Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19

pie, and all in hurry. No lounging here
Tall wholesale stores and Office building.
shut out the afternoon sun. No light and
airv shoppers here. Women are few, and
these are chiefly clerks, typewriters, ETC.
women of business of the business world
The contrast between this scene and upper
Broadway is quite as great as that between
University place and Wooster street.
"Come now, JOHNNY Pull out-pull
outp' cries your driver. It is delivery
wagon driven by boy. The driver of your
car is whstling and calling out now al
every few rods.
JOLLY WARS OF WORDS.
He invents front name for every driver
who interferes with him-and gets good
many scowls and bad words Tor his i'm
pudence. But. dear me, these have no more
effect on him than water on frogs back!
"Wake up. George! Wake up! You can
get out there!'
George has heavy truck with big
kitchen range on it. There are half a dozen
wagons in 'front.' of him, and he doesn't see
why he should "pull out" in hurry. So
on.
The car driver blows his whistle sharply.
"Comel That won't do, Georgei Pull out
ofthat!" And George reluctantly complies.
The looks he showers upon that impertur-
bable young man, however, as the car mar
rowly rakes the teamster's seat, are enough
to sink a ship. Then comes a similar
wordy war with an expressman, whom your
driver irreverently calls Boss Platt, the
name being suggested by the fact that the
wagon happens to be OF that particular COM
pany. After the inquiry as to whether the
expressman owns Broadway because he
owns the Legislature, the latter sullenly
turnstout, amid the laughter OF everybody
tlon OF the platform crowd.
GOOD NATURE EVERYWHERE.
This crowd now takes every inch of space
and you must tighten that grip on the rail
behind you or get showed off, Everybody is
good-humored-this one bright son of Erin
at the reins leavening the whole lump-and
every now and then the front platform pas
senger is disposed to join in the badinage.
There is marked distinction between the
results. The teamsters draw the line at the
carman, who has the right of way.
At the very first fire from the platform a
man is brought down. 1t is the driver of
truck load OF drygoods that has Just turned
out of a side street and is experiencing
some difficulty in getting around the corner
into Broadway. He is rather we'll dressed
and sfeminite-looking for q truck driver,
and the facetious front platform passenger
makes hit by calling out, "Take care,
CharleyP The effect is electrical, for
"Charley" stops at once, and, slipping down
from his perch in twinkling, makes dive
for the car. "Come off Of that platform.
you loafer, and I'll wipe up Broadway with
you" he yells.
A SURPRISED TOURIST.
Here is an excellent opportunity to help
the Street Commissioner along and do a
public service. But the man on the front
platform lets the opportunity pass. the car
goes ahead and Charley" goes back to his
truck, the hero of now large and sympa-
thetic crowd.
''Most extraordinary man, don't you
know! 'Straordinary thingl A feilah
wouldn't mind little chaughing in Lon
don, you know-everybody does 1t, you
know. Most Extraordinary thing I ever saw.
don't you know!'
"Well, we amt in London, don't you
KNOW" remarks the carman, very seri-
ously.
The Englishman knows that, and when
he sees the broad smile that overspreads the
face of the crowd, he is probably sorry he
isn't. He gets down at the Astor House
still muttering extraordinary thing, you
know"
WORSE AND MORE OF IT.
The street here becomes more crowded,
the pedestrians more dense and still more
hurried. They dive under the horses heads
and swarm over the car platforms in crossing
the street The care are punched in one
long funereal procession. and are mostly
empty going your way and full coming up.
When you presently get down and mingle
with the sidewalk crowd you feel as if you
had just come out of place of amusement
where the performance was quite satisfactory.
And this goes on every day in the year from
park to Battery, with an entire change of
bill every trip. The charge, ladies and gen.
tlemen, is but the small sum of cents.
CHARLES T. MURRAY,