Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-22
GIDDY BROOKLYN GIRLS,
SIT ~ THEIR EsCORrs' LARS iN 4
THoLLY CAR AND NEARLY CAUSE
A RIOT.

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The question whether or not II 80
good form i0g young womun 10 NO on
the laps Of young mon in a crow led
street car was eXoitedly discussed In a
Brooklyn trolley car sunday evening,
says a dispatoh from New York. IL was
decided m the negative. Shorly after
III O'Clock n ClUai.t0wn car whizzud
along on itb way from Huuter's Point
to the city hail. A crowd OF we'll.
dressed, highly respectable people, all
In var nus stages VI dTOwHiuesg, hlltd
all hut Tour srAts.
AZ Falkland North Portland avenues
tho car stopped ana parry Of young
people boarded n. There were Just eight
VI Thorn, Tour girln and four young
men. They were laughing and chat
Ting, evidently In high spirits. when
the girls started for tue empty seats
they were stopped by one Of tue young
men, who said:
"Look here, girls, II you cit down
wen have 10 stand ~. Say, whaps
the matter with your bittiug on cur
lAps7"
The girls hesltated minute, then
one oi them, pretty blond, said.
a
jennie was not going 70 be dared,
40, without more auu, she pumped
herself down Ia one OF tho waiting
laps, aud lho other girls with much
laughing and talking followed her OK.
ample.
IL the other people In the car had
been sleepy before the merry party
had appeared, they were wide as AXE
now. one old woman with little gray
ourls over her temples, who had been
| dUzing quietly In une corner, woke az
with start anu gRspedl Gland sakrti
what nuXi2" A stern looking woman
whO sat opposite irew herself up sun
as poker aud lTisl % iTttzt tha lap.
ult,ers with a stony glare, while two
| youths In another part OF the car
blushed aud giggled alternately. but
all thla didn't phase the girls or tho
young men la whose laps they sat
Finally Father Wagner, OF 81. Der.
nGfi's church, who was on the car,
Jumped iro.n his seat anu said steTuly
to one Of the girls:
"Here, young woman, take this
seat and leave that shocking posi-
uUn,"
The girl, looking little alarmed ut
the prleaps stern tone, took tho empty
sea-. Then three other men got az
rather thcepishly and offered their
s0ais TO tbs other girls. Two Of them
accepted, but Jennie, who had been
the lrHt 10 III In her escITl's Lap, eat
there with iat-A.way look In her
eyes, as u she heard or saw nothing VI
what was going ON.
IL thuTe had been y tempest In n tea
pot before, there WAS a bowling gale
now. The storm looking woman with
stony gaze mOllonei 10 tho c0nJuo-
tor 10 stop tho car, aud maleaiicnlly
sailed out at least four blocks from her
stopping place. A man who had been
having lots OF fun out OF tho proceed.
ings was taken In hand by his wifi
anu marched out 10 the trout platform,
while the old woman with gray ourlS
was nearly weeping with iudig lation,
Father Wagner made up his mind
10 force that girl 10 get OIL her young
mau'H LAP. Turning 10 tue conductor
he said;
"ConJuotor, / insist that you put
those young people OIL tho car Their
actions are positively shocking"
The conductor made weak attempt
to persuade Jennie 10 conform with
the rules Of good form, but Jennie only
looked At him blnnkly, while her young
man gtlunud aud the rest OF the party
Uttered. Then Conductor Bray began
to get angry.
''See here, N you dOn'i got OH that
young mans lap I'm put you vi tue
car"
Jennie was getting mad now, and
she made up her mind not 10 comply.
"You DOM do IT," shv snapped back.
AnalH seemed ~ DO getting serious.
Bray was mad. Father Wagner
Was mtlder, while Jennie was
mAldest Of all, ana tho rest Of tho
passengers were divided between in.
dlgnatlln aud mirth, Finally when
the car got 10 Atlantic avenue Gud
Clinton street, Bray decided to sum.
mons rDiuioreumants, 10 no stopped
tho car, called Ia Mug0rman RearIOn,
and the two gently piCAed up Jennie,
carried her out OF the car aud put her
on the sidewalk. ,rhe young man
didn'l Try 10 stop thon, neither did tue
others. They ali followed meekly, anu
the car le,l tuem standing on the cor
ner, jennie evidently bitterly TO-
preaching the others for not having
backed her up In the fight.
II iH said the company Intends put.
ting up notices Ia the cars requesting
It's "iaiyD patrons not 10 sit on mems