Give Us The City Cars, Night And Day
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GIVE US THE CITY CARS, NIGHT AND DAY.
We have heretofore favored the requirement from the Directors of the Brooklyn City Railroads, of the continual running of the cars, on all the routes, through the night—making an uninterrupted accommodation for travelers. The more we have thought of this, the more we are convinced of its propriety and necessity—and that the Directors would find it in their interest to carry it out.
The cars might run every half hour, from twelve o’clock at night to half-past four, or five o’clock. It would not increase the expenses of the company any great.
We think it incumbent on the Company, however, to accommodate the public, in the way of travel, without stopping to consider, in any little particular, whether they will make more than they pay out. The Brooklyn Railroad Consolidation have been vouchsafed by the city a most valuable grant, a monopoly, whose stock in a few years will rate as high as any in the land. It is to be supposed that they will cheerfully anticipate the wants of the public—not wait to be whipped in, by clamor and compulsion.
This subject of running the cars at night is now before the Common Council. Let them pass the resolution in its favor. We doubt whether the Mayor would veto it again. Indeed cannot he yet withdraw his old veto?