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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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New York Herald a few lines on the seat ques-tion, a problem which has always caused the newspapersmore real suffering than the people who do the standing.He says: 1 note the following headlines in a telegram from Albany;No Seat; No Passengers. The article briefly states that an endeavor will be made topass an amendment to the railroad law Hmiting the numberof passengers that may be carried on the cars of the streetsurface railroads. If this law was passed, in my opinion itwould lead to something akin to an insurrection, not only inNew York City, but in every city of the state. The troublein New York City is not the lack of cars during the busytime in the evening, for they are kept running at a few sec-onds headway and just far enough apart so that they willnot smash into one another. To enforce a law of this sortthe street cars would have to do exactly what they do inParis, which would be an interesting proceeding, especiallyon bitterly cold nights, or when it is raining and hundreds
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^11®rt%\lu^S^g/AC\V* 91 of people are anxious to get home. The car stops at a cor-ner and the conductor then hands out to each one of tliecrowd clamoring for admission a large pasteboard ticketwith a number on it. When the passengers have alighted, theconductor calls out a number, much as the head barber insome barber shops where the number system prevails, andone by one the persons owning the lucky number push theirway through the crowd and get into the car. Then when allseats are filled, the car moves on, leaving the growling,howling mob at the corner. Last summer when in Paris Iwatched the process carefully, at one time standing on thestreet corner for nearly three-quarters of an hour. I discov-ered that it was not unusual for passengers to wait 20 and 25minutes before they could secure a seat by this system. TheAmerican passenger is simply not built that way. He willnot wait, because he wants to get home. If passengers werewilling to wait on the average this length of time therew

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