The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-12

People walking along Broad street We :
terday were rather startled to see one of
the tow horses labeled conspicuously His
Nibs, the Baron" His driver had torn
used it with rather lavish decorative Of
feet.
This is what happened on a crowded
Olneyville car the other afternoon when
all the world was going home. The hour
was p. NJ. The crowd was largely
feminine. A thin woman in blue glasses
had been obliged TO bestow herself on the
drivers seat, and back to back with her
sat a stout woman with swapping black
eyes and big bundle on her lap that
looked as if IL might contain somebody's
linen.
A passenger wanted to get or and gave
the usual signal. The black-eycd woman
caught IL a second sooner than the con-
ductor, and before he could raise his
whistle TO his lips she shot her umbrella
over the back of her seat and with its
iron-shod tip gave the driver a vigorous
prod right in the middle of his spinal col
umn. The woman in blue glasses rein
forced il with a robust twich at the tail
of his coat, and the conductor, seeing by
this time that he wasn't in ii, withheld
the customary whistle. The driver
brought his horses up standing, and with
rather a scared face turned round and
asked whats the matter The
woman in blue glasses informed him in
matter-of-course way, as if the whole pro-
ceeding had been strictly according to
routine, that passenger wanted TO get
off
The driver "held his horses" in more
senses than one while the passenger de-
scended and until he had started up his
steeds again: then he turned around and
proceeded 10 restore discipline in his end
Of the car.
Madam" he said, with fine sarcasm,
60 the woman in blue glasses, "you amt
noticed we carry a conductor on this car.
Sec him up there at the other end of it 2
He's there Jest TO tend on passengers
and,' with savage glance at the woman
who had prodded him with her umbrella,
eve don't want no interferin' from 'em.n
The woman in blue glasses looked deeply
mortified at being thus publicly repri-
manded for her well-meant zeal not so
the woman with the black eyes aud big
bundle promptly she carried the war into
Africa. We don't want none o. yer
sass" she retorted, "au' il yer got any
thing more TO say. say it TO yer lazy con
ductor. He'd better tend 90 his business
and so had you, and that ain't abusin' pas
sengers fer bein' obligin'. The company
wants 20 hear about the pair q ye."
The driver, looking ike n man who
hates % withdraw from the fray, but
knows he hasn I a ghost OF "a chance. shook
up the reins, and at the next corner the
women trooped out triumphant, like an
army with banners flying.
The performances of the Juch Opera
Company here last week Cunclusiyely
proved he need I'm Providence oi build
ing better adapted for the purpose II elab-
crate scenic operas requiring large stage
settings are 20 be produced here. Miss
Juch IS an admirable dramatic singer. one
of The best, IN fact. ever heard 0u the
American stage. and her company was
well chosen and strong musically, but the
/ difficulty 0f handling the scenery was app
/ parent, and in "rannhauscr" the effect OF
/ some very tine music was marred by the
/ sound Of the carpeEters' hammers behind
/ the thin drop This reminded one OF
/ Btignoli, the velvet voiced. who used to
/ practice his roles in his dressing room
/ while the opera was going on In front,
/ Manager Lowell displayed such cofnmenda.
| BILE enterprise in bringing The company
/ here that it il dOubly unfortunate that the
effect Of the performance was less lint
than IL might have been