The sun., 1896-10-25
THE BRooKLYNITE's HOMECOMING.
TroubIe on tho Bridge, TroubIe In tho Troll
ley Cars. and No 1elief In Sight.

ley Cars. and No 1eIicr In Slight.
A gloomy. pallld man stood hesitattng in
Park row on Friday evening. Happy faced
throngs were hurrying past him on their way
up town. and brilliantly lighted saloons stood
invltingly open all around him. hut he only
smiled bitterly at these suggestions Of Joy. At
last he nodded his head doRsedly.
II might as well do 1t at once" he said, and
threw himself int) the maelstrom.
Tho crowd did the rest. 1t seized him bodily
and hurled him along. 1t thumped him and
walked over his clean clothes with its muddy
feet. 1t kicked him and trod on his corns.
and bullied him and swore at him. A little
way ahead of him in the crowd he could see
nice old lady dressed IN black. with silvery
hair and a face that was at once kind and sweet
on the Toodness:of manklndswere ali awry.
An eddy brought the palld man alongside of
the nice old lady.
in such = crowd IN my life."
The crowd. swept him on. Down the long
sIstibly past the policemen who were. shouting.
Pass. along, gents! Pass right along" He
row stairway on the other side and finally de-
posted ,gasping and bruised, in the mud outside
the bridge station to walt for the worst. which
1t seemed to be "a long time coming. .!that
worst did; That Is the way @ the Brooklyn troll,
the torture they madden their victims by not
coming along. and then they demonstrate
how much worse the fire is than the frying
pan.
Finally tho palld man got his car. The plain
facts about the car will be found of general
Brcoklynites they are commonplace. and not
worth notice The car seated twelve pas
uengers on Il sids. making tweniy;four persons
sitting down. Into the space between the
seats twenty-seven more passengers were COIN
PRESSED. making a total OF tfty-one. On the
rear platform, eleven more passengers were
jammed. bringing the sum to sixtytwo pas
senGers. Then the cond uctor rang up seven
moro fares. Where these passengers were is
not known. but rs IL Is obvious that conductors
do not count more passengers than their car
carries. there must have been sixty-nine human
beings on that car built To accommodate twen-
ty-four passengers
TIE pallid man was now about twenty-five
Vent eH hall la block and stopped. It It. took tho tho
trolley men ten minutes more to get it going
again. s.,,
aged in the city,. exclaimed the pallid man
and the sixty eight ether PASSENGERS reioined
other passenger on every other line was think
iLg the same thing about tho road he was
The pallld man became gloomier. The car
started. went MS far as Atlantic avenue, and
stopped, a long line OF brilliantly lighted
cars could be seen extending up the avenue in
front of it. They formed splendid illumina-
tion for the street. but as a means of lighting
public thorough fare IT bore too close re-
semDlance 20 Eeros plan OF lighting his gar
dens with burning Christians to be pleasant to
the people In the cars.
From the head OF the line came a sound of
FBs' Fly 'thunder,' shouted one of the eleven pas
senrers on tho back platform, Il believe they're
lynch whoi"; shouted the pa!lld man; mn
unhply Joy lighting his face: The President
NO" replied tho lookout sadly. ITS only
q truckman that won't get off the track.
The pallid man became glooInier. he lost
went as far as Flatbush avenue, and stopped.
A long line of brilliantly lighted cars could be
seen extending along the avenue In front of 1t.
They all contained hungry men and women
who wanted their dinner.
From the head OF the line, could be heard a
sound of obstreperous defiance answering
stern command.
'it's a drunken man who won't get on the
car" said the lookout. ''and the policeman
won't let any OF the cars go on until the
drunken man gets of. F"
Now. that's what / call shame"'excl xclaimed
the pallid man. "BeCause he's drunk he gets
taken Off the car. while We who behave our
selves have To stay on the car. Just as II
riding on a Brooklyn trolley car were pleas
urc! Why doesn't the policeman take all OF
us off and make the drunken man riue rs
punishment? That would teach him 10 Keen
sober. To take man of Il trolley car Just be-
ness
The pallid man became gloomier. II took
fifteen minutes 10 get the drunken man on.
The car started, went a few blocks, and before
il had a chance to stop again the pallid man
''ljy George" he exclaimed MS he entered his
house. II won't stand this ort ~ thing! III
but he wont do anything OF the kind; 1t
was the usual homecoming OF the BROOKLYN
man. He has been having the same expert
ence nightly for years. and has been making
the same vow. He won't move