & |delay and I would have to walt an No, 280 Lexington avenue, Long delays on the Lexington avenue No, 47 Greene avenue, | transportation; we must have it at ang, JOSEPH J, QLBERG. year = id my foot on the car of the Greenpoint line and have been put off for no apparent reasons; others have No, 45 Franklin avenue, ates avenue, walt from one-half to one hour for my S I feel ashamed lyn, Why? 4 and back in a day, and it takes many Cambridge place, Gates avenue line by too few i Re No, 403 Madison tree, The company does not take active meas one oan tell when they take @ car for Business men an the public at lange are delayed beyond jendurance by them to epite somebody ne No, 22 Putnam avenue, T have to ride on the platform Would we be UT Quincy atreet, resident of Brooklyn and 0 to Now York ears for local