St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-23
Entertaining Experience of Two New
York Bxquisites in the Third
Avenue Strike.
KniCkerbOcker Club Men Undertake to
Pilot Street Car Down
Town.
Ihe conductor Rings Up Fares on
the Bell Which Starts the
Conveyance.
Down Fares to Pretty Young
Ladies Aboard.
Dude Drivers.

the strike is recounted by the Journal as
follows:
Two bowling swells sat in the Knicker-
booker club, the swellest club in town. on,
Monday evening, smoking Havana cigars
and talking about the strike on Third avenue
They were very comfortable and seemed to
think that life must go very easy with every-
body. II don't see why those car drivers and
conductors should want to strike, said one a
| their occupations must be very pleasant and
they don't require any skill. For the work
Ihey 90 dare say they are well paid.' The
nrst bowling swell sat down at desk and
| wrote the following note on gilt-edged note
paper, ana sent 1t by messenger to MIR.
henry Hart, the benevolent old gentleman
VINO owns most of the Third Avenue road:
| hnlckerbocker club, ,319 Fifth avenue-Third
Avenue Railroad company. Gentlemen;
should you require the services of a couple of
| amateurs as driver and conductor Tomorrow
we Will be very happy to work in either or
Dotn capacities, and we will report to you at
such time tomorrow as you NAV direct
! waiting the favor of your reply, we remain,
gentlemen, yours truly.
! (Signed) G. MONTAGUE WARD.
| FRED o. BEACH.
z S.-We will report to you this evening if
necessary.
Bright and early yesterday morning tho
brace Of bowling swells, Mr. c. Montague
| ward and Mr. Frederick o. Beach, eluded the
plckets on Third avenue, managed with con-
siderable difficulty to get by platoon of DO
hce who mistook them for Knights of Labor
In disguise, and entered the big Third Avenue
car stables at Sixty-fifth street. They offered
! their
SERVICES TO THE COMPANY
and President Lyon, believing that the moral
effect on the strikers of two dudes driving q
street car down to the city hall would be
something tremendous, gladly and gratefully
accepted the offer. A buckskin horse and a
p1ebald horse were hitched to q middle-aged
and Weather-beaten car. Mr.. Frederick o.
Beach got on the front platform and look the
relnS in his gloved hand, and Mr. G. Mon
tague Ward leaned against the brake and took |
mold or the bell strap on the rear platform. /
me door or the stable shot open, and the pie. !
paid and ouckskin horses pranced out with ]
the car. The new driver of the car wore a.
fashionable Derby hat, a dark cut-away coatA
satin lined, high Picadily collar, and dark kid
driving gloves. He was tall and well built ;
had brown muStache and slight whlskers.
Inc new conductor was of medium height.
had a rudy face and wore q light-brown
| mustache. He was dressed in q new spring
suit made at Bells. The piclzets looked at the |
car in blank amazement. The car startedg
down Third avenue. At the corner of Sixty
third street old lady haile6ss
it. The new conductor spulled the bell. The7
car did not stop. Then he pulled the bell aSH
fast and furiously as if the car were an am
bnlance The driver tied the reins to the
brake and came through the car and asked
him what was the matter, if ANYTHING had
happened. The driver ran out caught the
reins in his hand, and pulled the horses back
I'LL their forefeet were up in the air. The car
struck the horses and put them on their feet
again, and the animals began to shy on op-
posite sides OF the track till they were about
| ten feet apart. The car was now dragging
the horses on either side of it. 1t was wiping
up one side Of the street with one horse and
the other side with the other horse The car
was now two blocks ahead of the old lady
| who had hailed it and it waited for her to
come up. When she came up she did not
! want to ride, for having u
SEEN THE RECKLESS DRIVING
she was afraid to trust herself in the car.
| and would go down town on the elevated
| railway. The car started. At Sixty-first
street an italian, who had been living on
| nothing but garlic all winter hailed the car
The driver took the reins in his teeth braced
| himself against the dashboard and the door
and wound up the brake with both hands, The
horses kept on pulling with their feet braced,
and their necks and heads stretched out in g..
laughing. II forgot to pull on the reinsi
when wound up the brake,'' said the driver
who enjoyed the joke. The Italian got
aboard, and then a bricklayer and hod-car-
rier got in. The conductor who was inside,
| turned the bar that rings TIE fares to give
the driver the signal to start. The driver,
who was untwisting the brake, was too busy
to hear it at first, and the conductor had to-
ring the indicator dozen times be-
fore the driver heard him and started
| up the car. He then took up the fares and
rang them all on the leather strap. At Fifty
| ninth street a fat colored woman, who would
! weigh at least 800 pounds, came to the car
! with q basket of freshly laundried clothes.
| She made several Intellectual attempts to step
on the rear platform, and the conductor was
! obliged to get off to assist her on and then to
carry her clothes basket forward and set it,
| in the front part of the car. He rang the in-1
| dicator for the car to start, and it bowled
along nicely till it got to Forty-fourth street,
where it stopped and an intoxicated man got
on. At Thirty-fourth street bevy of pretty
girls got into the car. When the new con-
/ duetor came in to collect their fares they
hunted through their pockets and could not
| find their money. Don't
MENTION 1T, YOUNG LADIES'
| said the conductor; In ring down three
fares apiece for you, so that you may ride
| twice again." and then he rang down eighteen
| fares, three for each of the charming young
| ladies, and all on the leather strap. Once in
| a while the drunken man made wild conjec-
| lures upon how many fares his fashionable
| suit of clothes had cost the Third avenue
company. At the Cooper institute a spotter
| got on the car. He carried a bundle and q
faded umbrella, and looked like man from
wayback. He sat down in the car and looked
at the indicator and only seven fares were re-
| corded. Then h 70 counted the people in the
car. There were eighteen. He took out O
| little book and made memoran-
/ dunn. Then he looked at the con-
ductor, noticing first his diamoud pin,
L
| his uitra-fashionable attire. 'NThat man."
said the spotter to himself, ''has robbed the
: company" He noticed that when passenger
offered the conductor 25 cent piece the
conductor had not smaller than $50 bill to
change it With, This confirmed the startling
discovery he had made. A man came out on
the platform and whispered to the conductor.
| Hes on to you. know that the road does
not pay respectable wages, and don't blame
/ you for salting down what you can,
| but that spotter is watching you."
1t flashed on the conductor that he had
been ringing the wrong bell to record the
fares. So the next time he took three or
i four fares he rang up 150. When the car got
| back to the stable Driver Beach had his
gloved hand blistered and was tired out.
| Conductor Ward said he never had as much
anxiety and trouble before in his life, and
wouldn't be conductor for $1,000 a week.
| He turned his pockets inside out, and
emptied out $3.50 as the returns OF the trip.
As this was an impossible amount of re-
| ceipts, the employe who received the money
| from the cars went and looked at the indi-
Gator. 1t registered $25.35 in fares. Con-
ductor Ward handed him that much and took
| the rest of his money back. 1t was estimated
that after he started to ring up fares on the
indicator he rang up SIS more than he
took in.
Minor NfShanS.