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Show AROUSED PUBLIC SPIRIT. Utcs of Human Beings May Be Sacrificed, but Not Dividends. The wild speed of the Brooklyn trolley traction system is beginning to pinch where it hurt3 in the pockets of capitalists. capi-talists. It is cutting down the profits and even draining the surplus of the Brooklyn Elevated Railway company. At the annual meeting of the stockholders stock-holders of that elevated railway company compa-ny its president, Mr. Adolph Ladenburg, told a heartrending tale as to the ruth-lessness ruth-lessness of the aggressions of the trolley upon the innocent and long suffering capitalist. The elevated road, with three more miles in operation, has carried 1,250,000 fewer passengers in 1893 than in 1892. Its surplus has diminished from $193,295 to $178,180. "Why," exclaims I resident Ladenburg, Laden-burg, "should a carriage coming faster than six miles an hour be stopped and a street car be allowed to run at 10 miles an hour legally and 15 miles per hour actually?" ac-tually?" Why, to be sure? This is a question which the public may now reiterate. , The Brooklyn pu'.Vlic has too patiently seen its first citizen?, its firstborn babes, its gentle old ladief and its children with dolls or other toys i in their grasp felled anc1 crushed out o life by the reckless speed of the surfa, trolley cars. Now that it finds this spk& a menace to the solvency of corporons and to the dividends divi-dends of capitalis; ft possibly may be-aroused be-aroused to some n Ptive action. New York TfilesTarn. I |