Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-09
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Street Car Conductors Are Human Beings,
but Some People Forget 1.-two Ia
stances of Tyranny-The Poor Horses,

[ street Car Conductors Are Human Beings,
but Some People Forget 1.-two La.
stances of Tyranny-The Poor Horses,
l. Too.
Street car conductors get long hours, small
wages and lots of abuse. The passengers sup
ply the latter in large quantities, and on any
or no provocation. If hard words had a cash
value the average conductor would soon ring
up fortune on his own account.
Yesterday observed nice, middle-aged
Christian lady trample upon the conductor of
an Allegheny car. The car was very crowded,
and two melancholy mules had all they cared
to do to draw it up Federal street. The lady
aforesaid was standing near the door. As the
| conductor returned from collecting a fare at
the forward end of the car man arose and
| made his way out The conductor beckoned to
the lady to take the vacant seat, and she
| squeezed her way toward it. But fat man
standing behind the conductor slid into the
| seat before she could reach it. The conductor
| did not observe that the seat was filled, and
| continued to invite the lady. She saw what
had occurred, but did not stop her advance
until she was near enough to the conductor to
say to him: Are you aware there's no seat for
| me? You've got no sense, young man-making
fool of me like that. Let me tell you, won't
stand such impudence; no, sirP'
The conductor did not reply. He simply
| smiled. Civility or common decency are things
that conductor learns not to expect from the
| public.
NOT long ago three young ladies of Pittsburg
| saw another street car conductor abused in q
picturesque style, while they were wandering
over the face of metropolitan New York. 1t
| happened in this way.
The fair trio of Pittsburgers were in Belt
Of ro1a ,iof1
| you around the greater part of New York's
water front for cents. Next to them sat a
| lady, evidently OF city birth, but ex-
tremelY nervous and out of sympathy
with her Surroundings. At Castle
| Garden a dozen immigrants, rough and un-
couth-looking creatures, entered the car, and
their appearance evidently caused the nervous
woman much alarm. She implored one of the
Pittsburgers to hold her umbrella while she
put away her pocketbook in her satehel. The
satchel was remarkable affair, with several
patent catches and paddock, all of which had
to be unlocked before the pocketbook could be
put away. But at last it was shut up and the
umbrella was reclaimed
So
AT Jay street the car encountered a block
ade. 1t was one of those jams of vehicles that
occur on the river front every ten minutes
during the busy hours of the day. The nervous
woman grew more nervous, and finally wanted
to leave the car. She was afraid to thread her
way alone between the carts and trucks to the
sidewalk, SO the conductor took her through.
The blockade continued. and several minutes
later one of the fair Pittsburgers, looking out
the window, saw the nervous woman standing
on the curb. finging her arms about and sppa-
rently shouting at the conductor. The next
thing she was on her way back to the car, then
on the platform, and finally she seized the con-
ductor by the lapels of his coat and shook him
violently, crying excitedly: Where is my
pocketbook? You thief you'll Where's my
pooketbook? You stole it-you know you didr'
The conductor seemed paralyzed, but the
Pittsburg delegation could not leave him to his
fate. All three made for the platform, and
gently but firmly removed the nervous woman
from the conductors neck. Then in chorus
they reminded the nervous woman that she
had locked up her purse under their very eyes
in the satchel.
$50 didr' admitted the poor nervous Great
ure and she bounced off the car again without
aword of apology to the conductor. He didn't
seem to mind this, however, and he laughed as
he thanked his Pittsburg saviors
-
TURNING from the inhumanity of man to
man to his cruelty to beasts will Agent
OBrien, of the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals, allow his eagle eye to rest
upon the hack and cab drivers who assemble
on Fifth avenue? Twice recently have seen
horses shamefully abused at midday on that
crowded thoroughfare, One unfortunate gray
horse attached to a Gurney has been having
hard time of it for weeks, so reliable spectators
have informed me. +F
Now that the police force is being modern
ized would it not be well to instruct the patrol
men to arrest drivers who i'll use their charges?
Policemen sometimes need to be reminded
that cruelty to animals Is a grievous offense