The morning times., 1895-09-15
SOME FAMILIAR TYPES
Street Cars Furnish the OhseT,
ant With Amusement.
AGILE FRONT SEAT RUSHERS
Then There's the Man Who Thinks
He Has a Mortgage On the Cor
ner Seat-The New Woman who
FIounces in, and the Summer Girl
Who Scatters Perfume About.


Who Scatters Perfume About.
We have all met them, and we are all ia
be encountered in the course of a ride on
the street cars at any time of theday orafter-
noon. They do not differ essentially in
any city of the Union. They are, in fact,
pretty much the same the world over.
They are interesting, amusing, often
sive, attractive, or distracting as the case
may be; but the street car types of trav-
slers are pretty much the same everywhere
Unless one has q carriage in which to
bowl along during the summer afternoons
after the sweltcring heat of the long drawn
out days, the best way in which to get good
long breaths of fresh air and forget the
worries and trials of the day, is to take a
ride on the street cars, either ON the electric
lines or on the slower moving horse cars.
When one has put in whole summer
al this innocent and inexpensive manner of
amusement and recreation he feels that
a considerable quota has been added to
his stock of knowledge of the kinds of
human nature.
Then somehow you get to thinking on
the subject of conductors to whom this
matter of encOuntering all sorts and con-
ditionS of Zen and women, to say nothing
small boys and children generally, not
as a matter of recreation or possible rec
reation, but as straight steady diet for
three hundred and sixty-five days of the
year.
ENOUGH TO CRAZE THEM.
The wonder is not that so many conduc-
tors should be contrary and thwarting to
the last degree, but that every mothers
son of them should not develop into regu-
lar brigands and desperate characters
ef the deepest dye.
You and / can get off the car if the
worst comes to the worst. We can forfeit
the remainder of the ride on that particular
line II something disagreeable occuH, or
II need be, can altogether patrunize a diff
ferent route
The conductor cannot do either. He has
got to stay and stand the brunt of every
thing, come in contact with the good and
bad humors of passengers from the first
car run in the morning to the very last one
1t night, when in the latter case, the chances
are nine to ten that he will have some
very pronounced cases OF Tag" TO engage
his attention and muscular force TO keep
the obstreperous ones from carrying out
their announced intention of wiping up the
floor of the car with some especially peace
able citizen.
So much for the conductor had no in
tention in starting out TO put in a plea for
him, but why not? Is not he one of the
Inevitable types of person 10 be met in the
course of a car ride on any line, urban or
suburban?
We are also familiar with that class
Of riders who, irrespective of sex, always
will insist upon occupying the front seats
of an open car. They will attain their end
By one means or another. When they
signal the car or stand at any OF the
functions waiting for the desired car to
slow up for them to board, they make a
yrsh ior that front seat that would do
credit to football team.
NOT IN THE LEAST DEFERRED.
The fact that every seat may be filled
already does not In the least deter them.
They will occupy place ON the from scat
even II that act has to be achieved at the
cost of crowding in, vedging themselv-s
sideways OF bruadsides in among the
passengers already ranged in place.
Ifby SO doing some one, rather than stand
the discomfort, gets up and seeks u seat
elsewhere, so much the better.
In the benightcd minds of those front
seat fiends, the end 1ustifies the means.
Before altogether leaving this portion OF
the subject IL seems applicable to make a
feeble and perhaps Intellectual wall CT
remonstrance against this growing habit OF
that football rush for places that invariably
takes place at any OF the street car juno
tions.
Old-fashioned manners Of giving place
70 elders, has SO long since given place to
the modern rush" that in the younger
minds there does not seem To linger even
the faintest trace of their having ever
had any place except in the old-tlme
romances. 1t is SO rare sight to witness
any one helping an older person to get on
car or find a seat In a crowded one at
the functions as almost to occasion a smile
OF wonderment at the eccentricity from the
mass of passengers when it does sometimes
crop out.
It is truly this matter of boarding q
car at any of the functions, a case of
''every fellow for himself and the devil
take the hindermost."
Did you ever stop to give any really
serious thought to the matter of the corner
seats? There is a wonderful maze of tangle
In this respect, IL you once serlu1z.y get into
10. Complications are. opened up that 1t
seems impossible to solve other wise than
snigmatlcally even to yourself.
1t has grown TO be actually case of sex
Can any oneattemQt to explain
10 whom that, OF rather those corner seats,
really belong? Some wiseacre will rise up
ct this juncture and declare with the
solemnity of an owl, ITO the first comers |
who desire them, of course" Not so by any |
manner of means. Such an answer would |
proclaim the wiseacres to be out at elbows |
On the matter ofstreet car etiquette.
FIRST CoMER's PROPERTY.
To my benighted mind the most plausible |
soluti0n, after grave thought on the subject, |
II that the corner seats belong to whoeveris is
able to secure possession OF them, either |
before or during. their periud of occupancy |
BY another. This can be accomplished By
various means, fair and foul.
Generally It is accomplished by the latter
means, either by the person desiring the
porner seat, in which you are already |
.sconsced, bodily ousting you by taking /
Advantage OF the lurching round a sharp /
surve 20 fall with stunning force into your
lap in such position that his bdy forms a
wedge between you and the end window,
10 which he ostensibly clinEs during the