Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-07-10
A CAB DRIVERS GOSSIP.

and I'd rather take o young married
couple from the house to the depot than
anything else. Get out with funerals,
or high:toned parties, or masquerades,
or high-strung lecturers; don't amount
to nothin'. Give me a chance to sling
out q newly-married couple from the
house to the cars, particularly if there's
q reception at the house. and the old
folks amt too bigh-toned to ask man
in, even if he has to go in by the alley
way"
That was the unreserved opinion of
one of the cab-irivers of Reading that
a reporter met the other day. .
(which would you rather do, suffer
with the toothache or wait for couple
that put on mole airs than there was
money to pay forg' asked the cab
man. r,.t .-
Why do you ask?" .-.
Well, I amt ON the interview my
self, but tell you my opinion. I'd
rather have carbuncle right on the
top of my head than be compelled to
drive around couple of that kind.
It's worse than pizen." t. "'.'"'
The man was asked what he meant
by that talk. ...... ..... ..f.. . ... ....
'"What I meanP See here! Sup
pose you was driver You'd 60 10
the house for the folks. You know that
the man amt got much, and the wo-
mans got less. mean money. Well,
you're kept waitin' in the first place q
half hour over time. That is done be-
cause they want to show the folks in the
neighborhood that there's cab around.
See? Well, after they do come out,
it takes 'em about ten minutes to fuss
and fix before they're ready to start.
And the bother and fuss that they make
afterward is worse than the itch. It's
fact; just print it, as I tell you and
don't skip the hard words either. They
ought to know itr'
' How are you on funerals, young
fellow?" was the next question put.
"Don't like 'em much. Too solemn.
But if I can get on the hind end I
don't care SO much; you know that on
the hind end we generally has the rid
ers Don't you know what them 10
Why the riders to the funeral is just
what the sitters is at ball. The folks
that just goes to get a free sling to the
cemetery. D'you understand They
flock in the houses of mornin' and stay
there till they're loaded up. Well, in
one way I like 'em. Takes a woman
with cheek to do it, and I like cheeky
people. That's the reason I kind o
soften on you newspaper fellers. The
women folks chats and has q real jolly
party of it as soon as they gets far
enough away from the house. And if
it's closed carriage, the Lord knows
what they do, but they make all kinds
Of noises in there. But if i get on the
front end, I'm bad then. Partickler
If the mourners gets in my carriage. I
don't like to see people IN trouble, -aEa
no matter how often get to funeral
it always takes me down pretty much.
I often wonder how it ia that the min
listers hold out as we'll as they do"
"What do I mean by that, sir?"
"Mean9 Why I mean that won
der they don't wear out making such
long, sour faces as they do. But it is
not that that kills, I guess. That ac.
counts for IL. Preachers are jolly fell
lows when they are out, and you'd laugh
If you'd hear o carriage full of them
talk when the procession is going to the
graveyard. No wonder that Beecher
put his foot in it, 'Taint all over yet,
neither.