The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-04
Scenes in New York Street Cars.
cecilia Logan in baltimore Nsw,.i


If anything could make the passengers
on the Third-avenue line of cars more
anxious for the completion of the sir road
it would be the event which happened
at the beginning of the week, when five
men with revolvers boarded the 8 D. nc.
train and beat an old man iDsensible.
The object was to rob him of his little
black bag he carried, which contained the
fares collected on the road during the
day. He was an employee of the COM
pany. and had very small amount cem-
Notwithstanding over hundred
dollars The car was packed with people
returning froma picnic, principally chill
dren and women, who, no doubt, If a
thought of danger crossed their minds
during their pleasuring it was luIled by
the knowledge that there was among
them a certain company of their coun-
try's defenders. To defend the country
in general may be easier than to defend
a few women and children in par
ticular, for at the first opportunity
these braves scrambled cut of the
car as fast as their legs would carry
them, leaving the weaker sex at the
mercy of the men with the five revolvers.
The :" knights " of the road, however,
injured no one but the courageous old
man, who fought so valiantly for the
small treasure confded to his keeping
that his skull was crushed in, and it is
not thought that he can recover. l
have before mentioned this terrible
Third avenue road as being the most
horrid in New York. Certain signs of
the times may be plainly seen there. It
is so situated that ladies and gentlemen
residing on Fouth, Lexington avenue,
Madison avenue and the cross streets are
obliged to make use of it for travelling
up and down town. It is also the labor
er's mode of transit, and the strong feel
ing existent in this city of labor VS.. capi>
tai is here displayed. Every seat in the
car will at certain hours be filed with
working men, with their dinner pals and
tools, while a crowd of ladies in silks
and satins cling to the straps, Vainly
trying to hold themselves and children
up.
got into car the other day. A great
many ladies were standing, a few were
sitting. Although it was not the work
mems hour, man, who must have been
house plasterer, judging from the way
in which hisclothes and face were daUbed
with plaster, was seated in between some
ladies, smeaTing their silks with his
plaster. AS one well dressed woman
after another got in, adding to the
jam, he set his jaws and spread his
elbows. He was young and some of the
ladies were old, others evidently feeble,
| but they all stood for all he cared. At
last a woman entered, doubtless of his
OWL class. He was at the far end of the
car, she at the door. As soon as he saw
her he beckoned her, got up, and stood
guard of his seat until she forced her
way to it through the mass of bedizened
female humanity. By the way he bowed
and fourished her into his vacant place,
all suspicion of his not knowing better
than to sit while ladies were standing
was dissipated. He was not boor, but
he looked around at the women as much
as to say, this is the sort of woman
and none other, to whom l give my
seat" And so it is with all of them, in
so far setting a lesson of politeness to
the so-called gentlemen of our city, who
never rise for any woman, gentle OF
simple; the workingmen draw the line
at their own class; but gentlemen
heaven save the mark IL saw one o.
them in car the other day let a poo
creature with heavy baby in her arm
sway to and fro till she fell on him from
sheer exhaustion. You should havt
seen the look of disgust with which h,
pushed the child off SIS it elutched a
him to save itself from tumbling.