The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-08
He Had Been There.

A searcher after unique information
On commonplace subjects mounted the
front platform of street car. and. as
suming an easy attitude with one foot
on the dasher, entered into converse
ton with the driver, who appeared to
be contemplative sort of person and
had gravely intelligent face. Il sup
pose you drivers work more hours for
less pay than almost any other class of
men in the city, don't you?"
II dunno
'Of course you can't support fami-
iy and save money on your pay, and /
don't think you ought to be blamed for
accepting a portion of the conductors
perquisites. ] shouldn't Judge harshly
car driver who made dollar or so in
that way"
''Is that soP''
''See lots of curious and interesting
things, suppose, in the course of a
Cay. Don't you find it a relief to the
monotony of your occupation to watch
che peculiarities of passengers, and re-
fleet upon the many odd phases of hui
man nature that come under your OBJ
servation?"
.'Eh?"
Il say you must enjoy observing the
foibles and idiosyncrasies of individuals
and forming estimates of character from
their unconscious display of inherent
traits in their casual contact with each
other on the front PLATFORM
Nav, don't
''Well, of course, didn't know. l
supposed you might be interested in
such things. Car-drivers often have a
streak of homely philosophy in them,
and beguile the treadmill tedium of
their occupation by applying it to oo-
currences that might not at first strike
one as peculiar. -
''Is that SOP"
Don't you think it would be pay
ing policy for the road to raise wages,
and by giving the men enough to live
on remove the temptation to increase
their own pay irregularly? Would it
not be economy for the company to do
this and discharge such expensive
checks, as bell-punches and registering
dials?''
dunno. Ask the SUPER
Him Have trouble sometimes
with balky horses, suppose, and get
lots of advice from the passengers on
the subject. Everybody has his own
pet method of dealing with horses in
such cases, and you must have some
funny expedients proposed. What do
you do when your horses balk?'
make EN- 60"
''Ye-es, that's good way, probably.
Well, if you don't take much interest
In human nature, you must have a fund
of information about horses and their
eccentricities and differences of temper
and all that sort of thing. Now, for in
stance, what kind of horses are the most
common, so far as you have observed,
on horse-cars?"
Plugs
you don't appear to be in commu-
NEGATIVE mood this morning. Don't
you ever see anything from the front
platform that is worth remembering
and talking about?h
Nav
A solemn hush, gloomy, strenuous
stiffness sort of brooded over that plat
form for a spell, and an all prevailing
dryupness seemed to sink deep into the
soul of the loquacious passenger. who
embraced the first opportunity to make
his escape. Then the driver muttered
to himself: Couldn't work no racket
on me. amt pretty, but I'm fly. l
know enough not to know too much,
and that's more than some folks know"
Turning to another passenger he
said: 'Bet seven cents that he was a
newspaper chap and ell write up what
he said to me just as though I'd said it
to him. They always do.