TRAMWAYS MANAGEMENT.

Evening Star, Issue 11663, 23 January 1902, Page 2

TRAMWAYS MANAGEMENT.

TO THB EDITOR, Sir, —I crave indulgence for space to draw attention to the one-sided strictures and remarks of your correspondent "A.8." when referring to the letter signed " Common Sense." My reason for doing so is that he went out of his way to attack cab horses and drag men. Kir, will "A.8." state through your columns if he has noticed the condition of a manner of tram horses as regards brushing, etc., and that they are not protected by brushing, boots, etc.? If the inspector of cruelty to animals sees a drag horse, etc., brushing badly he> orders the use of protective measures, while he would seeem to wink the other eye at the tram horses. Let "A.8." go through the tram horses on all lines in the city and suborbs, ami he will find horses at different periods running on three legs from the effects of brushing. He will, assuming that "A.8." is of the masculine gender, also see horses with bowed legs, through being overdone with hard running, almost touching the road. These are the horses, I presume, that Mr Snowball has suggested to the Tram Committee to sell or turn out. litis latter suggestion of the Corporation vet. is a nut for "A.8." to crack. I noticed in your editorial of last night referring to the St. Kilda Council's business regarding the trams that you alluded to the overcrowding of the cars, also queried where the inspectors were. Would you be surprised to know that the inspectors and police ai£ very much alive when the dragmen and cabmen pull out off or on the Ship Inn and XYZ corners to the middle of the street, when they get one or two passengers and try to relieve the cars of their overcrowded state, and that they are immediately ordered to clear out, otherwise they would be liable to the penalties of an infringement of the City by-laws, whilst the City Corporation tramways are breaking them* every hour of the day, as you mention in your editorial. I would not have taken notice of this matter, being neither a dragman nor a cabman, but a patron of the trams, were it not that I consider it an injustice to refer, as "A.8." has done, to a certain class, and hold them up to ridicule, when the City Corporation are just as much liable to censure for their daily—nav hourly—disregard of their own by-laws.—l am, 'etc., Fair Play. ' Caver.'.-ham, Janiuuy 22.