Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-04

Passenger Who Did Not Know Just why
He Got on the Car.


He Got on the Car.
From TIE New York Tribuna.
The great blaze of lights and the wet and
muddy pavement OF one of New Yorks greatest
thoroughfares had been left behind the horse
car had turned into still wetter and muddier
back street, and was jngling its weary way be-
tween the long, dark rows of cheap tenement
houses. There had been a great political pa
rade that night, and both parsders and spec
tators were getting home with unusual alacrity,
the damp air not being very inviting. Those
in the car were in all conditions of sobriety
and the reverse. from the grumpy man who
had cheered for Cleveland and Stevenson as
each republican banner passed till he was
hoarse and tired to the cheerful ones who had
been "bracing up their spirits and counteract-
ing the influence of the damp. rainy atmos-
phere with frequent offerings to Bacchus in the
corner shops, the latter class being somewhat in
the majority.
The car, too, was full and on. on the front
platform the driver was trying TO Convince a
casual acquaintance that Brooklyn wasn't in
1t wit " York" why. he wouldn't send even his
mother-in-law to "such a hole as Brooklyn
The horses were allowed to pick their own
sleepy way through the mud and pools of water.
the driver punctusting his remarks with fire.
quent sashes of his whip bv way of reminding
them that II was not yet bedtime.
In a lull in the course of the argument on the
platform (for it was largely one-sided, and
pauses sometimes did occur man on the side
walk signalled to the car, and the driver catch
ing his eve, relaxed his efforts TO keep the
horses in motion. and the car came to a dead
stop, throwing most of the passengers within
into the laps Of their nearest neighbors With
unusual civIllty perhaps to prove the innate
superiority Of New Yorker the driver helped
the unsteady and unsavory individual TO the
platform. There was seedy look about the
new arrival. Anarchy and rebellion reigned
among his members. His feet were in utter re-
volt against the commands of his BRAIN and
this was not surprising, the latter, to all out
ward appearances, was scarcely in a condition
TO issue orders
With considerable difficulty the driver
propped him up against the end of the car and
renewed his attentions to the weary horses. A
moment later the weary passengers head WAS
laid conidentially on Jehu's shoulder, and
thick. weary voice murmured: Goo night;
wake me a sheven in morning.
Here, me full friend. ! hain't yer nurse -
was the polite response, as the newcomer was
again propped up in place. protesting but pas
sire. and the man from across the bridge
steadled HIM TO- u moment The interrupted
discussion was renewed and wit and repartee
flowed fast. as they invariably do when the
comparative merits OF the sister cities under
discussion. The stranger seemed TO take no
Interest Ia the argument, interrupting it occa-
sionally with mild and sleepy cheer for first
one presidential candidate and then the other
with strict impartiality.
On their way east, toward the ferry, the cars
of this line pass from one muddy, slimv street
to another and each one. As YOU draw nearer TO
the river. seems degree more uninviting than
the previous one. The horses, apparently with
a view to their few minutes rest between trips,
were putting in their best work and getting
over the ground like Nancy Hanks on a kite
shaped track. when the car rounded the sharp
corner with jolt that threw the passengers in
side about like dice in dicecup.
1t was too much for the individual on the
front platform. He had been bracad against
the car with view to plain. straightforward
sailing, and had no means Of withdrawing such
a sudden going about" With the utter
abandonment of an inert mass. he flew of at a
tangent, landing PROSTATE IN the mud. With
tender care Jehu and the BROOKLYN man raised
the fallen man and restored him TO his place
To avoid further accidents the kind-hearted
Long Islander linked his arm through the
others and anchored him thus securely.
shank We. murmured the obliged one.
''Do as much f you shum day. and then. as
the affair seemed to penetrate to the weary
brain, he asked: SHAY. mister, d tn car run
OFF tn track
NO: you'ie all right now: go to sleep
''Shank We After a prolonged pause of
meditation and self-cummuning, ''Shplosiony'
NO. of course not.
''Shsnk We. Ye're YER kind. Good Christian
man-kindhearted- shay" with nudge of the
elbow, collision
NO; can't YOU shut up and take nap?
Nothin' amt happened"
We'll" said the unsteady party. IF ye'd
only had tn sense t tell me that before. /
wouldn't a had to get off. Strange how shtupid
some people are