Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-07
The sonth NashT1IIe grief.

10 the Union and American:
"College Hill" is mistaken in aupposiDg
am "poking fun" at him or the street rail
road company about the fare of the railroad.
1t is not subject for fun. If ask you to
pay 81 900 for my bob-tail pony, you can do
SO or not, as you please. If l ask you to
pay me ten cents to ride him mile, you
can do so or walk your mile, as you please.
My boo-tail pony originally cost one hun
dred dollars; owing to the decline of mate
srial of which ponies of that description are
consti ucted, l bought him from the original
architect for twenty five dollars. But that
is no business of the public. want rea-
sonable per cent. on the original cost or par
value Of my hob-tail, which will put down
as ten. Now, if by good trade l have
purchased the animal for price that will
actually net me forty, instead Of
ten per cent, L hold that 1
am not to be made forever mis-
cradle by people who come to ride my bob
tail pony insisting that 1 should only
charge cents to ride him when it ia my
pleasure to charge o. cents, 10 cents or 20
cents. 1t that funny? l never was so
serious in the whole course of my life!
"B. f. H." sharpens bis pen and SHES
into this discussion, like 'new boy" into
yellow-j Jacket fight. He complains that
the load insists that you must pay 10 cents
or spend quartz; With i'll Why should
this 1e thusf If man gets on astreet car
to ride, with the expectation or determin-
alton never to do that thing but once, he
ought to be charged fifty dollars FOR it and
kicked off at the foot OF the first hill Who
would build street railroads in commu-
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be those of less worldly wisdom and practi-
cal frugality, and more liberality In lchar-
liable way thai we can just now boast.
B. F. E. :, also complains that rocks lia on
the track wear out the boots of dEivers "
kicking them off-and mako the ridiEe
sutferably rough. Eoes this perss IN
the boots Of the drivers2 VI II buy
concaFn him, therefore, if TIE AT does II
to have each new PAR cs s Grlvers nave
boots every morning. vi hLteen u 1oI Ia
know that pair 10 or IL doiI eS b. Poots
eTnensa ~ cry morning, is not a current
49,: ii the road? Or, to make il more
-lOle, says the boots or their eauiyaIentP
L defy ontradiction-truthful contrsdic-
eon-when say, the road must make
money, no matter how many boots are
worn out in the process.
Going to the extreme verge of absurdity
b. +. Il. says the rocks on the track. which
so annoy the drivers and impair their boots,
make it rough riding fo- the passengers
Let me tell this illogical person two facts
that he seems not to know, that the "Whiter
the tail, the fatter Their abbit, !" and the rough
er the road the higher thefare. Certainly his
traVeli is limited. Let him set aside his in
come and ''travelp for few weeks in every
month over the South Nashville street rail-
way, and he will learn something of what
travel, In It's true sense, implies 10 the philo-
sophie mind
This same victim of mingled dissatisfac-
tlon ana inezperience wants to know
whether the South Nashville street railroad
IS going to play fairly, or gougeI After pro-
pounding such an inteEIOgatory, in the first
interval of sanity that is wei developed
upon him-he should 90 to the remote
mountains, and Go there from necessity
what | do from choice, walk when the rid |
DS does not suit me. SHARP.