The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1905, Page 6

te Railroad Board Fixes Day for Pub- lit Hearing of Complaints by Suffering _ Patrons of Various Lines, Both Surface and “L.” [ANT TO KNOW JUST WHAT [FFORT COMPANY IS MAKING. Examine Books and Papers—Rapid Transit | Board Also Ready for Public Hearing i as io Best Route for Tunnels Through City, iw that the £:ate Railroad Commission has fixed a definite date for public hearing to be given in the Borough Hall, in Brooklyn, when all ‘tials and tribulations of the strap-hanging army, Who daily suffer g over the various roads of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company be heard, the agitation for a better traffic eystem nas become stronger Lever, The railroad commissioners have outlined a plan of action, and Gompel the officers of the corporation to produce all !ts books and docu- HAS SEVERAL IDEA with an idea of proving beyond afl doubt that the improvements the hy has made have not been in the same ratio as the increased traffic the Concern was last investigated, BROOKLYN HOMES—15 MINUTES, Bince The Byening World has given the battle cry of “To Brooklyn 1 every one, regardless of politics, has become thublastic advocate of any system that will improve the present con- | To the Editor of thé Evening World: Dear Sir: As a man Interested in} Nosirand avenue and business enterprise, and in the wells tour belore [ got one At 118 uy ¢ laboring | & car passed me without a heed!ight nid people, I wish to stare that I have read in Fifteen Minutes, Brookiyn Homes in in your paper. Fifteen Minutes" Nothing would sound botter to the Brooklyn and Lovg lal- @ fact Uhat the Rapid Transit Commission has set Wednesday next ‘ date tor a hearing of The Evening World's project to bulld @ tunnel in thé termintis of the new Manhattan Bridge, at Flatbush venue and Mreet, to Gates avenue, to Broadway, and thence to hast New York | ie, has stirred up all municipal officials to action. from all parts of Brooklyn are pouring into The Kyening World avery day, advocating the bullding of this four-track subway which Indirectly benefit between five and elx hundred thousand persons. SUBWAY ROUTE HASTENED. letters also ‘tell of the troubles the strap-hanging army have in Mi $0\and trom business, The worst kicks, however, come trom shop- te Women, who have to wait sometimes for nearly a half an hour for é long waite between cars on avery line, their crowded condition, id the lack of politeness on the part of the employees, con- , weheral tenor of the thousand and one complaints, He of the most interesting letters is that of Otto Wicke, who some ® petitioned in behalt of himeelt and his neighbors the Rapld ‘Commission to build « subway through Myrtle avenue and thence ca: Mr, Wicke now advocates the bullding of the Gates avenue , With a Myrtle avenue spur, iy all of the letters tell us how passengers after ‘for & car are unable to board o letters, you, who do not live in Brooklyn, troubles that the borough residents have Tn fact, this country is mak+ Ing great strides in the way of prot Brees; and 1 personal! reflected ution thé question of a subs Four years ago | yy have long since Way In Brooklyn, started the work for a subway in thi de, of which Tam a director. On Nov, 7, 1004, T sent to the Board of} [ Rapid Transit Commissioners a com: munication @sking them to the question of @ subway In o with the subwa suggested funn avenue to Jamaica, Aue route Is the shortest ‘This subway would beneficial to the population of Brook Vn, 04 Hh takes In the grentes tenement-house district, and would benefit the subufban diac trict, I belleve a subway such as you} through Gates Broadway and thence to New York te) Bi ele> one from now being built, and through Myrtle ‘The Myrtle ‘ave with a subway at Myrllé avenue, the one At Gates avenne would solve Md transit question for a few uestion In my mind that all these problema wil puolic for the next twenty but as thes are progresving faster than >! tus to look at lerst am with vou in ad to mive the walting a long ne because of the crowded conditions, and judge for your- with the Brooklyn we are it ls wall few vears ahead, fny measure that may nublic of Brooklyn reat, ravl trevalt, and will add f have an Grzanination o} 1.20) meniers stron to helo me in my anid t munielpal ownerrhin 0° railroads. telo+ phone, eas electricity, and In thot vthine pertaining to nubile utilities, You may command me +. serve voy 4 any and all timo, Brooklyn, Jan, 11, BLAMES “POLITICAL BACKING” FOR ALL B, R, T, SHORTCOMINGS, Bxceedingly bad eervice all around, The more the people complain the worse {t seems to get, as if they wished to the public on account of ‘hey do not provide with a aufficient number 0} oars that ure properly cleaned an They never send a train out until they succeed In packing engers were cattle, joard of Health ought to look this matter, as such dirty cars and ser+ vice must breed diverse, of the World Subway plan, OPPOSITION BY SUBWAY WILL BRING A BETTER B, R, 7, iow from the mich tno i OTTO WICK . mperature of the bar, ins for a tun Ould like to see It run enue to Jamaica, REMM) WM, This road te run lo. 181 Bumher a rul Public needs or to New York and workmen are Ist Orowd into what- No shelter provided At 10.80 thi Lat Sumner avem io aafen ly an hour wi Tam In tavor Fi Cc. 1 NO. 70 Hancock street, alesse Pe An Bie My The company does not run & No. 25 Stuyvesant avenue. carr, and they ai iné drops you. out at the any shelter while wait wood car, CARY of Jan, 11 t watted a: ulton street for sy rom 7.40 unti) AM ROGUB, Herklmeratte' ot, ae, he four or five a I have writtén several times to Dow 8, Bmith about the flat-wheeled car 3) AND, AWAY avenue, (ea hsehininhy Much watéred stock call- di otherwise It could Xouse for rush hours, and holiday se Reously deficient. a4 ee Some of them make aN eh noe as a heavy ive on Nostrand venue, ki y family awake, The flat y ashes “iso make 0) should be remedied je the dumping of sgengers from Fulton sireet cars at eld avenue, where they are kept walt. Ing without the least regard for women. or children unth it suits the raflroad to carry them to their destination, u used on a © BRMOND. 8. No, 318 Decatur sir 72 Sixth aveniie, Hall for a car out ter whether It Is storm! 10 #et @ oar it {8 hardly wafe to get in | Heigk CF Cunaltig tne cay ‘e het ir the or hot, neineoP idge entrance un open, no mat. Kd not be toler+ No, 61 Nostrand avenue, No. 281 Central are comfortab'e » R. 'T. Company ought to be compelled to close in thelr motormen from the weather and keep the front door closed at all timer, employees would be more civil, service on the Then the poor RUN, HE SAYS, ENTIRELY ON G0-AS-YOU-PLEASE SCHEDULE, etl KA Weg of cars, | 8 cal rowded, and if one hia pen ben bridge and uy full they will not Putnam and Halsey fireet Hine tf about ag voor, with the long walts at the New bridge, as the B, BOI b No, 8@ Hancock street, TRANSIT IN BROO Ins pretty much as uit hegard to the In| ic, ‘Traing run on two- oF five-minute achedule fe schedule orwithout ru-| edule as {t pleases the) JOHN FRROWKY, No, 84 Halsey slreyt. ont run too sma) can noselbly | be more attention pald to ferry trate: NbY. Jc be midway betw town, cars are $0 stop, T am a muni delayed by cars n HATVE BH. AGER, 3 Macon street, Klevated service on I the night hours lent, tralna often running every half hour, to find room t of one of the pt pour trains only have t HK fs exiate every even- md of the bridge hour to got to Gout sireet walk to Smith and take the Smith aty me to werk in thirty minutes ail told (walking included.) believe, whould WM, K, UEERS, $4 Putnam avenue, line whleh takes {hauMctent number of tit our to forty’ mins | parsint ance from New C, W. CLAYETT, No, il Reld avenue, ‘orst system ti the country eanest, moat niggardiy and ever bled the pub. Yours for public the Hrookivn Rotten Transit for its nickels, run Notsrand a jevery half hour—and run them wi LIAM BCHUD hirty-elghth street. wants of real- mn of the pity, Squeene, One fuot and OLIVE wie the winter of our ghcont-nt er’ by ‘Te Evening res pant find B feat, but must ciand World! crowded platform ouleide | nor 4 foothold co ye aro (a the rush hours, Again, if hey pave the power to heat the cars‘ ley put stoves In (hem an, of thelr power for that pi T get out of one car heated ‘he next on w transfer te not heated, on the Halsey n and Gates Avenue, cars run from w cars for from fitteen Hew on some of the bushm # contracted severe colds in the mercury below freeg!ng » heen forced to pay Ato Covey Island, and boon refused transfers from one Loe to another, and denied iransfers on tranatera, walk through the aishis of "trains during blocks on the Bridge In order to reach Manhattan, not to spenk of wading through snowbanke to take the car ahead R. ANDREWS B/MONSON, No, 67 81. John's P.ace ars why don't d not iige any po. HIRAM RHODES, No. 644 Halwey street ae Putnam ond Halsey Street lines to Manhattan, J No. 176 Byergreen avenue, Tt takes fifty minut Island Railroad de) Driggs avenue, tea from the Lan, No. S71 Bergen atreet, The Pitth avenu e surface Iine is the aes Brooklyn, | wenty t ton ferry car 4 most contemptable to walt someti: utes for a Ful Now Yorkers cannot reach the hear: f Brooklyn in less than thite dude through Beat je oo he trek. S$ AS TO SUBWAY ROUTE TO RELIEVE BROOKLYN, Last Saturday yan at Flatbush, | Avenue F wi for a car at 11 P.M. I waited hai At A mreat speed, The mocarman woul He cous not ston to take me abval not help seeing me, as 1 wi fn the light of @ lamp. he next common occurence, Bometimes after midnight T have been at Avenue L and sattle ken a Flatbush avenue cur, which fe I order to enable more people to reach thelr destination cn time, GEORGE KUHL, No. 216 Rdgewood avenue, suppoved to transfer to a Nostcand ay. nue at Flatbush and Nostrand avenué ‘Junction, Coudueior takes fares, res fuses to give transfer, as he says | sprator is there to @lye continuou Ucke:, but no Inspector is to be &: hevppe repeatedly to me and felend:, Whom [ can get to verify my statement, Anbther complaint: No attempt to heat | viee on A)l cars. Hoping The World 1 correct these evils, ag it has many oth- ers, J. WARREN LOWEY, No, 859 Halsey street. Brooklyn Rotten Snail Transit is a dismal failure. 1 have travelled exten- alvaly, but havé never seen such a cow- ardly lot of people as there are in they. receive from thove officials, Would suggest forming a Wigjianoe com: mittee for the director’, Tf you will count the cars going over the bridge you will find there are too many Flush ing aveniie and Graham avenue cars; there are fifteen to twanty of them to jtwo Bergen street or Third avenue jears, I am compelled every morning to | stand on Atlantle avenue and Third! Tagnns ten to twenty minutes rails | for a New York car, Again T woul wuggest passing a law compelling the Hreonlys Snafl rai to provide more cars and seats for ever aarenger, LOUIS CHARLE! IM TH, No, 33% Dean street, ‘The service could not be worse, Munt olpal ownership is what we want to me, {| atop auch nonsense’ BIRMINGHAM, No, 2% Stuyvesant avenue, ‘The Kings County “L" trains running to Fulton ferry are always too cold for comfort, The Board of Health con Who must suffer trom colds, fe. |fracted on care? T. No, 187 Cambridte pl A real live newspaper like ‘The World fy tn ce eo mirwnded to all wood peopte, | |The newepapers oh Brooxiyn, like its alleged rapid tranalt, are too slow—too rovincial, You @re persistent and herefore teldom fal, VEHITAS, BR. T.'s cara are cold. conductors careless; company eriminally careless car congested; citizens casuled, CITY OF CHURCHES. Vhy road Is win gn no ayeiaa whale ever, The oars are ice-boxes and the time it takes to reach New York from Gates avente Is slow and unreliable, RC. WEISS, No, 1100 Gate! One crowded car every half hour tn {he morn'ng across the bridge for Kings County pamengers, An empl oar for local paseingers between 1 and 6 o'clock, WHITE, No, 37 Kingston venue It Is !mpossible to even get on the matform jt St. Murk’s station, Fifth avenue Jine during rush hours, There nue, ANTS MORE CARS RUN ACROSS THE NEW BRIDGE, fan PM ‘The facilities for crossing the Wil- | idge are entirely ;Quate, Crowds large eno or four cara congregate standing |, condescends to send one car al nto which we are packed like oa came along at 11.90, This ts a very Let's dulld some more bridges for | If they will only send some without any seats in them inade- | h to Ml three | R no transfers from elther Myrtle or Vander- run cara regularly ue ai i und. | Greene Gonsequently we have !o pay another bit; do fate on Nos taod avenue line, The his vanderbilt, I have frequently been one of twenty Gath, elevated or surface; itregular ser- People walling at Boerum place and sometimes when It was raining hard, walting for trans- portation by Bouth WILL Atlantic avenue, The facilites at congisting of two stairways, each four fefet wide, leading to main ie are the only means and six carlonds, five the bridge from ‘ t | passage. These rookiyn to tolerate euch treatment as By ahiet Aue hundred to elght reach the bridge cars, No, %8% Putnam avenue, Crowded conditions of the cars and obliged to ride on platform are my com BY CURT: No, 40’ Madison street. It takes from forty-fiy one hour from Rockaway New York; can very neldom get a seat, Between 6 and 6 ri bal run the tisk of ty to get a seat, think Brooklyn Rapid Trai sit could ru trains on a centre track and car on each train for women. 8 NIBBLING, ‘0, 169 Hull street, broken limbs if 1 It Is outrageous that should compel its main on duty al! | buch dangers o} ery as the Tompkins avenue afta PAUL CAINB, women employees to ht and be sub+ attempted robs Ralph avenue car for as en minutes, Then walked on strev fourteen blocks, ug atore, And when [came ie no car in aly PREDERICK No, %3 Marion street, should be wilrred up, 19 (t not thelr) MUCHH ae Alte uty to look after the health of those| went into a dr BR. on the ‘a way through Beant al day. ® new bridgieto cy d avenue from the CHARLES WARD, No, 827 Dekalb avenie, |SYSTEM MAKES HIM LONG For HORSL-CAR DAYS nything but rapld-tranelt, porter fn reached elty within a time heer than ‘by the boasted the outskiris of the A 1 671 Hancock street. The service on the '# entirely thadequate the trame which travel ROBERT 8AAKB, 98 Willoughby avenue Broadway line to take care of {18 no need of transfers to vridge trains: |trains could run chrough If they de- elred, BO, | No. 446 Bergen street, | No lights in gangway of Fulton ferry | 1 station; pagrengers there generally have to open exit gates, There should AYS, Too numerous cards and I would be able to fill them would be enough JAMES FRENCH, 63) Jefferson avenue, iy Management in gener: ard No, 38 Kingston uvenue, 1, like others, must be satisfied with accommodations auch aa provided by the B, R.'T, In rush hours, though they are a dlagrace to the eliv of Brooklyn, AUGUBT ROCHSUER, No, 19 Quiney street, | We require a tune! through Bedford | | avenue connecting Willlamsburg will ail croas car lines tirough the heart cf growth are allowed to smc kolyn = New Yorkers could. then rach Coney Jstand In one-fourth the | tow time To\now tikes, ‘Tpere is a milion shore every peogle who go to bi your, INOR, There ought to be a subway through Bedford avenue, VHOMAS BRLL, No, Bedford avenue, ‘they have not enough Ridgewood "‘L" tralng. ‘They ought to run four or Ave § from the bridge to Ridge. here }4 such a crowd to get off at stations thia wide of Ridgewoot that) OR RICIALS DON'T CARE AS LONG AS THERE'S DIVIDEND ongratulate you on (ie ft couser great delay FRANK PRARCE, No. Hiv Myrde avenue, Mev ouge to take their money oui | tye Rapld and put it ina svbway avough Bedford avenue ‘rom Willan ae burg ty Coney Island, A ghort route for New Yothera to the heart of Brook. lyn. FRED HENHART, No. 80 Tedford avenue. My complaint {8 that you have not agitated for a tunnel through Bedford causing Jara and delays, | and Athy, The ‘management. {4 responsible for hundreds of KLYN SO RAPID Je IT REMINDS HIM OF A FUNERAL, | The cars are Wke a funeral proces- ke the Crosstown line at ci sler ita dtegrace th t W © \t# president even a stockholder f f you don't Wke it you about the only redress } Tt employa ungenuemanly conductor, © spoke Into he the simmer time thore same creat smoke everywhete in the car. ‘or gees them even when t s around his hea ence No, 9 Bedford avenue, emoke pla | mweider them nothing short of an ined band of pirates, absolutely in- | omfort of thelr patrons lo aiftey and to the progr 0 197 Monroe si reet. Brooklyn railgoads to give the residents |of Brooklyn better transit facile) It seems to me that the on thelr transit is so Jony can eonyey their from one paint to another. idente of Brooklyn have been fooled long enoug! and if they do not ftop and be remedied, way no compe’ them to build en anecting 10 the bred, react the bridge, All people don't ‘the bridge tenminal | boere, Tet them tke and We will have botter gor of Rotten Penal JULIUS JENA, No, he remedy. yanlage of No, 2 Btew there Ly nt serch ‘ accommodate the travelling MANGAL BRON, Ever sinco the manage: changed to the BR, ‘Ts Seen rotten, P. MULC incall CITIZENS BLAhFD FOR PUTTING UP Rotten any, Dut Brooklyn ci i | but wait for others to do the actin mer stfeet 1 fifteen or twenty minutes ONLY REMEDY HE CAN SUGGEST IS CITY OWNERSHIP The outrageous practice of dumping passengers on the Gates avenue ii |who want to go to Ridgewood at t jcorner of Gates and Ralph avenu and should not be tolerated, only remedy, interval between rush hours: venience of thelr patrons, amence Of THEQDORE 8, GOULD, cars, Rainy days a person m' would, prevent pe Le New York, = £ cy ROULERERG, |accommodate the Willlamsburg Nines. consenuently Keening the pi avenue and Halsey line, Gates avenue fppy ih aoe to and A in cab, tad i VICTOR BARNETT, —_— SERVICE GETTING POORERINSTEADOF eltles, JACOB LAUFLER, and never get @ weal, R. BOWMAN, tT very po upd nothing but wrecks. aT piiizens ry much, BrvOklye SOHN NORMANWORY, —eenenee morning and compelled to. stand. r y Kked in Nke sardines In AOE Peon ki, ST ETSON, _—— ne Bridge during rua nveniies. ihe Rs Ped. GALLAGHER, your ition through. aa aan FOOTSMORE, care on the heate a, CHAR ORMBI No. Ml Halsey street. tion for downtown train, LEO KERN. No. 08 Fifth avenue, nion. str nue Ble ed dine. CARSTEN PLATE, Fitth avenue, ROBERT _H. TAYLOR, TIKA Union street, THIS ONE LUCKY; HAS TO WAIT ONLY Church aye fo, 742 Madigon. stra wave ith ail the same, DOMINIC MARTINA, No, Ohl Gutes avenue, iarly between HAL M, and 1p, M. Alay between § tnd 7 ML Those are | the hours T travel most, and Tam only a short vider LOUIS BLL, | Brad ard Ditmars etreet, sam and }Talsey Willtimeburg |avenue from the new Willamal Aven ye would | bridge to the seaghore. burg CHAR. ti Bedford even, join together the abuses will never stop, sf BOR one gets from Railroad Commiaaion nam avenue ine, dur! t evening at the Bridge, Wo, me Mod a siseap Would attend to disinesa abuses would tesa service Ani s in New York Clty as far as Bifty-ninth atreet, 90 fiat Uhey can collect and discharge thelr pisengers on the roads, That | Would linmediately etop the crush dt terminals, a8 passengers could Take the car at dis various Bta- {Mons and itywould alleviate the rush, # the (ming woud be filled who they to work aroui vioeeinateut H42 Fulton strest. Cars are not rin on proper time and tt ins Pun to 726 Chauncey strect. | No. S84 Central avenue, Would be. The trou! cern Wahts to FH. rich without any 4 gard for the bY le, MONDS, WITH SERVICE, Not so much sanlnat the Brooklyn Tra Jonnp! e jena for allowing such rotten servic They do the al Ing Worlds a bege ot Hon of the problom, A. R. BAXTER, No, 810 Decatur alist, Extrenely Ree Service on the Lorl- ine, I am compelled tu travel jt every day, In bitter win. ter weather I stand on the corner of | Gates and Nostrand aM 2 walting unable to get a car, No, 19 Bt,’ James place, THINKS HIS quicker time, whould be sent In the moat direct way | to our homes, Instead of bein halt-mile out of the way. flow care from New York are s*n¢ down Fulton Mtreet, thence under the — bridi to Adams street, and so cause ééveral minutes’ delay, raln or shine, without shelter of an kind, is the greatest evil, It Is flerce, Let ul have municipal ownership. That'e the Gg. yi SPA! . No, $83 Jefferson avenue. They do not run enough cara to ace commodate the public even during the do not properly heat them; in fact, have very Uttle regard for the comfort and con+ we not ihe looal express between stations? Then, again, have they not increased the facillties by putting up more straps to hang on? What if morality and deooncy are sac: rificed, Are we not privileged to con- tribute to ® set of men whose “rouls are so small that a thousand couli dance a achottische on a ten-tent piece?” No. 4A Pulaski street. The service is simply rotten. Cold wear rubber boots and coat not to get wet, ‘The cars run as they please; there ia no regular schedule, A bebter service from coming to No. 609 Quincy street. ‘The Sumner avenue Hine does not run cars enough to Broadway ferries t engers standing in the cold in a num+ her of cages no less than pa a hour, 0} 1 carsensugh op Putna ‘There are not. c Beh have waited twenty-eigit minutes on Jower Fulton street, There were five rs en! ify, to ope Ht Pp avenue. Ver: ely 5 nitnam mn v om Bs No, 380 Sumner avenue, BETTER ALWAYS. The service is getting poorer every day and ls the worst that I have ever geon, and I have been in a great many No, 1551 Bro: ve I ride on the Lexington avenue "'L' No, 760 Macon street ervice of the Reld asenue Une or ‘The cars are all wa f rn) The care wake you up every five F, B, ROACH, No, 88 Putnam ave, | minutes and the cara are fre ———a— ve to stand on platforms Witte coud mornhis If you had better Rapid Mraaslt facies You would be helping ‘Phore tn 1dek Of atation. accommoda- tlon at the Brooklyn terminus of the ‘ridge, a tiok cans on Uptown streets, conductors er id | nent, care (09 ¢ Tooked after, ‘Too much 1a grippe caught thereln, ‘0, 29% Monroe at, T have to travel on Sumner aven and Flushing avenue cara night an No, 655 Greene ave, Jon the B, R. T. between you and me, ot never get & Beat; whevire full to the door, piled on the Noor, ' e car moen past iS your street, 4} you eb for a strap, fail in somebody's it's Raaalng to thore with a seat To have a fat mi ‘And walking all over your feet, The Ralph_uvenue cars don't run over No, 46 Chauncey st. We have no service, The jam and da love In the evening is outrageous, Rus) No, 81) Greene ave, There are not enough Putnam avenue Tina and fre not peel / H, BY, TWICE-TOLD TALES O Been watting for Bails minutes hye haoon the St. Mark's avenue sti- \ n A months oy the a ree tiethe the rush hours, | ume the Jounty "I Fee inadauate for the tremendous The express trains don't stop at the} demand for accommodallon station of the Fifth ave- They run ao few Putnum line care New r from Ne ea that ft ie only after @ ter ble struggle that any but strong men can get aboard the ting a seat, ‘The express tfaina don't atop at the Union etreet station of the Fifth aves jae Blevated 45 MINUTES FORCAR You have not enough cars on Reld ivenue, as L have to watt from halt to C-uvarters of an hour for a car at stution of the Union avenue and RR ‘roo slow, Sumner avenue especially, is tiey take no bad money, but they] act, ‘hey do not run enough cars, partlos ‘eet das They are ton scaree, BAe the Pur. Or NstoWee CATR Tt 6 cmon ming ‘Atmy of Brooklyn Citizens Write of Transit Troubles and Favot Evening World's Suggestion as to the Routes for the New Subways. |CRUSH AT BRIDGE MENACES . LIFE AND LIMB OF PATRON — + $0 5 During the rush hours it I@ unsafe for 4 Woman to bourd a car to the Man- hattan terminal, ‘The mad ruen | menace to Hre and ilmb; the utter lack Of heat is such an outvages we service | is the worst, AU . 8 FULLER, No, 46 Quinoy Btreut. The company owns the borough In partnership with our olty goverment, do hot iow what good thle complatht ite i thet the co 1184 Bedford avenue, Being compelled to walt ten to twenty minutes for a train on. the Taxiogian avenue Ue then re oe to nd on the. 1G. a form Bulkich street, 0, 556 a {eagesuate, ‘The n fy the only solu- D. M, M'LAUGHLIN, No. Greene avenue, W tranalt, have been t haifa dozen times, T. J, RILEY, No, 666 Quincy street, I find the cara overcrowded, without Long waits, “ny heat whatever, and the service ia poor in every particular, This condition tonne Brooklyn as a home city nae: sirable, NO, 488 Jefferson a woar any decent c| fall ditty, A man LS Rr i each iats It would take columns of your pi forum to enumerate them, "Now is t winter of our discontent made gloflou summer by this Hat) sei (New York,” The Evening World, ‘ Yahi HS POOTON, Dae Ven avenue, Going to work at night, ag I work nights, I have to walt from ftteen t Went minutes for a car and sometime Aa an hour, and in the there Is no heat, a to collect two fares and the asleep, H 8! nd the con ors No, 148 Glenmore avenue and when you get to Broo! er del lyn you with a jay for the iin 8 re trains, Bomething Cuan, 6 1 ‘ No, 209 Chatincey stres ha man's life to get ctul y i : the onidae on the Nh York By y t to look through the wi A yan nave to take. alo! ‘sore l ng a bink a 9 HORSE kNourE streets, The cars are dirty Bnd you cannot ‘and. Aina! nide'on the B. R. rs at all. N KOUICKE, Rodney and Ainaloy atreels. Our section of the city ta one of the great niftorere Hepes Uh atone MUHAR oment of the B. R, T. ve an ; Seventh avenue cars City Hall. F. W. ABELL, No, 02 Third strect. What have we to complain of? Have local and express service? stopping at all stations; the CHARLES F, BECKER, No. 6% Hancovk street. Service on the Broadway and Reid avenue ile is Outrageous, especially about 6 o'clock In the avenue . . MILLER, No. 661 Quincy street, Brookiyn, am @ regular rider on the Fulton if street line, both anrface and "L' roads, and have to get out at Reld avenue and Fulton gtreet in all kinds of weather and t at least fifteen or twenty minutes, and then heve to hang or the back platform. ANIHL J. CARRY, JR., ‘0, 227 Hull street. Brooklyn, ——a Lexington avenue "LL" cara are under too much headway Had to walt mone day evening for Lexington avenue tr-in while three Fifth evenue “L" traing passed, H Shea No, S71 Bainbridire e! taken & | aie service 18 generally poor, brea rush hours on Kings County box cara in need of repairs, Ralph ayve- fue car behind during rush hours. No room on car behind. except on roof, SECTION SUFFERS MOST—SO DO OTHER WRITERS, Not enough trains on Kings Co’ during morning rush how ante ing room only, six lea fret Now Yorks HEMMB, Brooklyn, i, No, 118 Hull ‘The service is no better outaide of those hi ir ithe rush hours than during oUTe, | They cut it down to the last poten bi 924 ) sistent with getting all the nickels, “ and trolley, all are bad alike, F, B, PATTHRAON, No. 286 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, Travolling in its trains 16 a torture in the rush hours, The trolley cars are | few and far beiween and the people ara ‘packed In like sardines, Both are very slow as compared to New York lines, F, HARDON, No, 141 Bushwick avenue, Cars down and some are run “No paee Sengers,” Digraceful scramble at, the Bridge loop, Rh te removed from Fulton street and Fiate bush avenue and placed on side streeta, he "'L" road should be WYMAN W. ATWATER, No. 377 Mrst streot, The cars aro too few and fat between, 80 when they come to my etation they Are so crowded T am forced to stand On the dlattorm and expose myself to All kinds of weather MAY © HOGATS, Ns, 810 Macon st. The service on Broadway and Rocke fway avenue, Brooklyn, {s very poorg vars few and far between. C. B. OTTMER, No 18 Rockaway Av. Btanding room only during JAMIE M'ROBERT, No, 118 Hull street, Brooklyn, WOULD TAKE AWAY FRANCHISE UNLESS BETTER SERVICE IS GIVEN, Tis service {# rotten, Its franchise ought to be taken awa: at will pred fdas ee a eating eyey chance. ve care enol Beaty of men’ are walting for Jooe, M and some cor. Itaelt to give ut will not rin B.A. A p No, 5 Bainbridge street, ema easing cold, . H, BALOMON. No, 28 Atlantle avenue. eon mper't | jd and ventilators not A TRAVELLING MAN, —— ee an standing close as | |G, KRAUUBB, No. Ii Wooabine atreet, train sorvioe 18 whoily meet the condition of civilised travel during dusinoss hours. The condition at the Broo! a Alsgrave, FRANK No, 1 put up by Rorsite time table you cui any transit wort The care are not Froneriy peered ie inadequate yn platforms and In tratna is i TYLER, 270 Classon avenue. ‘Their policy is, let them walt or walk, ‘Thy Union street and Fifth avenue sth. tion Is the bert on the line, but express tratns do not stop there and passengers are compelled to walt anywhere from seven to fifteen minutes during rush hours. Salas P, M'BLGAN No, Union stre Bince the loop at I w York wag cre has been no fd Govend upon or ume BUCHOLD, ow Jersey avenue, 0 They run too few cara on the Vane derbilt avenue tine from Manhatian ters mianl, ala while for inains, ‘They do not transfer to Green and Gates Flatbush avenue Ui c have to walt a long venue line, not LENBEDK, idenvilt avenue, No, wb V. The rush Is #0 ad you are lable to get an arm or log broken every time you ride, ED, SAVAGE, ot, No, 781 Madison #t SYSTEM R not enough cars In operr~ a! he terminal fuclil- a | C, BAKER, GHORGT Macon atreet, —— York terminal during the rH, let alone get , B, BLACKMAN, No, 17 Halsey street, ——— lis principle seems to be to Allain a) minimum of service for a maxi mand, The unspeakably vile service on the Hidgewood "1" Ie 'not to be cum= mented upon, We want something bet- than @ commlskion that does nut) prised 19 see the rudenesa of the con= i. BAKBR, | ductors trying to flint with young girks, um de. | No. 2% Hart street, ‘They. run too few passenger cars on the Fifth avenue trofiey and too many dirt, ash and freight cars, Aleo too few locals on the “'T,"” JAS. ANDERSON, No, 338 Fourteenth street, I am often delayed waiting for ron-| ? Inections on the "L'' road, The B. R, T. cat lines.” they ts | does. not. run cate enoueh on surtac O “L' lnea, Th in olther the su or 'L! care, JULIUS W. BBHN, SOL Pultea ‘sere ho the cause of! At the New Y. t ere 4g nO heat] one has to walt, fifteen to iventy thirty minutes for a car, They do noe Tun care Peis F OUTRAGEOUS EPEATED BY VICTIMS, More cars are needed and should be heated on gero vaya at leas tenths of the pneumonta oy chargeable to the Be R, I Co. Nino- es ae : CW. GREFFIN, No. #8 McDonough street, The crowds are so great that your | lite {ap In danger, CHAS, SAVAGE, No. 761 Madison street, The Brooklyn Bridge service during the furl hour, alt ait Leen! nies service morning and night (upon The service is too slow, If you misa/T ride) ie'a menace to ite ana Hl Mi one train It meane jen minutes wait A. TOURS it before the néxt. Cars not heated and the crush at the Brooklyn exit is de- | moralising and a menace to the publle, Almost had a rib Prone On ee ae one occasion, ‘ Bl No, 648 Union street, They do not run cars on time, and No, @7 Decatur street, | the cars are awfully crow | ded, JOHN HOPKINS. Madison atreet, No, evening whila I am comi om business, when the cang ats ed, T am very mugh sit WILLIAM BUGG, No, 90 Steuben atreet, ‘They are very good for sleepy peoples you can have @ nap morning, Noon OF night, but not tn way cold weather, Ri N GEENER, No, 141 Fourteenth street. They do not run enough cars on tho ‘| Putnam avenue and Ha ork ald streat line, the bridge of ‘ly. G. LI’ 1B, (XW Debahir aires