The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-08
SOME MORE KICKS.
The Missionary Work IN. Quad" Is
Doing for His Follow Mon.


Doing for His Fellow Men.
From the Detroit Free Press.
To resume the subject: There is a limo
OF surface cars in New York City which
runs up Center street from the City Hall,
around into the Bowery, and passes Stew
arts retail store up town. took this line
one day, and, as the conductor came for
the fare, paid for three OF u.s. ! gave
him half a dollar aud he handed mo bacl,
10 cents and walked out. Would YOU
have kicked? No; you would have seen
that the car was iull, aud the loss Of a
quarter was nothing, compared 10 public
wrangc. | kicked, however. kicked
because ] knew the conductor spotted me
for u stranger in the city. Ito was trying
10 beat me simply because ho figured that
/ was a stranger, and hadn't the nerve 10
kick. called him in and said
81 gave You half dollar. sir. and am
entitled TO another quarter IN change"
you gave meatwoniy.lyc cent piece"
he replied.
81 am sure Il was half dollar"
"And know better"
|
affirmed that / gave him a half dollar
piece, and lac grudgngly handed over the
| quarter. lie may try 20 play the same
game again, but he won't DC as ready 10
try II.
! have met the railroad log a great
many times. | never meet him without
making n kick. lie Is growing scarccr
every day, AMI sometimes | flatlcr myself
| that have contributed 10 drive him out.
| When | left Toledo for Cincinnati the
/ other day the train was crowded, and pco-
pie were standing up In every coach. In
my car was a man occupying two soats
| lilo had bad looking head on him, aud he
| cared 40 little for our rights that he did not
| look up from his book. There were i've Of
us standing up, and said 10 the group.
'Gcnilemon, there are three seats for
which We have paid. Let Us take posses.
sion."
"lIc'll kick and raise a row."
''lIut we'll kick and raise bigger one "
"lcs, but what's the uso Of quaucling
with a hog?'
ut Is just such men rs you who have
made him a hog You have allowed him
10 impose on yon until he has como u
think he owns the railroad"
| Not uuN VI Alt louI Woull nuNfs
vent 10 the other end Of tho car. whcrc
three women were crushed into ono scat,
picked up twelve. yoar.0ld boy near by
and walked up 10 the hog and asked:
Have you paid for four seats hcrc?"
That's my business" ho promptly re-.
piled.
"And mine, and the public's."
| cleared the seat Of his baggage, seated
the woman and boy, aud then crowded In
beside the hog. lie made an awful row,
but Il was useless. lie WIS left with what
he had paid for, and We got what our tick.
cts called for. lot every passenger kick On
the railroad hog and he must go.
Ono day last spring party was seated nj
hotel table nj Nashville. The soup wa,
scorched and no one could eat Il. Not q
potato brought 10 us WIS done Tho milk
for the coffee had turned. I invited the
others 10 90 20 the office with me aud kick
They were drummers. every one, but none
would go. When people speak Of drum.
mcrs ~ kickors they are way OH. They
will put up with moro aud do lcss com.
planning than any other class Of men on
earth. In the present caso one OF them
spoke for all when ho said.
"IcA things are bad and ought 10 bC
rightcd, but We are here only for the meal
and II won't pay rs 10 kick"
went out alone. The landlord was IN
tho Office, and ! asked:
GLOW long sinccyou were In the dining
roomg'
"a wook. ] guess"
you don't oversee the mcals7'
ono"
"Wcll please 70 10 the head table ant
taste the milk, examine the potatoes an,
smell Of the soup"
lie departed At once. When he rotufnc,
he was hopping mad. The head waite
was called ont aud dressed down, the hea,
cook got nicely peeled. aud tho landlor,
shook my hand and said
That kick Of yours will benefit mi
house 5000 | had no idea things wen
running thus"
The natural inference with him was tina
a. long as no one kicked everything mus
be- going al right aud everybody satisfied
A thousand men had no doubt gone ava,
mad aud injured his house.
The fare from Tho foot Of Market s,rcct
Philadelphia, % the Bingham House b,
coupe istl. That IL tho figure cstablisho,
by ordinance. aud IL very liberal Whoi
coupe sat me down NJ The hotel n monll
ago the driver demanded g.. I kicked
He talked In n loud voice In order 10 galhe
a crowd aud mako me feel ashamed. bu
I tcfttsnl 10 fafuo dawn lie dfoppoI 4,