The sun., 1873-04-25
n CAR DRIpER's TROUBLEs.

An Incident OF tue Gas Strike-Whai Hap
penrd Amer Dark on n sixth Avenue Car
An Honest Germans -Tribuliiions-iiow
He Col Kid Of Nv. Jones.
One rainy uight, not long ago "a SUN re-
porter walked down Park row from THE SUS
building to ride home in a sixth avenue car.
Puffing cigar the reporter mounted the front
platform. \ moment later the horses appeared
from the rear followed by the driycr-the rens
In one hand. and holding the whilletrees over
the horses heels with his car hook In the other.
He was kind-faced man, OF middle age, with
light brown hair, and oloGde moustache and
chin whiskers, and he looked something like a
German. He was the type of a class who hon
sstly struggle through life in the great city, hay-
couple of rooms In some ill-ventilatcd tenement,
and grave good way from Greenwood at the
The driver was wrapped in vast rubber coat,
and he tugged YEARLY at the hook and leaned
teaylly against the platform guard when he bent
TO settle the ring into its place. Then he drop.
ped the car hook on the guard, and casually
turned toward the stranger beside him.
The old man Is getting Kind o played" he
said, as he instlnctiyely sieLCd the brake handle
His speech was cut short by the starters bell
followed by the signal from his conductor. and
the car started OF down Ncsey street, with the
rain blowing IN under its roof upon the driver
and the reporter.
ONE OF THE oLp,s ,soYs.
"Bren long at III" asked the reporter
Eleven year on TINS line said the driver,
and and In gettin' Kind o, sun | e9opped wood
other day, and didn't get over II for week.
You see you get used to this position standin'
here on the platform, and you can't do ANYTHING
else. And here been at II III these years and
m worse on p ! was when b! begun. I'm the
the driver, as the car rolled along under the dis
nal shadow Of the giant warehouses Of Church
=. Now this driver did not look miserable, and
the reporter told him that he didn't believe 1t (;
much heavier crosses than hts, and that he
shauld be little happy anyhow, by comparison.
protested that he had greater Trouble than
anybody else. "You can't tell me-" he said, as
the car whisked around the corner into ham
bers street i've got weight on me that drags
me down night and day, and II you knew wnat
was you would say what dc, about it. II just
haunts the life out Of me. 90 home and sit
down with my, children and cry about 1t, aud /
can't get over IT,"
THE MOST TROUBLED MAN IN NEW YORK.
II was on one % the first nights Of the pas
strike, and the streets below Canal were gloomy
enough and the drivers glum air and the driv-
ihg ram made things gloomier stll.
what IL your great trouble r asked the re-
~ can't tell YOU" said the driver soberly, ait
some hurt. Any how, It wouldn't make any diff
ference with my trouble
1t might said the reporter. perhaps
We'll, ! think you would, II YOU could" said
bIl I've seen you often before. and il tell 'S v"n
what II is tliere the driver twisted hard on his
brsiie' .s i W., 81, s uaos'er loueu a dripping utn-
car ibs v c0nppot upiI, dne other emu OF the
Sxnnt 'ne nn @ % Puieu the stTap' the car
~ '' W N u'u '''o 'o"uuc'"'|
WHAT ms TROUBLE Is.
"You see l am a German 1 came 10 this
country when | was ten vears oid Nv foiLs
was ali Door and 4 never cot nn schnoi,nyg ' AT
know I've picked up myself Nv f,ibar = nan, ~ n
was Yohn When used To 90 az, in H. s,rn,e
TO play with tbs boys, they asked me my name,
"a sS'a aii nnHi me poys BEGAN TO cal me Jone,
a'au ni,aiiS Jones. suppOsed " was all right.
Ia u,uh knnw the dlneTence; thought Jone
a., 4; Jones n Tas % nns hmer,can ior fonn, and so
.et u go ana chlled myself J' nes. Alter "A while
found out that my last name ought 10 be John
Instead instead OF Jones and II troubled mo ] had