The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-22
NO TERMINAL LAGER
North Hudson Railway En-
ploYeS Have a Deadly
Thirst.
PRESIDENT DODD'S UKASE
Rumors of o Pink Lemonade Sup
ply-Deep Dissatisfaction
Among the Men.

No more beer for the Hoboken horse
car conductors and drivers.
At least that Is the order of President
Dodd. of the North Hudson County
Railroad. Yesterday afternoon when
the weary car steeds were brows-
ing on the cobblestones. and the
drivers and conductors, all unconscious
of the impending calamity were counting
up the trips before the days work would
be ended, the mandate fell, like a thun-
derbolt.
ANY employee entering saloon at
either end of the route for the felonious
purpose of taking 'balP would be in
stantly dismissed, land this from Hobo
ben.
The unhappy possessors of priceless
thirst were too much appalled, at the
prospect to make any remonstrance or
remarks, and as the cars rolled in
and the starter read the ukase, the
pilots and helmsmen of the trans"
clasped their hands and threw piteous
and thirsty glances at the Mecca across
the way, around which had been drawn
the awful circle of prohibition.
Many wild rumors followed the pro-
mitigation Of this order. One was that
the company intended to provide large
watts of pink lemonade warranted SO per
cent. pink. Another was that the order
was merely O scheme to drive the con-
ductors to drink Moxie Nerve food SO that
their hands would not shake when they
rang up the fares.
Last night the men on the cars were
discussing the order with unfefgned dis
gust.
"Nice Cadets of Temperance we'd
make" said one man, real Baron, who
has, under the genial influence of ball.
guided his team through all sorts of
weather, and oftentimes complacently
disregarded the hail of some wouldDe
traveller.
"Yes," he continued. II wonder when
they will send our little red, white and
blne badges with 'Eschew Beer and
Escape the Bats. as a motto. l can just
imagine myself with my little badge
floating from my coat lapel while am
talking in a gentle spirit of repartee with
some obliging truck driver just ahead"
II gets me a ball, see," said another.
"If have to carry keg under the seat.
I get me beer. Why l can't remember
who am II ! must ,a keep st 5.a chasin' = OF me
Thus they talked. Each had his plan
for evading compliance with the order,
and it would be cruel to: disclose these
plans, and SO lessen the internal revenue
tax.
WHAT CAUSED IT?
No one seemed to know the cause of the
order. but 1t is obligatory on all the en-
ployes of the North Hudson lines. and is.
as some of the wiser of the men Say. more
to take the employees out of temptation
than an arbitrary display of power.
A Frenchman of West Hoboken to
whom told the story last night said,-
"Well, it seems to me that if the Ger
| mans of Hoboken and Union Hill are as
clannish as their fellow country
| men elsewhere they will resent this
boycott of a genial custom and good liq.
| uor by walking to Hoboken and carefully
avoiding riding In the horse cars. Ger
| tainly the employees ought to have the
sympathy Of all thirsty men. 1t is an
other phase of the war between capital
and labor.
The employees Of the road do not be.
long to any national order of working
men, and, therefore, the danger of a
strike is small. but pocket TASKS are at q
nre mium