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Show INT A BETTER TRANSFERSYSTEM Street Car Trust Should Give a Universal Transfer Slip. THIS TO BE GOOD UPON ALL ITS LINES Suggestion Made by a Visitor Which Has a Great Deal of Merit. A suggestion recently was made by a visitor to Salt Lako City that ha sufficient suffi-cient merit to entitle it to tho serious consideration of the street railway trust. It wns to tho effect that on all lines in tho city transfers should be given that entitle the passenger to uso It on any car within tho time specified. Tho cars that run from tho depots and Salt Palace, for instance, glvo transfers good on any line. If thh s'vatom was In vogue on all tho lines It would do away with a great amount of trouble between the unlucky paasonger and conductor. Too Much Machinery. It often happens that In the hasto Incident Inci-dent to a crowded car, the conductor is liablo to mako a mistake In punching tho transfer slip. There are fow persons who investigate these transfers closely, either through lack of tlmo or the Inability to unravol the hieroglyphics on the slip that usually resembles a Chinese puzzle. The result Is nn argument on the car when tho conductor refuses to accept tho transfer. trans-fer. This argument Is likely to end in the payment of a second rare, ojectlon from tho car or a light. Some Employees Brutal. Thcro are a number of tho street car conductors who are kind and considerate under all conditions, but tho conduct of others approaches closely to tho brutal, oven with women or children. They look upon a passenger as a trespasser, one who is entitled to no consideration. Refused to Accept Transfer. Quito recently, on a Jordan bridge car. a stranger offered a transfer slip that was punched 4ncorrectly by the first conductor. con-ductor. Tho gentleman was on the car he had Intended to take, but the conductor refused the transfer and demanded tho r.ickeL Declined to Pay Twice. There aro few situations moro calculated calcu-lated to arouse tho lro of an ordinary person than this. Tho stranger refused to pay tho double fare, and the conductor con-ductor threatened that he would put him off tho car. Citizen TakeB Stranger's Part. Ono of tho passengers on the car, who lived along that particular line, and who knew the nature of tho conductor, took the stranger's part. Ho told tho conductor con-ductor that he had noticed his sour and surly ways before. His offer to assume tho stranger's troubles, backed up by a muscle, silenced tho uniformed gentleman gentle-man of the L. D. S, railway system. Passengers Have Rights. Whether tho church wants strangers to ccme to this city or not, they aro the guests of the city and entitled to all tho consideration possible to give. And tho passenger, whether a visitor or resident, when on a car Is the guest of tho railway company. Ho has rights which tho law respects. lie pays his money for that which ho is entitled to. and tho company should strive to Increaso the good points of tho line, which are few at best. Universal Transfers. Universal transfers would bo an innovation inno-vation which tho public would appreciate. They arc entitled to nothing less. |
