The Morning herald., 1876-06-01
street Car Drivers L'''ae nv
Eve nance.

,.,vor Of a downward bound horse
Ile ~, Western avenue, a night or TWO
car VI ahstted with pretty woman seateu
ago, ena na of the front windows. "Ihat Is
neA ;ta Gn, y said the conductor, "and she
MS .s "',vi with him little way nearly every
rlu,U ,''h. "At Twenty-third street the woman
nlSnI, No. car, eyes" said the street-car
le'. ~. ,"V Vmedtatiyely taking chew OF to-
,na1 Jsllu' she's shes a pretty good wife, better than
mos1 most Of 'em, ] guess, though n i was o.a;.d |"
vouug r man, wouldn't never ~ ,hn ta'''vu W.
married for money, and so dld sue. W.
bain,t amt either of us got any, SO We naNe .t ~
nr, make it up in love. 0, well, there anu
much nu of story about IT," ne adaea, a. ne B
screwed 'nu up the brake to let iady steP
ohoard, "but it's kinder funny. MY clu
avo nan was police captain. 1t was aurih
lhaao haa Vim times that the Assembly Committee
on sn' Crime investigated last fall, anu /
W O;nos. he had plenty of chances TO com.
PC was courtin' my wife then, ana she
.,auaht " that the old man was coinin money,
.uo'W I've lived in West Thirty-fourth street,
:o' w nice-lookinc house, and she lived IN
w WSs, twentieth street. Her father was In
,so no, drv Goods business, their house was FUR
,hs "isbei rjght smart, and, when occasionally
! took dinner with her, there was nne iay-
ont on the table. Twas natural ior me TO
;msguc that her old man was Wei hxed,
and as I,ucy-that's her name-Was rlght
1, 1,retty oirl, / popped the question. she p'l'
ma otl |, day or two, went up and called on
INV m,v sister, saw the style we lived in ana ac-
nantc1 m me. We had high old wedding
Wp, Upnt dawn TO Long Branch and Philadel
mia for week Oh wedding tour, anu
came came back to New York. | was earhinl,
| s25 a week, and we bearded III forty ilrs,
street. You can bet didn't have much o,
nv salary left after Saturday night, pu1
1hought after time she would have somt
finds coming in. She thought that my olo
man would help me along, so she invested
nv funds pretty literally i'll clothes
One One eycnln' / came from the stert
and found Lucy crying She said hel
father had failed; couldn't pay his grocery
hills. and that her folks would have to leave
tbe furnished house they had rented. YOU
hrt,er believe it shook me up about as muci
As it did her, but / didn't say anything,
inst comforted her bit and resolved 10 save
something out of my salary. Soon ai'er
wards nv old man got bounced by some
new Commissioners, and Lucy soon Learned
tina, he wasn't worth red. she was IN
clined to grumble little, and saw througl
the whole business for the first time. ma.
married her for money, and ditto she. Nel
ther of US had $40, and right on top OF ou
misiorlnes l lost my place. Things wa
gettin' right serious, and there was pros
pect of an addition to the family. le'
around and got place as driver on thi
line. We moved out Of Forty-first stree
into Twcnty-second, near the river, ana In n
baby was born. Then Lucy and Inc taiAe'
over the whole business, concluded IL wa
best to live cheap and not anticipate any
thing from our old mans, and I'm darned
don't think she loves me better now tina
before we were married. Here we were
City Hall, SIR"