Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-12
Two Street Car Scenes.

ILLUSTRATING THE vExATIoUs QUESTION OF COM
BINING COURTESY WITH CONVENIENCE.
From the New York Sun.
Two incidents illustrating the extremes of
street car courtesy, related by gentleman who
witnessed them, are worthy of recording. An
elderly man, plainly dressed, sat in an uptown
street car, and as the car slowly filed and
ladies we're left standing in the aisles he was
the first one to arise AMI place his seat at the
ladies' service. At the 14th street crossing the
usual exodus Of shoppers emptied the car and
he sat down only to rise again with quiet chiv-
airy before the 23d street crossing emptied the
car and to continue standing with brief re-
spite until the end of his journey above the
park was reached. As he mounted the steps of
his residence he fell and was carried into the
house dead. Heart failure the physician pro-
nounced. brought on by over-exertion in hang
ing so long on the strap of the car, while
younger men sat blissfully unconscious Of the
line Of swsying women and the delicate old
man standing in the aisle.
In one Of the elevated cars, packed from
door to door, young and handsomely dressed
man rose to give a lady, who stood near him,
his seat. Before she could reach it a sleek
portly, middle-aged individual, with decided
and heavily moulded chin. slid into the seat
and deliberately unfolded his newspaper.
Il beg your pardon, sir; but didn't you un-
derstand resigned my place to this lady2'
YES" calmly answered the stout lord of
creation: getting out his eyeglasses.
"You don't mean to say you intend to keep
that seat?" exclaimed the other Indignantly
II most assuredly do intend to keep it, and
don't know of any law, civil or military, to pre-
vent;" and in spite of the angry prote SITS of the
passengers he did keep it until it rounded the
Harlem curve. "These are extreme cases."
said the gentleman, but declare / wish the
ladies and gentlemen had different cars.
can not take any comfort sitting while woman
Is twisting and swinging on a strap in front of
me. and certainly don't enjoy myself after
hard days work hanging up in the aisle, to be
crowded and jostled and jammed for an hour
every night. The perfect unconcern and non.
chalance with which the gildeds young men Of
the day let women stand in the cars is dis
grace to the age. The men who come to the
rescue OF standing women are almost invariably
the rniddle-aged and plainly-dressed men Of
business or artisans, who often scarcely get a
mumbled thank you for their pains. Some
women give man a smile SO sweet that he
considers 1t an ample recompense for all his
dlscomfort, and others whisper a conventional
thank you and take the place as If it were her
own and you an interloper that you had it at
all. tell you the street-car problem makes
life scarcely worth living in the busy season
There ought to be more cars or less women"
TITS beautiful day for Q walk" she said,
| looking out of the window.
'Indeed it is," he said, doing likewise.
would you Ike to take walk?' she con-
tinued.
above all things"
Then Why don't you?'-Hayper's Bazor.
Admiral Tchiihatchef will become minister
Of marine OF Russia in place Of Admiral Chez
| tacod, deceased
A special from Canon City, Col, says an ex-
plosion occurred in shaft No. 2, Of Canfeid coal
mine Monday night, resulting in the instant
death Of Henry Wallace, mine foreman, and
another man, and fatally wounding q dozen
others, two Of whom are expected to die ct any
moment
At Annapolis, Nd, . colored school teschers'
association has been organized with the follow
ing officers: President, Aaron D. Wesley; vice
president, Agnes Adams; secretary, Pinmey
Brice; treasurer, Maria L. Garrett.
| At IN election In January Portsmouth, Va,
will vote on the proposition to subscribe e15O,-
600 to the stock Of the Atlantic and Dansille
railroad
! The Bank Of France announces that the
subscriptions for the new Russian loan amount
70 2, 500 900 bonds; or l.250, 000, 000f nominal