Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1918 — Tighter and Longer Skirts, Cause Order for Lower Steps On the Spokane Street Cars [ARTICLE]

Tighter and Longer Skirts, Cause Order for Lower Steps On the Spokane Street Cars

Score another for the women. This ztlme they have made two big transportation companies see the error of their way. They have compelled tardy recognition of the fact that the length of a skirt offers the only proper rule for regulating the height of street car steps. The women of Spokane did it They were confronted by fashion’s latest edict of longer, tighter skirts, and street car steps twenty inches from the ground. Something had to give way. Obviously fashion’s decree could not be changed, hence the attack on the high steps. But the street car companies could not see it The same steps had been in use for years and it would cost money to make the change. Protests by the women were aired in the newspapers and gravely considered by the nickel gatherers, but no action resulted. Then the Women’s Good Government league got busy with an appeal direct to the public service commission of the state. The commission listened to the argument, considered it reasonable and promptly ordered lower street car steps. The transportation companies bowed their heads and the car steps are now dropped to a height of fifteen Inches from the ground.