ST. KILDA AND TRAM PRESS.

Evening Star, Issue 13001, 21 December 1906, Page 3

ST. KILDA AND TRAM PRESS.

| TO 33U£ EDTXOB. r Sir,-in dealing with the St. KiHa Oca cfTs complaint re tbe time-table beiafr n peaded on Show Day, I note from yoor 3 port that tbe town cterk of DuuecGil hj replied stating that the timo-tabfe was n subtended, and that "-passengers -oho cot plained of missing regular cars wens sBow) to travel to St. Kilda on special cars .1 paying the ordinary fare.*' As my 001 phunt, as hod before tbe St. K3da Oocmc was partly tho means of luingtng tins bob ter to a bead, I take this oppoxtan3ar.' fiatiy oantotdict the town clerk's hljtlnigui I cry that the time-table to St Hilda w suspended for some timo during the she noon, and that passengers were- not aDnwi to travel on payment of ordinary fare Surely Mr Rirbards is not going to sta that tho starters of the trams would ta! upon themselves tbe responsibility of su pending tha time-table, unless under insiru ticiis iram Ukjso iu authority. If start* are allowed to do so, then it ssjs little f< tbe business methods of thoso reqxmsib for our tramways' success or non-axescst. Tl starter distinctly informed me at 1-30 pj] on Show Day that tbe time-table Mas ai pended for one liour. How much longer' was suspended I am not in a, position ,1 say. As to passengers being allowed to trav on payment of ordinary fares that day. have just to repeat that I placed my bo (ten years cf age) on a car at 1.32 pji (none had gone since 1-50 pjnj. Tb conductor had the good sense to allow hu to travel on his penny token, but at Print Edward road, an inspector, ox some officii other than tbe conductor, after instmctin tho latter to collect two pennies more fxot my eon, and finding he hacmt two more t give, compelled him to get off the car an walk the rest of his journey, which, < course, he did, but which, I might her state, he \7oald not have done had I n« been detained two or three minutes wbe following en my bicycle. Had it been grown man instead of a lad of ten, the ii speetor might have hesitated. No doubt hj was carrying out his instructions, and so i net to blame, hut if so, then it contrast with Mr Eichards's reply to tbe St. Kfld Council's complaint. If the instructioEs wer issued in accordance with tho town clerk 1 ' statement, then they were not carried out T don't think we have any wish to mak things worse for those responsible for tb miming of the car?, but when it k fiaU, stated that things that happened did no happen, then it is time for a protest. Tho cars are supposed to be for tfc people, but why should the people bo fleeca because they might want to go to the agri cultural show, or for a run on the beach, or t their homes—it matters not to the CSfc Council which it is. They should be satir Tied running full cars on such days and a ordinary fares, and should give every en ccuragcmcnt to all and sundry to txavgj and net, restrict it, to a email pereeniagi of the population. On ordinary fares, . feel quite certain that some thousands mo» of men, women, and children would havi been conveyed to Talinna Park or the beach and would have trfscn benefited by U»e out ing. I regret encroaching on your space, but unless some contradiction wrro forthcoming, it might be taken for granted that our complaints arc groundless.—l am, etc., ' A. Sro.VEHAM. December 19.