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A. Lange Forming Wilson Avenue Grievance Association. Says Thousands Will Join. North Shore Patrons Wait While Ravenswood Trains Go By. Source: Chicago Daily Tribune, 16 November 1907, pg. 4. An appeal for the formation of an organization to be known as "The Wilson Avenue Grievance Association" is to be sent broadcast today among patrons of the Belmont avenue-Wilson avenue section of the Northwestern elevated railroad. A. Lange, a florist at 40 Madison street, is fathering the movement. Its object, Mr. Lange says, will be "to expose and fight the discrimination that is being exercised by the Northwestern elevated against the Wilson avenue branch of the service and in favor of the Ravenswood branch." After the association is formed a mass-meeting will be held to voice the feelings of the north shore patrons. "I am preparing to expect to send out tomorrow," said Mr. Lange last night, "a large number of postcards asking for the names and addresses of persons who have been unreasonably delayed at Belmont avenue while waiting for local trains after the northbound Wilson avenue express service has ceased in the evening. The people from whom I am especially anxious to hear are those who have been delayed over ten minutes between the hours of 7:30 and 8 o'clock. In my appeal I shall seek all patrons of the Wilson avenue branch to communicate with me by postal card or otherwise." Tells of a Quarter Hour Wait. A story of a long delay upon the bleak platform at the Belmont avenue station last night was told by Mr. Lange. "I was dumped on that platform from a Ravenswood express train at 7:45," he said. "It was cold and raw. Probably 100 patrons of the Wilson avenue branch were on the platform. Well, we had to wait until 8 o'clock before a north bound train came along. It was a local, of course, as the expresses had stopped. But they had not stopped on the Ravenswood branch. During the time I was on the platform three of these north bound Ravenswood express trains passed by. Mr. Drive, electrician of the Silversimiths building, was one of the number delayed. "If the company officials do not call it discrimination to give practically an all day and all evening express service to Ravenswood, while cutting off the north shore at 7:20 in the evening, I would like to know what they call it. It is said that officials of the road own 900 acres of land in Ravenswood. That is one of the topics that the massmeeting will be asked to discuss. "We will lay some of the blame for the discrimination against the north shore on the shoulders of the mayor and aldermen." Need Heated Shelter Houses. Mr. Lange added that the massmeeting would be asked to pass a resolution calling upon the city council to compel the elevated roads to construct heated shelter houses like those on the Illinois Central suburban lines. |
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