The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1905, Page 7

w Serres i : Cold and. Overcrowded Cars, Run Far Apart, the Rule from Greenpoint to _ Coney Island, According. to Those Forced to Ride on the Vari- ous Lines Every Day. \Aa a dally travelier on the overcrowd~ gna fearfully Incompecent Bergen t line I hail with @rcat intersst Bativfaction your exposure of the R.T. methods, but I ask you of hat wwe? Yc reckless disregard of ‘the public, the crowding and packing |s by order of Harriman, Brady, lowotles 4 tf fore, et al Bmith et who command, where Win- very mor al simply obey. Tals a car leaving Bergen @treet and Nostrand avenue at 8.30 for the Bridge registered 119 passengers, In | and this at 2 P, M. in nt there is a way to get at Recently waited at Atlant» ar hat is to proceed at once taj Poeru quit for the surrender of thely| Sowih Ty oar, Thi ler on account of the many frac-| 10.30 4, M But what's the use of ¢ tures of came, In {ts desperate ut-| ing, Wishing you success, the a to make a few pennies by cut: |’ n. slg Geni between the hours of 8.30.and 9 A, minutes night after and Cranberry streets ton, Putnam or Gates venue car fore one came alongs that would mit of another person rding, T walted over thirty min long for a Fution streets cree Hills and when I did’ boar niny down expenses the B. R. T. loves t of the object of Se for pas- . E. H, WENER. No. 1030 Bergen street. They don't run cers of: The B. R. T. cares nothing for the future of Brooklyn, They are respony Bible for $20,000 houses selling for $12,000, There seems to be about one-half enough cars to accommodate the prone with standing room only four blocks from the starting point. ‘The servico on Putnam avenue {9 a disgrace and Fulton street {# very Tittln better, CHARLES BLOAN, No, 38 Stuyvesant avenue, the Hines, and: eapecinily distance to I walking. Oe xAVe od sovercrowiled vars, lam giad to see that one newspaper |Forhaps the worst fe: fs waking up to what poor suffering humanity in Brooklyn haa to put up with as far as the travelling facilities fforved by the B, R. T. are concerned. spentl from 25 to 50 cents each day In gar fare riding around Brooklyn and J Jose from one to three hours dally {1 waiting for cars. The best argument ‘one gets from any of the employecs when anything Is eald about the way the cars are run is, “Well, you anit S40 A. have to ride In them.” Tuesday last}and Bridge street daily, it took me from 4.80 to 6.45 o'clock to JAMES IIGGINS, ket from Ralpli avenue and Madison stret_to Eastern Parkview and Nos- trand avenue; fifty-ive minutes for a distance of fourteen blocks! A, B, Waited one evening, with a transfer, for a Gates avenue car at Nostrand avenue from 8.30 to 9.05 P, M. One car passed, but It was too crowded to get @ foothold on, I finally had to thea another Nostrand avenue to Myrtle avenue, pay another fare, and waited another ten minutes there for a Ralph avenue car, One evening last week I walted from $,50 till 9.10 P.M, for a Fulton Ferry car at Court street and tlantic avenue; finally boanded a New | ork car and transferred at Myrtle | ment, avenue and Fulton street; waited ton | Health, minutes longer there, and the first ferry car to arrive was a Court street car, anyway, Have walted, as have others of my acquaintances, and not Infres quently. elther, at the transfer point at Myrtle avenue and Fulton street twelve minutes for a ferry car, and this . ALL JOIN IN THE SAD CHORUS ure of ell dy nioney, Unganitary conditions of the rel stock on Lexington avenu Fork 8 "4 ‘enue branch also ite overcrowding, wh Sucton i obilzed to stan to collect farcy, compsiti to crush thelr way Inside crowded car. to staid whon I got in a car. o me without stopping. o LSA BIDSTRUDP, There are not enough cars on Bro way "L" and surface lines, ZEHN, WILLIAM OF THE UNHAPPY B. R. T. VICTIM, moraing they Min too many traing én the same station at the Bridge at once, it they run too many trajna) the loop at the Bridge, making stops and ‘taklhg passengers IneuMciont number of cars tn none tush hours. Insolence and Indifference of many conductors, Carrying meohan-) AC Mi ics’ tools of large bulk, paint pots, oll) aroun cans and plumoers’ kits when theré i¢} two: full hot room for passengers. Dumping | on at only the second stop. women and children jn enow banks when Se Be orn Gt he used for egress and Ingress &o., de. deo, Brea. DAVIDSON, No, 108 St, James's place. Une, And when I go home It is same way, The cars are too slow On the Lexington avenue elevated * | overcrowded. at night thoy run the “express” t too close benind (he raguars. Where. df they weuld start the “locals” a after the ex they would gi rotten management and accommoda atavenue, | Poo few trains morning and even eee ae vaven NF Delay. ‘The complete failure to run tat ea NE) fn express rervice on a two-track Deal N y yoad, Thus stalling the service ot each end of the ‘route and overcrowding platforms with a ten-minute headway in order to save the additonal expense of a few poovly-pald gateways, This is the thin: ought to be done away with, Who are aware of this will tr (t will be an advantage, Miss M, tt They should have large tlons for No, 908 1-2 Twenty-thir longer elevated trains, aime ay Manin | " 22 UN RO ver elevated, nvopar ter nirals at May-; Thov do. not eater to the public in end of the By ‘and. trucks! to themselves. They Fun three cna ot sould Le kore off surface track, gether, then it isan hour before tho FRED STANTON, Hiv.bush, | next. ‘After 12 o'clock It is ten to. one e Lexington avenue ele- and evening, In the you dant’ Ket hone, HARRY W, SILVER, T travel on vated morning “CONDITIONS DISGRAC E TO CITY, Now, ved motorman, PUTTING UP WITH IT A CRIME," var tiit tot obetin this podiion be: Have waited from ‘fifteen to twenty aight at Fulton either a Ful- @ the con: ductor Informed me that thay were run- on twenty-two minute’ headway, place for thirty minutes for a was at adbuot EDW. A, SMITH, No. 507 Bastern Purkwey, ten enough, BROOKLYN. The headway {s too long on most of Tompkins avenue line, which scems to bo yery much Geeleoted! when [ have a shat 0 e . HENRY BETZ, HS, No, 185 Tompkins avenue, The service is simply scandalous, have occasion to use the cats dally, an have met with all the many: Annoyances flat-wheeled ca Jong headway; very bad trane‘or sy tem, causing much loss of time and E.R. No, 695 Lafayolte avenue, could be relleved if the company would use the ten cars wich ure laid off at M, and stored between City Hall No, 11 Ciifton place, Under rules of the company the con in the doors way of cans going to the Bridge, go ax Mt paysengen's of an alrend: J, G, Bsn On my way to school I generally have have tu walt for a car, and three or four 0, 4 Jerome strect, Notiiing can equal it in bad manage- Is a plain case for the Beard pf PHYSICIAN, walt every morning Abou: ten minutes for a ferry cxr, and then it 's a8 cold ns ice. No, & Woodbine street, 0. H, KRAEGER, No, 255 Stuyvesant avenue That I am delayed every morning coming to work on the Graham avenue MAX D, GRANT, No, 217 Manhattan avenue, This card dan't large enough to con- | taln the facts that exist against the | 21 St, ‘James's piace. The cars are so slaw, and when they do arrive it is one mad rush to tho which those to speak HOWELL, No. 132 Palmetto street, M. be- utes car, alk. Be ling te hich ten wads the and don. | Ing. ; ale \ | public ts not! mon without experience, My complaint Is of Inhuman overs shearers ave dumb. ‘Me crowding owns to steaduy growing | going to be dumb any longer, mber of Walsengers In t New WILLIAM COOPER and consoquest dolaya y atten faeces (0 9) minuies Jomger. It Hasey street ton olty Ike this, aly ) They d> not run as many as | valued | The und a crime to put up with it they could, consequentiy y WILLIAM C W1LGIAL SER, | int Mandied apotnd Ake nition” No. “ing avenue, | conductors are insolent; the whore road | —_—_— | lean Inault to decent people, The Fulton at surface cara never I QEORGH H. LITTLE, fun on sehedule time day or night; \ often we walt from ten to thirty mine \ utes for a car, ld be ; h 1 travel on the Lexington avenue Jine | remedies, HN H. WICK and find that the trang run vere inte: | ND, 109 Herkimer st quently any nour ot ane Hane yee dey would run twiee f hey The cars are often too crowded for! do now, they. Could Hap al Pera ‘sven standing room. Often T have to, crowding and Walt [rom one-quarter to nat an anit | unUl @ car comes along, During the cold days the cars are not heated and _ geveral Umew thin winter have T caught! We oug old, ISRART. A WRCHEER, | they iat Ww. 136 Wierdord ae fre too crowded and peop! No, 10 Herkimer street, all toe time sen D Oe on your | ar ee ISAAC LAVONSKY Tt Is a wonder the city would allow a NO, 492 Prankiin aver allroad company to handle ite pagsens| = No. 42 Franitin avenue, he way they are handled both at| Tie cal ry the bridge and of the 'L.” tralag EO Nd Mi F, BEASLY, No, 708 N 7 Cornea street, “ They ought to run more cars. the |few are run that when one comes a Putnam averie there ls no room. THOMAS ©. O'NEILL, Now 80 The B. R. ong ui seriptures in thelr attitnde toward the | public; like lambs the people are led to! the slaughter, and Ilke sheep with thelr directors follow EVEN WHERE THERE ARE A NY RULES HE FINDS THEY ARE NOT ENFORCE MRE rua fohfteres says “no Lived on te Paple slope sioking” but every ear nearly that one enth avenue ard Placduusinned tied Sey | boards hae the ‘back platform filied Now Nive on De Kal etvenue tues, With smokers, ‘Thy doora often ure not Tit avenue tine, but there 192s Dlosed Ko the whole car ly filed with alc all allie, ov! nsrowdens Matt? Fitatura ot old arotto and bal fev cars and incold weather wat pez elwar smoke, make mutters /cJat rush honns, We DAPEER eet worke one or have "dead" STE SAN: cigars lnsid smokers, even, sening, — A #onductor to have a man put out cigay and he will tell vou, as 1 hes one on Marev avenue cars only vee Gay say That's none of my bsuinoss thoy do tt on all of the cars } BINS, a playe, Which to om Orten | wail jbusiness on De Kalb avent see a car coming my way, © Broadway cars ave so orowd 3M. No, 19 Vero to wait for the next one and ha | Stations and cars inconventently and | the veatilators close’, with tromt and unhealth ly crowded at_all hours of the |!" doors open, which ts against health, ay or night, even after rush hours. . Th, No, 488 Chaupeoy etroet, V4 ellmah wet slimy, oars nd walt on or es ol Litforms:, Staton at rookly: ay Mnf Hdge has ny proteccion. from colt. |» The service furnishot to Lexington He 14 P, No, 100 Willlam street, |#venve by the B. OR. 'T. Is very poor; posed subway—up Fulton street, G fivenue and Broadway to Bast It ts absolutely rotten, disgraceful, as York, CHARLES BUT e@ompared with the trolleys of othe: 1 formerly or of Manhattan, No, 051 Monroe street, delays ow Qo vogue, ht to have more cars because No. M3 Macon street, are yun In Nostrand to my place of 0 efors TI BUSINESS, T heartily Indore the route of the pros No. 786 Greene avenue, et, D, ed | find ates New cA aaa ala NEEDS PEN OF MODERN DANTE TO PICTURE IT. SS The climax of the horro jattan terminal of, Bridge. There we leath of hi the Brooklyn see dally the has wiven up “Paradise Lont,” Shakespeare “Richard III,” and Dante the “Inferno,” but it re- mains for the genius to be horn who is able to do justice te the infinite barbarity of the Brooke lyn Rapld Translt—U. B, Boule, in a speech before the German: American League, Brooklyn, THOUSANDS WALK AS CARS ARE FEW AND SEATS FEWER. ‘West of Sands streot, from Brooklyn Bridge to Navy street, there are thoua- ands of employees who are compelled to walk every evening to the bridge. It Is poate ie a ants and next possible to var, to import ONDE STRASBBERGER, No, 18 Plymouth street. panel RENE, t id in front of my home, sien tiga and Ralph avenue, every yeNeE yall enpuah of care AG NOt halt SHAVED SED. NAGLE, 1, 723 Halsey street, The service of the Graham avenue lino dg one of the poorest in the city, The cars are filthy and unsanitary, the gunductors uncouth and unmannerly, XK. LYNCH, No, 25 Garden street, — I have always been delayed; never could make any time, Employees run the road Jui they please, No at- tempt made to run on any kind, of time, "(io as you please,”’ Is the motto, GEORGH PHILLIP, No. 76 Jamaica avenue, Many have so-called doub'e seats, not wide enough for two; cars Insuffiotently heated, badly lighted; not enough seat- Ing capacity even In 10.1-rush hours, WV. W. WILSO No, 611 Decatur sir Cars on Halsey eirect Mine rum too far Apart; Insufflcient ecatng capacity on all lines ag all Umes; seats of cars very uncomfortable, 8M. A, ‘ 0, Ol Decat y atreet, They seem exempt from obeying the mandates of the taw; give no transfers to erots bridge wen there is a blocky ade; charge hue) fi in ihe clty crowd cars unnecessarily, limits and d Hi cco EN No, 237 Emerson atreet, Cars overoror ded, poor servic ane schedules to sult the company ad nov the public, A, TERMS, No, 797 Paclfle street. My douehter and self wero on our way to New York. We went via Broad- way Ine, but we had to wait at Halsey street corner fully Ae be- r came, i Hi Rt aeLtl Mel No, iW Btouavny, —— y There should be more than one mau at the motce box, Bix-car trains with hundreds of passengers aboard now de- pend upon the heabta and sanity of one man, Why should the public walt for an aceldent before they make a move to have this matter righted? is WILLIAM J, PICH, No. 243 Reld avenue, ——) The cars are to crowded, you are almort crushed “to dewin; many an evening I have come home with my clothes torn to pieces, It is hardly an evening without Eome buttons are miss- ing from my coal. I think a subway {hrough Gates avenue wuld be the only Feliet ARLES LINDROTH, No, 191 Llalsey street, alee MOTOFMAN NELDS | CASH TO GET A (48 T do the service would improve. [ Surface and “L” All Are Alike with the Same Trouble on All—The Same Lack of Management, the Same Disregard of the People Who Use Them. atreet car, The "Is" through trains, Not operating ‘until 6:98 P. M., ‘should start at 5 o'clock, The nolicy of the company !s mean at all points and dis- regardful of the nights and comforts of its patrons, H, C, BUCKHORT, No, 43 Herkimer street. ‘There are too many; they would never go on this card. The motormen run the cats to please themselves, One is never Bure if they will stop or not, or where they are going, as they turn off atvall worts of places, I waited at -Twenty- thind street ferry for a Nostrand aye nue cat one-half hour, And at Myrtle and Nostrand avenues at night we stood Jn’ the cold fifteen minutes, There was @ car passed just as tho: Myrtle reached there, but could not walt.a.second to take transfers, at 1, GOME! No. ‘The delays and blocks are \ leled. From the bridge 1 cx’ take Any of three cars, and coming from the the: atre I have had to walt frequently halt an hour for one. WILLIAM H. BUB, No, 612 President street. PES I wish to call your attention to the Reld avenue cans, ‘The roofs of some leak and the windows are broken and cardobard put in in place of glass, So few cars running that I have walt. ed a long time for one up Fulton and then would have to stand up tn the middle of the day, On elevated most of the time !t is stand up. = WOOD, , cock atrevt. | No, 160 Rockaway Avenia} Brooklyn, The Reld, Sumner_and Ralph avenue gars go too slow, You can freeze be- fore one comes along, They are filthy, and crowded, ‘i VENNA LETMAN, unparals and crowded, No, 3 Buffalo avenue, Brooklyn, They have not enough trains to carry the. people, and in the summer as well fag -at other times at 3 o'clock in the afternoon jt takes one hour and fits teen minutes to get to East New York, WILLIAMS, T. B, . GERS, Yo, No. 6M Meecha eet, No, 4 Hale avenue, Brooklyn, It ‘omotes the ‘They run inguffictent cars on Fulton Brovlaym because | eee areenet: to atreet fron Reld avenue, I have waited for eight cars to ston at Reld avenue before one went to Fast New York, and then it would. be crowded 99 you could not get standing rovm, D, B, MORRIS, No, 212 Reid avenue. ‘AM trains at all times should be run through to Pafk Row, Manhattan, No worse congestion can cocur than that which Is on at tho racing season, N, K. BARNUM, No, 2% Halsey street, ‘the sleep obtained In cars going at a snail's pace many people who work by fay and go home by night would be Hi R, H. SLOANH, No, 1 Allee court, ‘Brooks, On the Reki avenue line of cars run- ning fpeeveh Utlea avenue are some cars that have flat wineels and loose running ger, so that Breatly disturbed during the night, THOMAS, Mrs. M. No, 72 Utica avenue, Brooklyn, They ought to run a few more Ridge- wood trains during the rush hours, 80 our sleep is Not sufficient ‘8 are provided—| that the people do not get especially at the ferries. 0 ayold| jammed #0 they are Taid up tor 4 for the jam at the Brooklyn Bridge I take) days after, Hoping that yoy will do recourre to Fulton street ferry, N. Y, side and Am compelled to walt un- sheltercd a long time for a Fulton all you can for the Ridgewood people, se PAUL J. CLOSNING No, 773 Hort avenue, Brooklyn, PLAYS ROLL OF BALL IN DAILY DRAMA “FOOTBALL AT THE BRIDGE.” After wheing used as a football for duotor yells fares I am, so more than hat any hour't mandged 19 ) can't hea. im "Ande ‘ha oeesult ated bourd a bridge train at the Matwatian he pet ii ly for itd give him a Rapu entrance of the bridge, and after chang- HY look and ask him low many Jng in Brooklyn at the Sands street sta tion I got up the stains just in time is get the gates of a Ridgewood. train slammed In my facp, T think the Brook- lyn Rotten Mrangit ought to be com- pelled to run enough trains bo give tne le expects to met, 6."E) HANcocK. The Commandments whi » Wie ter tes tonve up ton en re Wis Thou shalt produce the nickel, Omiy lend phe deaf ear to public do- proper accccnmodations to Its eet mands, gers and not treat them as ff they ‘ were a lot of cattle that were moing te | thule Don't erie cuianer® and sub- be shipped out West, I think the pans of a subway through Gates avenue wohl be very convenient to the people of this nelgnborhood, and I hope tiey will soon be started, ANDERSON PEBBLER, No, 1254 Greene avenue, Use nity ‘ot taps as possible, but hut off heat to prov: car ee fe provide power for ush Wot block streets wit any three-minute headway” ee Rotain plenty of cars)in sheds, tuxes Become familiar wth full eapact OOM lar with fy of cans by constant jamming, biases C, LEPPID, f No, ‘28 Arion place, They don’t run enough cars, which ac- gounts for delaying and overcrowding, T will be fair and won't kick avout the beat, as it {s almost Impovsible. to keep the cars warm the way they are con: strecled,” ” pe CHRISTIAN, SEED ENT AG: No. 64 Bushwiols avenue, The B, R, 7. chaims {t cannot run cars gnough to. accommodate the people, How does this apply to the elevated railroad after 10,P, M,, when cars leave the bridg> as full as Cy the rush hours? GEORGE N, DICK No, SIA Quincy street, There are so few! care on Putni Halsey Ines that 1 havo. to, patton the way over and stand coming home, A, R, KING, No, 815 MeDohough street, Pechietcther sh ‘They don't run enough cara or tral Mither Way you go it Is Moe Person has no room to Area ath M, 1. SCHWEIGER, No, 108 Rockaway avenue, They don't run enough cars, Instead of adding ohe more car tol ly o) especial: the Ridgewood Ina they deduct -one.| broke me yeaTe avenue. Last weok I That makes four cars tnatead of six in the rush hours at the Brooklyn end of the Bridge, WM HISENBURGER, Ae t trying 4° Act on a 163 Rockaway aveniio, Tt 1s a shame t¢ traning; At enet they aehe aey run the 'Y ought to run more T heye to nay two fares from Ridges] trains’ duri wood to Jamaica instead of geting a aoe TO RANIe SCHERMT, transfer at Richmond Hill as I used to, Noo Hart street, WILLIAM WEISS, A oreertetretac %81 Suvdam sreet, They call {t the BR, R, 1 I have put up with the service in all | Redokivn Rapid nace Bite any of Ite superbness, and find the crowd- |ly rotten trains, tae NAILS | G ENAILS, No. 863 Marlon’ street, | waraly vet ond nacket cnr, ani tt there) T never think of a Fhould be one not nacked T walt wnt | trains are always. nucken reese the the next one, Then Igo un in the trant! boxes, ; end of the car, and when the cone ing a meat saving, If others would do 8 omicked ile, _ JOS SCHNEIDER No. Ml) De Kalb avenue. psition as motorman on | the Be OB, received an appiicadon | blank wiich was all red iape, ‘Then 1 way gent to a photograph gallery und) had (wo photographs taken to be turned | over to (iw company, Then | appeared | before the doctor ard was told T would have tv make a déposl tor badge and buy a hat and uniform. for f not having the means, while but with the cash, Wore employed. 1 believe, 14 extortion And accounts for 20 many ae- dents, caer ost to obtain a position In as follows: Photographs doctor, 1.00; badge, $3; has, 15 cents; overcoat, Hee ‘sult, §¥, making a total of $26.45, After getting the photographs taken 1 found out the other costs and re- fused to take the position, I applied for my photographs and was tod 1 could not get them, The doctor takes one look at you for about three min- utes and that costs $1.0, MICHAKL LOWERY, ‘No, 56 Jay street, easy Court street line, Fulton, street Ine, too many cars run to the ferry Instead of the bridge, If you do happen to get a car to the bridge It Is always gamed full, M, BARBOUR, 0. tlanile avenue, When I get to Thirty-sixth street I am dumped out on a piatform where there Is absolutely no protection from the plercing winds which blow up from the bay at Us point. The draughts on this piatierm, caused by the wind cir- culating In and out among the num bus cans standing around the ards, caused me to be lad He alek all ur Christmas week, and IT had anything but_a merry Christmas, thanks to the BR. T. SB. WEST, 6806 ‘tth avenue, They do not provide vestibuled oars for rap proection of the motormen, Of cou these unfortunate mef do not dare to ask for vestibu'es, Niey would probably lore thelr places {f they did, But thelr sufferings during the cold weather and during storms ave awful, KATE VU. CLARKE, No, S45A Quincey street, I have travel'ed and seen all kinds of methods of transpertation, byt never Anything as disgraceful as that of Brooklyn, Everybody (hat rogisters a Kdek with you, Mames Winter and the B, R, but as long as you have the M.Carrens end Murpiva bowing and mping to the rafiroad compantes sist long Will people Kick about Winter und his pirate aasoctater, A TEMPORARY SUFFERER, No, 4% Fulton stroet, he BO HL T. elevated platforme should he safeguavded by pon railings, In thelr present condition they are a sorlous danger, and It Is only-a question of time when there wil be @ serious accident, ‘‘NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS,” SINGS THIS ONE OF B., R. T. IMPROVEMENT, Though a hundred years roll by, tt will AHI bo the same. When pulling into tha Isa conthcnges neridge and yet tho There laa and also on are not large . A, WILSON, a block at the bridge No, 409 Monroe’ street, panded yrile uvenne, Statrwavs enouga on Brooklyn end The service Is entirel WG LOGS ORT THRO RUDD, (Pelally duting gush Hare teeuate) RT x ‘0D, 8, BLOOMBERG, No. 6v1A My Je streat, | No. 68 ath atente, They don't nt €y don't run enough cars oa the; Headway ts coo far elevated and bridge trains, 1 ait dige (venue Mne, ‘They can i gusted with the Brooklyn R.’?, and will four minute heugwaty’ “Inatond “ee ten move like @ great many others to New |S At present, C. TALLORS, — Torwey, ADAM JOHNSTON, Vy No, 68 Fifth avenue, No, 400a McDougal street) py heli hagas yet’ \heainiasiacansasans They should be made tender better apart on Fifth T om disgusted with Brooklyn, wip |#¢rvice or lose thelr charter, move over to New Jersey very soon. I'l) | LEDERMAN, Bo through ice and snow, | No, 626 PIh avenue, H.W. JOHNSTON, No. 400 McDougal sirest, Tho oMecials and most of the men they hire are Incompetent to ¢ the traife in this borough. el OY a) THOS. TUITE, 589 Van Buren street, It is the worst system of trinsporta- tion in America. W. CARROLL, N ? Twentieth street, I'm_ very n del, to business and Lv n and even seat the whole di 1 the arrival of/ len station to th Fr ed on the way ely seldom: get a stance from Van Sick: i Br. M BOEHM, Jerome atreet, From 4 to 4.80 P, M, cach woek day | there are Intervals of five, ce: 1 fifteen minutes bet cars of the Fulton s nue or Gates avenue Putnam. ave: | ne at the, Mane | es GETS TRANSFERS, BUT WHAT'S THE USE IF THERE IS NO CAR? At no time of the day or night is any) but‘ ’ effort ever made by motormen or cone Pay aaa ale 12 Al, ’ ductors to walt even one ininuie for}a block on Fulton tent en, here ts Bassengem desiring to transfer’ from|transters to Montuguecwhy Monet eee one car to another at transfer polnts, |oonductora give traeters oe ane, the Moreover, the Marcy and Park aventediriy tickets to Montaunee of Continuing Mines whould be compelled to transfer fo SAN eee ie ail cross-over lines FAN it HERRON, Peete raraniy ie. ». 197 Monroe strest, Il Vernoh avenue, 0 Montague street and The cars are run at a long headway at all hours, and are over-crow I sellom Bet a seat in the morning | such an extent as to become ARteeOVG or evening unless T walt for two or | 'Mne congestion at the bridge treminne three traing, and then have to scrap is frighdtul, locomotion being nt oe to get It. Alunicwal ownership the only’ snail's» pace’ on account of (te dens medy’, JOS, MBADE, — | crowds, ‘To miss a car at any hoo No, 688 Lafayette avenue, | means @ long and sometime erhun an oe lay. he va Are po heated, The Fifth avenue line is the Jimit, | CHARI, 8 1 HOLA Would ke to know what good thay ex: | TE RAIA ven Ue press train ts, Tt only biocks the ethe a UCCAB SED TRAY \aepraema tenuate! from fifteen to thir e |tarly on the Sumne T have to wait at Third street station | uivanvatroee | ten. minutes, Then comes along a 20d Pullton stron: th swift express; then another, I often ten minutos before I can get a car, FIRTH AVENUE VICTIM. | Conductors will not give transfers when asked for them, but make one ask and ask agaln, ingtead of giving a) hours, causing such a crowd that {t Js transfer when a ‘cash fare {s pald.|almost impossible to get on and off Transferring to Montaguy street we are, them, Open cars are run when it fs a ul to walt for cars minutes, part eu- Tompking avenve arerowd nnerd Too few cars e run during rush GRANT, No, 5810 Thirteenth avenue, eed ern oe compelled to get a transver from ta. t]/ menaos to. health, if we can find him. When cars go down THEODORE 8, SNYDER, No. 674 Lafayette avenue, Adams atreet we get no transfers at all, SOME CAUSES OF B.R,T. COMPLAINTS. Long wait for on No achedule on Care not heated. Motormen will not stop for passengers, Cars overcrowded; not even atraps for Inte comers, Not enough cars on many y line, MW “Nepeenceeeseecesr rans axceceeascmemect CONDITIONS ARE A DISGRACE TO CITY, SAYS MR. GLENN, To, the Haitor of ‘The Bvening ds You have Sidered beneneen service to tho residents of this borough by ex- sing tho outrageous service the rooklyn Rapid Vransht Company, + "The manner in which men atid ®iomen, young and wged, moral ands ‘al, q and of all sorts and con- ditions, are packed like sardiies In the cars of the comuany ts demoralizing and most degrading to womanly wta up, Halrey Hall at len, A few days ago I came street, leaving the Clty 4 o'clock PM. ‘The seats wore all filled and there were several strap-hangers in the ear, Among them waa @ tan 80 Intoxicated ‘vhat he could not stand, fou. swayed back and “wrth as far ws the straps would permit him to do a0. He filled the car with the odor of wood alcchol and prune julce, The oar 1 became go full that no one could avold hin offensive brett e day Was mild amt the car so full (having nearly 100 persons in {t) that his breath wae alvkening if not denih-breeding, le remained In the car until we reachéd Sumner avenue, If a railway cattle car was over- fonded with horses, cattle or swine in thy yame manner the Soclety for the Provention of Crielty to Anima‘s woula haye the shipper arrested and prosecuted, as he would deserve to be, I have seen a sensitive young woman blush crimson when forced almost into the embrace of a strange man, and forced to remain In that posltivn untli she arrived in| Manhattan, Such Gia loads under such conditions promote the spread of contagious diseases tind social immorality, How long will the fathens, husbands, brothers and sone of Brooklyn, the Clty of Churches, submit to such treat. ment of thelr wives, daughters and als- ters by the Rotten Transit Company, whose proprietors are gambling in Wall street In its capital stock, In the rush hours, morning and even- ing, the Immoral conditions are worse than at 4 o'clock in the atte 908, What Is the remedy for this breeding of disease and social immorality? | will suggest one Jn another letter if you desire to have me do so. FRANCIS WAYLAND GLEN, No, 601 Hancock street, Brooklyn, (Glad to have suggestions,—Euitor,) 1 take a Fulton street car at the bridge marked East New York, and when it gets to Reld avenue I am‘com- elled to get out and stand in the cold for fifteen or twenty, minutes, before a car goes through, Why not abolish the My wife is quite a shopper, She haw to make up her mind three days befot 60 she can stand the crush on the sey street cars, I caniot understan why they do not put a few more cars on its various lines, but the one t Mra of mostly ts the Reld avenue Wne, this Hne is Pornet ini tern have stood for twenty to thirty minutes waiting for a cur and when It does cume along It {s packed like a cattle car and It fs a case of hold on, I mean if.there Is room to squeeze on. I think when the cars go to the other side of Fulton street the earth swallo If this card was as tad legal paper I could fill It, I am compelled to luse from half an hour to one hour every day In going t and from PARTON R. JACORS, 112 Skill i No, man avenue, If we could have as good service all over the city as Is given on the Flush- Ing and Graham IInes, there would be no kick coming, You can see three or four cars of this |ine to every one of the other nes, Wake up and take the sample. JOHN HARTSON, No, 102 Moore street, Jong walis at bridge and ferry. Over+ crowded cars, Nolse from flat wheels on cars, especially thoge on the flat or ash cars at night, Rudeness oon: ductors and motormon, C, M, BURROWS, No. 906 Pearl street, T cannot ride In the trolley cars ber cause Uiey are too crowded, KATIE HUBER, No, 1479 De Kalb avenue, ‘The gorvice Is Insufficient; not enough | cars, and general mismanagement. The public be -— seems to be their only thought, CHARLES DIBHL, 349 Montauk avenue, Most of the cans are not heated when It Is very cold. ‘The ears crowded at Umes The transfer system !s bad. F, WURSTER, No. 14 Utea avenue, On'y half enougii cars on the Fulton Ftreot line, When T have to wait ten minutes for a car I know that another our could be run between trips easily, C.B, TUCKER, M. D., No. 23 Halsey street, [ think it an outrage that the people} ¢ Brooklyn cannot have better ser- vice on the ratiroad, especially the eld avenue line, One would thluk the passengers wera a lot of cattle, the way they are packed In, That Js be- cause there are not enough of cara un that Ine, I have walted one-half hour tor o car and [ think that Ine ought to have more than three cars, A. J, FARRINGTON, Reid avenue. Treach the gtation at Reld and Lex- nigton avenue, at 6 o'clock In the morn- Ing, This ts no rush Nour, but I have to stand in a packed car all the way to the bridge, PHILIP P. DUT'T, No, Si Greene avenue, Thelr cars make a nolse and they shoud use rubber wheels and rubber triteks which would curtail the noise tome, The conductors refuse to take Chinese money with holes in, Tt vou do not belleve this [don't blame you PATRICK GOLDBERG, {11 Porty-fourth street, My husband's spine has been injured in the rush to get on a bridge train ind he Is now unable to walk, Con- Hilon on bridge trains is very bad, but the eerv on As avenue line is Have to w tn all kinds of MRS, H.C, HERMAN No, 889 Greene ave: tccommodate the public, Been hemmed in Ike cattle ina freight car; the em- ployeos have heen hired at the cheapest rate of wages and the fast service would make you mad enough. to walk, 30 what more can the citizens of Brook. lyn expect for five cents? ©, W. ROBINSON, No, 143 Fourth avenue, There are not enough cars running to! | doctor to ward off pneumonia, Also cars From Every Section of Borough Com Same Complaint of an Utter Disregar of Public Comfort or Convenience by Managers of the “Rapid | Transit” System. St npomatctmemameaa h comfort aid. time in, owing Busieet’y val pape tnt sri See Tinie rie tout tivee told waerigue f0% onan rooklyn’ took action, in fo! than Rour's travel _ upon Brooklyn Ry Tranglt lines, ink perhaps the na row sear E leading from the "I," platforme to the bri hatforms are the worst feature, ALC, , No} 228 Bainbridge street. pealaanctesterntay ns of Bi yn erence to this spacer. CHAS, BGI More cats would be a blessii SAM KOOAGI No, 000 Maroy at When lucky enough to get a | always .anoll my clothes, Cara to be kept clean, JORN ‘ou No. 38 Veron T have been riding on the Greenpoint Hae for nearly fon Yenre, and the rery. ce this winter has been 8 aret In my recollection. ‘ , ) No, 246 Clermont avenue, The company does not, run erfough earner wana: the Thi ine, Why do| think threo centa Ie enough they Trot th ne Valor. treet yracks, when we have to stand, ha) HEWLETT WHITING No, 1f I pacerely, Hope. oltizens, ff rook; cers In brineing Al i} noi which are T..W. CARROLL, No. 064 Baltic street, ‘There are too few Fifth avenue cars, Jefferson avenuts as Nf vot: 2 you wh a Maroy avenue cats, too few local wittn HENRY. 3. BOMUUIP a Hl x avery trains, hn, C, MAU A No, 161 Hart N6,' 82 Douglas strect, Lesipeton avenuo ee ‘ated erains do frequen| 0) ice \ +3 AHLHEIM, No, 740 Lafayette avenue, | thelr cars drawing Ae ‘ There ts ah ‘ays ¢oo much delay ond No. ‘eo itt too long waits at. transfer ntathons, —_——<—._ ) ‘an Bicklen avenue, iw ppp a eas Tkh HATFIRLD,: oe Company. I have cothe late to business timo Sunnyaide LOST 20 HATS, AND CAN’T BEGIN oy TO COUNT BUTTONS LOST IN TRAVELy: I have the buttons of my coal torn running right through to end of gery jay, Have had iwenty hate rough treatment of passe je far, ies J, KETTERING, No, 1415 De Kalb avenue, —— ee pei Ki I chnnot say one wo B, svatein, TAP ubne i itlen 6 com! sie See ‘ht for ithe public, Bs WM. FO Yo, 249 C; “et No, 29 Crewenk ‘There, are not enough eats runnin: doa enn th x mene i the Willlamsbung Bri espectal iy] 1 ; Broadway ferry Broadway ut elght In the! morning and six and seven In the even-| ing. I have to walt fully twenty min+ ute ra car, FLORA EISENSTEIN, fo, 12 Belvidere street, Every night when I coming home ra Bl . rea t ttl I raaoh the loop, If they great many could pose It waves a Tt is or Bloklen avenue and waiting fitt Rt ts ah rotten tranalt, GEO. VANDER No, 9. Hale avenue, I have travelled on’ A ayid Transit for uth and cannot yet exprens not | Rold avenue terminal? Thore are no car | 4 ine sho! it has been, mere nee, WON Ie heriock pikce, | OUE as won as aeatn are fed, Traine ity PIN AN at Leute place, TAKES THREE DAYS csllaueel TO GET NERVE FOR Rldewrood tin ic Fuh rt Mp the iv q 1e A SHOPPING TRIP, | fiteen to twonty minutes late: than tina -ti adeabin: 0, BRHRINGER, * No, 1071 Willoughby avenue, work in Wi to walk from n r to Flushing and Washington te T wort jat 1s, pa Go an"gou can, MB MOR M aes ‘ARI "nord Monte ‘La leecherene| Overorowding of cars, arbiteary time fahgenseen to change ‘at. Van hvenue station, where the teotion from the elements, nO pro- in place of WAS BAD 10 YEARS AGO, BUT— WELL, IT’S WORSE THAN THAT TOaDAl nfl The “L' service was bad seven or‘on Fulton street he has t a ten yeari but to-day it Js positively ) twenty minutes or a halt Roy . fer particularly to the GPORg ' EB. VONHOF, Ne d ave Radgowcod Une, No, MBA Vernon avenue, ol The. traMec -arrangements, especially tron 5 olcieok ary soe oni, errible— really una ne 5 i ig ‘4 F, V. SMITH, No. 41 Vernon avenue, ‘The Fulton) Rela and} Gare never run, ph ached or +o ty they” mnttaae eh | reme ; HENRY We ‘} fo 290 Bi i I have {watt ee id (i rey Ore en ave to is a RLab hy e ARL MULLER, They have not enow dave the publi farge per cent, sien i modate the public and a large per cent.| They hai ‘of the conductors do not know the oare dun i. tush’ bd on streets over which thelr cars run. avenue and Fi n i) CHARLES | REIBER, WA! + No, 26 Shepard avenue, sf Th fee fi te Not sh}. Hany ing the @ ervice is rotten. Not enougl morn! 18 cans cars; freeze on Bally nore waiting | boxes’ also have bo walt en for one to come along, and when It| minutes for transf< ‘ does it Is more like being penned in @ stable than a trolley car, G. B, GARVERICK, No, 26 Shevard avenue, Whenever I wish to get a Pai car to or from Brooklyn, 1 am forced to walt about twent ort minutes, f Cars are seldom properly heated, over. crowded, run to sult company. Take car ahead tsa common cry on Douglass street and Rockaway avenue, where pis- seng.rs are compelled: to wali a half hour and longer, F, R. AUNHAHN, No, 187 Crystal street, When a person wants to get a trolley THIS IS A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD FOR A NEVER-HURRY CLUB TO 1 reside In Ridgewood, near Elton tinue through rervice on bape a has Ri street, The cars on Jamalon avenue are) line to Sheepshead Bay as the worst there are in the city, Motor-} weather arrives, men will not stop to let you on only CE. ANDELFINGDR, D, D. & when they take a notion, On the coldest N Maroy ay nights four or five cars will pas# and would not ag . EDW, NORTHROP, Always obliged t ‘il onk ‘0, 102 Ridgewood avenue. ‘ Mehta and then find cars crowd nd —_—_—_ and cold, CHARLES BETTING They run trains on the 'L" too infre- No, 170 Sheridan at quently and the cars aye illthy, The ’ Bougises streot surface cars are still) T have many delays and - nat worse, Frequently passengers valuable time waiting from fi obliged to walt fifteen or twenty minutes| thirty minutes, exposed to all Ikind for a car, HA: COGER, \ yee hae AB Cats ften I walk to a No, 1 ‘agenta street. 5 . dy P By, Pia Ms ct ots No, &8 Glenmore a Cars are not properly heated, and trains not run often enough, pepene E. ANNA BOGARDUS, No. 150 Magenta street, There is a great necd of more cars on both the Lexington avenue and the Fulton street Ines duping rush hours, at which times cars are run frou Intervals of five to eight minut M1 A seat 18 a luxur ROBERT G. KITTLE, No, 141 Buelld avenue, Branohiiey aoa M4 annulled wal seating {8 granted each passenger, Mt clpal Swneranip Mngoreea GEORGE. Slow and irregular service, filthy” cold and poorly Ilehted care, bai ALFRED JOHNSON, | No. 40 Witold nvenve. There are inauffich ny a eee BRON I overcrowded No, 640 Kosclusko st I do not get any of “theta capeclly" of the B. R, i ai WILLIAM No, 181 Oryetal Patrons have to walt sometimes halt lan hour in min, snow and bitter cold at Rogers avenue and Bergen street, be+ cause the company seas fit to discon WAIT AND GET COLD OR - RIDE—DOCTOR EITHER ‘Dhere Is absolutelyeno system: ing running Lexington avenue and Ridgewood trains; three oF Fifth avenue trains to one on th iy Douglass street Iine~the one I ride on, Find it a case of Walt and catch cold or ride and hang on, Then go see the lings. Also object to n minutes morning on Gates tlon, When, oh, when will rugh, ond at the b es cold enough to freeze ice and jammed In so they can reach 100 for the trip,