New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-09
,GLANCES HERE AND THERE.

The writer met woman the other day who had
not been East for something like ten years. She is
a woman physician and very proud OF II and prac
tscs In san Francisco. And she has been very sue
cessful. so much 50 that her soft brown hair has
streahs Of gray in it when it should shine as giossiy
bushing girls Of seventeen. she has not found
PHYSICIANS life any easier than her brothers by pro
fesson, but she says that she has never ceased TO
congratulate herself that although woman ana Il
woman who did not 60 - work becalse IL wa. neoe
modest. she began a LIES work whose achievements
have rewarded her thousandiold ior al her ulai'
ana for all her carly disappointment
| This. however is long way to begin story.
| What the woman said was this: "Whle | have been
working away in San Francisco and we are vcry
progressive (all Caifornians say and belleyc that
wonderful changes have been taking place here In the
East am often surprised. sometimes startled 10
find how differently am received now from ten years
ago. When began to study medicine I was looked
upon, down upon ought to say, as rather daring
| young whose toes would trip and bring her
to grief Since have been East this time find tha'
I am not such an unreasonable and strange creature
as men would have believe when began my
| studies I was in Philadelphia few days ago ana
was Invited to the very lectures the very talks ana
10 hear the very papers read when would havc ni
nv heart with mad delight twelve or fifteen years ago
Then II was impossible. preposterous. now most
natural thing. ] said to one physician, Dl, NV ~
years ago you denied me What you 5UurH Tn lie
ourhed and answered that time was the alevator OF
all evils. And so 1t IS Where once reached cagarS
for the fallen crumbs I now pern,tted 10 shaIc
a loaf. Do You know nave bceh pia.,n,Si
for years to 90 to EgF9P ES T nv n stndc SUCH
changes has time wrought.
"Butr she added, "you must not think tnat 20"
have gone far enough here in the East In inc west
VIC are far more liberal than you. We want more
We are all Oliver Twists and we are bold enough
10 say so again and again and time on time And
then she told dozen tle things 10 il,u'Iat, nsr
point declaring that those who were amid the STEADY
changes could not appreciate their importance HAc
poor Westerner, stranger from home lot lch years.
At last the elevated railway managers nave
awakened to the fact that the cross seats In Their
cars cause a great deal OF annoyance 10 passenger
What Is more irritating than TO sit down IN one OF
those seats II you fortunate enough to get seae
at all, and suddenly have your shoulder hearF
knocked of by some awkward person sitting down
behind you and throwing his whole weight back
against You. nearly knocking you ont Of the scat
Every one who travels on the eeTatod railway mas
suffered this torture The new seats when are -
remedy this evil will he higher than those now IN
use. with rather graceful, slsntinc backs. 50 high
that it will be difficult for your neighbor 10 Interfere
with you. What narrow minded genius the in
ventor Of the low scat was anyway. For the I'M
plea,antncss he has caused In this world Ms name
ought 10 cchonG down through generations with
tho many other bunglers who have caused long
suffering and patient public untold annoyance what
excellent business the elevated rOGfS cniON WIN mo
baseball matches races. circuSes and lot, of other
things. And how Indifferent they about handling
II. Really, IT is too bad. something ought TO be
done.
at adds horror to fc." the remark II the
VIZ %! who awakened at ten minutes past
night not long ago In order to receive specaldev
cry letter How many people that these let
almost all hours Of both night
day Tho letter in the in mind postmarlied
AZ station in New York AZ so p m. and
stamped having been received in Brooklyn 10
o'clock That Il ought 70 have reached its destination
In the upper part Of the city before o'clock any
body would be justified in saying. The Young man
who delivered II said that 1T had come up in the
last mali; and he had three other lccai 10 deliver
and it would be necessary for him waAe Mp Other
people to receive them. 1t seemed to be no unusual
experience for him either.
II IS stated by an officer Of the elevated roads in
New York that $4,000 has already been spent
IN that city in providing drip pans for the protection
4 pcdcs rians who compelled 10 the crosswalks
underneath the elevated structures. Still there
not enough these protectors and the companies say
that they are about to eXpend $4,000 more
WHY should there not be equal display of public
spirit the part OF the Brooklyn elevated companies
Drip.pans are few ard far between on their roads,
though IL must be confessed that there has been
Improvement in this matter since the roads were first
opened But good deal more needs TO be done.
Perhaps the best place for the Union Company 10 begin
curve around over the Sidewalk along which every
point must pass