Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-02-13
More About Kicking.

crank ?"
So queries Congressman in refer
ring to a former article on the subiec
of kicking. Mankind is not only ap
to do that very thing, but dead Ger
tain to do so. Hence the hesitancy
to raise row. Hence the reason
that fraud and imposition flourish anC
grow rich. For instance, at a rail
way junction station in New Jersey
one hot day last summer there wal
not drop of water in the cooler in
the waiting room. There were TWEEN
ty-seven of us waiting for the train
and there were seats for only fourteen
Everything was covered with dust
not a time.piece nor timetable il
sight, and after look around l found
the station agent on truck down the
platform talking base ball. Of the
twenty-seven passengers fourteen were
men. l called their attention to the
facts have given, and suggested q
kick. 1t might not benefit us, but il
would help those who came after
The reply of each and every one was,
in substance
"Yes, this is an Internal shame and
ought to be exposed, but don't want
a fuss. They'll call me crank if ]
kick"
Not one person dared raise his voice
against the neglect and imposition
and l was all alone when l walked
dcwn to the agent and asked
"Do you know that the water cool
er is as dry as bone ?"
81 amt hired to fill il" he replied.
"Do you know that the waiting
room hasn't been swept and busted
for week 7"
ats not my business"
as it anybody's business to look
out for the convenience of passengers
here ?"
II dunno"
"Well, | will make it my business
to find out"
| took the names of half a dozen of
my fellow passengers, wrote directly
to the superintendent of the road that
night, and two weeks later, us stop
ped off for another change, hardly
knew the place. There were seats for
fifty; there was clock, lot of fresh
time tables, a water cooler full to the
brim, with a new cup, and station
agent was bustling around and cheer
fully answering all inquiries.
What's become of the other mani"
/ asked.
Got the bounce last week"
"What was the trouble ?"
ooh, he let things run down."
"How long had things been as they
were two weeks ago?'
"All of two years"
Did some one complain y
Yes. A crank oame aloug and
made an awful kick, and the superin-
tendent stirred up the whole line"
While roaming around Philadel-
phia, l came upon menagerie on ex-
hibition in store. There were signs
out reading that they had boa con-
strictor twenty-five feet long, an Afri-
can giant eight feet high, and various
other things. concluded to see the
snake and the giant. Twenty-Five feet
of serpent and eight feet ofgiant, max
ing thirty feet of living curiosity, for
ten cents is cheap. This is three feet
for cent. When ] got in failed to
find these two curiosities, and / made
inquiries of the man with the deep,
bass voice and the big watch chain.
"Sorry to say that the giant is sick
and the snake got away last week."
he replied,
But ] paid to see them," protest
ed.
"Well, how are going to do itf"
"If they are not here ] want my
lime back"
DO yoI take me for fool ?"
mo, sir. take you for sharper.
Now, then, return my money and take
iown the two sigus or I'll go to the
Mayor"
He told me to go and be- be-
1on know what, and / went. 1t cost
ne about S4 for hack hire and mes
'enger boys, but he had to refund my
money and remove the signs under
penalty of having his lic' n-e revoked.
The owner of the show said he'd
mop the earth with me if il cost him
81 900, and that he would lay for me
Until one or the other Of us died aud
never cone home Of an evening
without keeping both eyes open.
stood one evening at the corner
# Broadway and Wall street, New
FORK, talking with q citizen of Grand
Rapids, whom ] happened 10 meet.
The hour was 10 o'clnck and there
vas but little travel. We hal becu
here but few minute. when pair,l-
nan No. 94s came along and rparcd
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