New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-07
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

DO you suppose men like being perched on high
petrifed mushroom to eat their luncheon on sun
higher counter. with place to put their legs their
hat. their umbrella or their overcoatl Some do OF
course notably the kind of young man that thinks IL
the correct thing to live in his hat and the fine thing
to $40 HIS hat back and show his disheveilcd bang
Others don't think about I or don't care, DnI tns
for his food they don't have to pay the proprietor S
servant extra for putting on the table DO
UPS 10 !ou seoa VOL nov a. ut roo and bids
for fhe custom Of this very classi
Have the car drivers orders not to stop to pick up
passengers Anyhow they seem TO have given up
stopping until the conductor rings. OF course nc
conductor doesn't SOC the passenger until ne mas pas
him. II IS very amusing. the streets are put ~ II
not always profitable. Is 1t ever!
The young man who dropped a nickel in an electric
machine in Hoboken and got such shock that no
was knocked down and thrown into commissions should
practise economy IN buying electricity. little OF IL
goes a long way and it generally goes rapidly 100
This IS especially admitted in the case Of Jersey lisnt
ming. Now, II the young man VINO wa usi.s " 50
corner in the electricity market had gone 10 na s
chine where cents worth was sold at time ano
had struck his bargain there he might haVe ie pesea
satisfied with hts speculation. Eiect Is, as
rule good thing 10 let alone-unc's one hdnnoS
| It with gloves.
When New Workers lift their voices against abuses
like the blocking of streets owing 10
the extremely deliberate way In wheh
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bad way, for what in many cities would cause wall
OF disgust and indignation passed unnouced here'
FOR the reason that the people are used to them
This climbing piles of paving stones Jumping
trenches and ploughing through heaps of earth While
at the same time lodging trucks and cabs and sdulrm-
ing between horsecars. is only incidental in a New
Workers. life and he might feel lonesome without this
hourly exercise But when affairs TO such pass
that the trenches too broad 10 be jumped the pies
Of earth too sticky and high to DC cleared anu inc
bloc kades too close to be run at ALL then ne gives
feeble cry Of protest He begins 10 talk IN an apolO-
c way taxp aPSs S Sc that an Wo woe f in %e%York &
equivalent TO popular uprising in other places the
causes and provocaton considered. one might ny 1
be considered unreasonable for supposng that IN
broadway Of all streets subway construction COM
panles should make least display of expedition
after having ripped open the street and made 1t I'M
passable.
II you want another example OF public which
seldom complains, whether for lack OF time or owing
to patient submission disagceabIe circumstances,
look at the people Of this city stormy day. The
men 90 Flooding along cheerfuly, submitting 10 a
skin-denching without murmur Umbrellas are
little better than useless for in the crowded streets
man cannot keep over his head, and 1t binders
his progress He slOps through IL all. over badly
paved crossings, through puddles on the sidewalk
and heaps OF mud. until he reaches his
car where he stands up, the water running
from his clothes in little rivulets and making
new pools in the grating of the car floor The
women are left standing the street because the
cars arc full and will not stop for Them They wait,
haing every one I'm a melancholy. sprttless way
until some driver cOndcscends to stop MS car asl
let them crowd in But they, too, reconc lei
10 the satrcaI fate of New.YorRers and bear their
woes in patience When some irascibe person loses
his temper and pours forth sudden burst OF a9Gsc
against vague sOmebgl.. every one VINO hedrs hlh
is surprised "Cul bOno'l