Show Defense of Street Railway A Plain Statement of About Certain Street Car Users In our last issue we had a very vigorous by one of Salt Lake's leading on the street ear the was as far as the writer's experience and that of many others is it was too harsh the majority of the Salt Lake street car The As we stated last the best under the limit on will have trouble with honest patrons if they strictly adhere to the For Suppose that a lady with small children or an aged person should transfer from the Sixth Avenue to the Warm Springs The passengers will have to walk a block to make the and that may take 10 They may just miss the Warm Springs and will have to wait 15 minutes to get the next But that wait will make their transfer from 25 to 35 minutes and if the conductor strictly follows the rules he will declare the transfer although the passenger did his best to transfer The the limit on In many cities transfers is 30 but they are hot good on parallel In Salt Lake some dishonest patrons use the transfer for a return ticket To A person resides between South Temple and Sixth Avenue and desires to go down town to do a little He will down town on the and get a South Temple ear then go into the C. i. convenient store or some other his and return on the Sixth Avenue using this where the limit is only 15 it does not give any time to do If the street car company would put a limit on parallel line transfers and 30 minutes on cross-town or continuous they would avoid much trouble and still compel shoppers to pay fare in order to get back A Word for While our correspondent last week severely and properly condemned some of the street car the editor of the Utah Independent desires to say a good word in behalf the great majority of There is no situation that tries a man's patience and exasperates him more than the daily experience of a street car There is not an hour of the day when a street ear conductor is on but someone tries to give him an old or a polished or n ten-dollar or a gold piece to change j or some woman wants her child to ride others will never have their fare ready aud will not pay until the conductor directly asks them for it and if a conductor should make a mistake and ask a passenger for a fare when it has been what will and the conductor a roar go will have to take all kinds of abuse for his Others will roundly abuse a conductor because he will not give them a transfer when they get ofT from the when they should have obtained it when they paid their far One woman on the Sixth Avenue line gave the conductor a piece of her mind the other day because he compelled her to take her little who had not paid his on her lap and let an old man take his Others will bo so busy talking that they will not hear their street and then will give the conductor plenty of because were carried And still another is the pokey woman with she will wait till the car comes to a full stop before she begins to gather up her which lakes or and then she will leisurely walk out of the to tho dis- gust of the conductor and of passengers who arc in a The Cross-Legged Then there is the cross-legged hog who sprawls down in a seat and crosses his legs so that the elevated foot sticks so far the aisle that it will trip or besmear a person with dirt who attempts to step o-cr or go around The cross-legged hog is usually a leering loafer who thinks it is smart to annoy especially the One the other day the Warm Springs line besmeared with black dirt a beautiful white skirt on a lady who attempted to go by his elevated When he saw soiled skirt he gave a fishy grin at what he thought was fi huge The Platform But the meanest passengers of them all are the platform the door These pie show themselves to the best advantage between five and six in the when the cars are The platform hogs arc usually sucking a or puffing an old stinking or smoking a foul-smelling or squirting tobacco Although there may be plenty of room in the center of the the platform hogs will not move so that ladies and others can get into ear without crowding and pushing and when the conductor requests them to please move so that others can get they leer at him and give him the horse The only way in which some people can show their importance is by making it disagreeable for oth The platform is the limit for selfishness and The Door The door is usually a sour when she does not see a vacant against the looks and excoriates all who attempt to go by She usually abuses the conductor because she cannot get a A street car conductor's life is as full of trouble as a rotten egg is full of the street car conductor has so much trouble with the few human he tries to collect fare from and compel them to be half Genral The general manager of the company has his troubles His position appears to many people to be a real to sit before a grand roller-top desk and manage a street car But look at the general manager's f to employ several hundred nervy can run a street car on time without killing or maiming without destroying prop- or burning out also to hire as many more conductors who can make change carry the city street the railroad and street car time and the location of all public and private residences and buildings in their and he ready to impart this information immediately and without r- while helping people on and punching ringing and attending the buzzer and in the meantime he must take all the abuse of cranky and dyspeptic but still keep good-natured and not talk The general manager must also keep all rolling tracks and power plants in grease the city please the general and leave a cash balance or a promise at the end of the year for the The general manager may get a big but his path is not carpeted with or His couch is not a flowery bed of he has mv V. 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