Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-29

every piece of property in the city. Every
thing in Kansas City is for SALE"
81 had a delegation from Chicago yester-
day-t hree ladies and one little miss. They
were chaperoned by a lady and gentleman
who reside here, and they made at least a
half dozen trips with me, and the
amount of language these Chicago
ans scattered over the landscape was
awful to think of. oh you ought to see our
cable line,' said the eldest, a blonde. Yes,
one,' chimed in the second, who was q bru-
nette. And carry ever SO many more pas
sengers,' put in the third, who was one of
those girls that always makes you look
ever so much farther for five thents, ,
put in the little miss. And so it went until
Omaha could not control himself any longer,
and spoke up: We'll, girls, you have not got
any hills on your cable line like this one
This remark pleased me ESQ much that 1
laughed so hard that | forgot what L was do
ing, and let the grip slip off the cable, and did
not stop until l got past Fifteenth street,
where l knocked a dago's banana wagon into
smithereens. tell you that was funny"
"Now,'' continued the gripman, 1--WE are in
the heart of the city, and just watch matters
a little and you will see some fun. Observe
that colored young man who got on at Eigh-
teenth street while we were running at full
speed. He will ring the bell for the train to
stop at Ed Miller's place." and sure enough
the prophecy came true, "Watch him."
whispered the gripman, as he stopped the
car so suddenly the debarklng son of Africa
came flying up against the front door. keep
you eye on hin" he continued, as WAITING I'M
til the descendant of Ham was near the rear
door when he showed the grip in the corner,
as it were and started so suddenly that the
''colored pusson'' referred TO took a''header"
over the rear platform on the granite.
'That fellow won't ring that bell next
time, I'll bet C Reina Vic"
"Say, have you ever noticed how various
are the sounds of the bells on the cable cars
Nearly every bell has a different tone. There
is one car ON the Harvey street line thai
when you pull the bell cord there is a heavy
dull 'chug, chug,' a surly sort of lemme-lone-
observation-disclosures sound that makes
the passengers fearful of accidents. The fell
lows that have to do with these sort of bell
ring them as little as possible and when they
have to jerk the cord they look around as il
they were ashamed to be compelled to keep
company with anything so sour. They are
a nuisance, these ill-tempered bells, and
worry the passengers with delicate nerves,
who know that cable car gongs are intended
TO warn people ofdanger.
"Then there is the wheezy bell that speaks
for all the world as if it had the asthma, and
was doing duty when it ought to be in st.
Joseph's hospital. How a fellow with such a
bell has TO jerk away at the cord when he
comes to a crossing! He pulls so earnestly
and with such an evident determination to
perform faithfully his part of the contract
that everybody in the car pities him. Some
of the bells tinkle weakly, reminding one of
a cow coming home from pasture-a very
musical sound when attached to a cow, but
scarcely stentorian enough for a crowded
street crossing, Some make a rafting disin-
tegrating noise like a tin pan attached to a
pups tail, and some of the cars round the
corner with a sonorous ding, dong, ding,
dong, like a church bell. Some of the gongs
announce the approach of a car with a gentle
tapping, like the tick-tack that town boys
fasten TO parlor windows, or the pecking of a
sapsucker on the bark of a dead tree. Some
sound like a charivari to a newly married
young couple by a party of boon compan-
ions, and a few make one think that a fire
engine is coming at full speed. Then there is
the gong that explodes at intervals, and the
clear toned, merry gong that we are all
stuck on. Around the corner we come, play
ing a tune ''tIng, tong, tink-cly-tong, ting,
tong, tink-ely tong, clear the track, we are
coming. That is the kim of a gong like.
A gripman with a good gong soon becomes a
musician, II he has any music in his soul, and
he has a different tune for every corner"
"But here we are at Tenth street juno
ton. Going to get of, ehi Well, tata, / will
see you later.h -.