To the Editor of the "Nonra-CuiNa Daly News."
Sim—Being a resident of only short' standing, I am diffident in writing upon the above subject.
I offered myself to the Machine Gun Company, but was told, I must h great courtesy, that only britishers were wanted, I being a Hollander.
And there is a difference between the prosecution of a mafoo—not for overcrowding but for cruelty animals, and the Tramway Ca. for overcrowding only.
Your iden that not one city in a hundred allows its Tramway Ca. to carry passengers in excess of the stated number is a peculiarly Smaginative one. In Glasgow, Hull and Portsmouth I can say that no regard whatever is paid to the stated number. People axe simply packed in. And what of the London tubes? It is no uncommon sight to see an uncontrolled mass of people no oontd v zog uNYsY AIvI0)11 car, and the conductor keeping the gates open until the car is jammed full. In Montreal likewise, both the aisles and the rear platform are packed with people during the busy hours.
You say, "How is an identical rule enforced without any-bother in other places?" Where it is enforced it is no doubt because the conductors are foreigners, not Chinese. No rules or regulations can endow a Chinese with authority of this nature; it is 48 fact only too well known to those who have to employ Chinese that they would often rather lose their: job than accept responsibility. And you further remark, "Must we have Policemen stationed shoulder to shoulder along the entire route, or a policeman on duty on every car?" It would seem by your article that Gther you must oF the Tramway Ca. must, for you suggest no other alternative.
T have no interest, financially, in the trams, but occasionally ride in them, and would rather put up with' rush-hour overcrowding than wait for the next, With their present slow speed and frequent stops it hardly seems possible to eram more trams on the rails. The solution would appear to lie in the abolition of about half the stops] (inno Western country are they, 80 frequent) for more ears.
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