Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

/ Sure, it's my business to take people where
they want to go when they pay for it. But
/ would never think of looking for my pleas
| ure in mudholes."
What Women Need to Know.
-"There is one thing a woman never
| learns" said n Broadway conductor as he
| yanked the bell cord, "and that is to get on
| or Off n car with a swing toward the horses.
| She steps on or off backward-that is with
her face the other way. If the car is NOV
ing the least bit she is liable to trip and fall
down. Then she looks daggers at me, as if
I did the whole thing purposely. 5-year-
old boy knows better. Talk about dress re-
FORM" he murmured contemptuously-
"what woman wants to reform is in get
ting some sense about horse cars She
ought to take lessons from her brother.
People have no idea how much anxiety
women cost conductors and drivers. I'm
that worried about women getting on and
off my car that 1t is with "a sense OF relief
from great responsibility that 1 turn in my
last trip every day feeling that no woman
from my platform. We have narrow escapes
from that every hour In the day"
The Original Gridiron Club
1.-THE Gridiron Club, of Washington,
d. c., is not the original Gridiron Club, said
Mr.. George Pride, electrician of the Equita-
Bile building. "We had a GridirOn Club here
number of years ago, and q small silver
gridiron was our badge. TheWashington men
wear gold ones, but silver was good enough
tor. us In our day. know u lot of our old
members about town. We never had our
constitution printed. I've got the manu-
script copy now, and my old silver gridiron
pin, too. We used to cook our own chops
and had lots of fun, but the club finally went
to pieces"
Florence Has Rival.
you've read the fishing stories of
COme1on In, h
western part of Canada" said Mr.. welles,of
the Western Electric Company. "Well, I've
Just come from up there, where we've been
laying some cables. went fishing up near
Winnipeg one day. Never knew what fish
ing was before. With hand line over the
side of the boat caught go perch in 60 min
utes by the watch. The water was so clear
in the lake that l could see thousands of
fish. There were so many couldn't let my
line down. 1t was just monotonous to pull
them in. We trolled for pickerel one day
and caught them Weighing from to- 25
boatman looked at it contemptuously and
asked: Shall we throw him in?'-meaning
that he was too small to kill. We threw him
back into the water to grow"
Billy Florence as fisherman is nowhere.
Horses on the Fourth Floor.
Next thing to the New York City boy
on the roof to fly his kite is the New York
The stalls of the big car company stables
are all up stairs and the car horse when he
retires to rest at night goes up to his bed on
q level with the telegraph wires and dreams,
perchance, Of the halcyon days when he was
n colt and kicked up his youthful heels in
some quiet meadow or browsed the daisies
upon the banks of some ripping stream.
Poor old faithful, patient creature! | won
der if he really thinks life worth living.
Lights and Shadows.
About as interesting a sight as any
thing to a stranger in New York is the mis-
cellaneous crowd Of night sitters in the
downtown parks. Scores of boisterous boys
while away the hours these evenings play
ing their games on the asphaltum walks.
Every seat is occupied by worn-out toilers,
tramps and vagabonds. During the forepart
of the night many are reading in the glare of
the electric lights You will see readers
there far into the night. In Union and
Madison Squares the young man and his
girl are everywhere. They sit very close
together on the benches in the shade and
hold each others hands. The miserable,
homeless outcast lounges alone here and
there with these living pictures of youth
and love on every hand to remind him of
what he once was and oan never again be.
These are some of the lights and shadows of
q great city. CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.
New York, August %