The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-13
SOME FURTHER SPECIMENS.
BY NJ. QUAD.

To resume the subject: There is 8 line of surface cars in New York City which runs up Center street from the City Hall, and passes Stewards retail store uptown. I took this line one day, and as the conductor came for the fare paid for three ofus. gave him half dollar and he handed me back 10 cents and walked out. Would you have kicked2 No; you would have seen that the car was full, and the loss of quarter was nothing compared to a public wrangle. kicked, however. kicked because I knew the conductor spotted me for stranger in the city. He was trying to beat me simply because he figured that I was 8 stranger and hadn't the nerve to kick. called him in and said:
 "I gave you a half-dollar, sir, and am entitled to another quarter in change"
 "You gave me 25-cent piece" he replied.
 liam sure 1t was half dollar"
 "And know better!"
 Five of the nearest passengers promptly affirmed that I gave him 8 half dollar piece, and he grudgingly handed over thequarter. Hemay try to play the same game again, but he won't be as ready to try it.
 have met the railroad hog great many times. never meet him with out making a kick. He is growing scarcer every day, and I sometimes fiatter myself that I have contributed to drive him out. When I left Toledo for Cincinnati the other day the train was crowded and people were standing up in every coach. In my car was a man occupying two seats. He had a bad looking head on him, and he cared 80 little for our rights that he did not look up from his book. There were five of us standing up, and I said to the group:
 "Gentlemen, there are three seats for which we have paid. Let us take possession"
 "He'll kick and raise row."
 But we'll kick and raise bigger one"
 "Yes, but what's the use of quarrel ing with a hog?"
 ''It is just such men as you who have made him 8 hog. You have allowed him to impose on you until he has come to think he owns the rail- road"
 Not one of the four would move. I went to the other end of the car where three women were crushed into one seat, picked up 12-year- -old boy near by, and walked up to the hog and asked:
 "Have you paid for four seats here2"
 "That's my businessl" he promptly replied.
 "And mine and the public's."
 I cleared the seat of his baggage, seated the woman and boy, and then crowded in beside the hog. He made an awful row, but it was useless. He was left with what he had paid for, and we got what our tickets called for. Let every passenger kick on the rail- road hog and he must go.
 One day last spring there were ten of us at 6 hotel table in Nashville. The soup was scorched and no one could eat 1t. Not potato brought to us was done. invited the others to go to the office with me and kick. They were drummers, every one, but not one would go. When people speak of drummers as kickers they are way of. They will put up with more and do less complaining than any other class of men on earth. In the present case one of them spoke for all when he said:
 "Yes, things are bad and ought to be righted, but we are here only for the meal and it won't pay us to kick.
 Iwent out alone. The landlord was in the office, and asked:
 "How long since you were in the dining room7"
 "A week, I guess"
 "You don't oversee the meals2"
 "No.r
 "WeM rle.se go to the head table and taste the milk, examine the pota- toes and smell of the soup.n
 He departed at once. When he re- turned he was hopping mad. The head waiter was called ont and dressed down the head cook got nicely peeled, and the landlord shook my hand ard said:
 "That kick of yours will beneft this house $5,0OO. I had no idea things were running thus.S
 The natural inference with him was that as long as no one kicked everything must be going all right and every- body satisfied. A thou and men had no doubt gone away mad and injured his house.
 The fare from the foot of Market street. Philadelphia, to the Bingham