New-York tribune., 1885-08-09
NOT A BILKY HORSE, BUT A GAWKY
DRiVER

AN INEXPERIENCED YOUNG MAN BECOMES RATIFIED
IN BROADWAY.
| The art of driving the horses attached to q
street car does not seem difficult to the unintatcd
the passengers q Broadawy car few evenings ago
learned that there are drivers and drivers" The
Young man In charge OF the horses was recruit.
He had confident manner and made an artistic use Of
his lips In sending tobacco Juice over the side OF the
platform He graspcd the lines firmly and tre to start
the car but the horses did inclined to
IIe happened to remember abont loosening the brake
Just in time to escape the attention OF the conductor
The horses we'll grade and the driver with
his hat on one side stretched his legs apart and made
ocose remarks to girls standing on the sidewalk.
lie WAS in the height Of his glory when elderly
motioned MIN to stop at crossing Then he lost his
air of confidence First he pue the reins 10 stop the
horses and forgot about tho brake The inierered
with the horses heels they darted ahead Then the
young man remembered the brake and forgot the
horses The car dragged about half block before
the passenger could get Several incidents OF this
kind had occurred befoe the reached Union Square,
and the OF horse, who was an animal Of some humor
Thought that 1t was about time for him to have some
out of this Innocent Jehu The driver had become weak
and dropping by this time, and the lively horse had
everything his own way.
CIT up" said tbs young man. whose Bowery Derby
had fallen half his after the car bad stopped at
Seventeenth st. to let on passenger. mot yet" tho
his left oye at his stad companion, not till wove had
some fun out of this duher."
30 after waiting moment until the driver thought IL
advisable to the whip, the horse started at right
angle ~ II he determined to make Call at the
Everett House, He brushed the other horse out Of the
and would have taken the car on the track bad not
5 % g so xs s mSs ss
STILL The driver used his whip again, bn the horse
would until he caught tho driver unawares, and
then he flow down Broadway aud around the corner Of
lower Union Square, while tho brake-handle hit tho
The horses slowed up o. they turned into Broadway
again, aud the skittish animal began to dance. The
only woman In the car got out and seemed TO prefer
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seemed to wish that ne could cit on the curb.
WHAT'S tho matterW asked stout man In the front
Of the The young man looked more disgusted than
ever and murmured several remarks Of uncompll
nentary nature The horse he s1pla%ined line was paiy
could drive him. and other satisfactory The on
horse properly resented these insults and when he
In front OF Grace Church he showed his full powers He
forward and then stopped His hind legs moved about
the whlfietree aud cuaint'aces until tho further
10 q es SSr hc s and
The conductor took charge OF tho brake and the driver
left platform and moved his hands heplessy about
stout old man with prizzIed mustachc had up By
this me He assisted IN detachlng the horses from the
car while the young driver hela the heads OF tho
them out He attached the whidetrec to the car and
said: You take nv horses young feller." The inex
gsrenced driver gsdS SSsyed ana the horses Of shs
skilfuy that the never approached the horses
feet Tho frisky horse tried once or twice to renew
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nustachs ss no swung himself "a the car a Cana:t
said TO the conductor: Not oalkv horses bus gAwky
drivers make most Of the trouble, nnd."
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