Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-02
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The Tiresome Check on the Gable Cars
How to Evade Ib--A Tip to Parents.

The Tiresome Check on the Cable Cars
How to Evade II--A Tip TO Parents.
WHEN the conductor came through the
Fifth avenue cable car last night the man who
sat next to me handed him nickel and said
with laudabIe brevity, Oakland took some
interest in this passenger because he occupied
corner seat which coveted, and reioiced
when he said that little word Oakland" But
when the car came to Oakland the nan in the
corner never budged. The conductor came to
him in due time and asked him where he had
got on, and the passenger replied Wood street,
thought could keep my nickel as easily as
your check"
instance this merely to show way of avoid
ing the bother Of hunting for that conductors
check II you pay your way through to the East
End. The check always hides itself away in
Isome pocket corner. as you know well enough
you travel often on that cable line.
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ANOTHER man was not 90 wise. He paid 10
cents for the full trip and received the check
from the conductor. When he reached Oakland
he remembered suddenly that he had not pur-
chased an article at the drugstore which his
wife had commissioned him to get without fail
He asked the conductor If he could get OF at
Oakland, visit the drugstore there and make
the rest Of the journey on another car without
paying again The conductor referred him TO
the conditions printed on the check, which ex-
plictly state that it is only good for passage on
the car on which it is issued. So the young man
had to pay l5 cents for his ride home that
night
The expedient adopted by the man mentioned
in the first paragraph is likely to become Popu-
lar.
IT is curious though common habit of par
ents TO regard their offspring as children long
after the latter have come to the years Of dis
oretion.
A city hotel clerk told me of an odd instance
OF this which happened not long ago. A gen
tleman no longer young came up to the desk
and registered in hurry as ''Mr. Blank, wife
and two children" The clerk supposed natur-
ally enough from this that he had couple of
children of tender years TO provide room for.
The hotel was rather full, and the clerk found
that to give these guests couple Of rooms with
communicating doors he had to go to the top of
the house. He reasoned that the parents would
insist on having their little ones near them, SO
he gave them reluctantly the rooms nearest the
roof
Soon after the party had been shown to their
abiding place on high the paternal chief came
to the desk with grieved expression on his
countenance.
"Why did you put me on the roof2" he
asked.
Il thought you'd like to have your daughters
near you-communicating doors, you know-get
frightened in strange place and that sort of
thing" the clerk replied rather nerVously.
''They get frightened3' said the guest with
grim smile. Il wish knew what would scare
them. Why, one has been all over the world
and the other has been three seasons at the
seashore. You can put them anywhere. only
bring me downstairsP'
When the clerk went into supper that night
he saw the two children of his Imagination.
Both were as tall as he and neither of them
would ever see ~ again. The moral to parents
is: Register your grown-up. daughters names
in full when you go to q hotel.