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Show CORPORATION DISCOMFORTS. Several complaints have this week come within hearing of the editor of this paper. Some of them were worded in language so vehement and well pronounced pro-nounced with such emphasis that it gave rise in the hearer's mind to the suspicion that it required great dexterity on the part of one of the speakers to prevent his monologue from lapsing into profanity. pro-fanity. The complaint had reference to an apparent appar-ent disregard on the part of a certain common car- ricr for the comfort of its passengers the Salt 'Lake electric railroad. It seems that no provision is made to handle passengers in any sort of expeditious expe-ditious way during the evening or after office hours. Men and .women,- they say, must cling desperately to the straps, stand on the rear platform or hang on to the steps like birds to a branch if they wish to, get "to destination. The complainants assert that on account of insufficiency of cars at those hours no alternative is left but to "pile on" uncomfortably un-comfortably or still more uncomfortably stand on street' corners until such time as another flat-wheeled flat-wheeled electric vehicle chooses tfl leisurely come along. If this is true, it certainly docs not reflect, credit on the management, since these inconveniences, it seems, could be easily avoided. If there is any time of the day when any one will appreciate a little effort on the part of such a corporation to minister to his or her comfort, it is when one is ' tired with a day's faithful work and desires to reach home expeditiously. If there are no provisions provis-ions in the road's franchise for just such emergencies, emer-gencies, it should at least suggest itself to the management man-agement in the way of fair and courteous treatment of the general public. It is not right that ladies particularly should be made to put up with these unseemly things when with only a little effort they could be avqided. Sometimes it is only necessary that these things be brought to the notice of managers man-agers to. have them remedied. Some one ought to do it. We think the officers of the company are courteous cour-teous enough to give heed to such complaints if their attention is properly called to them. |