Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-06-17
STREET CAR ETlo JETTe,
As It Is Observed by tho Inhabitants OF
tbs Crescent City.

As 1t Is Observed by tho Inhabitants Of
tbs Crescent City.
iBasr,y Hall A Philadelphia Pr'sS,l
Street ear etiquette here is very strict.
The men are extremely polite, and l
have not yet seen woman standing in
car while seat was occupied by a
man. What struck me as being most
remarkable was the universal po.iteness
with which all women are treated IL
an old, awkward and ragged negress
climbs into car, three or four men are
on their feet at once, offering her their
seats, and the fare is passed up to the
box with rs much courtesy rs duchess
could desire. Ii is fact that young
women are not one whit more politely
treated than their older and palmer sis
tiers, But the graciousnesS shown to
negrcsSrs is very striking to visitors.
BY the way, you never bear OF a negro
or negresS nere-everything Is niger,
Niger man or Niger. woman, even by
the most punctilious of takers.
Two bells will stop car at once and
one bell in licates that the passenger
wishes to alight at the next corner.
Nothing could more plainly illustrate
the great leisure that everybody enjoys
than the manner in which women leave
car. As her corner approaches she
half raises her hand to pull the bell
Several masculine hands clutch 1t at
once and when the car comes 10 the cor.
ner it is gently and Thoroughly stopped
by the driver, who turns around in his
seat - hcy drive Seated-anl looks back
with lazy curiosity into the car. The
woman sits TRANQUILITY there so long
after the car has come 10 a full stop
that the strangers in the car look around
to see what is the cause of the delay.
The driver yawns and leans over the
dashboard, lazily dangling his whip
over the rail. Then the woman rises
sedately, shakes herself gently to-
gether, and walks placidly out OF the
car. some one cries, "All right, Gal.
lagher, AMI the driver wakes from his
lethargy and starts the melan holy
mule upon his blithSome way.
have not been able thus far to find
out why every driver is familiar.y adj
dressed as Gallagher, though have
been told that it is founded upon a
legend of ancient date. Ii would seem
that in the early days OF the city an
Irish policeman even at that early date
the nation had Il penchant for getting
on the fore named Gallagher arrested
woman aud dragged her OF 10 Jail
She en- Dyed large degree of popularity
and her neighbOrs followed the miniOn
of the law and chanted Let her 20
Gallagher" even to the doors of the
prison How It came 10 be applied 10
the drivers of the street cars is easy
enough TO un lerstand.
The manner in which a New Orleans
manor an Orleanian, as he sometimes
calls himself himself-alights from a
car differs radically from that of wo-
man. He never stops the car, either to
get on or of, and the driver does not
make even pretense Of putting down
the brake. The passenger simply walks
out of the car and upon the ground
without turning around. lie keeps his
back to the horses and walks OF with
out looking back. Visitors watch this
really difficult feat with the utmost in
terest expecting the man TO take up
sitting posture the instant he leaves the
car But he never does. On the con-
trary, he walks off with an air that is
eminently blase, and somewhat bored at
eXcitable temperaments Of these people
from the north.