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Show B THE POOR STREET CAR SERVICE. B The street car company has a monopoly of the B earning of passengers in Salt Lake City. Its B frainhise cost it nothing, but when such a fran- B chif' is given there is an implied contract on the B company's part to return for it good service. The B Presr-nt service is manifestly poor in several par- B ticulars. It lacks both in executive ability and is B deplorably short in equipment. Finding fault is Bj nt pleasant to any one but a common scold, but Bj hon st criticism Is justifiable. For instance, when B the m-eat circus was here a few days since there B weir probably 12,000 people in attendance. When Bj the were turned out, near midnight, after walk- B lng two blocks to the car tracks, they found four 1 or five cars, with a natural capacity for perhaps thirty people each, with a packing and hanglng-on hanglng-on capacity of perhaps sixty-five people each, waiting for them. After waiting twenty-five minutes, min-utes, as many more cars arrived, and that was the service provided for the thousands. Like experiences experi-ences have been the rule during the past week. Anyone trying to ride anywhere near meal time or about the time that entertainments, day or night, were on, has been jammed, squeeed, trodden on and tortured, until he could extricate himself and, as a matter of comfort, get off and walk. We do not forget that there has been a great influx of visitors, but then it was known that the crowd would be here; it is known that large crowds come here every few days. The serice has been unworthy of a company that claims a property value for its franchises and stock of $3,000,000. Then it has lost hundreds of dollars every day during the week because of not being able to perform effective service. But it may be asked. "What would you do to help such conditions?" The answer is: Many things: but only two or three need noting now: Double tracks should be laid so that a continuous stream of cars could run by the depots, and these tracks should extend for half a mile either way that connections could be made with the east and west tracks of the city. Then there should be a hundred extra cars supplied for trailers to meet a crowd; these would not be expensive expen-sive changes for a great corporation. Then, when a crowd is coming, arrangements should be made to meet it; when an entertainment at which thousands thou-sands of people are in attendance is on, the company com-pany should have cars ready to accommodate the people when the entertainment is over. Again, when it is known that on every street between 7 and 8 p. m. there will be thousands of people rushing rush-ing to attend a show, the cars should be on hand to meet the rush. The cars during the past two weeks have missed carrying fifty thousand people that would have been glad to ride. That means $25U0 that has been lost, or the interest on half a million dollars. Moreover, more than 50,000 other people have been jammed, crowded, jostled, maddened mad-dened until they have jeopardized their immortal souls in damning the company. That kind of work ought to bo stopped. |