Show A WAR ON THE VETERANS Will Be Waged by the Street Car Company Unless the Citizens Protest The following communication from a well known citizen in Salt Lake shows how he has been abused by some of Railway employees of this The limit in transfers should be 30 minutes instead of The Editor of the Independent and his wife were grossly insulted by a street car who notified all the in the car that our transfers were too although we took the first car that came On our refusing to dig up or get the conductor said it was worth a nickel know what kind of a skinner he had on the car with The street railway men are above the but a few loud mouthed will bring reproach on them Under the 15 minute limit on transfers the best conductor will have trouble with honest patrons if he strictly adheres to the The waiting three or four minutes overtime at the end of the especially in cold or rainy or disagreeable weather and then rushing the car to make up the lost time should be Editor Utah A great danger confronts this Nest month thousands of veteran soldiers and their friends will meet here at the annual encampment of the G. A. conspiracy is afoot A gigantic among street railway officials to bulldoze and trick the veterans out of catching their Just as they do now with the patient residents of this The danger is actual and it is' near at hand as writers Every G. A. R. 1 eran and most of his friends will be jeered at and caused to miss his He will go home hating Salt Lake and distrusting its Can anything bo done to prevent this It is a and not a that confronts It is the abominable of the insolent monopoly known as the Utah Light Railway are those rules t The First The street car company modified and improved its first set of which were absurd and provocative of so that the transfer rules are fairly The original-transfer before they were made succeeded in making almost the entire street ear the enemies or the critics of the Those rules and disgusted nearly all street car This which nearly all the people are ready to attest and verify in case the street car officials should be fatuous and silly enough to pretend to doubt is mentioned merely to show that the street ear officials do not know a good and reasonable regulation as well as the public Those Ridiculous It will be all in it will be ridiculous to the last extreme for the street car officials to pretend that they knew what they were doing in their first set r of insulting and tyrannical regulations about The fact that under the storm of public indignation they these rules and substituted other and more reasonable ones is proof positive that they simply experimenting with the They evidently desired to find out how far they could go in abusing their and they The Recent But why recall the unpleasant memories of the late civil war between the citizens of Salt Lake and the officials of the Utah Light Railway The citizens won the first why not let it go at Not to hut to allay is what we are seeking to and we mention the past only as a guide to the The past shows clearly enough that the officials made some of the most egregious Is it that their- present rules are the embodiment of justice and wisdom 1 Certainly we voice the sentiments of a long-suffering and much-abused street car public in saying things about the present An Hourly Last Sunday evening the writer stood waiting in company with a prominent attorney of this for the Ashton Avenue The attorney had come from the Sixth Street the writer from the Third street Both bore The attorney had hurried down Main but the Ashton Avenue car had just left him by a and he waited nearly twenty minutes before the next Ashton Avenue car came By that his transfer was and the conductor rejected subjecting this honorable gentleman to the humiliation of being exposed before the whole ear-full of people as if he were a would-be Those Route Three facts stand out from this The Sixth Avenue which has always time to stand for several minutes up at the City should go to Second South on thereby enabling patrons to catch the various lines of Second As it is now everybody has to walk a block to transfer to these and then takes an even chance of being ed because his transfer becomes stale before the next car comes Rushing Through the The rush of the ears to get through Main in order that these cars may stand nearly every from three to six minutes at the end of the is the most ridiculous of all the absurd that the railway officials have as yet foisted upon the injured If this rule were for the sake of saving lime and of this lessening the number of minutes between there would be some sense to Waiting at the But the rush through the crowded center is solely for the of giving the conductor the motorman and the car itself from three to six minutes of sheer at the outer ends of the Even this if it were uniform would be but once in ten or fifteen the cars make no stop at the so that there is no certainty about People who live anywhere near the ends of the lines note when the goes out to the and get ready to take that ear on its return to Main But they never can tell just how long the car will out Usual- ly four often five and once in awhile not a The only safe way is to get out and stand on the Perhaps you will wait one minute perhaps eight never can Enormous Loss of Take four minutes as the average loss of time in waiting for these irregular multiply it by half the number who ride daily the Main street times of leaving approximate to and you will have the loss of time and money which the absurd rule of the car every day inflicts upon the people of Salt Lake The Officials Street car officials prate much of the of the but what have they to say of their own despite their denials in words their own actions and those of the conductors prove to the public are about as follows Leave Every Leave every passenger you on no account wait while one runs two they must be standing waiting for the car or you not permit them to get Never Aid a On no account wait for a woman who has a child in her even if she is only a few-feet always leave her and then laugh as she calls and Jeer the Be sure to leave every person strangers and aged not knowing about the glorious of the car have stood waiting ten minutes on the wrong side of the Never permit such ignorant people to catch the car by running a few steps to the front They have made a start your car at full speed and so prevent them from getting Insult the Whenever people offer grab the slip and scrutinize it very so as to make its holder look like a thief under look carefully at so as to discover any flaw fold punch holes made by 1 conductor If ePe- sibly find anything CC- J insult the passenger get into a row with abu M after he pays Punch Transfer w Punch the transfer t out so as to if M the holder from using iu I that he intends to take Stop at Wrong j Always abuse a whose directions to stop at a i 1 tain street you have ignored Ji carried him past his f Give Spurious Give out all the and worn you m u on no account accept such a as a worn A Great Favor to In general give all oa street cars to understand thai are doing them a great favor In permit them to ride at Rush Through Rush through Main and all lt the crowded streets as fist f Don't stop r You can i leave more people H you by rushing so U f look to left or r on the bell rope 1 otherwise some woman may getting on the only m should be permitted to or near Main j Loaf at Er But you get out into where if 13 are trying to get go I stop when you go and get a drink of wat- II any hydrant in any or if you hasten to the at least five minutes I i W you can rush all the way vt to I Wat Are You to Do About j fa and more just like j lie people well are the We submit these rules Ulle scrutiny of the It II ille Erst time the rules have but the conductors hw them Any conductor found guilty of violating any these especially if he waits for an aged or infirm person to go a few or if he tells a stranger he is on the wrong side of the or if he treats transfer-holders with will be How will these rules affect our tens of thousands of August The street car people have only one identical with Boss Tweed's impudent question is simply what are you going to do about If you don't like you have a mighty poor way of helping Words don't hurt a soulless Yours They vow eternal constancy The youth and maiden Through time and through eternity Their love should never But fate in life's uncertain whirl Played havoc with her plan He's married to another She to another |