The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-25

~ "Dont you want to |
60 to Coney Island, otherwise known as
Manhattan Beach, and hear what the wild |
waves are sayings"
81 have no objection. Which route shall |
We takel'' t.4,1
'There are several ways to get there, but |
the shortest is to cross the East river at |
Thirty-foufth street ferry and take the
train at Long Island City. That will take |
US there in tbree-quarters Of an hour"
''All right Let US CO." IL
"We have just time to get to the ferry |
and to catch the three o'clock train"
We hurry to the train and rush into the
ticket office. Large crowd there already.
Man behind me gives me shove just as
am getting the money out OF my pocket
book. Woman in front Of me has an UNI
brella under her arm. Hit the end OF the
umbrella vicious blow with my eye. See
stars and other pyrotechnics.
Ticket agent says: "Shove along, there"
The end Of the woman's umbrella seems to
be uninjured. Sykes, who has already got
his ticket, wants to know if l am going to
stay there all day. Pain in my eye very in
tense. Perhaps / will lose the sight OF it.
Sykes examines it, and consoles me by
saying that it looks like the stopper of an
old ink bottle. ] can't find my pocket-book.
Sykes says he told me to look out for pick
pockets, and points to sign on the wall to
that effect. Sykes says it makes no diff
ference, that he has plenty of money. OF
course it makes no difference to him. He
bears up like hero under the sufferings I
undergo with my injured eye.
N. B.-This is supposed TO be pleasure
trip.
We are all herded together like cattle in
corral. There is an opening at one end OF
the corral through which the cattle-I mean
the passengers-are driven on board the
ferry.boat, just as the cattle are driven
into the cars in Texas for transportation.
Az the cows, heifers, yearlings and beef
steers 60 through the narrow gangway
man punches each animal with q red-hot
branding iron. As the herd Of men, women
and boys push themselves through the
door Of the ticket Office a man stands there
with punch. He doesn't punch the
people, but he punches the tickets. AS
soon as the passengers emerge from the
corral with their punched tickets they ca
wort around and stampede for the ferry
boat. tl.5
My eye is painful. What makes 1t more
80 is the fact that can not see my pocket
book. We are in the middle of the East
river. Sykes calls my attention to the beau
tiful view Of Blackwell's Island and the
Brooklyn bridge. The latter looks as II it
was made of cobwebs. Man on the boat
looks at my eye and whispers to q friend.
They both laugh. Vulgar brutes!l Sykes
tells me to keep my handkerchief from my
eye or people will think am signaling to
my friends on Blackwell's Island where the
conwicts are.
We arrive at Long Island City. The crowd
rush of the ferry boat as II they were afraid
OF being taken back to New York Nobody
walks. Every body trots. The whole herd
turns 70 the left and runs into another COR
raj As we pass out the gate another man
with punch brands our tickets with road
brand, and we climb into the cars that are
impatiently waiting for US.
The cars are open cars, with horizontal
seats like street-car. There is also par
lor-car attached to the train for the aristoc-
racy who want to pay quarter extra. Per-
haps the man who got my pocket-book will
ride In that parlor-car. A big, fat old woman
and q young thin woman, evidently mother
and daughter, enter the car, or at least the
daughter does. The daughter climbed in
first Mother tries to follow, but the door
is too narrow. Fat woman stuck fast She
puffs and blows and says: 10, dear me !"
Daughter tugs at her arm and says:
'Maw, please make an effort
SHAW" makes a noble effort, but it is no
CO. People in the car laugh heartlessly.
Sykes says the car will have tc be taken to
pieces. Hatchet-faced conductor pushes
fat woman from the outside. Thin daughter
pulls from the inside, but fat woman main
tains her position with the pertinacity of an
insurance agent. The conductor tells the
fat woman that she must either get in the
car or out of it, and he goes away. He
shouts: 'All aboard!' Fat woman makes
another public spirited effort. Train be-
gins to move, some Of fat woman being still
outside of the car. Tremendous effort by
fat woman. She is inside but speechless.
When she comes to, the first thing she says
is something about how she would have got
Into the parlor car if the price had not been
so outrageously high. The conductor
wanted q whole quarter of a dollar. She
says it is an outrage. Daughter, who is
evidently Of an extravagant disposition,
says: -
"Maw, what's quarter, anyhowr'
at is twenty-five cents, my dear, and you
can get great deal of clam chowder for
oil that money"
called the attention of Sykes to the
fact that the conductor and brakesman
wear q sneering expression on their faces.
Their nostrils are dilated as if with scorn
''They are not sneering," says Sykes;
''they are only turning up their noses"
"Why do they turn up their nosesss
because they have got 40 in the habit of
it that they can't stop it."
"How did they come to acquire that
habitw
"You will see pretty SOON"
He hasn't more than said this when
every body in the car begins to turn up his
nose and sneer. We are passing through a
horrible smell. Some Of the passengers
hold smelling bottles to their noses. Others
swear 1t could not have possibly smelt
any worse in Denmark in Hamlet's time
"Hunter's Point" said Sykes, and he
points to . number Of immense tanks. 1t
seems that this neighborhood sbounds in
glue factories and other institutions in
which all the horses and other animals that
die In New York are used for various pur-
poses.
Sykes admits that the smell is not like
that Of bank Of violets, but that there is .
silver lining to the cloud, as there are no
mosquitoes. He says that in New Jersey
mosquitoes board trains while in motion
and attack the passengers.
As the train approaches Manhattan
Beach the country becomes more level,
very much like Texas prairie.