The morning call., 1893-05-28
FROWNS AT FLATS.
The Delivery Man Sets Forth Some
of His Various Woes.

This town used to be mighty easy one 10
deliver in" sighed the man who runs the
wagon, but it's got 10 be pretty blamed bad.
Why? Well, thees the Spreauing-out Of it
to count first Why, in 70 we didn't have no such
blasted runs as now-away out 10 Comertord-
vile, and then away ont 10 Richmond and down
south Of the Park, and over thunderward d on
Castro street. That amt the worst OF 1t by any
means. The building of them fats has made
the life of the deliy7rer dream of horror.
Why, wake up In the night after dreaming
I've climbed fourteen flights OF steep back
stairs and found that I've got the wrong
number, and l give such yellS that l nearly
raise the roof. Before we had flats here it was
soft snap TO deliver goods. w coulI climb a
fight of stairs now and then without murmur-
ing and didn't Kick much when we had a hill
to haul The load up. but now we get the hill
and The stairs to boot, and at some Of those
new places Pye counted as many as seventy
two steps. l tell you when l see a bundle
marked 3245A l spot it for fiat every time
and If it's possible thing l work 1t off on 10
the other man. He plays the same game on
me ihnneh so IT'S about a stardrff"
''Weh, you can take your time climbing the
stat RS, can'i yor?"
"Not much. That's just 1t. We've got to be
on the ru>n all the time The manager says
he don't Know What's the matter with his men.
He saws that they used to get lot OF stuff 10
customers and hurry back for another load not
taking half the time That Is consumed now. I
ask him how man Is going 10 lush when he's
got a long row of fats away out in the Kingdom
Come 10 deliver eeods to- But somehow he
don't see the point"
The de liverer backed his team IN against the
sidewalk at the rear Of the store, and then
went on:
1T aln't so bad for some lines as 1t is for
others. Nnw. take shoes. That's bad. 1
wouldn't deliver shoes for the best pay you
could name. You see. after you have got your
bundle home Tie chances ate that the lady
it's generally lady that makes the moss
trouble Tor yon-will wan you 10 stay minute
Til she tries them on again. and then she'll like
as not senti 'em back to b. changed for soma
other size or make tell you tie shoe-deliverer
has tnneh time of It,"
WELL he gets good exercise"
Exercise be blowed can get all the ex-
ercse need for whole day on The back stairs
of them fats IN all hour"
II was found that the buichrr-bovs made
loudest complai Ii Us to the troubles of city de-
liverers.
al go out every morning. as the rest of the
butcher deliverers do" said young man yeeter-
day, "and lake orders for meat from hottSe-
wives and cooks. It's all right il a family lives
on the ground floor ana The mis- rrss knsws her
own mind but II, after You nave fimbed several
flights OF stairs To get an order, they don't give
You any it seems like was te OF work, patlicll-
larry when tile lady OF The ouse goes 10 The
shoD as | have seen them do. half an honr
afterward and orders her steak or roast. That
Is the Kind OF thing that makes a butcher
swear"
AS TO the bright side OF the life OF the de-
liyerer. as there Is bright SIDE of course there
Is much TO be said. There is the daily flirta-
iion with The pretty servant-grl whose heart
warns Ia the butcher, the bak er, the cnalnan
and lie gas lnsIecior as readily as It does 10
the big policeman ON the beat or The smiling
lettei Carrier. She max = glad the ives OF The
deliverers, and may b. found in the mark of a
Sunday walking by The side of one of them. WHO
has iotgotlen all about the wOss of back stairs
and The swiyei=mlnded housewives aud Iher
little yaeares. Ihen there is the occasional
I'D from tile more liberal patrons along the
ronte and, hest of all. tie hope that some day
IN dream of place behind the counter in The
store may be realized, and The slail-cllmbing
days may be over,