. The Street railway journal . ere are neitherrules nor instructions in regard to them. Conductors, as arule, shirk as much labor as possible, and hence they leavethe doors open in season and out, to the discomfort of pas-sengers within the car. All vestibules, when open at thesides, send a strong current of air in at the rear door of thecar when the latter is left open. This has been previouslynoted in connection with the portable vestibule. In the sum-mer season this often fills the car with a cloud of dust andmakes riding a discomfort. Usually the conductor pays noattention to this until so
. The Street railway journal . ere are neitherrules nor instructions in regard to them. Conductors, as arule, shirk as much labor as possible, and hence they leavethe doors open in season and out, to the discomfort of pas-sengers within the car. All vestibules, when open at thesides, send a strong current of air in at the rear door of thecar when the latter is left open. This has been previouslynoted in connection with the portable vestibule. In the sum-mer season this often fills the car with a cloud of dust andmakes riding a discomfort. Usually the conductor pays noattention to this until some outraged passenger asks him toclose the door. Then it is often done grudgingly. Someconductors habitually comply in part and leave a 2-inchopening, as if to save labor. In winter, with a cold car, orone but partially heated, the practice is the same. Whensmoking is permitted on the rear platform, if there is avestibule, the whole car becomes a smoking compartment ifthe rear door of the car is left open when the car is going.
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