The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-31
TROLLEY SICKNESS.
An Ailment That Affects Little Children
Almost Exclusively.

An Ai1ment That Affects Little Children
Almost Exclusively.
From the New York Sun.
Trolley sickness is causing great dis
tress In the northern suburbs and IN
parts of Brooklyn. As is well known,
young children are usually exempt from
~seasickness, but they enjoy no such inn
munity In the matter of trolley sick
ness. On the contrary. they are pecu-
liarly the victims of this new disease.
As infants play around In careless glee
on s~hipboard. while their wretched eld-
ers are lost to the world in their hunks
below. bent in AFFECT misery over the
rail or stretched limp and ~listless upon
blanketed steamer chairs, so on the
trolley cars, while grown folks swing
merrily from the overhead straps or
bawl the latest gossip into one another's
ears. he poor little victims of trolley
sickness writhe In tortures and wall in
unison.
In the case OF trolley sickness. as in
that OF seasickness. fresh air Is often
the best remedy. and so IL happened
that so long as open cars were run upon
the suburban trolley lines infant mis-
cry was kept within reasonable bounds.
But now that the advance OF the season
has brought out the closed cars. the
sickness daily increases. IL must be
remembered, too. that in the case OF
trolley sickness there rs no such con-
venient rushing to the rail as in the
case of sudden seizure IN shipboard. To
be sure. most uphappy-looking infant
faces are daily seen protruding from the
windows of the trolley cars. but this
convenient esource Is seldom available,
since trolley cars are so densely crowded
much of the time that TO get n child
suddenly upon the seat and its head
out of the window r. almost impossi-
BILE. Mothers of foresight encourage
their children to stand on the seats and
look out of the windows. so as to be In
the very best possible position for any
sudden emergency.
But when a trolley car Is packed. as
Brooklyn and suburban trolley cars
sometimes are packed. and as horsecars
never were packed, because no two
horses could ever have draw sucn
loads, the position Of the infant sud
denly seized with trolley ckn Is
truly pitiable. So. too. Is that OF the
mother, for she receives instead Of SYM
pathy, the angry looks Of her fellow
passengers. who would fee her and hers
as a pestilence, but who, struggle as
they may. and tread down INC elbow
one another as they will. cannot put
more than six inches between them
selves n the object of their disgust.
In Brooklyn. where the act of trolley
car riding has been trough 10 a hlgher
degree of perfection than elsewhere.
save In Philadelphia. there is a rumor
that the trolley parlor cars at least are
to have a corps of chambermaids. This
provision. the managers of the trolley
lines. hope, will promote general com
fort. Meanwhile there Is a widespread
demand throughout all the territory
threaded by the Huckleberry lines for a
remedy that will at least assuage the
violence OF trolley sickness. and a dis
position among the childless to de-
mand that the discrimination against
children practiced in some apartments
| and boarding houses be extended TO the
trolley cars.