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Show PATRONS WEARY OF BAD CARJERVICE Passengers on Waterloo Lino Present Protest After Refusing Re-fusing to Transfer. CAR WAS LOADED TO THREE TIMES CAPACITY Sentiment Is That Franchise Should Be Annulled Unless Un-less Service Improves. "Bonullejt nnd Pleasures of Salt Lata Btreet-car Service,' might well form the title of an epic poem, or B tr:tg;e'l It Is not only the street-car company that realizes this fact The citizens who are just Waking up to the fact that thlH ono particular branch of the hierarchy held the last Council under Its control, are nlso pronounced and vehement In their expressions fit opinion. Will Present Petition. So disgraceful to a metropulltian city has the service on mnny of the city's lines become within the past few weeks that at an early meeting of the City Council, a Council that, by the way. Is not held In the leading strings of the church of Jesus chrlnt of Latter-day Saints, a petition will he presented, setting set-ting forth the facts and asking the service serv-ice be rendered decent, such as a city Is entitled to, or that the franchise of the company ! annulled, a step clearly within with-in the rights of the citlgena. One Case of Fact. Here are the facts In one case. The Tribune has i.-e. lv.-.l Information of others oth-ers practically similar In this case J. C. Blackhurn, 1SH S.iuth Fifth ICtst street, v.iinh.s i.r ihe fi,luwlni: statement, as also W. S. Price of Waterloo. Tuesday evening car 52, conductor 107. Waterloo line leaving town at 6:15 I clock, sought In accordance with an Imposition Im-position long practiced on long suffering passengers to compel them to transfer to another ur..l loaded car when at least half a mile from the end of the line. But there are times when patience ceases to be a virtue nnd thirty-four of the citizens who Wf'C passengers refused to comply with the orders of the conductor, and were hauled back to town nnd presented a written protest to Assistant Superintendent Superintend-ent O P. Arnold, Jr Grossly Overloaded. H re Is proof, say the gentlemen prrs-cnt. prrs-cnt. that th" company cares not for discomfort dis-comfort on the part of the passengers, that It has no dolre to provide an adequate ade-quate service, that Its chief concern, as has been noted In the other enterprises conducted by the hierarchy is to do as little as possible for all the money In sight This car. No. 52, has seats for thirty-six passengers. On the outgoing trip, of which mention was made nbove, tiiere were ninety-six fares rung up This did not Include a few street-car men In uniform, who do not have to pay for their' transportation. Thli; practice of transferring passengers to an already loaded car on the Waterloo line, after one car has lost much time In picking up passengers when already overloaded over-loaded has long been complained of on this and other lines. It was only after the patience of the patrons wns com-pletl com-pletl ly exhausted that the protest was mude. Might Be Remedied. All of this crowding nnd delay might easily be remedied by putting on an extra ex-tra car or f.wo at the hours wh-n the traffic Is heaviest, but apparently this has never occutrerf to this branch of the hierarchy, hie-rarchy, it migju even be largely avoided avoid-ed by nutting vn a trailer or two, but lint would mak - a Mule extra work and cost the car company a few cents. Of course rather thnn suffer this It Is better bet-ter that tne cltlz-ns wall or hang onto the platforms by tnfelr eyelashes. Names of Protestants. These are the namVs of the Protestants, reputable citizens of Waterloo who have grown weary of the ty.-.itment to which they have been subjered: Bishop Ashall Woodituff, John McFar-lar.e, McFar-lar.e, Rlnes Dixon. Mys Julia Nelson, Frieda Nelson, a YlesktVcs. Joseph Blackburn, Black-burn, James Taggart. GeWge Scott Y S. Price. Don Davidson. O. T- Tvlrr. t. Van Houten, O. Fralaland, H. c. Rai-igh. Time for Action. Tt Is time for action. N.p matter what the terms of the franchise svhlch the t;lr company branch of the hierarchy secured from the old Council the paoplc are entitled en-titled to a service that Is noX grossly Incompetent In-competent and Inadequate. Ary.i when the protests of the citizens are carried in petitions pe-titions to the Cftj Council aVi they will be, the cenpany will be apt Ap discover this fact. T |