The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1905, Page 6

ARD AND EVEN COURTS DEFIED BY B.R. T. MANAGERS. lief. May Come with Subway if It Goes » Through Crowded Districts and Is Not Controlled by the Same Men Who > Operate Present Transit Line. it may be, but the thousands of Brooklynites who suffer under shed transit conditions that prevail In that borough from Greens ] nd ure not filled with enthusiasm by President Winter's fa of more cars in the indefinite future, pcre they too hopeful over the investigation of. transit conditions to indo by the Staté Railroad Commission at a hearing {n ‘Brooklyn on i ' then, the victims of the system have in times past heard the prom- ] 3. R. T, managers made and never seen them fulfilled. They have ad of orders for improvements made hy the Railroad Commigsion and have even seen the courts and the law defiod in the matter of : 80 can scarcely Le blamed for a prevalent bellef that the L. Kk. T, ‘and its victims helpless, tate Railroad Commission is to hear the complaints of citi- ‘bouks of the company te find out if any effort has been made to ooks been ee i rt, long waits, cvercrowded cars, irregular schedules, And ‘ot them runs this same note of hopelessness; "What's the| ‘ne’? ‘the writers eee sume hope in the subway If routes are selected towed districts and control 1s not vested in the hands of the: pen who operate the B, R, T. lines, THE COLD, COLD WORLD — 1S SUNU AT ALL TRANSFER POINTS. way I meet with such frequent chee that i one it my aera arying to reach a given point at @ cer- ie “ime, I earnestly hope for speedy reltef, WILHEMINA WAGNER, No, 69 Sohenck avenue, pone. Through ali the thousands of letters received by The prisoner between. ie to Bust iy saaeiven to despera- hé planks to the nearest Daag ear A ditions o: ice to otviliza- ‘the bum. one, GEORGE JOHNSON, 9 ‘Bchenck Ave: ta, snlaNov 249 Buglid avenue, | tHe corner of Pultoa a bi erbilt avenue many cold * mi web ‘(nitty minutes ranuter ‘anderbilt car, Any ¥ gee! et bp the pul fe, Since ey are doin wh. 0. MAC dgt oe Overcrowding and poor serylce,’ ¥, WELSR, No, 44 Hark) street: rule I have sto walt twenty for a Ralph axanue cat. No. $10 Henkkner treet. | ree ea y Prospect avenue, Hanis d be done vent Poel Being Mah med In the during the rush} Not enough cars ‘on the Putnam a neangerini ral EHO aay yer ue oa OHERERE WEBTON, - (Gna lines of ihe Browklyn, Rand ——— Ta ee yo a ‘Macon treet, ecrviarcoac aD room at stations wdenyy sand no! Spout iheaton 2a, renger. Ridgewood ling, 590 Alyrtle avenue, Paes seid Le On Park ayeue during rush hours cara are inefficient in number and are dangerously overcrowded, Myrtle ave- nue carries leas passengers (han Park averme and Nate Reyes twlee aa je i bic eat SOHN C, HANS, No, 700 Park avonue, hy troliey pote to Li ) Cypress Hills, Too i er. Cold ca (4 ‘ting, BG. TAYLOR, 592 Chestnut street. led to wait anywhere 9 thirty minutes for a ing dawntown, In coming: dine from four to six East to one Cypvess Hill car. berty Joc Ooi con reet division, “Nis Pine attest, | 1 hog €O98 nd will may 5 street, y nothin ¢ ~ _ nothing na. F, STOAT. on No, 149 Van Buren ptreet, the surface ca JEST WORK OF THE DAY IS IN "GETTING ABOARD B. R. T. CARS, ‘Yo pot decent transportation service {i Brovklyn, pnlen ne pero non he we " e, dv) . KOU PES, Present HME. eas Atlantic Avenue. ly two weeks igo womun' trom falllig off the station platform. , for INS. No. 871 Fifth avenue. On the Jamaica (Broadway) line they I ever | pun in blocks of five of six, thon there 1d night | js a walt of ten to twenty minutes, aia Fun uny more cars thai ie) halt (he time we're put Off at Alabasnn M the orsxengers Ii nicely. /aveaug to, wait In the cvid for a car. Rot belleve in waving ANY spine und again, rather t Wei. PORTH, © | wait at this end | have walked und No. 151 Schenck avenue. | have reached Alabama avenue, before CH. ‘ CK, iowa when one gets nboand a) {Me car ACK, Pain, but one never knows ‘ 3B Miton Bt, ieoine to.arrive at one's des: g rs Bate have express) Walt at Woodhaven avenue and Ja- lopale interim. matca for twenty minutes for a car J. M. COLLINS, and wnen one comes the conductor No. 3 Norwood avenue, {tells vou lt is Hast New York. Then \ » eanreeamemnauel | vou walt twenty minutes more, G, 't, COMBTOCK, to patronize the (Cates for over ‘thirty vears—- atem-—cannot depend oj sees TILTON, . No. 639 Madison street. i We reoelyo poo’ service, vig; badly healnd cars and irregular schedules und would like to have subway ex- tended along Fourth avenue route, vice 13 simpy It} The cars on Lexington avenue "I!" ible to Ket a oar fand Broadway surface cars ate &o out waiting from fifteen | overcrawded that I. usually stand on nutes, ‘Trolley and ¢le-|one leg on the platform, It is impos- ible to figuve on the ‘you may reach Manho No, 112 ime in tan, RB. ancoek street, which No, W Gunther VICE POOREST POSSIBLE IF CARS ARE MOVED AT ALL. lee ig the pearert posable; , because there are not enough cars, 1 C there !s no heat In the cars|consider the officials indirectly mur- needed, and !n spring the|derers, and they should be severely punished, It Isa wonder the subiic aa etood the abuga,so long, You w Peopie of Brooklyn, H, | i fiin too late fn the sea- ey are never stopped be- Ly it te too In the fall, All che bai’ ines nih the heaviest jrattic i Vo the necessary number of | h HO1 instance. the Putnam avenue #0 poorly that one has to, to ten minutes before get I D, Their cars are nover heated, es} ly tho elevated line street to elty ), No, 684 Macon street. more so on Fulton line and Rastern Park way, It ts Infurious to one's health tc rid’ ty cold cars, and this complaint |s sanctioned by all who use the elevated fay my ne hor No. tat any time run revulo fo noe male trips in as 4 ip ebble, Fi } re run, it tea Afteeneminute tread w ) AH. BC RANK KIRBY, vv 1206 Herkimer street, MERE, Lewis avenue, tne foot of Broad. minutes for a Broad. Ing from the ferry B, PRAY, T have to wait a way from 20 to 3 way cir every ey It's a dd cura My the moweat, least ac. Ine and poorest managed eys- street railroads I have ever hy} to be compelled to pat- ) tht cary Ae. ed pd Pate | ___ Nou tid Macon siredt ; ENBURGH. m | To de corcise—delays, ignoring sched No, 17 Brokett street, | ute nok of station room on Brookiyr ——- { brides, which Is a menace t ol and insuMolent number of tr GEORGE GOLDBTON No, 8 Bay Twenty-ninth street, side ans ul the B. R, T.| lite, a Watching to sce the improvements made, | ‘ons as ordered by the board when it last Investigated the) same complaints—too few cars, cars cold and unsanitary,’ Mr, PD, Wete@he A Ofttel service of the Brook! success In it, Brooklyn Bridge noth tne Manhattan though been complete for the purpose of Poulet nothing belne done elevated connection wit! that ft can be put (it ts supported) It Ate our city o} the Impression tha about i? 1 1) kesting that a litte Iai questions might to aon i 8 nO Brook: there Is no RB, 4 Diished before the Btate would foros the B, guird ala on the "L" stations on the ple aio in dan, rout of moving inink the thanks of the floulty, every ‘pi three stand, seat pay three cant } the comptin: ‘or the | They w least to Jamilca, ™ be\provided for, JO! It the) County fine to the fel Breaawey) Bpookys, and ‘not make. the gy pairs of stairs and wilt No, seen young girls {n the most shame ble for elthey of thal pal owner! Kip, Ni only remedy, from Cleveland street during rush hours, gtrect’ nearly half a Tsland trains, LAWS OF STA night Is an outrs having vestubuled cat Disirict-Atorney cous & law of humanity, furnish this protec! |davery other city In | thelr moturmen com! | ABA They should packed bo stutbtation, RAN: wi the bridge, where eve publ fi twenty to twenty-five minutes for Broadway traln, it would be 99) Pi The service t beyond hoy sed o) t get HSHiR, radford street, Cars sre cold Takes ove! Avehue ah, ie tort. No, 40 Clit ICTIMS —— WHY NOT MAKE WILLTAMSBURG BRIDG)} USEFUL? jome Per- tinent Qnéstions for City to Answer, Your campaign against the IneMctent Tre in Ray pid Transit Bridge? Why, the Wiuiamabaee Bridge d tor over & not being used in ron senkers and thus affordini to thé other’ bri ApouE he i ht do gomet! accomplishing the object Ww! man or woman who finds It nece: live it Brooklyn would ke to see they aro com- to Jeave this clty for one that ridge and where B,D. WRIGHT. Railroad Commission R i to put up jatforms of tle rooklyn aide of tvening tho Ing shoved In they would have wd, GW. There Is ohly one way out of the dif- Charge five cents asseligor that has a seat and cents for those who have Tf you enter a car and all seats are taken and there ta nd room for a , | Beek DAY: py, No matter if you 4s to tho present lack ut transit facilities on Tuceday, It will also ex-| the company. to tuknian 6 i te people to find a wa; company, No man or ooly money for better IM reotive just as much by not may show euch oftorts—though as far as the public knows | epending Sy urAat J, CAMPBELL, would only) run at the foot of the city tine, two to Holding New York ithe Bae RON No.1) Wawwiele “Coming home -¢roth New York on i the Pulton avevue tnailey a can never: TE No Company Will doubtless do & great deal of good, and I desire to wish you every AS bearing on the question of how to telleve the present dally rush at the T would ask ing has ben done for & vear eh why {ent i i ny eh fare for Ita rvice when The subway to Kast New York should be started at once, and should run at section should SARCASTIC BROOKLYN UBSERVER AT THIS POINT RISES 10 REMARR, it is iment way iy ridge #0 ju My \ie for which was Intended? Miclais laboring under there J8 no hurry ha. iberty of sug- the above toward v to up to to futnish enough seats for the public or to find a wey for we If you want a Jamaica avenue car, men will| about six or eight will pass Norwood Thero is no rule without an ex the “L," the B, R. T, dictionary. Said Greenpoint to Bay Ridge: A car on the street Is worth two AB. R. T. victim insists on tell; gertain stations Ce a face cars you ne’ On RORERT FERGUSON, No, 181 Ven Buren street, ——$—$— t to beng thrown out of the Broatwsy Lat Van Sicklen avenue to expresses almoly skip ret crowd the locals pon, count on change tor Cypress Hills. The B, Ry 'Tr, Co, has three acres of land at Jamaten avenue, between Crescent and Helos ph Pt which could be ing. utilized for sw! " Re FLEMING, No, 68 Raflroad avenue, = My wife walted at a so-called trolley station at place for twenty min- utes with a baby In her arma for a preas Hilts cur, only to be left ptanding there the mgtonman, who put on. speed loin No, lifoad avenue, | ‘The B. R. T. Company having abol- ished the Hamilton cars from Thirty- ninth Street Ferry (except at evening, when one or (wo are pit on), people are compelled to go ) Bay Ridge ave- nue to get anne on we us ie 1 ownership. Away with grafters! a CHARLES BLETDON Seventy-third street, Avenue and not one stop for you, You are lucky to get @ cat in half an hours THOMAS SMITH, No, 88 Norwood avenue, It is almost impossible to sleep, as the ash cars crossing on our corner on Marcy avenue shake the whole neigh- borl A, LUDWIG, PERRIG, No, 186 Halsey street. the Kingy| Instead of runnin, trains as-at pres- elimb ovement, RAN, hd street, , 1 have wainst mm jl manner, Impossi- ove, Mun street. Ret a thro! ear, but have to wait road’ 18 most inadequate, owlws at Reid avenue fifteen or twenty min- Aptis lack of terminal fecilities, which utes, with no ahelter, oefen jn the! ought to have been provided long ere ra'n or Intense cold, and then boart ®/ tnis, Ww. H. UTLEY, Remsen street, (iy EF BA at ihe reely pane: 4 —_———_——— AACR Ds room, ayo! WT} LOW! have various grievances against the If possible, 1AENS, rene oe’ which Mr. Winter Is presi: No, 17) Herkimer sireot. j Pll L has fewer it more crowded than ever during rugh hours. The so-called ND HUMANITY, 100, AB BROKEN, The conditicn of the surtace cars at heat. Noi to protect motor- nen crossing the bridge during the win- ter Is one of the meitest conditions ex- focng jn our cliy and our respected hot ¢mpivy his time becter than to compel tals cor- poration of total self to comply with (f Not of Bute, aud from weather, country gives YRON, to avente, run on the Brighton | Beach line at least every ten minutes during rush Hours, as they bre always vi AN har MOWLEEN, vi heat in chins, like dogs, Crooke avenue, You don't know whether or not you han stand and|Wlil get to work of break down. No ‘Toey handie the people ‘0, 19 Karmount. | $xHED and HARRY SHAW, | The carson the Lecimer ftreet Ine are filthy and are run on a ver; r | Sineduie’ ‘This ie nothing unusual, bur | subway. Ralph avenue and Park [has been the cage for yearm, and £ am | Avenue cars now run once a week wn | glad to see The Word take hold of the |dnaiter for us individuals of the Green- Our complaints have not point section, had the sllghteet effect. WALT! No, 1 N R_ BURDUN, Dean street, | —s— | DON’T BLAME IT Kicking again | men ON THE MOTORMEN, This letter is not meant for the com- mon sense peuple who are wallefied with the railroad ofvielais, | Duc it Is addressed to those who cast } slurs on the poor, harl-working motor- Let me tell those people that I'd Ike tu ceo them get up at 5 oclock every morning and atand on the front of @ trolley car until ¢ or 7 oclock, at night, with about half an hour for din- ple that 4, word to the ner, Let me tell thes they would speak a. kin motorman {t wou'd do mere good thin howling and cursing; also to pe* their Assemblymen and Senacore | Buv- | To extend the bill compelling rafirouds Plan {s the best way to help the) to have the fronts of their curs Incloset |so as to resch Kings and Queens coun , ther sua thes, dy the BR. roncern, You see, Phat takes all the Br Conveniences ave ther That would Jui [And youve ha da 60) voklynites’ cash, | @ vt At the bridge you get on Te you are not tramp ed on, Hoping you will conunue your txit or Brooklyn subway, aay your tight | L have seen your map for the proposed (gaint ic burgian, robber and thlef {subway for Drooklyn, and would sug- i-| syscem, but for God's eake leave the Best that @ crosstown line connecting J pool, suffering. motormen. tnd conduc: | the new Willlamaburg bridge direct tors alone MONORMAN'S SON, [With Coney Teland by. going througir soe Bedford avenus, which ls almost # suit a bear, Ike trast, tonaidered as freight with a label, hang. ‘To a etrap vou may Hear the fat wheels And get to your home A Everything comes to him who walte o will Fulton street "L'' if you wat: R H , (one enough, clang, if afenue, " ol | the an hour nhattan ars overcrowded, Bridge ey ent between the City Hall and New AN There are not enough cars during the tush hours, also the other times of the day, Not transfers enough, Cars are not’ properly heated when so needed | most, CHAS. By No, 600 Warren street. ——— I have not space enough here to give my complaints, I consider the man- agement very weak and poor. I have travelled in al! your principal elties and’ have never seen worse. H. BURTIS, No, 6 First place, pe | Crowded condition of cars during rush houra to my mind is condition of great- onvenience. i ot NJALL 1390, Fulton ‘street, sees Satie dent and one |s the very poor translt service at night. CR. L. ‘This card is not large enough to st my grievances against the B, RT, I have ihe honor to be the first passenger on the Reid uvenue line since It started In 1874, THOMAS JUMINGER, No, 583 Macon street. (he servien 1s more than rotten, and aie shamenl a a ced hilpehtta to h submit to such transit. Ba Ae JOHN H, BLOOD, JF No, 0 Jefferson avenue, Jt 1s entirely Inadequate for the pub= lo, ‘The only solution t! I can see |9 the subway Ae Pat Ree and out roadway, Hope it will come soon, s ai A, RINDSKOFF, No, Tl Madison avenue, jt Retween 6 and 7 o'clock I have to stand from Gates avenue every morning, 1) walt fron fifteen to twenty minutes, und the same at the bridge between 4,90 and 6 o'clock every night, H, R, SPRAGUE, No. 1368 Broadway, l very rarely get a seat in the morn- Ing or at night on elther the Fulton street eljated or the Putnam avenue trolley, . B. KOLYBR, JR, No, 633 Decatur etreet, On Bunday Jhn, 1, car No. 2,163, of tha! Broadway line. left Jamatca about 6.8%, WAIT AN H Brooklyn should have und must haves twice on Sunday. ‘The broadway Ine 18 about the worst line for travel In the city, ‘hey run about five vars jo tive minutes and then walt an hour for the next. | am cpposed to your plan for the suoway, 1 unink by running 1) through Putnam avenue Instead of! Gates avenue Jt would give the sulfertig | pwolic a service, Also to ran another subway from Jamaica to the Broadway ferries Going downtown from Rocka- way avenue and Sumpter street, no Hamburg avenue car in sight, walkea down Rockaway avenue to Broadway and walted fifteen minutes for a car, At last one came along and as it was crowded I had to siand on the front platform with the motorman, Got uit at Gates avenue and walted six minutes for a Gates avenue car, Took me ong nour to get to Adams street; got off at Gates avenue with a transfer to a crosstown oar, Waited thirty-five min- utes for that and the conductor had the nerve to ask me for a nickel because ny transfor was punched late, From Rockaway avenue and Sumpter stree to Verona street it took me just three hours and one minute, | GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEL. leraight line, be added, Bedford ave: | nue fs a wide nyenue free from surface ears and casy to tunnel It rune | thruogh the heart of Brooklyn, cross: | ing about fifteen car lines that run east and west Ww York people could com= over the Ne York bridge ‘and jand tn Coney Taland. In. twelve minutes. {y not only a short yrute for people going to Coney Teland | Hitt also for any Now Yorker who de- | tires to. reach any nublic building or [{heatre or armory in the heart of | Pirooklyn. LED. | I would like to call your attention to the frightful condition’ of affairs on the trolley, roud running to Calvary Ceme- tery from ‘Mhirty-fourth street ferry at Long laland City, Tae people of Brook+ OUT The greatest press aegociation in the world—patronage of the B. R, T, from Cypress Hills to the Bridge, To avoid making mistakes the B, R, T, does nothit “Qapaciry-Three hundred passengera. in a car built for fifty,” says Don’t count the minutes you have lost till you hive missed a B, R. T, ear, You'll have plenty of time for the job then, hear them; then geta angry if you appear to enjoy the story. NO EAT NO TRANSFERS FIVE CARS IN FIVE MINUTES, THEN OUR—THE SCHEDULE, | | ton of South Brooklyn and hay ception, even the -tanding one on “It’s a long time between trolleys,” in thé barn—to the public, Ing his troubles as if you wanted to CHARLES 3, KAHLERT, York (via Hulton street on; should algo run then via Teeingish avenue, There should also be a direct service | bet’ ery ated the city line an VILLIAM M, M'NAVGHTON, No. 444 Hendrix street, Let Winter sleep, Go to the Legisla- ture and try and Kae our representa: tiveg enact’ laws eive us the pro- tection that belongs to us. If you wake Winter the trustees will fire him and elect some new man with the same old promises, P. Hy M'KENNA, No. 708 Dean street. The way B, R. 'T. runs |ts Lexington avenue trains is fierce, most of them golhg to Gates avenue only, Thoy should also run all Putnam avenue cars to Ridgewond, CLARENCE BE. HATFIELD, 1284 Hancock street, The service on the Seventh avenue Une Is simply outrageous, B. LEIFERT, No, 435 First s.reet, Tam compelled to tse the ‘cattle line’ of Brooklyn, or, in other words, the’ Myrtle avenue "1," from Ridgewood | to the Bridge, which runs on a schedule} of one train every half hour. Tget on at the Knickerbocker avenue station, and IT have to stand up all the way to the! Fridge. I think the city ought to take| (iis toad and give us enougn cars and trains to make us comfortable, JOHN A, MERKLE, No, 193 Stanhope street. | The B. R. T, must think that the| people residing above Reid avenue aro Not as good as those below that point, The same service, bad as it Is, would be better than what they are getting, Mrs. O, KNUCKLEKORN, No, 155 Herkimer street. D NOT CARS ENOUGH. arriving at the car barn in Rast Now York about 6 P, M, The motorman and conductor, their working time being up, loft the car, While waiting for two! rew imen five ears following were switcned head of the above car, whici! continued Its trip after a walt of fifteen minutes, A little common sense or con- sideration for the passengers would have suggested aiving tranefers to them, but the B. R,_T. {sn’t built that way, GEORGE 0. ALLBRECHT, No, 182 Quincy street. Front door should be kept closed, People should be seated before car starts, W. A. MOORE, No, 43 Halsey street, They are not ‘compelled to clear the snow from the a(reets at corners where) thoy discharge and take on passengers. T bellove that steam rallroads have tu rrovide a platform for their patrons, Why should not sireet railroads provide a proper place? A.W. WHITE, No, 337 Lexington avenue, Thare is, under present conditions, ab- solutely no cermainty of getting eithe to or from Manhattan without exasper atin, lays, accompanied by a degree of pl cal discomfort which renders the journey a penalty to be dreaded rathér than a oleasure Lo be sought. Mrs, HETTIP G, IPLOREN No. 39 Mi judison street. Few cars—cold, dirty cars G* ORGS W. raLTON, No, 522 Putnam avenue, The headway between the cars nearly all of {ts lines la too great, on or The cars do not run often POUR rece give transfers running in elther tlon on some of their lines. WILLIAM H. TAYLOR, No, 485 Sumner avenue, Brooklyn Rap’ ‘ransit should run expresé trains from Gates avenue loop as well as trom Cypress Hills, GUS ANGER, No, 1407 Broadway, etter service on the Reld avenue line ier Broadway ferries; also for clean whole cars to replace the wrecks of the present. A. M. ROACH, No, 819 Putnam ayenue, R, T, for clothes indly ch ree ine B, pt 2a a as ra ree bold No. 47 Madison street, lyn, {{ they cannor get one car, can possibly reach another by @ walk of a ‘ew biocks, but there is only one line | to Calvary, The cars are the old horse | cara, with trolley attachment, and run | at so Infrequent intervals that between | the running of the cars a crowd of peraons numbering from two to three nundred await the arrival of the next var, which on @ pinch can ony carry 8 imagine | As the who ane ging to vialt their dead at the dif- ferent Semieteries, thelr feelings cannot be pictured, ‘These cars algo run to Lutherap, Mount Olivet, 8t, John's and ouicr Cemeteries, You will find this no idle complaint, A BORROWING ONE, I am heartily in favor of your crusade against the B, R, T., being a resident) vf Brooklyn for twenty-three years and tinding transit rapidly growing worse, T mint add I travel through we hast und not one city has the ‘'rotten” ser- vice of Brooklyn, CHAS. D, MOSSCROP, While fighting against the abuse whieh the Brooklyn Rapld Trans, heaping upon the public, woud ic be possible to lessen te abuse to whi ta employees are subjected Lam a employes ‘of the company and T get te work Jn the morning at 7 o'clock, hay ing to leave home at 6.30 A. M. Wher Tam through my day's werk and i ws after 10.) M. Hoy EMPLOYES. sarned $1.50 it about slaver Tam a nasive of the Bay Rice sev vac but owing tr upon us by there for fifty-two year the awful condiions the Brooklyn Rapld Transit) Company {, with many others, have been com velled to give up in despair and move ‘o Manhattan unt conditions in Brook: lyn have permanently changed, whicl will be when muntelpal Ay Bd of a) lines of travel, both city and vuburbaa, has been esta ed. WILLIAM J, LEE, | No, 101 Mast Bighty-sixth atreot | 4 i id |Avenue a wagon belong.ng to a prom: | a | pany, which Is the same, fed | becoming Infested with them. un 4 " Ay igh ta iris Te — ey CONDUCTOR POINTS OUT SOME REASONS FOR LONG DELAYS I am a conductor on the Flatbush avenue line and have been on the rear end of a troltey car for (ie past twelve yet 1 bi from experience ft 1s impossible for any management to give sallsfactory service so pad ag the street car has to give the right of way to) everything that crosses tie street, ave travelled through the principal cit les and usually the street cars haye the Night of way over all vehicles + x-) cept those that use tho streets whe rotecuung Iie and nroperty, Take Bt, uls, for instance. The drivers of bu.s- eas Vehicles ay well ay people on foot look out for the cars Lefore crossing track, In Brooklyn the motorman must svely: aireet, You never see th automobile stop whel wpproaching a street railroad rossi ny. Yet they should give the right of way io the trojiey car, as it isa public vehicle, There is no ex- cuse for drivers to get on the tracks id delay cars, Yet on my B18 A, M, trip from Avenue N Depot, at Foster Inent firm doing business on Fulton treet pulled In front of my car and droye slowly on the track for spout fat a mile before pulling out and al- lowing the car to naas, hen we ar- lved at Winthrop aires anothers wagon belonatn to a mode) bakery In New York pulled {n front of the car for tive blocks, When we arrived at Malbone street 1 was nine minutes behind my regular time; this @ ine a headway of fourteen minutes, 1 had but five minutes’ headway when meeting with the first wagon, and instead of having two and thre passengers walling, att corner as would be the case If 1 was on time, I had from nine to. fifteen. That many passengers cannot gel on # car ag fast as two or three, And conse. quently there was more delay. T arrived Ti'New York Afteen minutes late, Cag the management be blamed for delay, of this kind? When Jim Smith Is ariyng a wagon along the street he cares ve little Ror Jim Jones, who happens to be re ae UHOM AB. MOYLETT, No, 1601 Hast Forty-clghth street, Y onnections, Bema Paki OTTO TRAFFIC. Because the follows Re tte ouets it crows je public ). | they must not er RORGE BUSH, 27 Stewart street. Broadway service of the B. R. T. Is Hittle bit leas than that of the old horse cars that frequently run on that line; the overcrowding Is beyond en- dunance. JACOB FRIEDMAN, The aystem is so absolutely rotten that {t Is bevond description, But what {9 the use of complaining—there will be no remedy under the present management HOPELESS, No, 708 Lafayette avenue, There are an Insufficient number of trains on Myrtle avenue .Iine; over- crowded cars and sometimes cannot 8. READER. et in at all, m No, 70 Hart street, ‘The transportation of the B. R. T. Is very poor. Lam in favor of The Even, IngWorld’s Subway plan. have to wait fully twenty minutes for a Fulton street car, J, SMITH, No. 2 Jardine place. ‘They have not enough cars on any line, especially in rush hours, I have been pushed into the cars with one arm in ‘the alr and could not get it down because I did not have room enough to breath. LYNCH, 394 Lafayette avenue, They treat employees putrameoualyy 1 know’ a man who reports dally and tn three weeks got thirty-six hours’ work, earning $4.50 to keep @ family, Cars are dirty, unventilated and don't run often enough. Smoking is permitted in closed cars. Jamming simply inhuman— twenty-one people on one platform of a traln the other night. CHAS, M, SKINNER, No. % Vernon avenue. —_—~— TIME FOR THE CITIZENS TO RISE IN THEIR MIGHT, IT saw in The World an article under the pending of ‘The B. R, T, Dum a Menace to Health.” I must say it {s-certainly about time that the clifzens of this borough would rise up and protest against this high-handed pleco of rascality practised by the B, R. ‘ or rather the American ‘Traffic Com+ | also blame the Street Cleaning De- partment who awarded them this con- tract. I, with other property owners, think It would be a charity for the Board of Health to do away with the dirty, filthy pesc holes the De antment vf Street Cleaning and the American ‘Traffic Company have located in Brook. lyn, called their stations, [ am. a property owner near one of “hese dia- eage breeding holes, where Italians sort out dirty, filthy rage and mattresses, cans, etc., in the thickly populated ‘treets night and day, No sleep or reat for us, Rats you can see run- ung like rabbl-s, aid our homes are Now, dear World, God bless you ‘for ths Rood work you are taking up. Aboliain these filthy stations and let the rail- road give us belter trayciling facilities, Mrs, JAMES MACKENZIR, Ralph avenue, ‘Thanks to The World for its attempt io relieve the Brockiyn citizens. from the B, Rotten Transit abuse, In my experience on several nads In Byook- lyn I found the Putnam-Halsey street Hine the worst, I think it an outrage and disgrace to the city that people should be treated in such a manner, They ought to be compelled ta run at least every other car through to Ridge- Wood. I belleve a great relief would be a tunnel through Gates ayenue up Broadway to Kast New Y. jamaica, F, 80 ANBACHBR No, 6 Cornelia street. There are not cars ‘enou; 04 the people who have to use them onthe Mnes ft have occasion to travel over (Third avenue-Fifth avenue surface), It takes longer for me to get from my end of the bridge to Fifth avenue and De- street Grand Centon 0" tees, ’. VREDENBURG, 666A Degraw street, “ ABOMINABLE” 41S THI; MILDEST WORD HI; CAN USE, ‘The accommodation afternoons 1s sim ne of on Saturday ply, abominable, ‘The trains «& snother | farees” to which the 1 publle is subjected | ounce of heat some) or comes along and rh) ( vou get a iaughty conduct Dense ull tye windows, No. 76 Mel gl) street, Brooklyn, ars are crowded, cold, regularly, especially afer Give me back the Brook! he horse cars Ww and d ving at The Brooklyn Vehlib ne lame for the Rapla to ‘ered-walting an hour and a hi 4 car and then hear the mot faugh and tell me to take the next car, Presilent Winter ought to nave been In my place, FRED, K, HRICHENROEDER, JR, No, 200 Fulton atreet, Brooklyn, ee the ‘@ Wagon or a truck, bleycle or | J, ps | ard railroad in this section of the coun- do for § Promises of Improvement in the Indefinite i Future Do Not Fill the Sufferers of the Wretched System with Enthusiasm— Many Causes of Complaint. I leave Sumner avenue every morning about 8 A. M. and hi to stand to Grooklyn Bridge. "L'’ traing are usually hold up at Gates avenue, W. J, LAW, No, 666 Quincy strect, Brooklyn people ought to be satisfied with cy re the’ ad from the B. R, T. for 6 cent ‘hey get a de trom alca to New York, ani the Long) land road charges 2% cents for the same ride, Still some eepre. are kick+ ing. MAX WEISS, Conductor, After 10 A, M. there Is no seat to be had on a Broadway car at Ralph ave- nue in elther directon. We lived In Cypress Hills one year and met’ with ch inconvenience that we could not [ah up with it any longer and came ck to the city again, . AU L, SCHISSEL, No, 1028 Greene avenue. Not enough trains during non-rush hours; cars are always orowled, Notice exit at Gates avenue, G. W. HART, No, 49 Monroe street. I paid a five-cent fare at Rockaway and Sone avenues and was refused a transfer to roadway at Rockaway, which caused ine to walk to my: hi ‘HARLES GRANT, No, 18 Pulaski street. , Ut does not run trains enough between 7.90 and 9 A, M, and between 5 and 6.30 P, M. When the pressure lets up off go cars to keep stre e. J. M. No, 8 Van Buren -Cold cars, Run more cars, person should have seat, JOHN F. MOHRMANN, No, iG Lafayette avenue, Every They do not run enough cars on some of the lines, [ eaw persons smoking In the car, The conductor didn't care, J, M. REICHERT, No, $3 De Kalb avenue, Tam travtlling on the road for years, Every morning I walt for a car for nearly an hour or have to walk to work, ENRY FISHER, Harman, corner Woodward avenue, That it le not a fit Ine to travel on, They are more like cattle cars than Passenger cara i 0, "Rhroop avenue. They treat us more like cattle than human Renee FRANK G. BLUMENSTOCK, No, 32 Hopkingon avenue, That thelr faciities for travelling are poor, having sometimes to wait from Ono-half to three-quarters of an hour for 4 car; their equipment is also an- tiqne and totally lnedrauste for our needa. |. JAMES RILEY, No, 81 Nostrand uvenue. Lot me ask tf the B, R, T. is'a freight line? Or have they a charter for cons traction work? Docs thelr charicr only cull for passenger service, which evel peas, knows js done with much 1 venlence to the travelling public? Your: card Is not large chough for me to res lato the inconvenience T and my tiimiiy dally experience from noor service of the B, RT, |) W. B, DELEVAN, No, 64 Hancock street, They must put on snore cars in rush hours. Iam a victim of the B, e . Co, PATRICK, HEALY, No, 63 Nostrand avenua, The B. RT, cars are too crowde Every night as I am coming hoy have to hang on the bellrape and bel rather short it Is very uncomfortable, HARRY FOLKES. No, &4 Ryerson street, The motormen run thelr cars anyway they please. T ride on the Park avenue line to Broadway, If cars would run . backwards we would get to Brooklyn sooner, LAMBERT NATHANSON, No, 80 Beaver street, Tam hurled into a crowded car in the morning anc evening en route from Nostrand avenue to Mentattan. T use the Myrtle avenue "L," and Jt is gels dom one can forse one's yay Inside, The Fifth and Lexington avenue lines are almost perfect in comparison, This corporation must be compelled “to dee liver the goo: *. G, HALL, No, 19 Nostrand avenue, There Is too much heal and they run tea. often, VILLIAM KBLSO, ‘0. ¥8 De Kalb avenue, tin the cary It does not furnish rapid transit 4 Any sense of the word. Your ree the subway could be improved by av. ing via Lafayette avenue, instead of Gates, and thereby serving all the ter- ritory between Gates and Kalb avenues, which is seven blocks wide and has no service at prosent, CHARLES H. EHLDRS, No, $86 Clifton place, The cars are yery cold, The cone ductors open ventilators at the top of the car, I and another made a pro- test to the conductor, but he used such language that we wanted him to keep still and not annoy the ladica present, GEORGE MORRIS, No, 89 Hamilton avenue, Sometimes there are five or more cars running one after another, and at other times there ans no cars run- ning for twenty minutes on the Bi way line, M. SULVENBKI, 483 Sutter street, Last winter was compelled to ride on ‘the platform; the result, was Ind uo three weeks with bronchitis Althoug' I ride every morning I get a seat abou once A month, Was fined about $10 last year coming late to work. RICHARD C, FISHER, No, 206 Lewis avenue, RUN HALF AS MANY TRAINS NOW AS THEY DID THREE YEARS AGO. In 1903 trains via the Brighton Beach (ne ran every ten minutes during the evening rush ‘hours, In 190 during the same time trains run every fifteen or twenty minutes, Patron: of the road in this section has increased about 60 per cent, The time we should gain by electric service |s lost by the passengers fighting to board and leave trains, B. R. T economy causes mann to loae from five to minutes In cut- ting cars off trains at Newkirk avenue. The permanent charge of 10 cents each way to passengers beyond ate ‘High- way makes the fare higher than that charged commuters by any other stand- try ard accommodations are incompar- ably worse, This depreciates property values. Are criminals {mn any penal in- stitution In the civilized world treated as this gang called the B. R. T. treaty self-respecting American men and American women? EDWARD M'DEVITT, Sheepshead Bay. My New York friends simply refuse to visit us here, as they do not choose to walt for a car for an hour or more and never know what time they will get home, I have lost several tenants on account of the poor facilities for trav- elling. JAMESON, ‘They don't run cars on Douglas street and Liberty avenue often enough; and then the employees put passengers out at Pennsylvania avenue and Liberty avenue and make them take the car be- hind. WILLIAM WENDEL, No, 695 Glenmore avenue, It takes as long to travel from Filat-| bush avenue to the Bridge as it does to} come from New Rochelle, The B. R. T. is rotten, ANGRY, No, 284 Atlantic avenue, ———aeree The delays in travelling on the B, R. T, care ate simply unbearable, and a remedy should be had as speedily as possible, OTTO HOPPE, No, 37 Kosclusko streot, — The cars on the Nostrand ayenue line run very irregularly and the cars are not heated, A remedy should be had as as possible. speedily as poseyGOB_SEHMAN, No, 87 Kosolusko street, ‘They do not run enough cars on the | Putiam and Haisey streets line In buss} {ness hours, Cars only three blocks from the stables haye people hanging on. On Tuesday, Jan, al had to stand on the platform all the way to Hd avenue, ‘Tals is the worst line in the oly Would iike to know if B, He T. would pay iy dostor bill. OLIVE KANNPDY, No, 64a Halsey street, Our line here (Jamatca avenue) is called the ‘banana’ |Ine—the cara come in hunches—six cars in one min- ute, and the rest God knows when, WILLIAM MARCARBY, chester avenue, Jamutea, L,I. Our line Is known as the "God knows when" line, Ask a person what time the next cur comes along, ‘God know. when," {6 the answer. = i A. R, SCHLOCH, Jamaica, L, 1, Tho' Jamaica avenue care are et run aw they please, I certainly Yeoh Sorry for the employees—the way they Lithgsped by the patrons, ese vary are in ts almp). =—no heat, dirty, filthy, &¢, "Phey talk about rapid t At; tramalt, Y Miah DISTLEn ye Jamaica, L.'t, —___ Too much crowdl care never any chance tomet a Seat Gaal HAREFIBDLAS 0, 18 Bergen street. __——. . The crosstown car h 4 venient as any of ‘ale spout a ay Very seldom that the first na Vou have to walt for anutier apres they run only every ten or tleen minutes it’s not yer pleasant, - »_ BULLICAN, No, § Clinton avenue, The service on the Greenpoi Seca ont fae ag utes for a car, be @ mo-as-Vousplease line, me CKLIY. H. BU No. 263 Willow avenue, On the Reid avenue Ine the servi {8 something wretched—half hour bo tween cars, Lexington avenue cars are always overcrowded, and one morning this week I was jammed ogainst the gate, JOHN YOUNG, £90 Gates avenue, ey only run the Fifth avenue cars on Tuesdays and Thursdays, They shoud run them more frequently, WILLIAM H, MIOLAY, No, 387 Second street, PUTNAM AVENUE LINE IS REALLY THE WORST OF THE SYSTEM, ‘There are not enough Putnam avenue and Hulsey street cars run except dur- ing the cush hot T have. wali twenty minutes ov more at the New York end of the bridge for these cars, Iso at City Hall, uD | should be more cars and room for all. aM, TRACEY, No. 87% Hancock street. There are, by far on the Putnam avenve Une at the b evening hours, Therefore, the wilting atthe New York terminus {9 unteat- collected feat y ob Algo irs by t 11, BROWN No, 662 Macon street, dway that would nen Hollow, Have frequen Iv walted at New York end of the bridge {fteen minutes for Halsey sireet car. Hervice (snot public convenience, but to Ml pocketa of t management i iA TOU youre AKO, Dr. WM, A, MORRIS, 0, WTA acon street. not enough cars risy | vbly lovg-and the ful in size. 1 to the jerking nein 40) of the ¢ Al Cars are rir on t On account of running lew Putnam and Halsey cars you have Afteen to twenty minutes, walt for one, and then have to stand up, On account of no transfer on transfer and scarcity of Putna. i avenue and Halsey street ears I have to take a ‘dates avenue oar, which Is five blocks from Gates avenue, to Hancock street, and walk that disy tance nearly every night 8, FOOTE, 7M Hancock street. a Ta Ine shows, vontonee or halt enough 1 one can into the side, ae ears and @ tt ‘PATRICK, rho avenua, iy. Peld avenue ta and fram Broads ferres and Deiaseoy sireet, Now are far t infrequent Mle and no e for replacing the die not in use and long elnce wv York to meet the de provision 1s vidated wom out Miss.I. T. KIRKPATRICK, No. 678 Jefferson avenue