The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-03
STREET CAR VICTIMS.
How Conductors Are Restored by
Chronic Frauds, Male and
Female.


New York World.
That woman'sa fraud said a street car
conductor to a reporter of The World as he
pointed to a well-dressed woman sitting il
one of tho forward seats. "She has beer
playing a game on these cars for severn
months, Icoilected her fare at the ferry
and just now when l passed her she asked IN,
for her change. She had given me a nickel
and when l told her so she became angry anC
threatened to report me if l didn't give hel
change for the 50-oent Psees which sht
claimed to have given me. Shes lone tn,
same thing with a half dozen men on the road
ID you have many Of that class of peo
pier
eyes, and women are generally the worst.
They play all sorts of tricks on us. They
give us the most trouble. You want to know
their trivksl Lemms seeI
There's the woman who has a $40 bill
and 2 cents. We nave to change tn,
former or accept the latter.
"Then, there's the woman who has n cart,
load Of baskets with her and won't pay any
fare for EN-.
There's the woman who has a whole
school house full of children. They are al
big enough to vote almost; yet she is willing
to take an oath that none of them is IL years
of age.
"There's the woman who halls the car and
then stands on the curb, kiss all her friends.
tells them all to call on her, and then get
aboard. After the car is started she sud
denly remembers hat she is in the wrong
car or has forgotten her pocket-book. There's
the woman who expects you to know the
exact number of the street to which she Is
going and threatens TO report you if you in
form her that you are not a directory
There's the woman who stands on the corner
and lets the car pass and then halls it and
looks daggers at you for not knowing tina
she wanted to ride. There's the woman who
Will let you pass by her a dozen times, and,
although you stare her out of countenance,
but will never offer her fare, and when you
ask her for it will either say that she has
paid it or will hunt down in the bottom
of her valise for it, and finally fish it up after
you have waited ten minutes for il.
There's the woman who insists that she
has told you where she wants to get out wher
she knows she never did anything of the kind
Five or six will get into a car together, and
when the conductor comes around they will
all look the other way. Then, when they art
asked for their fare, they will quarrel about
who is to pay and will finally end by each
paying her own fare.
Men are not so troublesome. But there
are a number of frauds among them. Fori in.
stance, there's the nan who always gives you
a scent piece and swears he handed you a 10.
The man who has a cent ready, and when
you come for your fare he covers it, holds out
his hand and purposely drops the cent in the
straw, or into the street If it's an open car.
Tn mar who insists upon smoking on the
rear platform, and when you tell him to 90
front he goes there and puifs the smoke from
a grocery store cigar into the front window.
"The young man who jokes and always
says: One and a half when he pays for
himself and his girl. The drunken man who
wants to occupy the whole car. The tough
who attempts to run the whole machine and
frightens everybody and then reports you
when you break him in two and fire him into
the middle of the street. The man who pulls
the indicator strap instead of the bell sTrap
and keeps rolling up the number of fares, i'm
agining that he is going to stop the car. The
man who eats peanuts in the car and gets
angry because you ask him to throw the
shells cut Of the window. The man who
rides in the wrong direction and then wants
his fare back when he discovers his mistake.
The man who insists upon putting his feet on
the seats and hundreds of others 1 can't now
recall.