Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-27
THE NIGHT LINERS MAD.
They Do Not Like the Running Of All.
night Cars.

There 10 good deal of lurid indignation
among the old weather beaten Jehus who run
might liners" because Of the expressed deter
mination Of the Washington and Georgetown
Company to run cars through the silent watches
Of the night II you don't believe it Just ask
one Of the hackmen. You will secure an elo-
quently profane reply that is several degrees
better than anything you ever heard local
'jarvey" give uttersnce to.
One Of them said today that he was surprised
Congress should allow anything like that to be
done and he intimated that had the night
liners been informed as to the plot they could
have mustered up sufficient influence
among their regular congressional customers
to defeat the idea before it assumed tangibilty.
DE street car, said he, cant do de biz
ness. Even sposin a man lived right on de
line OF de road de conductor couldn't leave his
sardine box and lug him into his hallway.
Wouldn't it be daisy punch-wrastler dad I'D
keep his car standing while he kerried his man
up two flights o steps and laid him
on his bed or handed him over
'swOuid take to make de ~ run rom rom
Georgetown to de navy yard? De people
dat travels round after midnight don't
want no street cars; deres too much light in
EN-. Some OF 'em-theyre the mean chumps-
will take de cars cause they kin do de ride fer a
nickel Bimeby, spose, desc corporations II
be running cars wild no lamps in EN-; den our
bizness II be all gone, 'cept wild people what
lives on streets away off from de tracks. A
poor mans got to scuffie fer his chewin' ter
hacker in desc days of monop'lies."
Mr.. ARIsTIDEs JONES VIEWS.
Mr.. Aristides Jones-Aristides because he Is
just man, just when he ought to be when you
want him-one of the time-tried and fire-tested
night liners, was seen by The STAR reporter.
How about this half-hour all-night street
car business?" was asked
Language fails me, that il, language that
is it to be fired at an innocent young reporter
ike you" he said, Ito express my feelings on
the subject. Its goin' to knock the leg often
the business and We won't declare another
dividend as long as there is street
car left out doors after midnight
know how man is goin' to get home from Q
street car when he lives about a square or two
from the line an amt able to more than git of
the car. You don't suppose a conductor will
pack him around the block on his back, do
you? No. sir; and they'll leave the man on the
curb and the cop III come along and run him
in and away out in the wilderness somewhere,
where 1t will cost him weeks
wages to pay for patrol
wagon to get him back to the station house.
II they're goin to run 'em in at all they'd better
do 1T down town, where the expense won't be SO
betty. lou betcher no gent ever gets arrested
out of my cab. When pick him up I'm like
mother to him, and I'd fight the whole police
force before hand should touch him except
in love. And there amt night liner that sees
the sun 60 down and watches it come up that
wouldn't do just the same for a patron.
Course we doesn't do it for a nickel
or six tickets for quarter, but that amt
In the count, fer we insure our passengers and
guarantees delivery. Then We knows where
they live and We don't have to wake up the
whole neighborhood to git information that is
valuable at that time Of night. You reckon an
all-night conductor will do that? No, sir, and
vet they are going to run the cars and they are
going to paralyze US with Chinese cheap trans
portation- And what help have we got? None,
and that too, right in the face Of the fact that
the night liners has been preservin' the peace
and maintainin' the dignity and integrity Of
Congress to greater extent than any other one
cause. And what do we git fer it2 Ingrati-
tude, young man, base ingratitude. and a trans
fer Of our business to bloated monopoly. l
tell you what"
At this point Congressman and q Newspa-
per Row man called Mr.. Jones' and he discon-
tinued his remarks to attend to their demands.