The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-18
IN A HURRY OVER NOTHING.
4 Strange Mania That Possesses Many APP
pareutly sane Citizens.


parently sane Citizens.
New York i full OF men who want To
he first when there Is nothing in il for
them Two chaps will scramble for an
empty elevated railroad train and, al
though they are the only chaps on the
platform, they will push and shove
each other in order to bc the first in
the train Even when there i only
one man or the platform he will nave
sort Of struggle to get aboard as If lie
were competing with some imaginary
traveller.
AS soon as train begins 10 slow IN
at station the people lining the plat
forms commence to eve each other
with suspicion. trying To devise what
plan the rest have for getting aboard
first, so that they can circumvent it. II
doesn't seem to be that they are afraid
they will lose their seats, but some
imaginary triumph seems Ia be CON
-nected with being the first on board.
It's the same way on the big rail-
roads. In a train bound from New
York 70 Philadelphia when it reaches
Trenton the occupants begin to make
arrangements To be the first To leave
the car They writhe in their seats un-
easily and glare at their companions.
whom they suspect of an intention TO
circumvent them if possible
When Il ferrvboat lands at slip
there are always three or four men and
boys who make wild run for the
street. looking back at every yard 10
make sure they are the first. After
gaining the street they fall into
snail's pace and don't do anything more
the whole day that costs them any
effort They had been coached for
spring on the boat, and in that spring
they seem to have exhausted all the
energy set aside by nature for that
days work. Commuters on railroads
practice this thing until it becomes
sort of mania with them.
At theatrical performance there are
persons who are made miserable
throughout the whole evening by the
fear that they won't be the first To
leave the building when it's over. They
take very little interest in the show
ANY one who watched them tid.geting to-
ward the close of the play would sup
pose that the management gave
chrome or something 70 the fellow who
made the best time into the street
The whole thing j. due 10 dense iF-
norance about the proper value and use
of time The chap who struggles and
fights his way 10 a car In which there
i plenty OF room for all hands has an
insane impression that If he gets in the
car first he'll reach Harlem before the
other people. but. of course. that's all
nonsense It isn't 50 much that he
wants to reach Harlem in a hurry. but
once in the race he wishes 10 get there
before some one else lie will !oitcr
ten minutes from Broadway to the Park
place station, but as soon as he reaches
the elevated railroad steps he becomes
4 comet pushing fighting and climbing
over people to save a second. On the
platform he dives for the car. treading
on corns and leaving a trail of bias
phemv behind him.
And having reached Harlem he stops
for three-quarters OF an hour in One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and
watthes man sticking posters on
fence.
II he had any appreciation of the
proper use OF time he would have taken
five more minutes - come up town au1
done it like gentleman instead 81 q
savage Then he would have appropri-
ated only forty minutes 70 watching
the man dauDing paste on The adver-
Using fence. 4 little more thoughtful
ness and cvcnness in tn" use 81 time
would save lot Of unpleasantness i
don mean - the wild-evcd savage IN q
hurry. for have no sympathy for him
or his kind but 70 his vjct.ms.-A. y
Herald.