The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-09-05
ALL IN UNIFORM.
A Plain and Primitive American Who
Sees the Tendency OF Things.


Sees the Tendency OF Things.
An aged New Yorker, whose men,
Dry runs back to the first quarter Of
the century, spoke of a change which
has occurred in his lifetime. When
/ was boy in New York, he said,
we used to guy man who wore a
uniform excepting when there was a
regimental parade or when it was
tho Fourth of July. but the boys
can't do that now When left tho
house today, a uniformed letter car
rier was at the door with my mail.
Half way up the block I met uni
formed policeman going his rounds.
A uniformed messenger boy was
running on the other side of tho
street. I took an elevated car, tho
guard upon which was in uniform.
l saw lots of coach drivers on Madi-
son avenue in livery, which is pri-
vate uniform. A gang of uniformed
street sweepers were plying their
brooms. A uniformed member of tho
national guard marched past me.
Lots of bicyclers, men and women,
have taken to the wearing of kind
OF uniform, rather queer looking,
too, sometimes. The federal supreme
court is not the only court in which
the judges now wear judicial garb,
which is uniform. / went to col
lege commencement and saw all the
students uniformed in mortarboard
hats and togas. You can see clergy
men clad in part of their clerical
uniform, such as the all around col
lar and buttoned up vest. The wait
ers and hallmen at high toned no
tells are uniformed, and so are the
women behind the counters in some
stores. The fashionable evening
dress is uniform and the stiffest of
any.
AT first I did not like to see the
adoption of the European custom in
the place of the plain, old fashioned
American ways, but there does not
seem to be any use in kicking. There
was kick against the police uni
form now worn when it was intro
duoed, and there was a kick against
the uniforming of the letter carriers,
and there has been a kick at every
extension of the custom of wearing
uniforms. The street cleaners did
not like Colonel Warnings idea of
putting them in uniform awhile ago.
But not a kick against uniformity in
any case has ever had any effect.
Il am getting to wish now that
everybody was uniformed and that
every business had its own particu-
lar uniform. l would have the Wall
street uniform, the poets uniform,
and distinctive uniforms for hotel
keepers, editors, grocers, profession
al dudes, custom tailors, lawyers,
typographers, gas company men,
club members, doctors, bricklayers
and pullers in. 1T would be very con.
venient. We would know something
about man at sight. The Wal
street broker might wear plug ha'
with a green coat, the hotel keeper
a suit of sky blue, the doctor a dress
of Grape, the grocer a white apron
washed every day, and the east sid'
barker should be allowed to carry
trumpet. There must be 10000 O,
10000 uniformed people in the city
and the rest of us might as we'll b.
! put in uniform. AS it now is, yo1
know a policeman when you go
him, and a letter carrier, and stree
sweeper, and a train guard, and
liveried coachman and messenge
boy, and why should you not ais,
knowa politician in white or retail
druggist in the colors of all the bot
ties in his window?"-New Yorl
Sun.