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Scenes in New York Street Cars.

Celia Logan in Baltimore News
If anything could make the passengers
on the Third avenle line OF cars more
anxious for tho completion ofthe air road
ii would be the event which happened
at the beginning of the week, when five
men with revOlvers boarded the o D.. m.
train and beat IN cid man insensible,
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 wasan employee OF the com.
pany, and had a very small amount com,
paratiyely something over q hundred
dollars The car was packed with people
returning froma picnic, principally chill
dren and women, who, no doubt, il q
thouThto Of danger crossed their minds
during their %pleasuring it vas lulled 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
u few wOmen and children in par,
%ticular, for at the first opportunity
these braves scrambled out 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 30 valiantly for the
small treasure conilded to his keepingS
that his skull was crushed in, and it il
not thought that he can recover. |
have before mentioned this terrible
Third venue road as being the most
horrid in New York. Certain signs of
the times may be plainly seen there. 1t
is 80 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. II 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 filled with
working men, with their dinner pals and
tools, while n crowd of ladies' in silks
and satins cliny to the straps, vainly
to hold themselves and children
up.
got into a car the other day. A great
many ladies were standing, a few were
Although it was not the work.
mems hour, a man, who must have been
a house plasterer, judging from the way
in which hisclothes and face were daubed
with plaster, was seated in between sune
ladies. smoarinS tneir silks with his
plaster. AS one well dressed m
alter another got in, adding to the
jam, he set his Jaws and spread his
elbows. He vas 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
own 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 no bowed
and flourished her into his vacant place,
all suspicion OF his not knowing better
than to sit while ladies we're standing
was dissipated. He was not a boor, but
he looked around at the women as much
rs to say, this is the sort of a woman
and none other, to whom ! give my
,eat." And 30 it is with all of them, in
far setting a lesson of politeness to
he so-cslled gentlemen of our city, who
lever rise for any woman, gentle or
the workingmen draw the line
t their own class; but gentlemen
eaven save the mark !--I saw one of
hem in a car the other day let a poor
with a heavy baby in her arms
way to and fro till she fell on him from
leer exhaustion. You should have
the look of disgust with which he
ished the child off IS it clutched at
IN to save itself from tumbling.