Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
GOSSIP OF GREAT GOTHAM.
How the L. Ticket Men Get Ahead-Billing
and Cooling at an Open Speaking Tube
The Kind of Jag That Pleases People
Odds and Ends.


and Cooling at an Open Speaking Tube
The Kind of Jag That Pleases People
Odds and Ends.
rYRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK, Jan. 2-'There are ticket
men on the elevated roads, said we'll
posted man, "who make from 50 to 50 day
on the general carelessness and absent
mindedness of men, mostly in small things
Women? Not much. Women, as a rule, are
careful about money They will block up
gangway for minute to count their change
Most women have the exact change handy
for elevated fares. Ii q woman doesn't get
her exact change she will make more fuss
than 20 men would under similar circum-
stances. Agents know this, and are very
particular as to women. 1t is not unusual
for man to put in two-dollar bill and
rush away with change for 81, and this Is
without any intent on the part of the agent
to defraud. In the general crush the man
vanishes impatiently and the agent is 81
ahead by the operation.
"There are men and men, however. When
you see man pull q pocketbooS or change
purse to pay his fare he is usually n careful
man about money. When he pulls q wad of
crumpled bills of all denominations from
his trousers pocket, or n handful of silver
usually careless. He will sweep off lot of
Decent pieces from the window ledge with
out close examination and chuck them in
his pocket without counting as he squeezes
through and makes break for the train.
The number OF such men is astonishing.
When they wake up uext day and find two
or more 3-cent or Canadian pieces among
their change they don't know where they
got them, and if they are short 20 or 30 cents,
n Tt ly,, ir Ana of
a crowded station can pass from 10 to 80
Scent coins for 10 cents each day and never
get kick. This is where the ticket agent is
intentionally dishonest: But there is often
a nice margin over for the ticket seller with
any such intent. L know agent who
found n 50 gold piece among his pen
nies the other day, ana he never knew when
he took it in. Somebody paid it for scent
ticket
Spoiled By Speaking Tube.
They stood in the darkened vestibule of
double flat-house up town. 1t was a late
hour and a cold night, but these were moth
ina-for it was he and she, and they were
young and stood very closely together.
Time had no show ,alongside OF oppor-
tunity.
"You don't love me bit.' she said.
glove you!' 1 worship you, sweetheart
darlingr' The blonde head was brought
against the manly breast for the fifteenth
time, and SOFT clinging kiss was planted
where 1t would do the most good.
Break away" came hoarsely from the
feminine debris.
"What did you say. dearest?'
Come OFF, in half-smotheTed whisper.
"Why, darling! l never heard you use
"I never said word" she deciarcd. 1t
must have been" and terrible dread
overcame her
II never thought he began regretfully.
n
"Why. who's that?"
Both young people suddenly started away
from the wall against which they had been
leaning, and stared at the two ranges of
bright letter boxes and OwliSh speaking
tubes.
"Will you never come off. down therel''
"Oh, plague on it, That's Johnny" said
she, with deep disgust "Our speaking tubes
out of order-1 forgot"
A Jag That Made Everybody Happy.
There have been a great many happy
people this week, old and young, but none
happier, in my opinion, than a man who
boarded the Sixth avenue elevated at Park
Place. He was a adecently-dressed, broad
shouldered fellow with a beaming ceunte-
nance that gained breadth by the backward
tilt of his soft hat. He had eyes and the
tread of a man as square as die. When he
came in he bowed politely to all in his i'm
mediate vicinity, and sat down and smiled
at the rest. Then, without unnecessary pre-
lude, he began to sing in mellow voice,
"HOw Can Lean Against Thee?' Whether
there was something humorously suggestive
in the words or because they were charmed
by the melody, the passengers began to thaw
out from their usual frigidity all the way
from amused smiles to open laughter. One
gentleman suggested that the Metropolitan
Opera House would be honored by the
singer, This pleased the latter and grace
ment, he branched OFF ON Maggie Murphy's
Home" This brought down the house in
loud applause. When he had finished he
the applause by rising and
that sent him down in his seat again with
dull thud.
Ladies and gentlemen" he said, 81 love
that song. 1 sang it before"
Fourteenth street!' shouted the guard.
"Fourteenth.'' repeated the singer in a
voice, for fear somebody hadn't
heard-"and by the ancient gods of Rome
the next shall be Eighteenth!'' He then dis
covered a gentleman standing and with the
air OF Chesterfield offered him his seat.
This courtesy the 'other smilingly declined.
II insist upon your taking it," was the re-
joinder. The elder and not the prettier man
should be seated. l can't help my good
looks, sir, any more than you can help your
years"
Having prevailed upon the now embar-
rassed gentleman n. the happy man expatiated
upon his own good looks and pleasant dis
position toward all mankind until the train
reached Thirty third, where he waved his
hand, with a "GOOu night all, ana got OH,
leaving, it need scarcely be said, q car
crowded with happy holiday faces.
Insanity Goes in Waves.
-f'There is something in the atmospheric
conditions that develop insanity and mur-
derous impulses" said q student of human
nature. THAT is my theory. 1t is like the
grip and other diseases that prevail
at certain times and under cer-
tain conditions. There are all sorts of
diseases and impulses in people and it only
needs the conditions to develop them. In
sanity is peculiar disease and to a greater
d. less degree exists in a pretty large pro-
portion of mankind. In most cases it is
shown in a harmless idiosyncrasy and ex-
cites no more comment than mild ridicule;
but in many cases it has a homicidal tend
ency that is suddenly and unexpectedly de-
Can this be through natural and
general causes, or is it imitation that pro-
Iuces these mind waves? L believe it is the |
general causes similar to the
conditions that produce the grip wave, the |
cholera wave, the horse distemper wave, or |
INV other disease of Il season, also tend to |
lnbalance the badly balanced mind. The |
cases that appear i'll the papers are not a |
1.-THE of the cases really existing At the |