Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-26
To be continued.
THINGS LEFT IN CARS,
A SQualling Baby Forgotten by its
Mother-What Happened

at is astonishing what queer things people
leave in street cars" saida conductor to a STAR
reporter the other day. ''Why. only week
ago a woman forgot her baby in that very seat
you are occupying at this moment. She was
reading an exciting novel, judge-I noticed
when took up her fare that the outside cover
had q bright picture on it-and. though
threatened to charge cents for the infant also
If it took up passenger ROOM she put it down
by her side when / wasn't looking and after
bit jumped off in a hurry without remember
ing the child. The car was empty and was
out on the front platform at the moment so
that didn't know wha: had happened until
the woman had disappeared. | was on nv
way to the Capitol and had long trip ahead
before could get back to the stables The
kid began to squat. and for the life of me L
didn't know what to do with it. | tried to
hand it over to another conductor OH a car
gong the opposite way, toward the stables,
but he simply said:
Young Teller, I'm no monthly nurse
II propped the baby up in the corner Of the
car and tried every kind of persuasion to make
| it keep quiet. First poked it in the ribs. but.
instead of laughing IT only howled loude' than
aver. Then l made some nursery remarks to
1t, such as goo, goot and 'da da" and that
sort of thing; but that only seemed to make it
worse. Next L shook 1t and made of a
| little profanity such as thought would be APP
! propriate TO the occasion; but not the slightest
! good effect Was produced. l had a notion
! that might quiet 1t by giving it my bell
| punch; but this did not feel that | could af-
| ford to do, for other passengers were getting
| aboard just about that time and | was afraid
| that the infant would ring up a few dozen
| fares on me not accounted for by my receipts,
If it should happen unluckily to strike the
| combine ton"
What on earth did you do?" asked the
newspaper man.
Simply let him yell Maybe it was a her,
| fo- all / know. l might have stood it. but the
car was beginning to get crowded and the pas
| sengers objected to the bowling kid One old
duifer, with blue goggles and what think was
! an artificial nose that went Oh in one piece
with the specs, said that it was blooming
outrage"
Conductor says he angrily, who owns
! this child any way?
| Don't know says 1. Lady forg OF and left
| HIM III the car
Nothing more was said for two or three
minutes, but then the infant came out with a
! squaii that sounded like seventeen cats in
| chorus on back fence A sour-looking old
| maid IN green dress and bonnet with bird
on 1t nearly as big hen half Jumped mp
from her seat and said, shaking her finger at
me:
Conductor, did you or did you not accept
| that baby a passenger?
| Yes, Ma am. l s'pose did saws /.
"'Then,' says she, you are responsible for il
and must take care of it. Tine child must not
| be permitted to go on screaming in shat way
| without attention l think that it might be
quoted and even soothed to slumber If you
! would walk 1t up and down the car for maybe
/ half an hour
| Get of and buy it nursing bottle full of
| milk. and don't forget to make it half warm
water, suggested fat and motherly old woman
who sat opposite the kid But dissipated
/ looking man with red nose and a beard like a
| better he
| ~ lake 1T out on the back platform and
spank it,
'By this time l was feeling all broken up. !
never have been very fond OF children. but il
seemed to me then that | sympathzed thor
oughly with the custom that Eve heard used to
prevail In Asia of feeding babies to the croco-
dlles. never was glad of anything in my
| life as was to land the infant, which AT that
moment fell asleep and stopped yelling for the
| hrst time, at the car stables. The mother-for
such she was-had got there before me and she
did some weeping on her own account at find
/ ing her offspring again"
What other queer things do people leave in
| the cars?'
Lots of Them" replied the conductor. such
as typewriters, coffin fixtures and eggs. One
| man left the same basket containing four dozen
eggs in cars on our line three times during the
same day and got them back every time. Most
| plentiful among things forgotten are umbrellas,
and next come bundles in point of number A
| great many eye glasses, keys and pocket books
are found by the conductors, also no end of
fans in the warm season, canes and odd gloves
for the right hand. 1t is the fashion. you know,
10 only wear the left glove and carry the RICH,
one; in that way the right ones are dropped
II they had all been kept there would now be a
| good-sized clothes basket full of right hand
| gloves at the stables. Overcoats are often for
| gotten. The things that are at all valuable
are mostly reclaimed; such things as are not
called for are kept for three months and then
given to the conductors who found them"
A Boys Tongue Fastened.
| From the New York Sun.
While John Deutsch, thirteen years Of age,
living at No. 205 Parkin street, was eating din
ner Thursday his tongue became fastened to
the mouth of flask from which he was drink
ing coffee. Efforts to release the tongue were
in vain, and half dozen persons attempted to
pull the flask away, but had to desist from fear
Of tearing out the boys tongue He was
finally taken to the Maryland University Hos
pital where the doctors succeeded in Kidding
| him of the canteen.
The Pennsylvania railroad statement of
earnings for March shows an increase in net
; earnings Of $58,O00 and there was q salts
factory gain on the western lines.
| Rev. Jas G. Mason, rector Of st. Georges
Episcopal Church at Fredericksburg, Va, has
| recalled his acceptance of n call tn Marriatta