New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-26
SUNDAY SCENES IN A CEMETERY.
RESORT FOR THOUSANDS OF GERMANS ON THEIR
DAY OF LFIsURE-INCIDFNrS OF THE TRIP.

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DAY OF LEIsURE-INCIDENrs OF THE TRIP.
There is only one way OF reaching Lutheran
Cemetery from the Eastern District OF broon,
Ign. aud that is BY the North Second
Street Railroad. Without the patronage OF
tho Germans who congregate m the cemetery by
thousands every SUNDAY, the road would doubtless
be losing affair. Nevertheless its expenses are mol
heavy for nearly all the horses appear to he rivals
of Dr. Tanner In their diet the cars are almost as
antique as the Egyptian obelisk, ana the tracks
have reached that stage OF decay where IL inPos,
slble for them to become worse, and are therefore
likely TO last without repairs Tor many years. a
TRIBUNE reporter jumped on one OF the cemetery
and succeeded after much labor III securing
standing room. Several times on the Journey tie
car paused and the voice of the conductor shoutpg
"Gcntlcmen Will please get of and give us I'LL!
nearly all Germans. accepted the situation roon-ha-
turedly, and worked their passage phIlosophicaly.
When about two miles from the ferry. the CITY
limits were reached. Here the horses were charged
and the car was boosted again by toe passen-
gers, and then ratified aloHg through an
immense cloud of dust. Soon an alter
cation occurred on the front platform, and
wrathful Teuton beloved. You're cheat, l VII
pay noting more" Then you'll have to get off,
said the conductor firmly &c
Il paid Id vance, und won't pay over again. III
sisted the passenger. , ,
"You paid your fare to the city limits; from there
to the cemetery ~ five cents more. ana IL you won
pay YOU will have to get of" was the reply.
The car stopped and the conductor iald bis
hand OIL the mans shoulder. finGlng tnat thfre
W
fare but vowed vengeance on the road ana ali con
nected with it. This an example OF the work
the conductor had to do in collecting the second
fare Many of the passengers had taken the same
trip dozens Of times, bnt this made no difference
they considered the additional fare an imposition,
and always made as much trouble for the poor uh-
offending conductor as possible.
The approach to the cemetery Is through
rows of lager beer saloons and at every one OF these
the car received or deposited PASSENGERS AZ last
the car drew near the entrance. the wretchcd
horses stopped, painting and exhausted, for lew
minutes rest. and the passengers poured our; DuC
not yet to enter the cemetery. The saloons
received them first; not the men only, but
the women and children also. Going INTO tie
cemetery the reporter stroled up the main walk,
lined with head-stones and monuments OF all
ina gnable designs, on Which were all Kinds OF
inscriptions. most of them III German. AFTER a rev
minutes walk. that portion OF the grounds devoted
TO the poorer classes reached. Although IT was
not later than lin the morning the place contained
hundreds of people. MANY of the visitors had sup
piled themselves with luncheon and were sitting IN
the grass eating it, using the mound of some dear
departed friend table. gravc-dlgser was
found resting by the edge OF newly made grave
do you have much work sundays" asked the
reporter ,., III D. ,.o. n,,r;od IL ,o,t
onYD ,.,
"Vel, SOonday, and ven de most peoples got
pulied den, hav de most work. amt I'd
The digger of graves dld not prove to be az genial
a converSatlonast as might have been wished aud
he was left to his gloomy mediaiOns. On the
hOmewaTd trip the car was comparatively empty
but each car that was passed was oaded 10 the Ut
most. The reporter asked the conductor now many
passengers nc carried on the no trip.
"Well, about sixty" he answered, "but they
average on Sunday about hfty-hye."
- 1t is not the easiest work IN the world to run
one of these cars, Is 1t !"
Were you ever conductor"
"No."
"Pray that you never may be. 1t is the meanest
work under the sun. You are continually haraSSed
by everybody. The passengers can be as rough and
as ungentemany as they please but If the cOnduc-
tnr il "A
almost sure 10 report him To the company, and lie is
instantly discharged.'