The evening world. Newspaper, July 17, 1914, Page 4

B. R. T. Runs Fewer Cars To-Day Than It Did Five Years Ago; That’s Why You Must Stand EY public Service Commission|| These Figures Show How ; | Fails to Pay Heed to Hun- The B. R. T. Co. Economizes. dreds of Complaints. At Expense of the Public ‘ONE LIVES IN JERSEY. FEWBR CARS. The Public Service Commisston’s own reports on the condition of the B. R. T, show that during the first three years of the commission's work there was @ decrease rather than an increase in the number of passenger cars operated on the “L” Hnes, The figures follow: George V. Williams, Named to Look Out for Brooklyn, No. of Pass. Per Cont ~ : Carain Use. Increase, Decreane, Tnerease, Resides at Summit, N. J. U 443 = 425,96 446 _- 81.54 What are the people going to do bead bed ee | \. Arlaalamidd None - None Helpiess in the grip of the B. R. T., 4 (heased) = j the people of Brooklyn once looked forward hopefully to the new Public Service Commission which was cre- | ated to relieve the public of Juat such evils as are being permitted on the B. HK. T. lines. The B. R. T. were long «eo ubandoned a course ef persuasion with the B. R. T. man- agement, but with ull their hope the Publlo Service Commission in its @even years of existence has done them no good. 1D denotes a decrease in percentage, *As a matter of fact, there were 92 more cars in use, these being cars leased by the city to the B. U, Blevated, which are now useloss, having been withdrawn by the company in 1908. ‘This would make the decrease greater by 27, GREATER CONGESTION. While the passenger traffic increaso over the B, R. T. lines amonnted to millions each year, it reduced the number of cars. This table shows how the “L” passengers Increased, while the above table shows.the manner {n which the number of passenger cars decreasedt | | ‘The Public Service Commission can ae Sauce: Fer Conte po 1890 49,127,127 47,166,004 2,405.11 1900 + 68,400,682 9,278,600 18.88 POSLAM HEALS 1910 + 162,483,801 104,093,219 178,24 | ait see 167,871,828 4,877,527 pu 1912 . + 172,196,229 4,823,901 _ ; 1918 sees Figures not yet avallable, BIGGER B. R. T. PROFITS. The following table shows what this big increase in trafic and the big decrease In the number of cars to handle the “L” traffic meant in money to the B, R. T.: Paas. Receipts. + $2,718,098 STOPS ALL ITCH If you realise the unsightliness, the aggravation and the danger of skin af- fections allowed to persist, even those of a minor nature, you will promptly of them with Poslam. This is the remedy to quickly clear them away, ending distress and itching irritation. Controls and eradicates Eczema, wet or dry, Seale, Rash, Acne, Itch, ‘ves Sunburn, Mosquito Poisoning. druggist sells Poslam., For free pibwrite to Emergency Laboratories, feat 25th Street, New Yor! 'calam Soap, medicated with Poslam, and beautifies skin aud hair, 25 cents and 15 cents. There! Pass. Receipts. Increase. Ly 92,446,164 | 1011 ..... SRARTOOF $297,987 6,049, 1912. °8,365,976 238,869 1913—Figures not yet available, Note—* Only approximate, The B. R. T. elevated division includes receipts of the Brooklyn Union Hlevated, Bea Beach and South Brooklyn lines. | be made to give the Brooklyn people Service Commission to strengthen | Tammany's control of that body. Tammany now has that majority, and as a member of it, voting with the majority and a party to the shaping of ita policy, Commisstoner Williams has but to suggest a REAL INVESTI- GATION into the B. R. T. or make ® REAL ORDER for better service and the rest of the majority members will follow him. Mr. Williams has not yet spoken that word, although the hundreds of complaints against the B. R. T.) passed through his hands as the} Commission’s member “from Brook- | lyn.” The complaints that have not| been evaded have been disregarded | and classified ag “ill-founded” and “unreasonable,” MR. ‘WILLIAMS PROMISED TO REMEDY EVILS, Commissioner Williams has admit- ted that there were abuses on the B, R. T. and promised to stop them. But has he? Here is a brief history of his Com- miasioneraship: Commissioner Williams, when he took office on April 1, 1912, announced his policy in regard to the B. R, T, in rather epigrammatic fashion. “Not B. R. T., but R. T. B.” was the way he put it, a better service. The civic ja tiona and improvement clubs in the borough have complained time and again, but usclessly, against B. R, T. service, Unless something 1s done drastic steps will be taken by them. ‘There is, however, one man on the Public. Service Commission who oan do much to correct many of the abuses with almost a single word. That maneis George Van Siclon Williams, who grew to political prominence in Brooklyn, but who of late has been ving in Summit, N. J. —"far from the madding crowds" who grunt and sweat and wodge thelr ways home or to work over the B. R. T. system. MAR, WILLIAMS OF JERSEY, IN- VITED TO TAKE A RIDE. Commissioner Williams was once the attorney for the B, R. T, and should know its methods and abuses, If he does not he could easily drop over from Jersoy any day and take a trip on the Lustest—or for that matter any of the B. R. T. lines. What ho did not learn as counsel or what he bas not learned aa a Public Service Commissioner he may learn ae one of its passenger, A Tammany leader in Brooklyn, Mr. We're Giving the Best Values in FURNITURE OF QUALITY LONG C! IT—LOW PRICESat | Committee of the Kings County | | 1908, | $15,000 plum | mobile changed his viewpoint | warding transit facilities in and ont | Toad stock by the Coney Island and “that | ahall not serve the Inter- este—any single corporation like the Brooklyn Rapid Transit or Interborough—but shall do my beet to procure itapid Transit for Brooklyn, Our Ing for more sub: use my influence to get them.” ‘Mr. Williams was in particularly ‘high epirite when he made that state- ment. Charley Murphy hed man- oeuvred Gov, Diz out of @ $15,000) Peblio Service Commissionership | when the Governor nominated and the Senate confirmed him, Mr, Will- jams was then counsel to the State Conservation Commission. He had been chairman of the Law Democracy and helped Murphy throw | the McCarren delegates out of the) State and National conventions of | ‘ou can way,” he said, “when the waa handed to him.) “that I shall look out for tho Interests of Brooklyn firat..I'm a victim my- self of the poor transit facilities.” Then the State gave Mr. Williams his fine automobile and his fellow- | commissioners honored him by desig- | nating him asthe member who should | hear all complaints in which Brook- | lyn was concerned. But that auto- re-) of Brooklyn, and he » sved to Jersey. WILLIAMS ATTACKED AT BOARD MEETINGS. Mr, Williama has had occasion nore than once to gauge the temper of the suffering B. R. T. users, re- | garding his former connection with the B, R, T. in Nght of his present Public office, In February, 1913, his | sitting on the commission was at- tacked at a stormy meeting, when Frederick W. Hinrichs said he was | not fit to try matters before the com- mission because of his previous trac- tion company affiliations, A year ago last June, when the summer trattic on the B, R. T. began to reach its heaviest proportions, a protest dgainst him sitting as a mem- ber of the commission was made. | The matter to be taken up by the commission was the acquisition of the Coney Istand and Brooklyn Rail- Gravesend Railway Company, a B.R. T. ubsidiary. Cornelius Sheehan, Tepresenting the Allied Boards. of Trade in Brooklyn, made the objeo- tion, stating that Mr, Williams was furmerly in the employ of the B. R.T, | In the entire history of the $10,- 000,000 Public Service Commission “Case No. 1064” Is a disclosure of the commission's indifference to tho | suffering users of the B. R. T. when | improvement of tho service was de- clared by the B. It. T. to be a "financial impossibility. ORDER FOR BRIGHTON LINE FOLLOWED HEARING. ‘The history of “Case No. 1064" fol- low: So many complaints against the foot pervice on Brighton Beach Ine had reached the commission in 1908 and early in 1909 that on Feb. 23, 1004, a soaring was held before Commissioner McCarroll whose placo was taken by Commissioner Williams, Superintendent Dutton was a wit- ness for his company. Under ex- amination by Commissioner Me- Carroll the following developed: Q. In it a fact that your company sometimes carries standing passen- gers on the Brighton Beach lines be- tween 4 and 6 in the afternoon and | was to the Sulzer sentiment. between 7 and 8 in the evening? A. It 1s, yes sir. Q. And between 8.80 and 9.80 In| the morning? | A. During the last hours mentioned it occurs at certain points on week! days quite frequently, . And up to this time the com-| pany has not almed to provide seats | for passengers at that time has it? A. It has not thought—it is the Judgment of the managem railroad any that it is impossi- ble--FINA LLY IMPOSSIBLE— to provide seats for passengers in cars or trains in rush hours, On Feb, 26, 1909, the commission | HENNESSY WONT RUNEXCEPT AS A WILSON DEMOGRAT Talks Right Up to Roosevelt and Tells Him He Is for the President. WON'T MIX HIS POLITICS. Makes a Hit With Anti-Tam- manyites and May Run for Governor, Anyway. John A. Hennessy told Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt in the seclusion of his brary up on Sagamore Hill on Tues- day that he would not be the nominee of any man or any party that made unfair attacks on President Wilson one of Its main political assets. ‘The same John A. Hennessy, a man who never smiles, told Col. Roosevelt | right to Mis teoth that If he ran for any office in New York State it would be as a regular Democrat or nothing. In other words, It appears ho intends to run at the Democratic primaries for something—whether it be for Gov- ernor or State Comptroller, or some- thing else, Hennessy hasn't actually made up his mind. rs This information comes from both the Progressives and from the personal friends of Hennessy, and it Is Wkely true. Although Hennessy belleves that a fusion ticket of Wilson Democrats and Bull Moosers 1s a physical tmpossibil- ity, ft is understood that he could not very well prevent the Progressives from endorsing him after his nomina- tion if they felt like it. COL, ROOSEVELT SPOTTED HIM FOR INFORMATION. From the very beginning it was un- derstood that Hennessy was to be of fered the endorsement of the Progres- sives after he had received the en dorsement of the Wilson Democrats. Col. Roosevelt sent for Hennessy to sound him politically and incidentally to find out, if he could, just what'there He thought Hennessy, being a friend of Sulzer, ought to be in a position to tell a whole lot about the actual strength of “Plain Bill.” In the course of the interview at Sagamore Hill Col. Roosevelt hinted that a man of John A. Hennessy's in- dependence ought to make a great candidate for Governor. He did not openly promise Bull Moose support, but just played another pawn in the lite game of middle-summer politics which is heiping him more than all the doctors. Hennessy was cagey at first and then told the Colonel right up and down what he thought of anything Al IDAY, JULY 17 (pA 1914 that looked like fusion. ‘The Colonel] RECKLESS DRIVER laughed and said something about eA Wilson having pretty good friends if al thoy were all ike Hennessy. Henry Albertail! of Jersey City fied Now the Wilson Democrats are be-|@n appeal in Trenton to-day from the ginning to regard Hennessy seriously. | only conviction ever recorded in the His declaration for President Wilson, | Jersey Courts where a charge of as- ity of, Oct. 6 of lant yaar, Ue if it was w political coup, they ult was brought becuuse of an auto- | Mineny in fall and hus been Out On y was a good one, for the anti-Tam- s many Demoorats are already talking obile accident. Albertalli ran down §2.600 bail since. about It, WARNED NOT TO GOAP THE ‘01 eu, LON George Poeschel of Hoboken on the Hudson Boulevard on April 38 of last year. He was convicted of reckless driving and fined $20 and then the assault charge was broughe and a jury found him guilty on Oct. 6 of last year, | I timated Indorsement of Progressives, Hennessy bas been warned by those who Uke him that if he doesn’t look out he will find himself among the stuffed and preserved immortals | the Roosevelt Ananias Club alongside one C, 8. W. FATHER’S EXCHANGE SEAT FOR PERCY ROCKEFELLER William’s Membership in Wall St. Body Posted for Transfer to Experienced Son. ‘The Stock Exchange seat of William Rockefeller has been posted for trans- fer to Perey A. Rockefeller, bis son. 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