New-York tribune., 1886-11-14
ELEVATED Road OBSERVATlONS.
SOME EVERYDAY GLIMPsEs IN THE CARS

THINGS AND PERSONS THAT you HAVE SEEN AND
WILL SEE.
You will see women enter the car, advance a few
feet up the aisle and come to q standsu their eyes
bent on the floor Is this mCdesty or simplicity
OF course there are vacant at the other end OF
the car but the fair creatures woud never think OF
seeing them. Certainly not. They prefer to have
your seat; you go 20 the other end Oh The car IL
YOU wish. Now certain wise men OF this generation
take Unfair advanta % OF this womanly trat ihey
argue thus We must, in conscience. give our seats
10 the women wnen they stand and hang over us. 10
keep our seats We must sit whore the women do not
90 They do not go, according to our observauon'
into the front end of the first prefe:ring to pack
themselves close to the door, Therefore. we st IN
the front car the front door, which. you KNOW
a never opened and we ride in peace and comfort OF
body and conscience
You will SEQ the men and women who crowd thus
about the doors the look most resentfuy upon
the poor guerd who cries In persuasive tones; Move
a leete forrards, will you" then half way up tho
scale of sorrow Move up there; then at the high
OF indignation. Why don't yer move up there; git
I'D TO the centre OF the CARP Every man, woman and
boy considers such importantly personal insult and
neither he nor she, nor it will bulge an inch though
there be space for fifty in the centre OF the car
You will see the City Hall train running into tho
station with every seat unoccuped-the passengers
are all standing up, having risen some hundred yards
back so they may reel and tumble and tread on
one another toes while the swing into one switch
and ont of another and into third. This it has been
observ.d il trait peculiar to the inhabitants of New
York Ii is hard to what they gain by II, but II
must be something. They don't got OF the cars any
the quicker Tor the body OF big tat guard Is always
at the gate until the train stops The indifference
with which these portly officials swing the on loot
when they catch on to gate and ride down tne piat
a.trfnr faafI M hA
railroad system And then their smile OF satisfaction
at having Kept back hasty passeneers'
You will the most accommodating tram men
after midnight, when the cars are running hiteeh
minutes apart Tho other morning at 300 a. m,
newspaper man climbing the steps oil down,
town station as the train started on uptown hOld
on hold on. he shouted with all his voice ana dasnea
up the steps, thee at time. The last car was just
passing the station but the conductor heard the sn0u
ana stopped the rsn. The ticketseer had the tlcket
ready the station held the door open the guard
cried encouragngly Come on all tried TO get the
man on board. The fare was bye cents on, ne nam r
nothing less than quarter and IN ms 1as'e tn ii iii
find it, the agent said The man flew throush tne
door and caught the train The next night the agent
handed him twenty cents. And yet one hears %
many complaints against employees OF the elevated
roads
You will see about one in about sixty-nve SIT
erect in the car the rest their legs and prop their
longitudinal seats have disposition 10 81. Oh
one side or the other and rest an elbow on the
sill thus intruding their backs upon their neighDors III
the rear and their feet upon those IN trort nele
room for reform last here Begin 1t oy qniet anu
as it were, accidental exercise OF that privilege Known
| "A making elbow room, and administer lew nervous
kicks apoogzing of course, for each one, clearing
your throat the time and pretending TO De ex
| ceedingy uno omfortable Be sure to keep stIh
MINER lin and hard you can In that stereo-
typed old fashion. This plan has never been k1own TO
| fail, even in the most alarming cases
You will see-speaking further on this point nt-that
women invariably sit erect in the car Inquiry brings
forth these reasons In the first place the faIr Great
ures (b,ess 'em) don't want to mash their oonnets
next they don't want to muss their halr thrdy, IL
looks too bold fourthly, land honestly they cant
| lean back because of their bustles Most eIceleht
| remarked: Do yon think would lean my head
| where everybody eses head had Oeenp lSome per-
| sons exclusively
You will persons nervous In the car as green
horn in q draw ing ROOM Imagining that every eye
is upon them, they fall ungracetuy into their seats.
| the advertising sings" WhalebOnes corsets," !"
Liver's Pills." SBran's NASH "Tooty frooty,"
Apply at-Mrrav-st" and the lIke-eross their legs
this for the men no lady would think Oh
doing such a thingl uncross them, told their arms.
unfold them, lock their fingers unlock them suck the
heads of their canes. meant for slender creatures
presuming to be recent imporatons and If such en-
| tered tree of duty under the ad vaorem tax,
unsuck them their eyes out of the window catch
them again and fling them TO the hoof, glve-but why
proceedi You have seen these miserable creatures
| many time; perhaps you have been there your
self ana it may pain you to continue looking III this
mirror.
| You will see that the line must be drawn somewhere,
| and the burden of evidence encourages the remark
| that il ought to be at point between the man
| who reads your paper and him who spreads bis out
| before you and the neighbor on his other side'