Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-26
WOMEN IN STREET CARS.
Cruel Comments by a Driver Who Has
 Grudge Against Them.

Cruel Comments by a Driver Who Has a Grudge Against Them. From the Rochester Post -Express.l 1 A young man and street-car driver who was going to supper stood on the rear plat 1 form of a car on one of the longest lines in 1 the city yesterday afternoon. The young l man had been unable to find seat in the l car, and to make his enforced platform ride
 less irksome was smoking three-for- quar- i ter cigar. Something in the drivers face betokened dissatisfaction, and the young man gently inquired the cause.
 ! ''Aw it's them goldinged wimmen," said | the driver. q just made trip in, an was | seven minutes behind time, and ain't got | only thirteen minutes for supper instead of \ the twenty have when I manage to be on ! time. Besides got 8 racket for bein' behind | time. And it was all the fault of the vim | men, who have to stop n say goo by 'n' ! run back fer suthin' they've fergot." And l he glared at the ladies in the car. l But, said the young man, ''I don't see ] why you ought to have grudge against the I ladies in this car"
 ''Wal, I hev-on generl principles. You
 couldn't git seat, could you? Well, here's | a woman goin' to git on-seef she don't find | place to sit down"
 She did, and then the driver continued-stI | git off here for supper, but you jist count how many git seats, and then how many git | out when the roote is most gone over, before there's any room for 'nuthing' but man. Goo'by," and the driver dropped off. The young man did as he was bidden. It I was just about the time when ladies start for | home after shopping, and the car received l hardly any other passengers At last it was so well filled that even ladies had to stand. When the unloading began a close watch was kept, and after the other of those
 who kept seats departed, the young man was surprised to see with what ease the remain
 ing room was filled bv the women who had further to go. At last, when seven ladies had left their seats, there was room. Toward the end of the route the young
 man had little talk with the driver of the car.
 'Yes,' he said. f'I notice the state of
 things you speak of often. Men sometimes
 show their selfshness in keeping their seats
 when there are ladies standing, but never
 knew them to spread out so as to make up
 all the room they can, as the women do. And generally they give up their seats to the fair sex without murmur-some pleasant ly. There's one class of women who don't show the selfshness you noticed this after noon, though-it's the shop girls. I've noticed it often. And they frequently re- fuse to take proffered seats-from old men, you know, who tired like themselves. l The other ones don't do that very often, ] though-you bet"
 MT. Jabez Mead, of Greenwich, has found | another piece of money on his "coin lot" | This time it is Spanish silver piece which | bears the distinguishable words of Carolus | III.
 Waterbury is to make another attempt to | have free evening schools.
 Charles Kunzlemanis, young man who | seems to have Q mania for stealing in board | ing house, first operated in New Lon don, where he lives, then in New Haven and | then in Meriden. His case seems like gen. uine keptomania, but he has been sentenced | to jail on several charges, to all of which he | pleaded guilty.